This sort of cynical piracy has begun to thrive in today’s AI Wild West, a territory largely devoid of government regulations. Though Amazon may take down the offending volumes once it is informed by aggrieved authors like Cline and myself, it faces no consequence for its behavior. The most astonishingly productive historian in recent times… Read More Who Is Blake Whiting?
Ron Srigley Universities, in the interest of increasing enrollments (= money), are willing to flatter you and your children so shamelessly … “During one class a couple of years ago, I dimmed the lights in order to show a clip of an interview. The moment the lights went down I saw dozens and dozens of… Read More Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’t
AI and the crisis of meaning Alexander Stern “It isn’t absurd,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote in 1947, “to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity.” The proposition is looking less absurd by the day: AI may eventually turn on us; industrialization has turned the planet… Read More Wittgenstein’s Apocalypse
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the… Read More AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
Alex Karp, Palantirianism, and the tech industry’s embrace of total war. By Jacob Silverman Last July, four high-ranking tech executives — all of them involved with artificial intelligence — were sworn into the US Army Reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel. They were part of a new unit called Detachment 201, also known as the… Read More Keyboard warriors
Shobhit Mahajan The sight of a long line of tail-lights as I descended the flyover left me with a sinking feeling- it was 8 am on a rain-soaked morning and the tail lights could only mean that there was a traffic jam. I assumed it was a truck or a light goods vehicle which regularly… Read More The Delhi that AI Summit VIPs won’t see – and the one they did
The establishment of hyperscale AI data hubs have resulted in protests in Europe –Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. And it has not been a smooth ride for technology companies in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Mexico. And now, they are coming in big in India… At the core of the objections… Read More When Tech Billionaires Come Marching In…
Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies… content moderation belongs in the category of dangerous work, comparable to any lethal industry: Milagros Miceli, sociologist Anuj Behal On the veranda of her family’s home, with her laptop balanced on a mud slab built into the wall, Monsumi… Read More Modern labour hazards: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Shobhit Mahajan The Tribune, 16 December, 2025 Chat GPT and Google Gemini are rapidly becoming the go-to places for students. That by itself is not surprising-after all generations of students have found ways to avoid rigor and skirt around academic engagement. Champion Guides (which condensed the whole course into a pocket-sized paperback) were followed by… Read More As AI replaces thinking, learning is eroding
“Our study suggests that it is specifically social media that affects children’s ability to concentrate.” By Victor Tangermann A barrage of AI-generated brain rot is haunting children across numerous screens, from personal smartphones to school-issued laptops to televisions. Social media is adding significantly to that cacophony, making it harder than ever for kids to concentrate. Now, new research… Read More Social Media Is Absolutely Nuking Children’s Brains, New Research Finds
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