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Planning the Future: Toward a Socialist Anthropocene
It has been almost a year since OpenAI unleashed its ChatGPT program. Every day since the business press has been awash with stories of its effect, and the effects of AI in general. For instance,...
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Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
The techlash has finally reached the courts. Amazon’s in court. Google’s in court. Apple’s under EU investigation. The French authorities just kicked down Nvidia’s doors and went through their files...
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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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