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‘We Will Coup Whoever We Want!’: The Unbearable Hubris Of Musk And The Billionaire Tech Bros -- Douglas Ruskoff
Douglas RushkoffChallenging each other to cage fights, building apocalypse bunkers – the behavior of today’s mega-moguls is becoming increasingly outlandish and imperial Douglas Rushkoff -- The ...
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Human Survival Is At Risk -- Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniNouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Nov 24, 2023 It is now common knowledge that economic, monetary, and financial threats are rising and interacting in dangerous ways with various ...
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Google DeepMind’s new Gemini model looks amazing -- but could signal peak AI hype -- Melissa Heikkilä and Will Douglas Heaven, MIT
DALL-E 3 prompted by THE DECODER It outmatches GPT-4 in almost all ways—but only by a little. Was the buzz worth it? Melissa Heikkilä andWill Douglas Heaven -- MIT Technology Review Dec. 6, 2023 ...
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LISTEN: Ian Parry: Carbon Pricing and the Power of a Good Idea -- IMF Podcast
Ian Parry International Monetary Fund Nov. 21, 2023 IN THIS EPISODE Carbon pricing is steadily emerging as one of the most viable solutions to reducing global emissions, but shedding its contentious ...
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Good AI, bad AI: Decoding responsible artificial intelligence -- Alice Trend, Liming Zhu and Qinghua Lu, CSIRO
DALL-E prompt: The funniest AI image ever. Credit: DALL-E Alice Trend, Liming Zhu and Qinghua Lu -- CSIRO Nov. 24, 2023 Artificial intelligence is so hot right now. ChatGPT, DALL-E, and other ...
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'Naked Clams': Aquaculture System Turns Marine Pest Into Nutritious Seafood -- University of Cambridge
Naked Clam juveniles in petri dish. Credit: University of Plymouth University of Cambridge Nov. 20, 2023 Researchers hoping to rebrand a marine pest as a nutritious food have developed the world's ...
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BOOKS: Empire of Normality; Neurodiversity and Capitalism -- Robert Chapman
Empire of Normality; Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman Nov. 19, 2023 Published by Pluto Press in Nov 2023 The neurodiversity movement suggests that it takes all kinds of minds for ...
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What Sam Altman’s Surprise Sacking Means For The AI Race -- The Economist
Sam Altman.TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 CC BY 2.0It is a big setback for OpenAI, and could slow the industry as a whole The immediate effect is chaos Nov. 18, 2023 (The Economist) -- How ...
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Israel Is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza -- Chris Hedges
Chris HedgesIsrael uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries. Chris Hedges -- The Chris Hedges Report Nov. 17, 2023 -- CAIRO, Egypt: The ...
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With Antisemitic Tweet, Elon Musk Reveals His ‘Actual Truth’ -- Allison Morrow, CNN
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X. Analysis by Allison Morrow, CNN Nov. 17, 2023 Elon Musk has publicly endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory popular among ...
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The Economic Consequences Of The Gaza War -- Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel RoubiniNouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Nov 10, 2023 With Israel embarked on a military campaign to eliminate Hamas from Gaza, it remains to be seen whether the conflict will escalate ...
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