Thom Waite

Writer

The Cure of Folly (Extraction of the Stone of Madness)
Life & CultureElon Musk’s monkey-killing brain chips are ready for humans
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter illustration
Life & CultureScientists are trying to crack an ‘alien’ signal from Mars
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Film & TVUnderground filmmaker and occultist Kenneth Anger has died
Sven Marquardt, from various series, 1983-2020
Art & PhotographyBerlin nightlife icon Sven Marquardt captures the city’s subversive history
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Life & CultureOpenAI CEO calls for regulation to tame ‘increasingly powerful’ AI
Yeonmi Park on the Joe Rogan podcast
Life & CultureYeonmi Park: is the DPRK defector a western psy-op?
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Life & CultureMonsters: is it wrong to enjoy great art made by bad people?
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Life & CultureRobot snakes are sssearching for aliens on Saturn’s moon
Zizi, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles
Art & PhotographyNadia Lee Cohen brings Women to life at Dover Street Market
An AI-generated beer ad, released this week
Life & CultureBrace yourselves, the AI-generated video revolution is coming
Dune: Part One
Film & TVWatch Timothée Chalamet lead an army in the trailer for Dune: Part Two
Minority Report (2002) still
Life & CultureAI has now unlocked the ability to read people’s minds
Maurizio Cattelan banana Comedian
Art & PhotographyYet again, someone has scoffed Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 banana
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MusicGrimes invites fans to deepfake her voice for their own AI songs
NASA, Mars Dune Alpha
Life & CultureMars Dune Alpha: the year-long simulator prepping NASA for life on Mars
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Life & CultureSnapchat’s new ‘virtual friend’ is a Black Mirror episode waiting to happen
The Orvillecopter, cat drone
Life & CultureSo you want to give dead animals the gift of flight?
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Film & TVWatch the trailer for Pedro Almodóvar’s new gay western
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Life & CultureElon Musk has turned Twitter’s blue ticks into an anti-status symbol
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Art & PhotographyThe treachery of images in the age of AI
Aaron Peever, The Coronation, 2021
Art & PhotographyWorking class artists to take over a London office block
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Life & CultureWake up sheeple! An old NASA satellite is crashing into Earth
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Life & CultureIs this the year that AI breaks into our bank accounts?
Juice, Jupiter mission illustration
Life & CultureAre we about to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons?