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Tag: Culture / Books

A Novelist and an AI Cowrote Your Next Cringe-Read

Posted on May 24, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

I asked GPT-3 your question (“how do you see yourself?”) and this is what it said:

I see myself as a “service provider.” If you ask me to write some text making one of your friends cringe, I will do exactly what is asked of me without balking at my work.

Would you ever go [...]  ...

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The Fight for Abortion Rights Is a Battle Over History

Posted on May 18, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

This month, the world learned that the US Supreme Court intends to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case protecting legal abortion in America. In a draft majority opinion leaked [...]  ...

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After Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Read These 5 Comics

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Sure, last year’s Spider-Man: No Way Home gave audiences a bit of a primer on multiverse-hopping superhero shenanigans, but truly nothing could have prepared them for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Actually, that’s not true. [...]  ...

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Welcome to Janelle Monáe’s Dreamworld

Posted on April 27, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

There’s an old story about Octavia Butler that I often return to: A young man once asked the visionary science fiction novelist the answer to ending all the suffering in the world. “There isn’t one,” Butler replied. “So we’re doomed?” he [...]  ...

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No One Does Speculative Fiction Like Emily St. John Mandel

Posted on April 5, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

In 2014, Emily St. John Mandel published her fourth novel, Station Eleven. It went on to be the kind of breakout critical and commercial hit that transforms a writer’s life. A story about the survivors of a fictional flu pandemic, it gained new [...]  ...

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WIRED’s Picks for the 15 Books You Need to Read This Summer

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but right now it seems as though half the new books on shelves deal with the climate crisis in some way. The environment is central to at least three of the 15 books on WIRED’s latest recommendations for readers. But that’s just the start. The books on this list also cover language, Blackness, the death of facts, and dolphin handjobs. When we say there’s something here for everyone, we truly mean it. These are our picks for the books we think you should read this spring and summer.

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social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #wired – original source here

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Finally, a Down-to-Earth Space Odyssey

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

It’s 2033. Wildfires have intensified, and “heat blocks” hover over North America, cooking people alive. The escape plan of choice for the ultra-wealthy is a suite on Parallaxis I, a ring-shaped luxury space station developed by a tech conglomerate called [...]  ...

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Of Course We’re Living in a Simulation

Posted on March 10, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

In 1999, a trio of cinematic mindfucks—The Thirteenth Floor, eXistenZ, and, of course, The Matrix—came out, all illustrating the possibility of unreal realities and thus fulfilling condition (1). Four years later, in 2003, (2) was satisfied when the Oxford [...]  ...

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Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

If there is any concept from her books that Palmer hopes will catch on, like “robot” and “cyberspace” did for other authors, it is a model of living called a bash’. The word is derived from a Japanese term, ibasho, which [...]  ...

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Dystopia Is All Too Plausible in The School for Good Mothers

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Livio Andrea Acerbo

Jessamine Chan’s debut novel, The School for Good Mothers, is not a domestic manual on keeping house. Nor is it the sort of slog that might make tidying look like an appealing alternative. Yet as I read it over the course of one snowy evening, I [...]  ...

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