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An 83-year-old short story by Borges portends a bleak future for the internet
Ironically, however, the output of these chatbots may represent the greatest danger to the future of the web – one that was hinted at decades earlier by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
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A gospel that admits it’s a false prophecy
Another gospel, from a much later era, might be unique in Christian literature of any and all eras. Just imagine a gospel composed by Jorge Luis Borges while Umberto Eco held his coat and Neil Gaiman ...
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Pope Francis: ‘I looked younger than I was, so much so that my students had nicknamed me Babyface’
An extract from Pope Francis’s memoir tells of a young classmate who committed murder, and of his friendship with writer Jorge Luis Borges Pope Francis. Behind, with classmates at the Escuela ...
Fionn Whitehead, Luis Gnecco, Alan Cumming to Star in ‘Borges and Me'
Fionn Whitehead and Luis Gnecco are set to star in Borges and Me, an adaptation of Jay Parini's memoir of his 1970s journey ...
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Mason Bates - Anthology of Fantastic Zoology – Sprite; A Bao A Qu
Each of its eleven distinctive movements conjures up a different mythical creature from Jorge Luis Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings, including the mischievous Sprite and the tower-dwelling beast ...
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Famous birthdays for Aug. 24: Major Garrett, Marlee Matlin
Aug. 24 (UPI) --Those born on this date are under the sign of Virgo. They include: -- Writer Jorge Luis Borges in 1899 -- Palestinian leader/Nobel Peace Prize laureate Yasser Arafat in 1929 ...
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83-year-old short story portends bleak future for the internet
In his 2019 novel Fall, science fiction author Neal Stephenson imagined a near future in which the internet still exists. But ...