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The author of the bestselling Sapiens offers a penetrating critique of the insidious dangers of machine learning and its capacity to manipulate the truth. … Continue readingReview of “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by Yuval Noah Harari
An unfortunate status that Viet Nam shares with Palestine is that the war in Viet Nam was both an actual war and a spectacle for global viewership. … Continue readingPulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on How Hollywood Has Become the US Military-Industrial Complex’s Unofficial Ministry of Propaganda
Since Earth’s axis is tilted relative to its orbit around the sun, the ring would have shaded parts of Earth’s surface… … Continue readingScientists Discover New Evidence Earth May Once Have Had a Ring Like Saturn
To enrich the earth I have sowed clover and grassto grow and die. I have plowed in the seedsof winter grains and various legumes,their growth to be plowed in to
Oil prices reached a three year low on Tuesday, with analysis suggesting prices may stablise below $70 in the coming months… … Continue readingIf Oil Stabilizes Below $70, What Will it Mean for GCC Markets?
Describing himself as the ‘savage from Peru’, Paul Gauguin avoided French society when he could, returning to Polynesia in 1895, where he spent his final years… … Continue readingThe Great French Painter Who Had No Time For France
by Habib Khan: I had known Paramoz Khan since my school days, as his father, Mohammad Sharif Badini, would often visit my uncle in Noshkay, and I vividly remember them
From the Jacobin: The language of Karl Marx’s Capital, which was originally published in 1867, has shaped the political imagination of socialism’s proponents as well as its critics. From the
Sudden commotion inside premise of wise foolssilent gestures, whispering voices, hands raiseda la desperation gathering hurried conclusionsas if end perhaps is near.Fear wakes in them the truthanother year is wrestling
by Ghulam Mustafa: Pasta shells in bursting tomato soup with garlic crisps topped with garden fresh basil. At first, you start with picking the bursting tomatoes. You trim the and
“It is important to realize that any country goes through a period of unrest, to an extent, in a post-revolution period.” … Continue readingSecurity Expert ANM Muniruzzaman: Bangladesh is Amid a Serious Security Threat
by Daniel H. Magilow at The Conversation: (A)ccusations – that fake-looking images are real, that real-looking ones are fake – have been a common feature in politics, particularly among extremists,