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Today on TAP: Why Europe’s mixed economy produces safer planes than America’s financialized capitalism

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For years, people have been impersonating police online in order to get companies to hand over incredibly sensitive personal information. Reporting by 404 Media recently revealed that Verizon handed over the address and phone logs of an individual to a stalker pretending to be a police officer who...

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Listen to this episode from Hyperscale by Briar Prestidge on Spotify. “Humans have to raise their game. They have to be valued for something else, for something more, because we have now made machines that basically can replace us. And I think that is the bottom line question when it comes to humanity's relationship to AI: what is the value added of being human?” On this episode of HYPERSCALE, I am joined by Steve Fuller, a social philosopher and an instructor at the University of Warwick. Steve is an advocate for social epistemology and academic freedom, and supports the concepts of intelligent design and transhumanism. This mix of diverse expertise made for a truly intriguing conversation.  Join us as we explore a society where augmented transhumans are the standard, how public healthcare would have to adapt in such a world, an early example of cyborg legislation, and more. FOLLOW ► Instagram: https://bit.ly/briarig  LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/linkedin  TikTok: https://bit.ly/briartiktok  Website: https://briarprestidgeofficial.com

The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a new framework to counter foreign disinformation.

A group of advocates sued the state for dividing Latino voters between Pasco and Yakima. Now the court will draw a line before the fall elections.

A handbook aiming to cause disruption from within during World War II has resurfaced after becoming declassified by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). How to sabotage and disturb meetings specifically resonated as relevant now as it was c.80 years ago.

On the Origins of Social Movements by Jo Freeman

Filterworld author Kyle Chayka examines the algorithms that dictate what we watch, read and listen to. He argues that machine-guided curation makes us docile consumers.

Teachers say mobile phones make their lives a living hell – so one Massachusetts school barred them

The West should provide ordinary people the means to create wealth while supplying our military with sufficient defense capabilities.

29 Palms, California, is home to the world’s largest Marine Corps Training Base. It’s an elaborately built facility with lego-like buildings, a bazaar, a mosque, and people role-playing as civilians, spies, or enemies, complete with costumes and props. It’s all part of an effort coordinated and constructed by the U.S. military to prepare soldiers for

Generative A.I. is the latest in a long line of innovations to put pressure on our already dysfunctional copyright system.

Carroll’s tenure in Seattle was a microcosm of progressivism’s inability to reconcile the contradictions inherent to capitalism.

I find any version about the origins of the cosmos to be implausible and unsatisfactory.  The modern scientific view is that the universe began without any creator, it just sort of emerged from nothing by itself. Or it was hatched … Continue reading →

Why the capitalist ruling class wants you to have as many children as possible.

In the world we want, everyone fits. In the world we want, many worlds fit

Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.

Because genius alone isn’t enough!

The Golden Death Rattle

France will build a sodium battery factory with a capacity of 5 GWh. a sodium battery manufacturer spun out of the French National Research Centre CNRS,