Articles by xyzal
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'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech (theguardian.com)

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Utah's 'hyperscale' data center could create heat island near Great Salt Lake (sltrib.com)

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Flaws in Kenya's AI-driven health reforms driving up costs for the poorest (theguardian.com)

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World Inequality Report 2026 [pdf] (wid.world)

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Online astroturfing: A problem beyond disinformation (2022) (sagepub.com)

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I swarms can threaten democracy by manufacturing fake public consensus (techxplore.com)

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AI Armies Are Faking Grassroots Movements (studyfinds.com)

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Anthropic is clashing with The Pentagon over AI use. Here's what each side wants (cnbc.com)

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US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted' (theguardian.com)

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Landlords are using automated services to monitor tenant promotions (reddit.com)

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A Woman Who Predicted Tech Fascism [video] (youtube.com)

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AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (technologyreview.com)

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Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured (digitalcourage.social)

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Aleksander Solzhenitsyn – Live Not by Lies (1974) (solzhenitsyncenter.org)

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Russian disinformation 'infects' AI chatbots, researchers warn (france24.com)

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A new report warns of serious risks from 'mirror life' (stanford.edu)

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X suspends account of Navalny's widow (sky.com)

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A New Tool Helps Artists Thwart AI–With a Middle Finger (wired.com)

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Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models (arxiv.org)

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Has anyone seen Web3? [video] (youtube.com)

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Sabine Hossenfelder: Web3: World-changing tech or just a scam? [video] (youtube.com)

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Ashes 2063 Doom II mod (moddb.com)

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Google Wants AI Scraping to Be 'Fair Use.' Will Courts Agree? (tomshardware.com)

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Five human dangers of Artificial Intelligence (medium.com/sir.gustav)

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Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models (uchicago.edu)

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Start a fucking blog (startafuckingblog.com)

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ISSpresso (wikipedia.org)