science & technology

How generative AI will ruin science and academic research

Johan Eddebo Background: the epistemology of modern mass media I often come back to Neil Postman’s 1985 classic Amusing Ourselves to Death. It’s a penetrating analysis on the cognitive effects of media technology. His focus is mainly on how the format and mode of communication influences the character of content and how that content then trains us, …

WATCH: Take Back Our Tech – #SolutionsWatch

Ramiro Romani of TakeBackOurTech.org and AbovePhone.com joins James Corbett on the latest edition of SolutionsWatch to discuss technology: what it is, how it works, and how we can make it work for us. They discuss how governments and big tech corporations are collaborating to undermine our rights to privacy, free expression and even freedom of …

To Live Forever

Karen Hunt “Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won’t matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.” Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story In Leo Tolstoy’s A Confession and Other Religious Writings, he retells an Eastern fable about a traveler who is ‘taken unawares on the …

If It Was Allowed, I’d Hold You Down and…

Edward Curtin I think it is generally accepted that the practice of medicine has changed radically over the past fifty or so years.  The medicalization and corporatization of life have “progressed” simultaneously as most doctors have become obedient servants of the corporate state. But wait, one may object, and with some justification. The development of …

Counterinsurgency, PSYOPS and the Military Origins of the Internet

Dustin Broadbery Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing programs to predict the usefulness of the world wide web as a tool for capturing what they dubbed “birds of a feather” formations. That’s when flocks …