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The article criticizes the "Pro-Human AI Declaration," highlighting that its broad coalition includes controversial figures like Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck alongside academics and organizations. The author argues that t…
In August 2020, FBI agents visited a journalist's New York home to question him about a 2019 article he wrote regarding a hack at a Mexican embassy, which involved a hacker accessing a vulnerable server. The journalist d…
Tech giants like TikTok, Google, and Meta use invisible tracking tools called "pixels" embedded on websites to collect sensitive personal data—such as health information or browsing habits—from visitors, even if those vi…
AI systems enable a "diffusion of responsibility," where companies and developers avoid accountability for errors by blaming the AI itself or a single human "checker." It criticizes the AI assistant OpenClaw (also called…
Tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel do read the science fiction works they reference, but they misinterpret them by identifying with the authoritarian or dystopian factions rather than the prota…
Apple's Lockdown Mode, a security feature that restricts device functions to block cyberattacks, has gained attention after it prevented the FBI from accessing the iPhone of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson. Th…
In December, various German NGOs and companies launched the "Digital Independence Day" (DI.Day) to encourage people to move away from US-based digital platforms and toward alternatives, such as those in the EU, while pro…
GDP statistics in many poor countries are often unreliable, citing examples like Nigeria and Ghana, where methodological changes (such as updating base years) caused reported GDP to suddenly increase by 60–89% without an…
The primary purpose of AI in the workplace is not to increase productivity, but to disenfranchise labor by breaking up worker organizations and shifting power to centralized corporate structures. It contends that even if…
Papua New Guinea's official 2022 population estimate of 9.4 million was based on an extrapolation from a flawed 2000 census, as the government deemed its 2011 census unreliable. A leaked UN report, using satellite imager…
The article archives two talk proposals submitted to re:publica 2026. The first proposal, "The Future is Decomputing," argues for moving beyond the tech sector's logic of scaling and efficiency toward a more humane and c…
Mainstream economics incorrectly views prices as signals of scarcity and value, whereas they actually reflect the ratio of debt-backed money to productive capacity. It introduces a "price-as-capacity-signal" framework, d…
According to a recent article by Max Roser of *Our World in Data*, the decades-long trend of declining global extreme poverty is expected to halt and reverse after 2030. This is because the majority of people living in e…
Large language models (LLMs) may be transformative but pose serious risks and are already causing harm, prompting the author to question whether they are "worth it." The author, Nicholas Carlini, works at Anthropic and a…
Increased lifespans, combined with compound interest, are creating a "wealth lock-up" where capital accumulates in elderly hands for an extra decade or more, delaying inheritances until recipients are near retirement age…
Partnership between Y Combinator and Coinbase to fund startups building on blockchain technology, marking what they call "Fintech 3.0"—a new era of financial infrastructure using code for instant, global, self-custodial …
The article announces a GoFundMe campaign by Deno to raise $200,000 for legal costs in a petition to cancel Oracle's "JavaScript" trademark, arguing the term has become a generic public domain name for the programming la…
The current crisis facing central banks is structural, not merely political, stemming from the end of a "golden age" of favorable macroeconomic conditions like the Great Moderation. It contends that the rise of aging pop…
Society is living in a "pre-cyberpunk" reality where corporate-government fusion is already occurring, despite people believing they are resisting it. It claims that modern "resistance" has shifted from building independ…
The "Stop Killing Games" movement faces significant legal hurdles in the European Union because EU copyright law, particularly the Information Society Directive, explicitly protects DRM systems and grants publishers stro…