Articles by jethronethro
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The brazen rightwing plan to conquer American schools (theguardian.com)

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College instructor uses typewriters to curb AI work and teach life lessons (apnews.com)

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'junk': E-waste from rich nations floods local markets in Nigeria (aljazeera.com)

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Stop the world, I want to get off and run a video rental store in the 1990s (theguardian.com)

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My Prodigal Brainchild (nealstephenson.substack.com)

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CDT Europe's AI Bulletin: March 2026 (cdt.org)

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CDox: A Google Docs style editor with no AI training or data extraction (cdox.ca)

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'Invasive' AI-led mass surveillance in Africa violating freedoms, warn experts (theguardian.com)

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Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration (bbc.com)

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Now we have proof: dealing with difficult people does age you (theguardian.com)

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Can 'friction-maxxing' fix your focus? (bbc.com)

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Why everyone is reading fantasy (theguardian.com)

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How to Filter a Todo.txt File in Obsidian – Without Plugins (ellanew.com)

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What can our thoughts reveal about the nature of consciousness? (theguardian.com)

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Final step to put new website into production deleted it instead (theregister.com)

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AI safety staff departures raise worries about pursuit of profit at all costs (theguardian.com)

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Taiwan's AI-powered economy soars in shadow of bubble fears and China threats (apnews.com)

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How to Tell You're Being Manipulated by a Story (thinkbigpicture.substack.com)

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France Ditches US Tech: Will Europe Follow? [video] (youtube.com)

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Tesla is committing automotive suicide (electrek.co)

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Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors court filing alleges (reuters.com)

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Palantir has no place in UK public services (opendemocracy.net)

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NASA's mega Moon rocket arrives at launch pad for Artemis II mission (bbc.com)

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Spaceflight Prematurely Ages Astronauts (nautil.us)

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The Shaggs (wikipedia.org)

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'Tuna King' pays record £2.4M for giant bluefin at Tokyo auction (theguardian.com)

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'They sowed chaos to no avail': the lasting legacy of Elon Musk's DOGE (theguardian.com)

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Tech Billionaires Threaten to Flee California–Again (thenerdreich.com)

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Social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism (technologyreview.com)

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Top six network security best practices to protect your business (proton.me)

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Elon Musk says Doge was 'somewhat successful' but he would not do it again (bbc.com)

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Eddie Slovik (wikipedia.org)

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[flagged] Joe Lonsdale Calls for Public Hangings (thenerdreich.com)

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The Unlikely Afterlife of Big Box Stores (mitpress.mit.edu)

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Volcanic eruption may have triggered Europe's deadly Black Death plague (bbc.com)

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Sam Altman issues 'code red' at OpenAI as ChatGPT contends with rivals (theguardian.com)

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It's time to lock in and let your winter arc begin (bbc.com)

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Small changes to 'for you' feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation (theguardian.com)

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Bitcoin isn't anonymous – investigators can trace transactions on the blockchain (boingboing.net)

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Why our opinions about the Beatles keep changing (theguardian.com)

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The US is on a dangerous course without AI regulation (proton.me)

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I Remain a Skeptic Despite Working in Tech (idiallo.com)

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A woman who discovered the first black hole (badastronomy.beehiiv.com)

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How to turn off Copilot and protect your data from Microsoft's AI (proton.me)

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AI will slash headcount by two-thirds – retail boss (bbc.com)

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[flagged] I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT (theguardian.com)

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Calendar.txt Is the Simplest Time Planning System You Will Ever See (ellanew.com)

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OpenAI signs $38B cloud computing deal with Amazon (theguardian.com)

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Thodex (wikipedia.org)

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The Anatomy of an SSH Config (chuck.is)

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Electronic Eye Implant Restored Vision in Patients with Macular Degeneration (smithsonianmag.com)

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How to turn off Meta AI on Facebook – What you can and can't control (proton.me)

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Tesla reports steep drop in profits despite US rush to buy electric vehicles (theguardian.com)

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Career Snakes and Ladders (kevquirk.com)

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What caused the AWS outage – and why has it made the internet fall apart? (bbc.com)

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70k government IDs leaked in Discord data breach (proton.me)

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Sunscreen for the Planet (worksinprogress.co)

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Ace Tone (wikipedia.org)

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Canoeboot: Free, Libre BIOS/UEFI boot firmware (canoeboot.org)

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Proton Meet (proton.me)

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AI will make the rich unfathomably richer. Is this what we want? (theguardian.com)

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I Am Rich (iPhone App) (wikipedia.org)

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Should security cost your privacy? (proton.me)

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Use Plain Text Email? (scottnesbitt.online)

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AI browsers are coming for your clicks – and your privacy (proton.me)

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Man asks ChatGPT for diet tips, ends up with a rare 19th-century illness (indiatimes.com)

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Titan sub disaster CEO could have been charged if he survived, Coast Guard says (apnews.com)

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AI: The Creativity Killer – Are We Trading Genius for Convenience?

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Why Big Tech is threatened by a global push for data sovereignty (restofworld.org)

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Auer Tools (auertools.com)

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America's Mobile Security Crisis: It's Time for a Secure, Private Alternative (puri.sm)

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What resistance to the digital coup looks like (elenarossini.com)

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Whatever happened to Elon Musk? Tech boss drifts to margins of Trump world (theguardian.com)

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Elon Musk Was Donald Trump's Useful Idiot (foreignpolicy.com)

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King Crimson's Robert Fripp recovering from heart attack (hellorayo.co.uk)

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Filling in a PDF Form with Firefox (opensourcemusings.com)

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How to stay safe from 'quishing' and protect yourself from QR code scams (proton.me)

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How much has Elon Musk's Doge cut from US Government spending? (bbc.com)

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Why India fell behind China in tech innovation (restofworld.org)

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Auto-Mounting an Encrypted LUKS Drive at Startup (chuck.is)

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Internal tech emails: Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat (techemails.com)

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Drop a coin, grab a snack: Kiosk-in-a-box spreads in Japan (2014) (reuters.com)

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Where EV batteries go to die – and be reborn (bbc.com)

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Anonymous sources: Starship needs a major rebuild after 2 consecutive failures (behindtheblack.com)

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Mataroa: A blogging platform, for minimalists. Just write (mataroa.blog)

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Software is increasingly being built by AI – it's vital we can trust it (theconversation.com)

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How to learn a language like a baby (theconversation.com)

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Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test (technologyreview.com)

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The Wild West of AI Companionship (technologyreview.com)

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I'm not tech-savvy but with in hrs I could buy a illegal knives on social media (bbc.com)

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US authorities can see more than ever, with Big Tech as their eyes (proton.me)

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Linux Changes Lives (catecheticconverter.com)

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Adopting a Minimalist, Adaptable Mindset (modernadversary.com)

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The False Binary of the DEI Debate (discoursemagazine.com)

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Dependency Hell (wikipedia.org)

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Large language models explained, briefly [video] (aeon.co)

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Introduction to Pipewire (fedoramagazine.org)

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[dupe] James Bond producers give Amazon full creative control of 007 (theguardian.com)

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Towards a quieter, friendlier web (2024) (coryd.dev)

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Reasons to Love Init (both.org)