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'Against the Machine' offers playbook for battling leftist lies
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (863+ words) Author Paul Kingsnorth on how to resist the cult of progress. How did we end up with modern leftism and all its ills? For Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, the answer depended on how deep you were willing to dig. For the…...
Meta is using its own employees to train AI agents for 'everyday tasks"
19+ hour, 59+ min ago (450+ words) The move fuels fears that more companies will pay workers to replace themselves with bots. A new report claims that internal memos at Meta say the company will be harvesting data from employees to train artificial intelligence. The training software…...
'Airplane' auteur: I'm funnier than AI; 'fine for Seth Mac Farlane' but not for me!
1+ day, 10+ hour ago (465+ words) 'You can't write a funny script using AI,' says Zucker " even as he welcomes other uses. Is legendary writer-director David Zucker worried about AI? Surely, you can't be serious! Zucker " the Hollywood veteran behind smash hits like "Airplane!" and "The…...
Anti-Trump Indian investor wants you to use this hat that reads your thoughts
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (557+ words) The investor has also had public spats with tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey. An American company is pushing science fiction to its limits by introducing a mind-reading product, backed by a controversial investor from India. The product…...
Universal basic income is a dangerous delusion
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (396+ words) The sales pitch is freedom from drudgery. The likely result is a nation of passive recipients governed by the people who control the payments. As artificial intelligence drives fresh excitement in the tech world, major figures such as Elon Musk…...
Meet the video game triggering baby fever in women everywhere
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (507+ words) John Doyle dives into Pragmata " a new sci-fi game that's breaking with the gaming industry's historic aversion to positive depictions of family and parenthood. For years, video games have largely neglected to feature families, and if they did, they were…...
Google Maps was ruining my drives " so I kicked it to the curb
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (703+ words) There's a fine line between "helpful navigator' and "backseat driver.' The other day I drove from the tip of Michigan's Lower Peninsula to Marquette in the Upper Peninsula. It was about a three-and-a-half-hour drive through the wilderness. It's not a…...
The founders demanded the Bill of Rights. AI also needs one.
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (782+ words) We need a new digital bill of rights to protect our humanity. In September 1787, the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia came to a close. Delegates had spent months debating and negotiating the structure for a new American government. When the final…...
Amazon gives lame excuse for removing 'offensive' dystopian novel about mass migration ruining Europe
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (641+ words) Amazon takes Jean Raspail's dystopian novel 'The Camp of the Saints' down after New York Magazine mentioned it derisively. France was among the Western nations whose elites determined it worthwhile in the second half of the 20th century to open the…...
Embattled CEO caught asking Chat GPT for corporate takeover plan " against lawyer's advice
4+ day, 19+ hour ago (644+ words) The insider plan was dubbed 'Project X.' The future is here, and it seemingly includes CEOs using chatbots to create plans to avoid having to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars. That was a judge's conclusion after a smaller American…...