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Public infrastructure isn’t just bridges and water mains: Here’s an argument for extending the concept to digital spaces Privacy Concerns

Public infrastructure isn’t just bridges and water mains: Here’s an argument for extending the concept to digital spaces

Our friend and colleague Ethan Zuckerman has written an important piece I’d like to draw your attention to. In a piece for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia, he lays out what he calls the case for digital public infrastructure. (He also publish…
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January 22, 2020
Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism Moravec‘s Paradox

Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism

A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.” This week, a research team of roboticists and scientists published their recipe for making a new lifeform called xenobots from stem cells. The term “xeno” comes from the frog cells (Xenopus laevis) used to…
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January 22, 2020
Stephen Malkmus Announces New Album ‘Traditional Techniques’, Shares ‘Xian Man’ Christianity

Stephen Malkmus Announces New Album ‘Traditional Techniques’, Shares ‘Xian Man’

Stephen Malkmus has announced a new album, Traditional Techniques, out March 6th on Matador. This will be Malkmus’ third solo LP without the Jicks or Pavement, following 2001’s Stephen Malkmus and 2019’s Groove Denied. Malkmus recorded the record with Chris Funk of The Decemberists and Matt Sweeney, who’s worked with Bonnie “Prince”…
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January 22, 2020