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The Refusal
“Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.” — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man.1 Internet sobriety is what I...
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Our Fixation on Green Technology Harms Our Ability to Confront Climate Crisis
Green technology is at the forefront of many climate conversations, from electric cars, to solar energy batteries, to the burgeoning interest in carbon capture. Though sometimes well-meaning and...
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The Fountain of Youth
“If the spectacle — understood in the limited sense of those ‘mass media’ that are its most stultifying superficial manifestation — seems at times to be invading society in the shape of a mere...
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Big Tech Is Lobbying Hard to Keep Copyright Law Favorable to AI
Big Tech leaders are spending millions of dollars — and pushing dubious national security concerns — to try to prevent federal regulators from forcing them to pay for the copyrighted works their...
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Does Modern Science Already Allow Us to Manage the Weather?
As winter settles over New Delhi, cold air sinks, trapping pollution in the city. Smoke from seasonal fires stemming from farming practices in India’s north further reduces the city’s air quality,...
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‘Awful News for Humanity’: Alarm as Larry Summers Joins OpenAI Board
“There is no greater indication that OpenAI is unserious about the interests of humanity than their elevation of Larry Summers to its board of directors,” said one watchdog. News that OpenAI co-founder...
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Israel-Palestine War: How Israel Uses AI Genocide Programme To Obliterate Gaza
According to whistleblowers, Israel is using an AI system to generate targets so fast, based on inputs so broad, that everyone in Gaza is in the crosshairs. It should already have been evident from the...
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Scientists’ Declaration Against Genocide and in Support of Palestine
On December 9, the International Convention Against War and Destructive Use of Science: Scientists Against Israeli Apartheid, Occupation, and Genocide in Gaza, gathered nearly 500 scientists from 40...
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Election Defenders’ Top 2024 Worry: Online Rumors, Deceptions, Lies Swaying...
A decade ago, when Kate Starbird dove into studying how rumors spread online and how people use social media to make sense of what is happening during crises, the future co-founder of the University of...
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Police Tech Isn’t Designed to Be Accurate — It’s Made to Exert Social Control
In the past 15 years, policing has grown its reach, largely through an array of technologies that record and store our personal details and daily activities. Using algorithms and other formulae,...
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Harvard Endowment Investor and Other Business Leaders Take a Solidarity Trip...
DOZENS OF PROMINENT investors and business leaders traveled to Israel this week to show solidarity with Israel amid its war on Hamas, according to documents from the junket obtained by The Intercept....
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Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing Of Gaza
In this episode of The Source, we interview independent journalist and economist Dr. Shir Hever on the latest developments surrounding Israel’s war in Gaza. We begin the interview by examining an...
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We Need Better Tools
The pursuit of a better future involves questioning the very foundations of our current society, including the forms of technology that uphold it. Today we explore Ivan Illich’s concept of an...
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In the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Seeing cars with no human inside move through San Francisco’s streets is eerie enough as a pedestrian, but when I’m on my bicycle I often find myself riding alongside them, and from that vantage point...
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How to Take Back the Internet
Platforms that once represented a promise of freedom are now monopolies based on data extraction and surveillance. Users who joined social media to stay in touch with their friends find themselves...
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Lessons From Latin America on the Impact of Platform Cooperativism and...
In recent years, the platform model of capitalism has spread throughout the world, exacerbating precariousness, informality and the delocalisation of labour relations wherever it goes. This in turn has...
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“Emergent” AI Behavior and Human Destiny
Yes, it’s already time to be worried — very worried. As the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have shown, the earliest drone equivalents of “killer robots” have made it onto the battlefield and proved to be...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall”
The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border is, and has been, intentionally produced. Throughout the last several administrations, regardless of campaign and other public rhetoric, the porous...
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Ecological Luxury
Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can humanity live comfortable, luxurious lives, all while reducing our energy consumption and living within the bounds of ecology? Listen to find out! Timestamps:...
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Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Messages
In October 2021, an assistant U.S. attorney issued a subpoena to Signal demanding that the messaging app hand over information about one of its users. Based on a phone number, the federal prosecutors...
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U.S. Government Seeks “Unified Vision Of Unauthorized Movement”
As the immigration crisis continues and the Biden administration pursues a muscular enforcement strategy with an eye to public opinion and the 2024 presidential election, the Department of Homeland...
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What Technology for Degrowth?
The world crumbles around us. Wealth inequality is deepening while the human species is facing an existential crisis. Despite calls to accept neoliberalism as inevitable, our situation is not hopeless....
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Why Artificial Intelligence Must Be Stopped Now
The promise of AI is eclipsed by its perils, which include our own annihilation. Those advocating for artificial intelligence tout the huge benefits of using this technology. For instance, an article...
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The Class Struggle in Silicon Valley
Tech companies were once known for making high-quality products and treating their workers well. Now, they make inferior products and treat their workers terribly. This is not coincidental. It is a...
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Intrusive New Digital Tools In The Criminal Legal System Transfer ‘One...
In an ad released last spring by top electronic monitoring manufacturer BI Incorporated, viewers are introduced to the VeriWatch, one of the latest in the company’s suite of digital surveillance tools....
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‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
In 2021, a book titled “The Human-Machine Team: How to Create Synergy Between Human and Artificial Intelligence That Will Revolutionize Our World” was released in English under the pen name “Brigadier...
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A Brief History of Kill Lists, From Langley to Lavender
The Israeli online magazine +972 has published a detailed report on Israel’s use of an artificial intelligence (AI) system called “Lavender” to target thousands of Palestinian men in its bombing...
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No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B...
Democracy Now! speaks with two of the Google employees who were arrested staging sit-ins on Tuesday at the company’s offices in New York City and in Sunnyvale, California, to protest the tech giant’s...
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AI Chatbots: Hype Meets Reality
Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their webpages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write...
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AI, Work & Unions in Germany
In the “not-so-artificial” minds of many, there is no doubt, that artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the world of work. Yet, corporate bosses are already sensing great “labor-saving potentials” –...
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