List: Πολιτισμός | Curated by Joe Duncan

Aug 20, 2024
90 stories
ΠολιτισμόςContemporary culture
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist
Why The Office Is The Future of WorkKnowledge workers will likely end up working in offices again. There’s some good reasons for that and one is it’s a human thing. Why?
Aug 19, 2024
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Aug 19, 2024
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Age of Empathy
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Dana DuBois
An Ambivalent Jew Returns to Germany for Taylor SwiftI feel echoes of what once happened here. My daughters felt nothing, till I showed them — and they showed me.
Aug 4, 2024
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Aug 4, 2024
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Christine Henseler
Humanities: The Greatest Comeback Story Ever ToldThis article takes the surprising approach of going against the grain to tell a comeback rather than a crisis story about the humanities…
Jul 17, 2024
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Jul 17, 2024
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Counter Arts
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Jess the Avocado
The Female Gaze is… ComplicatedReflections on feminism in art, two French movies, and naked women
Aug 2, 2024
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Aug 2, 2024
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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
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Walter Rhein
Discussion of Free Speech Has to Include a Mention of BoundariesWe can’t allow nefarious forces to oversimplify the concept of freedom
Jun 16, 2024
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Jun 16, 2024
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TDS Archive
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Stephanie Kirmer
How Human Labor Enables Machine LearningMuch of the division between technology and human activity is artificial — how do people make our work possible?
Oct 31, 2023
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Oct 31, 2023
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Cassie Kozyrkov
AI Hype: Who Is It For?How the target audience of all that AI buzz is evolving
Apr 27, 2023
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Apr 27, 2023
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Cultured
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Guy Nave
Why Are Black Republicans Elected in Predominately White Districts?Maybe the answer lies with who they represent
Jun 12, 2024
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Jun 12, 2024
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Prism & Pen
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Matthew Bamberg
Handlebar Mustaches, Leather, and Captain’s Caps: Gay 70’s InfluencersA tribute to Peter Barlin and his contemporaries
May 27, 2024
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May 27, 2024
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Wise & Well
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Stephan Joppich
The Myth of the Loneliness EpidemicWe’ve been conditioned to view loneliness as unreasonably scary, dramatic, and negative. It’s time to change that.
May 21, 2024
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May 21, 2024
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Prism & Pen
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James Finn
Woops, He Did It Again: Pope Francis Slurs Gay Men, No Apology This TimeLooks like the mask is off.
Jun 13, 2024
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Jun 13, 2024
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Predict
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Will Lockett
The AI Revolution Isn’t HappeningAt least, it’s happening awfully slowly.
Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
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Markham Heid
Those Bizarre Kindle Ads Are a Preview of Our AI-Infested FutureFake books are just the beginning, but I see some upside.
Jun 13, 2024
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Jun 13, 2024
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Wes O'Donnell
What If We Had a Civil War Lite?Half the calories, all the flavor…
Jun 13, 2024
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Jun 13, 2024
19
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The Polis
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William Spivey
From Thurgood Marshall to Clarence ThomasGoing From Legal Giant to Grifter
Jun 11, 2024
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Jun 11, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
An end to the climate emergency is in our graspWe mustn’t let capitalism snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Jun 12, 2024
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Jun 12, 2024
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Stephen Moore
Social Media’s Death SpiralThe slow yet steady destruction of these once-wonderful platforms is almost complete
Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
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Cultured
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Sam W - World-Weary Writer
We’re Just Joking: Comedy And The Language of DisgustIt’s not that we can’t take a joke, it’s just that hate isn’t funny
Jun 10, 2024
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Jun 10, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Your car spies on you and rats you out to insurance companiesEven if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product.
Mar 12, 2024
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Mar 12, 2024
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Cory Doctorow
Amazon illegally interferes with an historic UK warehouse election“One click to quit” for unions, but not for Prime.
May 6, 2024
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May 6, 2024
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