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“Imagine the tech without the tech companies.”

It is right that the murder of many people be mourned and lamented.

From historical materialism to mycelial economics — a philosopher-builder synthesis. Marx's diagnosis has hardened into evidentiary fact: concentration at the 0.01%, ecological overshoot, and the exhaustion of legitimating institutions. The constructive question is no longer whether Marx was right but what builds next. We position the Univrs Cloud Commons as one answer.

Every day, millions of pieces of fake content are produced. Videos, audio clips, posts, articles, generated by artificial intelligence, distributed at

We dropped the torch. They picked it up.

How AI is transforming humans

AI governance is ultimately a question of democracy itself, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

AI and society; and sustaining innovation has failed us.

There is no liquid soap that can outperform good bar soap at cleaning a stinky, hairy armpit. Which is why I hate that hotels have replaced bars of soap with bottles of "body wash" or wha…

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A necessary corrective to a very sick public culture and recovery of a lost virtue.

In 1986, a corporation that made women's lingerie bought every backpack brand you've ever trusted.

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say.

Geopolitics is the analysis of geographic influences on power relationships in international relations, a succinct enough sentence for one of the primary factors affecting how states interact with …

Commentary: A Seattle pastor who has staked out ground in Browne’s Addition says Spokane — and this reporter — is out to get him.

H.P. Lovecraft's Cat refers to the cat named Nigger-Man owned by the family of the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft during his childhood. Onli

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1997 non-fiction work by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson