Articles by laurex
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Escaping the trap of US tech dependence (disconnect.blog)

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Ask HN: Has Claude Code changed its usage limits for you?

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In which our protagonist dreams of laurels (and how we lost with FOSS) (wingolog.org)

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Every Meeting Should Start on Time (If You Want It to Be Productive) (inc.com)

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Worries about Open Source in the age of LLMs (jvt.me)

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A vision of chocolate's future in an Amsterdam brownie (bloomberg.com)

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'Scamming became the new farming': inside India's cybercrime villages (theguardian.com)

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Disney loses $5M every day it's off YouTube TV (awfulannouncing.com)

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A.I. Is Making Death Threats More Realistic (nytimes.com)

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Challenge: Improve Multilingual ASR Performance for Mozilla (mozilladatacollective.com)

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Inherent Grift (cybelecanterel.substack.com)

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The Price of Every ChatGPT Query: An Empire on $1.50 an Hour (aylgorith.com)

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Data centers turn to commercial aircraft jet engines as AI power crunch bites (tomshardware.com)

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Everything's Computer, but How? (howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com)

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Our plan to build bottom-up resistance to billionaire technology (gfsc.community)

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There's Now a Casino in Everyone's Pocket. For Some Men It's a Near-Fatal Gamble (rollingstone.com)

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Canada Squandered Its Drone Lead (thewalrus.ca)

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The cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment (theguardian.com)

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They're just trying to earn a buck (pluralistic.net)

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So You Wanna Shitpost: A Creator's Guide to Weaponized Nonsense (manychat.com)

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When ChatGPT turns informant (futureofbeinghuman.com)

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[dupe] The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (pluralistic.net)

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Social Cooling (2017) (socialcooling.com)

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UBI: Marx's prophecy gets an AI upgrade (qz.com)

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Ways to Use AI at Work and Build Your AI Product Toolbox (producttalk.org)

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Offline: When a Pacific island was cut off from the internet (theguardian.com)

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ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners (futurism.com)

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Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI 'Superintelligence' (wired.com)

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Charles Sanders Peirce Was America's Greatest Thinker (2019) (aeon.co)

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Peeling Back the Tech Broligarchy's Glass Onion (the-flytrap.ghost.io)

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The Default Trap: Why Anthropic's Data Policy Change Matters (natesnewsletter.substack.com)

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Kids as Philosophers of AI (turingpost.com)

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From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year (npr.org)

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Researchers discover what saves babies' lives. It's not medical, it's money (npr.org)

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Problems with Meshtastic security exposed at DEFCON (partyon.xyz)

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Net neutrality advocates won't appeal loss, say they don't trust Supreme Court (arstechnica.com)

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The Constitution Has Been Changed (slrpnk.net)

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Marshall McLuhan Was Right (slate.com)

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Companies Tried to Save Money with AI Now Spending a Fortune to Fix Its Mistakes

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As AI Gets Smarter, It Acts More Evil (honest-broker.com)

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Scientists Witnessed the Birth of a Monster–8.3B Years After It Happened (popularmechanics.com)

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Listen to Forests from Around the World (tree.fm)

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Diabolus Ex Machina (amandaguinzburg.substack.com)

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'Nobody wants a robot to read them a story ' (theguardian.com)

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The Case Against Planetary Governance (combinationsmag.com)

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How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans (technologyreview.com)

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A meta-analysis of technology use and cognitive aging (nature.com)

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The Enshittification of Tech Jobs (doctorow.medium.com)

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DoorDash driver helped cheat company out of $2.5M using phantom deliveries (latimes.com)

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Bayesian Superyacht Sank After 'Extreme' Wind Gust, Report Says (nytimes.com)

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AI therapy is a surveillance machine in a police state (theverge.com)

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The Creative Process (1962) [pdf] (openspaceofdemocracy.wordpress.com)

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Perverse incentives of vibe coding (fredbenenson.medium.com)

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Starch-based bioplastic may be as toxic as petroleum-based plastic (theguardian.com)

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How women have been impacted by Musk-led federal layoffs (19thnews.org)

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The Ancient Psychedelics Myth (theguardian.com)

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Team Autonomy and AI (svpg.com)

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Interview with a 56-Year-Old Sober Person: Richard Rushfield (thesmallbow.com)

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'I sent AI to art school ' The postmodern master who taught a machine (theguardian.com)

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Other "I, Pencils" (economistwritingeveryday.com)

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A streaming brain-to-voice neuroprosthesis to restore naturalistic communication (nature.com)

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Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)

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Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex (quantamagazine.org)

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You Can't Solve the Teacher Shortage by Pretending Anyone Can Do the Job (thewalrus.ca)

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New AI tools policing women's bodies on Bluesky (reddit.com)

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Can Portland Turn a Corner? (bloomberg.com)

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Are We Tripping? The Mirage of AI Hallucinations (xolotl.org)

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[flagged] Cybertrucks Are Deadlier Than Infamous Ford Pintos (motherjones.com)

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Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps (themarkup.org)

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Google just opened the door for people to do evil with AI (androidcentral.com)

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Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots (404media.co)

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Apocalypse Now (betterwithout.ai)

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Fear Power, Not Intelligence (betterwithout.ai)

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Better Without AI (betterwithout.ai)

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AI nudifier makes a mockery of Meta's moderation (fakedup.substack.com)

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Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future? (theguardian.com)

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A large earthquake can trigger earthquakes in distant locations (usgs.gov)

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TikTok Doesn't Need America (garbageday.email)

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An Attmept to Billionaire-proof social media wih Bluesky's protocol (fortune.com)

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Ghost is about to beat Substack in Discoverability (augment.ink)

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They say a name like mine can hold you back in life, but I will never change it (theguardian.com)

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Evil Models and Exploits: When AI Becomes the Attacker (thenewstack.io)

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Elon Musk ally leads attempt to seize control of psychedelic biotech Lykos (ft.com)

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Fire Weather (chrishedges.substack.com)

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The Next Drug Epidemic Is Blue Raspberry Flavored (nymag.com)

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Antibiotic emergency 'could claim 40M lives in next 25 years' (theguardian.com)

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Going Boysober (theguardian.com)

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The 2024 Good Tech Awards (nytimes.com)

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Merry Slopmas (404media.co)

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Enough Wealth to Warp the Universe (hamiltonnolan.com)

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How decentralized is Bluesky really? (bsky.app)

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Build network societies, not network states (combinationsmag.com)

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Trauma-Informed Social Media: Solutions for Reducing and Healing Online Harm (arxiv.org)

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Edward Snowden on AI [video] (youtube.com)

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Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged (nytimes.com)

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Multiverses, Turing Machines, Quantum Headaches: David Deutsch Explains It All (thequantuminsider.com)

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The Quest to Build a Star on Earth – When will we get fusion? (nytimes.com)

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Public Sector AI Playbook [pdf] (tech.gov.sg)

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Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself (nytimes.com)

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The first people on Tasmania brought fire and forever changed the land (science.org)