I went to a therapist. She told me (ready?) to stop consuming the news. That felt wrong. Wasn’t it important to be informed? Quitting the news felt like quitting the world. Then one day a journalist friend confided that she was avoiding the news, too. - Washington Post
Like any novel tool, generative models introduce significant changes in the process of art-making. In particular, AI art expands the multifaceted notion of curation and continues to blur the line between curation and creation. - Wired
The notion of participatory creativity has major implications for any person or organization concerned with the creation of innovative ideas or artistic expression. It means recognizing and putting in place the means to foster creativity as a collaborative process. - The Conversation
Many people draw lines in the sand when it comes to what they believe. If a narrative doesn’t fit their worldview, it’s deemed untrue, worth ignoring and sometimes re-framed entirely. - The Conversation
More than ever before, people are identifying less and less with a religious tradition. This leads some people to look for meaning and identity in the things they love most. My goal here isn’t to argue against those who consider Disney their religion. - The Conversation
As the scope of algorithm-based applications in social reality has expanded over the past decades, we have by the same measure been conditioned to approach ever more fields of human life as if they were strategy games. - Liberties Journal
I am using the word “evil” to encompass the whole range of negative human experience, from being wronged, to doing wrong, to sheer bad luck. This list of evils is also a list of the essential ingredients of narrative fiction. - The Point
Rowan Moore says let the details go and save the monument by killing its Victorian darlings. "Think the unthinkable about heritage. For a feature of the building is the sheer expanse of intricate interior detail, much of which is never seen by the public." - The Observer (UK)
In what the organizers call la République des Hyper Voisins (the Republic of Superneighbors), up to 2,000 people regularly gather for meals (including one at a 700-foot outdoor table seating 648), cultural events, oral history gatherings, etc., as well as mutual aid both in person and online. - The Guardian
At least, not for now. People using the program DALL-E, which takes human words and makes images in response, "have found that it elevates human creativity rather than making it obsolete." - Wired
If an AI-powered robot exhibited intelligence and capacity to suffer, we might consider granting it moral personhood even though it's not alive. Tapeworms and pubic lice are alive but clearly not person-equivalent, whereas dolphins or bonobos might be. Tim Sommers considers some criteria. - 3 Quarks Daily
Why not? People often listen to Spotify playlists while cooking — though a recipe for kimchi fried rice shouldn't usually take as long as the nearly 4-hour playlist might imply. - NPR
Remote work may be good for efficiency but it's deadly for team-building. So, just as the development of multi-location businesses led to the creation of the middle manager, whose role was to keep far-flung operations coordinated, the rise of hybrid in-office/remote work will require a new profession. - MSN (The Atlantic)
