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Beauty, Brains, and the Blur Between Real and Artificial

May 2nd · Issue #329
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This 10Things issue we explore the shifting ground beneath beauty, intelligence, and identity. From the filtered perfection of AI-altered faces to Nora Turato’s examination of language in the age of LLMs, we’re asking what’s real, what’s changing, and what’s next. Mark Zuckerberg claims social media is over, while thinkers and makers imagine new futures with “spells and vibes.” We examine circular fashion’s pragmatic turn, the price of retail therapy, and the limits of collaboration. Plus: the sensory world of Cig Harvey, philosophical takes on color, and evolving ideas about intelligence itself. 


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1. Reclaim Imperfect Faces
 

Technology isn’t just changing the way we look—it’s changing our sense of how we should look.
 

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2. What We Lose When We Spend to Feel Better
 

Consumer culture taught us that joy can be bought—but the ecological costs of our shopping habits reveals how misguided that promise was.
 

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3. Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
 

During testimony at Meta’s antitrust trial, the Facebook founder’s argument was, in so many words, that platforms like his are not what they used to be.
 

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4. Spells, Vibes, and Thick Imagination


At the heart of RADAR's 2025 focus is a simple but significant question: how do we build infrastructure that helps people cross from yearning for better futures to actually building them?

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5. AI Is Evolving — And Changing Our Understanding Of Intelligence
 

Advances in AI are making us reconsider what intelligence is and giving us clues to unlocking AI’s full potential. 
 

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6. Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World
 

Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.
 

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7. When Over-Collaboration Leads to Indecision
 

Building consensus is a good thing—until it stalls decision-making. 
 

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8. Circular Fashion – From Environmental Imperative To Practical Necessity
 

As the industry weathers rising tariffs, strained supply chains, and a cost-of-living crisis, circularity could become less of a compliance exercise and more of a practical adjustment.

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9. Are colors objective? These philosophers think so
 

Our ability to determine whether objects are colored the same or differently and the indispensable roles they play in science suggest that colors are as real and objective as length and temperature.
 

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10. Nora Turato Examines ‘Authenticity’, or What’s Left of It
 

The artist’s new exhibition at ICA London asks what has – and will – become of language in the age of the Large Language Model.
 

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“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” 
 

— T.S. Eliot

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