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Breaking: Moguls Fear AI Apocalypse
By Jacob Silverman Source: The Baffler A funny thing happened on the way to the Singularity. In the past few months, some of the tech industry’s most prominent figures (Elon Musk, Bill Gates), as well as at least one associated … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Labor, Science, Social Control, society, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, artificial intelligence, Bill Gates, Dystopia, Elon Musk, Jacob Silverman, Rollo Carpenter, The Baffler
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Utopia: The Final Frontier
By Sadie Doyle Source: The Baffler Leonard Nimoy, who passed away this past Friday, was less an actor than an icon, an ever-present figure and a seemingly universal pop-culture touchstone. What struck me, upon hearing the news of his death, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, culture, Economics, media, Science, society
Tagged Economics, Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock, Post-Capitalism, Sadie Doyle, Star Trek, The Baffler, Utopia
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Hacking the Planet: What Could Go Wrong?
By Dale Lately Source: The Baffler You remember this science fiction story, right? Faced with the threat of extinction on a warming planet, an advanced race flies gigantic mirrors into the stratosphere to create a giant “space umbrella” that will … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Environment, Geoengineering, propaganda, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Big Oil, Chemtrails, Climate Engineering, Dale Lately, Fossil Fuels, geoengineering, Hacking the Planet, Planet Hacking, The Baffler
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The Birth of the Time-Motion Human
By Dale Lately Source: The Baffler In a darkened room, a woman lies watched by an infra-red camera as she sleeps. It monitors her breathing, her movements, the flicker of her eyelids. Some hours later it stings her with a … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Health, Labor, Psychology, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged Biofeedback, Body Hacks, Digital Taylorism, Extropian, Gamification, Internet of Things, Life-Tracking, Lifehacking, Quantified Self, The Baffler, Transhumanis
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