Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Collaborative groups often outperform single individuals in complex problem solving. A new paper examined how to create the right incentives to promote this kind of collective intelligence.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
RIP Sly Dunbar, drums on everything
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tc1I...
Your Key Survival Skill for 2026: Critical Ignoring
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
by @mims.bsky.social
You are being manipulated:
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For the last newsletter of the year I interviewed Tim Sweeney of Beats in Space Radio futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-148-ast...
22.12.2025 12:10 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Love the ending to this - perhaps the ending of the last ever thing done by the original TBD? Who knows. Anyway, as Peel said afterwards, “excellent”. m.youtube.com/watch?v=xArh...
22.12.2025 15:48 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Our research suggests this will increase extremism and&overconfidence, making people even more entrenched in their beliefs (and folks don't realize that AI is biased) osf.io/preprints/ps...
Seeing this program at Anthology Film Archives. (The series continues for another week or two.)
10.12.2025 01:12 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
"In a world that’s on fire, what is the role of art? What can music actually…do? Can a song save a life? Change a law? Topple a president? Get you killed?" podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
08.12.2025 12:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
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4/4 AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
www.kpbs.org/news/science...
A tiny minority of highly active users produce the majority of online political content, while most users consume content passively and remain largely silent.
Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
osf.io/preprints/so...
Jack DeJohnette (9 August 1942–26 October 2025)
In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, DeJohnette was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made that article free to read in our online library
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...
This bit in Gilliam's "Brazil" is IMO one of the most perceptive critiques of late capitalism in film, though it flew past unnoticed. (The ladies are served disgusting slop, accompanied by photos of what they should imagine they're eating.) Gilliam clearly read the Situationists.
02.09.2024 13:17 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 2
I went to the Venice Music Biennale and watched a lot of very loud, noisy music (and also some pretty quiet music, too) that made me feel buoyant and oddly weightless and it got me wondering whether "heavy" is really the right word… thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
29.10.2025 09:00 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Feed: "The Honest Broker"
By: Ted Gioia on Thursday, September 18, 2025
Wrote about Traveling Light, the new album on which living legend Rafael Toral turns old jazz standards into breathtaking ambient guitar drone instrumentals
21.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 22 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
This made me think of: techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/t...
21.10.2025 10:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Like everything else, professional arts criticism has been under attack this year, and Spencer Kornhaber reported a really great piece on what might be taking its place: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
17.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
"Traditional" cultural criticism feels like a dying art, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily. He talks with Spencer Kornhaber about where the medium goes from here:
17.10.2025 22:10 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A screenshot of a website shows various colourful visualisations of progressive and positive things happening in the world
Enjoy a random chart from our Beautiful News project - visualizing the amazing progressive & positive things happening around the world. Click the link for a random visual:
informationisbeautiful.net/beautifulnew...
on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.
04.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 46 🔁 23 💬 3 📌 13
One of my favorite neuroscience lessons:
When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus. But it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic.
The brain becomes more efficient in a single hour: mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew...
Remembering some interactions with a true gentleman: open.substack.com/pub/andybeta...
22.09.2025 15:31 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
