Every year, the rasp­ber­ry in my gar­den man­ages to bear fruit until the Christ­mas hol­i­days. This lit­tle fel­la was the sole sur­vivor of this year’s bat­tle.

This quote from What art is is a pret­ty good sum­ma­ry of Arthur Danto’s phi­los­o­phy of art in gen­er­al. What Art Is

Who would’ve thought that Nick Cave would lead the way to a bet­ter, more com­pas­sion­ate way of online com­mu­ni­ca­tion?! I’m hooked on The Red Hand Files Nick Cave is show­ing us a new, gen­tler way to use the inter­net

Cur­rent­ly read­ing: How to be a Sto­ic by Mas­si­mo Pigli­uc­ci.

Prob­a­bly not. Would Human Extinc­tion Be a Tragedy?

Der­mor­phis don­aldtrumpi ? Amphib­ian that buries head in sand named after Don­ald Trump

Deep-learn­ing tech­nique reveals “invis­i­ble” objects in the dark, requir­ing only one pho­ton per pix­el

Intrigu­ing.
An ant colony has mem­o­ries that its indi­vid­ual mem­bers don’t have

Gov­ern­ments and pri­vate com­pa­nies are deploy­ing AI sys­tems at a rapid pace, but the pub­lic lacks the tools to hold these sys­tems account­able when they fail. AI cre­ates an account­abil­i­ty gap