Day: October 6, 2017

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Coming to Terms with the First Noble Truth (and My Shopping Addiction)

Fernando Kaskais

                                                                        Photo by Baptiste C David | http://bit.ly/2x9ESkx How a writer and gym teacher learned about life’s unsatisfactory nature through a series of motorcycle jacket purchases. By Alex Tzelnic   The first noble truth is that life is unsatisfactory.I’ve always found this idea difficult to accept because life, it often seems, is actually pretty satisfactory. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west, and the … Continue reading Coming to Terms with the First Noble Truth (and My Shopping Addiction)

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The Plain White Tee and All the Other Items That Have Defined Men’s Fashion

Fernando Kaskais

A new MoMA exhibition finds meaning in the ways men have dressed themselves over the decades by Tierney Finster Paola Antonelli believes no history of design is complete without the history of fashion. After many years of keeping a private list she called “garments that changed the world” tucked away in a drawer at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she currently holds the position of senior curator for architecture and design, Antonelli’s brainchild Items: Is Fashion Modern? just opened, making it MoMA’s first fashion exhibition in more than 70 years. Drawing inspiration from Antonelli’s original list, as well as a similar 1944 … Continue reading The Plain White Tee and All the Other Items That Have Defined Men’s Fashion

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The Last Invention of Man

Fernando Kaskais

How AI might take over the world. BY MAX TEGMARK, ILLUSTRATIONS BY SOPHY HOLLINGT The Omega Team was the soul of the company. Whereas the rest of the enterprise brought in the money to keep things going, by various commercial applications of narrow AI, the Omega Team pushed ahead in their quest for what had always been the CEO’s dream: building general artificial intelligence. Most other employees viewed “the Omegas,” as they affectionately called them, as a bunch of pie-in-the-sky dreamers, perpetually decades away from their goal. They happily indulged them, however, because they liked the prestige that the cutting-edge … Continue reading The Last Invention of Man

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MASS SHOOTINGS: THE MILITARY-ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX’S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE TURNS DEADLY

Fernando Kaskais

by John W. Whitehead, Guest Waking Times “Mass shootings have become routine in the United States and speak to a society that relies on violence to feed the coffers of the merchants of death. Given the profits made by arms manufacturers, the defense industry, gun dealers and the lobbyists who represent them in Congress, it comes as no surprise that the culture of violence cannot be abstracted from either the culture of business or the corruption of politics. Violence runs through US society like an electric current offering instant pleasure from all cultural sources, whether it be the nightly news or a television … Continue reading MASS SHOOTINGS: THE MILITARY-ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX’S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE TURNS DEADLY