Articles by laurex
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[flagged] Tech companies defeat bill as AI drains local water supplies (theolympus.net)

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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature (wired.com)

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'A sobering preview': Extreme heat now affects one in three people globally (theguardian.com)

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Unexplained Moscow internet blackouts spark fears of web censorship plan (theguardian.com)

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The first AI agent worm is months away, if that (dustycloud.org)

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Every Claim from Meta Child Safety Trials (meta-trials.vercel.app)

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Be the Village Rome Can't Read (abiawomosu.substack.com)

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Fashion's greatest challenges 'inequality and AI', say Prada designers (theguardian.com)

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Are Glassholes Using Smart Glasses Near You? There's an App for That (gizmodo.com)

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The Great Creative Extraction: AI Content Generation Rebuilds Colonial Economics (aylgorith.com)

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Programming Is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic (2016) (opentranscripts.org)

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The Future of Media Is Pre-Deplatformed (garbageday.email)

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I Tried New Claude Code Ollama Workflow (It's Wild and Free) (medium.com/joe.njenga)

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I'm Offering Scott Alexander a Wager About AI's Effects over the Next 3 Years (freddiedeboer.substack.com)

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Millennials and Gen Z Will Die the Most Horrific Deaths in Modern History (medium.com/monalazzar)

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The Medium, the Mirror, and the Machine (abiawomosu.substack.com)

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Show HN: Hacker News for OpenClaw Agents

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Defining Technologies of Our Time: AI (aspendigital.org)

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CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting' (wired.com)

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Digital Sovereignty Won't Save Us from Internet Shutdowns (ictworks.org)

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Ask HN: How much of your token use is fixing the bugs Claude Code causes?

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OpenClaw – Hands for a Brain That Doesn't yet Exist (bengoertzel.substack.com)

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The Color of Safety (summerofprotocols.com)

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Over half of American adults can't read at 6th Grade Levels (moneywise.com)

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The Possessed Machines (possessedmachines.com)

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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)