Maria Streshinsky
California
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戦争を止めるため、国際政治の舞台裏で密かな対話が続けられている
ガブリエル・リフキンドは陰で仕事をする。暗く、静かな、国際政治の控え室で。だが逆説的なことに、この71歳のロンドンっ子のファッションは印象的だ。エッジの効いたデザインのパンツスーツやドレス。一風変わったクールなメガネ。真っ白なボブ。面と向かうと、話してみたくなる。おそらくそれが狙いだ。 なぜなら、彼女が2016年、ロンドンで創立した平和構築のための組織「オックスフォード・プロセス」の目的は、対話を促進することだから。ただし、オックスフォード・プロセスのウェブサイトによると、対話は「できるだけ人々に見えないところ」で行なわれるという。 根本にあるトラウマに目を向ける...
This Woman Secretly Tries to Stop War
Gabrielle Rifkind operates in the shadows, in the quiet, dark, back rooms of international politics. A bit paradoxically, the 71-ish Londoner strikes a sharp pose: outré pantsuits, dresses. Cool, kooky glasses. A white shock of bobbed hair. Upon meeting her, you really want to talk to her. Which is perhaps the point: The peacemaking organization Rifkind founded in 2016—the London-based Oxford Process—is all about facilitating dialog.
How Oppenheimer director Nolan learned to love AI
| Culture | 11m ago The Oppenheimer director says AI is not the bomb. His new movie might still scare you shitless. WHEN WIRED HEARD that Christopher Nolan and his producer—and wife—Emma Thomas were coming out with a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we were perplexed. At least for a moment. It is hard for WIRED to resist a Nolan–Thomas film. Nolan has a real love of science, just like us.
Christopher Nolan: "Las empresas usan IA para evadir responsabilidades"
Cuando WIRED se enteró de que Christopher Nolan y su productora y esposa Emma Thomas iban a realizar una película biográfica de J. Robert Oppenheimer, nos quedamos perplejos. Al menos por un momento. Para nosotros es difícil resistirnos a una película de Nolan y Thomas. Nolan siente verdadero amor por la ciencia, igual que nosotros.
How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
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How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
When wired heard that Christopher Nolan and his producer—and wife—Emma Thomas were coming out with a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, we were perplexed. At least for a moment. It is hard for WIRED to resist a Nolan–Thomas film. Nolan has a real love of science, just like us.
Reconstructing a murky maze of blame | Nieman Storyboard
By Chip Scanlan Journalism, by its very nature, focuses on the now — the events and people making the news today. But powerful stories can be found by mining the past to add fresh material and context to what had once been a sketchy breaking story, abandoned after a few news cycles. Revisiting such a story can pay off with new and unexpected results. For years, Lauren Smiley, who writes about humans in the tech age, had kept track of Rafaela Vasquez.
Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World
Jamie Beard is pouring everything into a singular vision: Tap into the awesome potential of geothermal power in Texas, and beyond. She has no time to lose.
Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World
jamie beard was worried. She was at the wheel of a black Toyota Prius, multitasking at 80 mph down the Hardy Toll Road out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Just before picking me up, she had been interviewed for a national TV news show. Now, swerving through lanes, she was running through various shit scenarios: What if something she said pisses off one of the oil and gas executives she had come to adore, or one of her fellow climate activists?
Angry Nerd: The Merciless, Unblinking Eye of Zoom
The skin above my left eyelid is migrating. Where it's headed, I'm not sure. All I can glean from the giant image of me on Zoom is: downward. Perhaps the skin is seeking rest on the pillows that have appeared below my eyes. (Hello, my wrinkly Eastern European foremothers—I see you in my face.) Day after day, for eight, nine, 17 weeks now, logging on and off and on again, waiting for coworkers to arrive in endless Zoom rooms, there I am. Staring at me.
The Country Is Reopening. I’m Still on Lockdown
My partner and I always drove to the hospital together. Every three weeks, for the past six months, we parked near the block-wide building, rode the elevator to the fifth floor, where a technician would draw two vials of his blood. Then we took the elevator to 6, and met with his oncologist. After that, back on 5, he sat for about two hours in a comfy chair that reclined while immunotherapy and chemotherapy drained into his veins to fight his lung cancer.
'Book Now!' Nudges Are the Paradox of Vacation Planning
Last summer was chaotic. A deadline, then another; Mom had emergency surgery (she’s fine); the dog started barking at everyone. So whenever I found a sliver of time, I searched Airbnb to book a vacation. I needed a big enough place for me, Mom, and the BF. Not too expensive. Dogs allowed. One night, after trying yet again, the pop-up popped up: “This home is on people’s minds. It’s been viewed 216 times in the past week.” My shoulders tightened, my breath shortened. Et tu, Airbnb?
