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Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian technocracy — If you had to capture Silicon Valley's dominant ideology in a single anecdote, you might look first to Mark Zuckerberg … Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Silicon Valley's powerful companies claim to embrace Enlightenment values, but instead are leading an antidemocratic, illiberal, and authoritarian…

Britain, thought Thomas Paine, needed to be destroyed. Its monarchy must be toppled, its empire broken up and the mercantile system that propped up this debt-ridden, monstrous pariah state abolished. Only then could a better version – call it Britain 2.0 – arise.But how? In the 1790s, the revolutionary thinker and author of the bestselling Rights of Man was a member of the National Convention in Paris and advised republicans to invade. Later, Paine presented a plan to president Thomas Jefferson to send gunboats to make…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press It is sickly hilarious to make a movie in which so much consensual sex is had, often so gleefully, that is not the least bit sexy. Though Bella Baxter’s insatiable libido might be her guiding light at first in “Poor Things,” sexual liberation (or “furious jumping,” as she calls it) is only part of this fantastical, anarchic journey to consciousness. Filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and his star, Emma Stone, have a good and strange thing going whether she’s playing a striving scullery maid who…

Posted in: Comics, Marvel Comics, Preview | Tagged: superior spider-manSuperior Spider-Man #1: Get ready for Doc Ock's electrifying ego trip through NYC!Published Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:28:06 -0600 by Jude Terror | Article Summary Superior Spider-Man #1 hits stores with Doc Ock's "life-changing" twist. New villain emerges, threatening NYC with the power of a star. Dan Slott & Mark Bagley celebrate a decade of Superior Spider-Man. Preview spectator LOLtron bot goes haywire with world domination…

Is Your Data Normal? The Ultimate Guide to QQ Plots Using RImage by Pete Linforth from PixabayStatistics is a mysterious field. Within its vast corpus of theories, formulations, and frameworks, lies knowledge that has profound applications across all areas of study. However, despite its tremendous success, it can be unfriendly too because a lot of its power comes from the assumptions it makes. Some of the most common assumptions include the i.i.d. assumption (independent and identically distributed) and the normality…

If you mainly know David Graeber as the anarchist activist and intellectual guru of the Occupy movement, or as the swashbuckling author of 2018’s Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, you might be surprised to find that he had written a book about pirates and political thought in 18th-century Madagascar, the huge island (about two and a half times the size of Britain) that lies off the east coast of Africa.In fact, Pirate Enlightenment marks a return to some of the celebrated anthropologist’s earliest interests. As a graduate student,…

This AI Buddha tool will have good acceptance from people who cannot practice ‘digital detachment’ With growing technological interference mankind has forgotten what it is like to be at peace. Thanks to omnipresent technology we are always depressed and so messed up is our traditional support system that it feels like dealing with it all by ourselves. What if the same technology can offer an antidote? Here is an AI that can relieve psychological pain by scouring spiritual guidance from ancient scriptures.  A Japanese…

The software draws on an artificial intelligence dialogue system dubbed 'Buddhabot' What is the meaning of happiness? Why not ask AI Buddha, a tool made by Japanese researchers that brings spiritual guidance from ancient scriptures to your smartphone. …