Spurring an Endless Arms Race
Tom Dispatch
The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars
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Flexible Work Without Exploitation
Economic Policy Institute
Reversing tech companies’ state-by-state agenda to unravel workers’ rights and misclassify workers as ‘contractors’ in the gig economy and beyond.
Most Humans Haven’t Evolved To Cope With the Cold, yet We Dominate Northern Climates – Here’s Why
The Conversation
Given our limited adaptation to the cold, why is it that our species has come to dominate not only our warm ancestral lands but every part of the globe?
Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope?
The New Yorker
Miniaturization, experimentation, and A.I. have unlocked revolutionary potential in an old technology.
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Exclusive: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour To Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
Time
The story of the workers who made ChatGPT possible offers a glimpse into the conditions in this little-known part of the AI industry.
Human Prehistory—Why New Discoveries About Human Origins Open Up Revolutionary Possibilities
Independent Media Institute
The invention and subsequent development of technology was the inflection point from which humanity was to diverge towards an alternative pathway from all other life forms on Earth.
Deep Geothermal — One Renewable Energy Source To Rule Them All?
CleanTechnica
Deep geothermal technology can harness the heat stored beneath the Earth’s crust to make abundant zero emissions energy.
Friday Nite Videos | November 4, 2022
Portside
Obama Campaigns Against Kari Lake and Warns About Threats to Democracy. Till | Movie. Why Self-Driving Cars Have Stalled. Long Covid: A Parallel Pandemic. Why This Instrument Explains Black American Folk Music.
Why Self-Driving Cars Have Stalled | It's Complicated
Fully fledged self-driving technology appears to be perpetually just around the corner. It is a promise that the Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, has made almost every year since 2013.
Science and Civil Liberties: The Lost ACLU Lecture of Carl Sagan
Quillette
Around 1987, Sagan gave an uncannily prescient lecture to the Illinois state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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