AI Utopianism Masks Tech Billionairesâ Fear: Douglas Rushkoff
Economists and technologists say AI hype obscures displacement, infrastructure costs, and uneven gains....
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Economists and technologists say AI hype obscures displacement, infrastructure costs, and uneven gains....
The Kurdish people are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without their own country. Many are native to the region where four countries â Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey â meet and share langu...
Financial incentives for future parents have failed to have the desired effect. At the current rate, China's population could drop as low as 800 million by the year 2100, according to the United Natio...
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/the-wealth-of-the-top-1percent-reaches-a-record-52-trillion.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46650807 Points: 9 # Comments: 1...
SpaceX's Starlink has dropped fees to help Iranian demonstrators share protest details globally, activists say...
Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National H...
Article URL: https://twitter.com/keropillay/status/2013454666244481244 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695673 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...
Article URL: https://knowingless.com/2021/10/19/becoming-a-whorelord-the-overly-analytical-guide-to-escorting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688229 Points: 5 # Comments: 1...
A doctor from Nigeria tells what Martin Luther King Jr. taught him about health, Justice and inequality. (Image credit: Stephen F. Somerstein)...
A Palestinian graffiti artist in Gaza is turning destroyed buildings and collapsed walls into canvases....
Indonesiaâs ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
A teacher and his students in rural Argentina use music to raise the alarm about the dangers of pesticide spraying....
Eric King served almost two years at the federal super-maximum security prison ADX Florence in Colorado. ADX is often described as the US's most restrictive prison, and it houses some of the most noto...
Article URL: https://passo.uno/letter-those-who-fired-tech-writers-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629474 Points: 7 # Comments: 1...
Article URL: https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/04/11/how-the-uk-is-shaping-a-future-of-precrime-and-dissent-management/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600194 Points: 28 # Comments:...
François Picard welcomes Venezuelan author Vicente UliveâSchnell who offers a thoughtful assessment of recent geopolitical developments in Venezuela, following the US military operation, and the reali...
Elon Musk's X is trying to stop people using its AI chatbot Grok to undress women amid intensifying outrage and legal scrutiny over the deluge of nonconsensual sexual deepfakes flooding the site. It's...
François Picard is pleased to welcome Kurdish humanitarian activist Arya Jemo amid the rapidly shifting sociopolitical and economic dynamics in Syria. Mr. Jemo shares themes of political betrayal, ter...
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/calif-teen-chatgpt-drug-advice-fatal-overdose-21266718.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655048 Points: 11 # Comments: 2...
Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota closed on Friday and thousands of protesters turned out in severely cold weather to demonstrate against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the state. Professor of...