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Grimes Wants to Be Less Famous (and Replaced by AI)
Gideon: I hear you navigating a kind of, I guess, a broad political space. I hear you talking like someone…
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The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
In short, the tentacles of US tech firms are everywhere—vaccines, food, cancer research, psilocybin centers, criminal justice reform, homelessness—the list…
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different…
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Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption’s Opponents Are Still Wrong
When I contemplate the return of the crypto wars—attempts to block citizens’ use of encryption by officials who want unfettered…
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Spain’s Elections Pit Gig Workers Against the Far Right | WIRED
The election sees Sumar and center-left PSOE facing off against the Popular Party, the traditional party of the right wing…
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Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More | WIRED
Why speak up when you’ve won the game? McGough admits that her “hard up” working class background might make her…
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Green Parties Are Gaining Power—and Problems | WIRED
That pragmatism has been on full display during Europe’s energy crisis, as Habeck has been forced to embrace uncomfortable compromises.…
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UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that…
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There Will Never Be Another Twitter
Gideon: I find it so much work to get started on a new platform, you know, to follow people and…
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Ron DeSantis Pushed Elon Musk’s Twitter to Its Breaking Point
Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, surely hoped to trend on Twitter after announcing his run for president in…
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