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Gardening Malware: When Code Becomes Canvas
When code travels without permission, artists have been asking what it could carry instead — and one strange new program answers with pixel vegetables.
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The most interesting things happen where disciplines collide. I write about technology and creativity; not as opposites, but as co-conspirators. Systems thinker. Reluctant optimist.
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The Listening Body: Why Sound Design Is a Human Problem
We stopped listening because listening became punishing. The listening body, the idea that we hear with bone, skin, and posture, not just our ears, points toward a different way to build technology. One that knows when to be quiet.
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The Sun as Composer: How Solar Flares Became Music
Explore how the unpredictability of solar flare rates discovered by volunteers may offer new insights into musical composition, mirroring the patterns of natural fluctuations.
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Preservation Through Fire: Unveiling Ecosystems' Role in Digital Archiving
As wildfires reshape landscapes like Florida's Big Cypress National Preserve, CIFRA's digital art archives offer a lens on how destruction fosters new modes of creation.
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AI Prescription Refills: The Ethical Dilemma of Autonomy in Medicine
Utah has launched a first-in-the-nation pilot allowing an AI system to renew existing prescriptions, often without requiring a physician to sign off, though safeguards include escalation pathways and human review. As of January 2026, Utah residents can use Doctronic to request renewals for about 190–200 eligible, non-controlled maintenance medications,
The Rise of Virtual Sanctuaries: Meta's Hyperscape for VR Socialization
The boundaries between physical and digital presence continue to blur. Meta's Hyperscape, initially launched as a photorealistic capture and viewing tool, has evolved into a platform for social interaction. The recent addition of multiplayer capabilities represents a significant expansion of its original solo-experience design, now enabling users to
Echoes of the Past: AI Predicts the Unseen Harm of Data Rot
The last tyrannosaurs walked through lush Cretaceous forests, unaware that cosmic dice had already been thrown. Millions of years later, we're building artificial minds on foundations that may be quietly crumbling beneath us. The parallel isn't perfect—no asteroid threatens our data centers—but the pattern
Cosmic Echoes: When Science Fiction Becomes Reality
A recent United Airlines flight over Utah experienced something extraordinary—an unknown object (possibly a fragment of space debris or a meteor) struck the aircraft’s windscreen during flight. While passengers remained safe, the incident marked a significant moment by turning space debris from a theoretical concern into an immediate
From Deepfakes to Deep Tones: Crafting Ethical Soundscapes with AI
The mathematics of sound manipulation has always fascinated me—how a simple Fourier transform can decompose a human voice into frequencies, and how those frequencies, once understood, can be reconstructed into something entirely artificial yet eerily authentic. This technical capability became starkly apparent when OpenAI paused AI-generated depictions of Martin
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Space Debris: The Hidden Cost of Our Cosmic Ambition
The mathematics of orbital mechanics are elegant—Kepler's laws describe perfect ellipses, Newton's equations predict trajectories with clockwork precision. But the reality above our heads resembles less a celestial ballet and more a high-speed demolition derby. Every satellite we launch, every rocket body we abandon, every
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AI Hosts: The New DJs of YouTube Music
The mathematical elegance of a DJ's work has always fascinated me—the precise timing of transitions, the harmonic relationships between tracks, the algorithmic patterns of building and releasing tension. Now YouTube Music is testing something that would have made Xenakis smile: AI-generated radio hosts that don't
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AI, Power, and Policy: The Need for Global Red Lines
The numbers alone tell the story. Nvidia and OpenAI are planning a $100 billion infrastructure alliance that would deploy 10 gigawatts of computing power across multiple data centers. To put this in perspective, 10 gigawatts could power roughly 7.5 million homes. Instead, it will train and run artificial intelligence