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The A.I. backlash backlash: Against "A.G.I."
https://maxread.substack.com/p/the-ai-backlash-backlash
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I adore my children. I’m also scared that one day my son will kill me | Femicide | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/08/i-adore-my-children-im-also-scared-that-one-day-my-son-will-kill-me
In the UK, more than 170 women have been murdered by their sons in the past 15 years. An anonymous mother reveals what it is like to be frightened of your child while desperately wanting to support him
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They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2025/mar/05/zizians-artificial-intelligence
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
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James Harrison: Australian whose blood saved 2.4 million babies dies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y4xqe60gyo
Known as the 'man with the golden arm', James Harrison's blood contained a rare antibody that saved millions of lives.
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Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
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The Cuddled Little Vice (Sandman) – Eruditorum Press
https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/the-cuddled-little-vice-sandman
Previously in The Last War in Albion: Alan Moore wrote Watchmen, which, for complicated reasons involving William S. Burroughs and the weak nuclear force, ended the Cold War and replaced it with a magical one with Grant Morrison. That story continues in Book Three. This, meanwhile, is a new epilogue
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You Don't Have to Monetize The Things You Love
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/
My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time, a
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The Job Market Is Frozen - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/jobs-unemployment-big-freeze/681831/
Unemployment is low, but workers aren’t quitting and businesses aren’t hiring. What’s going on?
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No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows-how-this-will-end-but-i-do-not-think-it-will-end-well-for-them/
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're
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True Crime Mystery: Solving a 50-Year-Old Murder Case in New York
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/true-crime-mystery-murder-the-scene-new-york-1235156741/
The Scene was the hottest club in New York. After it closed, a teen girl’s remains were discovered inside, leaving authorities with a puzzle to solve.
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My name is Patrick. Don’t you dare call me Pat
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/comedy/my-name-is-patrick-don-t-you-dare-call-me-pat-20250224-p5lenh.html
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The Banality of Zionism
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-banality-of-zionism/
Zionism is just 19th century nationalism, and its conflicts are ordinary nationalist conflicts.
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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The Great Resegregation - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-attacks-dei/681772/
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
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XX- Risk: What's more threatening - autonomous AI, or autonomous women?
https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/xx-risk
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Trump Can Be Stopped
https://www.readthedetox.com/p/trump-can-be-stopped
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NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-hypocrisy-outlet-criticizes-trumps
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The sound of three hands clapping: Further comments on why we need to rid ourselves of two-party politics
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-three-hands-clapping
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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about what people get right and wrong when they criticize D.E.I., or diversity, equity, and inclusion, initiatives in the workplace.
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What Happened Here: It's Very Simple Dialectics
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f
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Let's Get Real: I'm going to use the F-word and the C-word
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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13 Things I Learned Reading a 225 Page Report About the Gaming Industry
https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/13-things-i-learned-reading-a-225
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Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-population-crisis/
Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
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Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/
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