The Kumari Tradition Makes a Child the Living Goddess of Nepal
The Kumari of Nepal is a prepubescent Newar Shakya girl chosen to embody Taleju Bhawani, worshipped as a living goddess,…
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The Abstraction Fallacy Makes Conscious AI Harder to Prove
Alexander Lerchner’s paper on conscious AI does something unusual: it does not start by asking whether today’s models seem conscious….
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Focused Ultrasound Turns Smell-In-VR Into a Brain Problem
A small research team says focused ultrasound can make people perceive smells without releasing any chemicals at all. If that…
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AI Image Generation Now Fails on Subtle Forensic Drift
A Reddit user posted two images made from the same prompt a day apart: “Amateur photograph of an elderly couple…
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The Indianapolis Data Center Shooting Is a Local Bug Report
If you’re building AI today, the indianapolis data center shooting is the incident your threat model is missing. Early on…
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Public Misconceptions About AI Are Breaking the Wrong Things
The boss leans back in his chair, taps the laptop screen, and says it again, slowly this time, as if…
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AI Misconceptions: Why Fluency Isn’t Competence Today
A manager leans over a developer’s shoulder, watching ChatGPT spin out a perfectly formed paragraph about a product they’re about…
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AI-Generated Interview Ethics: Why Disclosure Is Not Enough
The strangest thing about Esquire Singapore’s Mackenyu piece is not the sentence, “The following interview was produced with Claude, Copilot,…
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Video Object Removal: What VOID Gets Right
The demos of Netflix’s new VOID model make video object removal look like sorcery: delete a person and the guitar…
