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Refreshing Our Memory: How Algorithms Are Warping the Power of Recall
Jenna Mahale discusses how algorithmic memory features rewrite how we remember our past, shaping our memories for us.
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Immortal Machine: Vauhini Vara Processes Death Through A.I.
Jenna Mahale interviews writer Vauhini Vara about her work with GPT-3, an A.I. writing program that she collaborated with on a recent essay about her loss of her sister.
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Headhunters: Are Psychedelics Capitalism's New Productivity Hack?
What underlies the use and abuse of performance-enhancing drugs is an American obsession with self-improvement that will always find new targets and tools. And most recently, “plasticity”—another term for cognitive flexibility or the brain’s ability to adapt and change—has become a signifier of... Read more »
The Audacity of Confidence: Is It Imposter Syndrome or Is It Patriarchy?
At least 70 percent of people are estimated to experience this profound sense of phrenic inadequacy at some point in their lives, resulting in anxiety, lack of self-confidence, depression, frustration, and more.
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Picking Fights: Can Foraging Be Fruitful for People of Color?
Knowing one’s rights, the local laws, and being able to identify local plants are all important skills for foragers. A heightened sense of awareness, common among all people of color during any activity, is also particularly important.
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Don’t We Hurt Like You?: Examining the Lack of Portrayals of African American Women and Mental Health
Mental health issues are not a “white-girl thing.”
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if it helps, picture a bunch of celebrities pretending to talk on phones behind me as i implore you for your help.
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About the Art: The Devotion Issue
We are devoted to women of color being devoted to themselves.
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Blood on the Tracks: Buffy Sainte-Marie On the Power of Native American Music
“Power in the Blood” is perfect protest music.
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About the Art: The Facts Issue
If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, could it actually be a pooping robot? Before you think we’ve lost the thread completely, read about an actual, factual 18th-century French automaton, our pop-art cover, and the comics and illustration in this issue.
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