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The Memory Maker
OpenAI’s Sora allowed you to deepfake yourself. Users started to remember things that never happened.
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What Are Memories, Anyway?
The brain is a funny thing. You give it the right cues of depth and immersion, and something that would otherwise be a memory of an image becomes a memory of an experience.
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Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?
“In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation.”
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Memories of Motherhood and Our Top 5
“Much of the time, I feel like a girl. A curious girl of 48 who, today, is walking the neighborhood streets with a girl of 13, and listening to what this girl has to say. She happens to be my kid, this person I made, a living being that gave my life a whole new […]
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Memory Machines
“Data centers have proliferated across Ireland, at great cost.”
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When Your Digital Life Vanishes
“A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void.”
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Losers Keepers
“Better to imagine some subterranean Gollum crooning over my memories than to accept them being lost completely.”
