ELIZA, the paperclip maximizer: A story
An unspecified government agency released a set of decoded log files [see below], recovered from an accident at an AI research lab. According to an eyewitness who visited the site, an “unusually large” heap of paperclips towered over the...
NORWAY: Rejection letter in hand, Nobuhle Enyam sits on her sofa with a look of exhaustion and dejection. An original refugee of the South African apartheid regime who came to Norway through Israel in the late eighties, she is a mid-50’s mother of two with a ve...
Oort Cloud begins the album as an instrumental introduction. Proxima Centauri a 7 minute soundscape with an analogue feel. A circular guitar riff greets the listener for the initial 2 minutes before an intentional crescendo resulting in a double time riff by 2 minute...
NORWAY – Norwegian courts have decided that the self-declared Neo-Nazi Anders Breivik will receive US$40,000 compensation to cover legal costs by the Norwegian State for Human Rights Violations. The court decision was released today and in what was a striking c...
Singapore, the multi-ethnic city-state is one of history’s great developmental success story’s. From poverty, invasion, occupation and social unrest in the mid 20th century, it has risen to be one of the most independent and prosperous nations in the worl...
Norway, the oil-rich nation on the coast of the Scandinavian Peninsula is but one of an ever-shrinking handful of countries and the only Scandinavian state that holds a policy of singular citizenship over its people. “Citizenship is an important symbol of belonging, ...
Thousands of people are stranded in Greece without food, running water and basic supplies as the situation at the country’s northern border spirals into a struggle for survival for migrants desperate to find safety. Up to 8,000 people are stranded in Idomeni on Greec...