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How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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Listen: https://ift.tt/4nOXk3x Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher speak to Astra Taylor and Naomi Klein about their new book, End Times Fascism: And the Fight for the Living World. A remarkably up to date analysis of our present moment of "messianic" wars… more ›
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The New Yorker staff writer examines America’s unique problem with gun violence, and why he thinks under-policing is at the root of our problem, in a conversation with David Remnick. This interview is drawn from The New Yorker Radio Hour,… more ›
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Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript. https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio more ›
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From jazz and Tejano to norteño and ska, ‘El Tiny’ returns with a takeover from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 for Latin Music Month. Anamaria Sayre | September 22, 2026 Born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Italy and now… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/7PwAUYI Technological waves often arrive with a promise. The internet was going to democratize information. Blockchain was going to decentralize power. Now, AI's boosters say it will bring unprecedented prosperity. Few people are better positioned to speak to that… more ›
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The Eurosystem has launched Pontes, a system allowing banks to settle trades in tokenised assets using central bank money, and the ECB said it will invest some of its own funds in tokenised securities through it, the first concrete steps… more ›
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Fighting is intensifying between Yemen’s Ansarullah Houthis and Saudi Arabia. For the first time since a ceasefire in 2022, the Houthis have fired missiles towards the capital, Riyadh. The Iran-backed group says it will respond to any escalation with an… more ›
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins me to discuss the Iran war, Donald Trump, and America’s declining influence around the world. He explains why the United States needs to leave Iran, pursue direct diplomacy, and rethink its role in the Middle East.… more ›
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Exclusive: In her first media interview since fleeing Russia, Rita Flores describes her three years of being run by the FSB https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/19/pussy-riot-russian-spies-fsb-activists-rita-flores?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other more ›
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THIS VIDEO MAY POTENTIALLY TRIGGER SEIZURES FOR PEOPLE WITH PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY Repetition is about what happens when sound comes back. It works across musicology, sound ontology, anthropology, neurology and physics with psychoacoustic sound design and coded visuals. A second narrative… more ›