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  Justin Hanagan

  

  The year is 2149 and …

  MIT Technology Review - Sean Micheals

  The year is 2149 and people mostly live their lives “on rails.” That’s what they call it, “on rails,” which is to live according to the meticulous …

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  Justin Hanagan

  

  AI slop on the zombie internet — Facebook’s spam economy

  pivot-to-ai.com

  Facebook feeds are filling with bizarre AI-generated images — crying soldiers, pretty ladies with weird anatomy, and, of course, Jesus. You can see …

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  Justin Hanagan

  

  I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

  techradar.com - By John Loeffler

  I don't think Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is a bad guy, or that he has nefarious plans for Nvidia, but the most consequential villains in history are …

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  Justin Hanagan

  

  Social Media Exploits our Evolutionary Desire for Information

  scientificamerican.com - Carl T. Bergstrom

  In June U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy suggested that social media should, like tobacco products, carry a surgeon general’s warning about the harm …

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  Justin Hanagan

  

  You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend

  Nieman Lab - Joshua Benton

  Half a century ago, a young Stanford professor named Mark Granovetter published what would become one of the seminal papers in the field of sociology. “The Strength of Weak Ties” argued for the important of mere acquaintances — not just your friends — in the growing field of social network …

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  Justin Hanagan

  

  The Public Interest Internet

  berjon.com

  The internet is a transnational public good. Being transnational and public at once is tricky because we lack a definition of public that isn't tied …