An AI Pioneer, and the Researcher Bringing Humanity to AI
In 1990, Kai-Fu Lee packed his bags and left Carnegie Mellon University, where he had been teaching artificial intelligence and speech recognition. He headed west to his first Silicon Valley job, running a new group trying to build speech interface technologies at Apple. Eight years later, Lee was hired by Microsoft with a specific mission: to go to China, start a research group, and develop a technology hub—and talent.
Stewart Brand and the Tools That Will Make the Whole Earth Better
Maria Streshinsky: When I was really young, I went to the New Games Tournament. Stewart Brand: Oh my gosh, in Marin County? That’s amazing. Streshinsky: I’ve been thinking about all the different things that you’ve helped create. Brand: Do you remember the New Games at all? Brand: Ah, good. Well, it was mythic then, enough to stick to a small child. Here’s the thing about Stewart Brand: He has spent a lifetime creating mythic things that stick.
“Is Basic Social Justice Really a Matter of Personal Opinion?”
Ben drove a car I coveted. A bright yellow Karmann Ghia. Slick, low, designed for Volkswagen in an Italian studio famous for its sports cars. The very quintessence of cool to my eight-year-old self. The trunk of the Karmann Ghia, like the Volkswagen Beetle, was in the front, under the hood; it seemed to me like another in Ben’s repertoire of magic tricks. One night in 1971, Ben drove that car to the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, opened the hood, and helped US Sen.
Women-and Men-Share Their Harrowing Stories of Workplace Harassment
The country is at a defining moment. Somewhere close to half of all voters will cast a ballot for the nation’s first female president. Many of the rest will choose the most misogynistic presidential candidate in modern American history. There is a depressing irony in the fact it was that Republican candidate himself who reminded everyone that there are plenty of men in power who use that power to demean, denigrate, and demoralize women.
Saying No to $1 Billion
Mario Gonzalez is Oglala Sioux and Mexican and walks like he was once a linebacker. A tribal lawyer for the Sioux, Gonzalez has devoted much of his career to the convoluted fight for the Black Hills of South Dakota—a fight that has already lasted a century. More than 30 years ago, the federal Indian Claims Commission awarded the Sioux what amounted to $102 million for the taking of the Black Hills. But the Sioux didn’t want the money; they wanted their land back.
Share Your Stories of Sexual Harassment
Drew Angerer/Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images About halfway through the third presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald Trump claimed that the many allegations of his sexually harassing women are fiction. “Nobody has more respect for women than I do,” he said.
Here Is the Mysterious High Roller Donald Trump Wants to Put in Charge of Our Food
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump churns out strong opinions like McDonald's produces Big Macs. But save for the odd eruption—like declaring the supremacy of Trump Tower Grill's "taco bowls" or blaming the California drought on environmentalists to the delight of the state's agribusiness interests—he has been relatively quiet about food.
The McGarrigle Sisters Go Beyond Cozy Love Songs
The third longplayer from Canadian folkies Kate and Anna McGarrigle, 1978's Pronto Monto found the sisters poised to enter the mainstream after two critically acclaimed, underexposed albums. With Anna's composition "Heart Like a Wheel" about to become a success for Linda Ronstadt, the McGarrigles enlisted producer David Nichtern, who'd previously penned "Midnight at the Oasis," a left-field hit for Maria Muldaur, in hopes of broadening their appeal.
This Sociologist Spent Five Years on LA's Hyper-Policed Skid Row. Here's What He Learned.
University of Chicago sociologist Forrest Stuart spent five years hanging out on Los Angeles's grittiest streets for his new book, Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. (For a taste, read this short excerpt.) "I figured this was ground zero for trying to start over, for testing the American bootstraps story, and I wanted to see if and how it could work," Stuart explains.
"Is Basic Social Justice Really a Matter of Personal Opinion?"
Ben drove a car I coveted. A bright yellow Karmann Ghia. Slick, low, designed for Volkswagen in an Italian studio famous for its sports cars. The very quintessence of cool to my eight-year old self. The trunk of the Karmann Ghia, like the Volkswagen Beetle, was in the front, under the hood; it seemed to me like another in Ben's repertoire of magic tricks.
Paul Theroux on What’s Really Wrong With Africa
Paul Theroux’s new novel, The Lower River, is one of a series of books in which the longtime author and travel writer reimagines seminal events in his own life. Like his protagonist, Ellis Hock, Theroux was in the Peace Corps in Malawi in the early 1960s. In his 44 books — fiction and nonfiction — he has never shied from commenting on the possibilities and perils humans face in their quest for solutions.
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