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“The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism” – book review
Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.
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NYT advises Trump to kill more Venezuelans
Donald Trump is back in the White House, and faux opposition is once again the order of the day for the Western media and the Democratic Party.
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‘One of Them Days’ marks the triumphant return of the working class comedy
While most recent class satires have focused on the perspective of the wealthy, Lawrence Lamont and Syreeta Singleton’s film debut brings class-conscious comedy back to its roots.
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Far-right leaders gather in Madrid to “make Europe great again”
Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.
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Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month shortly after dropping DEI
Google’s changes also removed Women’s History Month, National Native American Heritage Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Jewish Heritage Month, and Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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Dossier No. 85: The joy of reading
Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
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“Under the eye of the big bird”
A science fiction novel about the future of nature and technology reviewed by Ian Parker.
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China urged to end successful policies
In a globalized world the innovation ability of a country can be measured by the number of global patents it files.
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‘People are speaking in whispers’
Student suspensions, faculty purges and an all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.
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Socialism or barbarism–a statement of fact
Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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Google finally admits it pursues advanced AI weapons programs
In a blog post published on February 4, Google updated its public “ethical guidelines” regarding AI, removing any references to the use of such advanced technologies solely for peaceful purposes. For years, the controversial company was adamant that it would “never pursue high-tech that could cause or are likely to cause overall harm”.
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In Venezuela, the commune is not just a utopia: A conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina
The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.
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Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar
Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.
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Interview with Deepseek Founder: “We’re done following”
DeepSeek-R1 is shaking Silicon Valley. Founder Liang Wenfeng: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead.”
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AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
The collective energy demand of data centres in the United States is so high that Microsoft recently reached a deal to reopen Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history.
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The Ayacucho Commune: The impact of the U.S. blockade on Amazonian Fisherfolk (Part III)
Communards living by the Orinoco River talk about the impact of U.S. sanctions on their work and lives.
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AI going DeepSeek
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable in ability to the best models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but was trained at a radically lower cost and using less than state-of-the art GPU chips.
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Exploring India’s complicated relationship with cannabis
Writer and journalist Karan Madhok’s book ‘Ananda’ is a deep-dive into the cannabis plant–what it is, what it does, and how Indian society looks at and reacts to it.
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Only pathetic bootlickers spend their energy criticizing China
The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.
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Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies
China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world.