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The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive

If you want to overthrow Big Tech, you’ll need Section 230. The paradigm shift being built with the Open Social Web can put communities back in control of social media infrastructure, and finally end our dependency on enshitified corporate giants. But while these incumbents can

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Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats

Taylor Swift has been at the center of AI imitation controversies for years, and now, she's become the latest celebrity who's escalating attempts to protect herself from AI copycats. As usual, however, the legal system intersects with technology in complicated ways - and

Some Cool Movie Explosions

Listen, sometimes you just want to watch things blow up. But safely and without consequence (although Arnold Schwarzenegger did somehow become the governor of California). So, can I interest you in three minutes of movie explosions ? The 80s and 90s were really a golden age for

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Workers train AI to identify everyday objects by labelling items in photos and videos.

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Three ways South Korea can buy alliance insurance

The case for South Korea hedging its relationship with the United States may have become harder to dismiss. Washington’s trade policies and the economic consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran have raised the cost of close alignment at the same time they have weakened

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“A half-century after it was published, The Soul...

“A half-century after it was published, The Soul of a New Machine does a better job challenging AI hype than most current criticism .” I thought something similarly (about the web) when I read Kidder’s book 25 years ago, during the aftermath of the dot com bust.