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Beware the rabbit holes of misinformation

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Waleed Aly (“The hard battle for the truth”, October 18) reminds us of a need to be sceptical of any story that confirms narratives we already believe. Our minds cannot escape the confirmation bias that pre-disposes us to focus on confirming evidence. Not even scientists are immune […]

Beware the Cut ‘n’ Paste Persona

This Person Does Not Exist is a website that generates human faces with a machine learning algorithm. It takes real portraits and recombines them into fake human faces. We recently scrolled past a LinkedIn post stating that this website could be useful “if you are developing a persona and looking for a photo.”  Article Continues […]

BEWARE THE DRAGON AND THE NOZZLEWOCK | Kirkus Reviews

A dragon smart enough to see through a knight’s “I DO NOT seek your gold!” might seem fearful enough. But Madan’s collection of poetry, presented in comics format, features plenty of formidable characters, from the boneless “Squishosaurs” (“We glide across the countryside / And in our viscous wake, / The T. Rexes trudge terrified, / […]