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If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems. Brewster Kahle

Writing In The Stupid Age Anne Haverty Dec 05, 2024 Essay This is the text of the 2024 Stinging Fly lecture, which was delivered at the United Arts Club in Dublin on October 23rd 2024. I tried to resist calling this lecture Writing in the Stupid Age. It’s going to be misunderstood, I was...

Subscriber OnlyOpinion We are up to our necks in a rising tide of AI-generated slop A person who thinks a book can be ‘edited’ by a piece of software is a person who simply doesn’t know what editing is Expand A majority of the study’s participants preferred a poem generated by AI in the style...

Are you being played by Netflix? Why tech giants do not want us to be nostalgic Unthinkable: Powerful organisations may be trying to ‘suppress emotions that threaten capitalism’ One Day gives viewers of a certain age a dose of poignant escapism. Photograph: Netflix Nostalgia is big business...

The world’s second-wealthiest man, Larry Ellison, has a vision for humanity built around the idea of 24/7 surveillance, everywhere, all the time. “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," he says. Ellison is a tech...

New blog post by James Charles – discussions in this thread, please --- As a kid, I watched Star Trek. Some things have come true. I remember at the market you had to push to open the door. On Star Trek, the doors opened automatically with a SWOOSH when Captain Kirk made his dramatic entrance...