All posts tagged: reshaping

The women reshaping kitchen culture

The women reshaping kitchen culture

Published by Sam Flores

For a long time, the image of the chef has been remarkably consistent: a man in a white jacket, barking orders in a hot kitchen and demanding perfection from everyone around him. At the Chef’s Table Festival in Park City, Utah, last month, the women chefs I encountered offered a much more expansive definition of what it means to cook — and what it means to lead a kitchen. They weren’t presenting a single vision for the future of food. They were doing something more interesting: building careers around their own identities, experiences and ideas rather than trying to force themselves into the traditional mold of what a chef is supposed to look like. During a panel titled “Women Shaping the Future of Food,” chefs Fariyal Abdullahi, Sarah Glover and Betül Tunç talked about everything from social media and motherhood to femininity, cultural identity and the pressures of building a career in an industry that has not always made much room for women. For Abdullahi, visibility is part of that work. She told the audience …

The 5 permit reshaping homeownership in Arizona

The $325 permit reshaping homeownership in Arizona

Published by Jenni Sidey

“I just always thought there was something not quite right about this world,” Clay Greathouse said, as his truck climbed out of an arroyo and onto a creosote-studded lot near the town of Tombstone.  It was a Saturday morning in March, an ideal time to be ambling in Arizona’s high desert, though if the truck broke down here I would certainly not want to be without my water bottle. The last street sign I’d seen was for Last Chance Road. Outside our window, a landscape by turns breathtaking and godforsaken appeared through a veil of dust: knuckles of mesquite trees, the dried spines of century plants, a gossamer fray of whitethorn and bunchgrass, all sprouting up from marl and the chaff of dead stuff.  It’s a truism of nature that where one thing ends another begins. I wondered which side of that ledger we were headed toward, as our last chance at turning back to civilization disappeared in the rearview mirror. Too late to worry now. It was my second day in Cochise County, Arizona, …

Is Algorithmic Asymmetry Reshaping How We Think?

Is Algorithmic Asymmetry Reshaping How We Think?

Published by Jenni Sidey

Algorithms are growing more powerful by the year. What they measure is a ghost of a pattern that once looked like someone statistically adjacent to you and me. The gap between past and present is costing us more than we notice. Machines that never met you Imagine you are standing on one side of a traditional scale. On the other side: a machine that has never met you, never been hungry, never buried anyone, never changed its mind at three in the morning. The machine nonetheless decides, in milliseconds, whether you are creditworthy, whether your job application clears a filter, whether your medical scan warrants a specialist’s attention, whether you are shown the news story that confirms your fears or the one that complicates them. That machine is running on an algorithm. And that algorithm, almost certainly, knows far more about the average person in its training data than it knows about you, specifically, today. This is algorithmic asymmetry—a structural condition of contemporary life that reaches everyone: the 22-year-old applying for a first apartment, the …

How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield

How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield

Published by José Betancourt

Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube Just how are powerful AI models being used in warfare overseas? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel sits down with Will Knight, a senior writer at Wired, to discuss the rise of autonomous weapons. From the origins of Project Maven to the recent falling-out between Anthropic and the Department of Defense, they trace what’s happening as artificial intelligence moves from summarizing documents to informing decisions on the battlefield. How do these weapons work? What are the safeguards? Who decides what values get baked into these models? As autonomous systems become harder to avoid, where exactly is the line between human judgment and machine decision making? Warzel and Knight help explain how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are more entangled than ever and where warfare goes from here. The following is a transcript of the episode: Will Knight: The U.S. government will talk a lot about the importance of AI reflecting American values. But what are those values, exactly? Charlie Warzel: Right. Do we get to …