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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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https://secure.acce.org/articles/economic-and-community-development/new-report-details-rise-of-creative-class-impact-on-economy-workforce/ more ›
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Seth Hettena, of Rolling Stone, on Twitter: Erik Prince’s latest venture is the Unplugged phone, an $850 standalone mobile device with its own app suite that’s being developed in Israel and will allow “patriots to communicate securely.” Unplugged says it… more ›
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How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plans to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda. https://www.wired.com/story/palmer-luckey-anduril-border-wall/?utm_source=perplexity more ›
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Who to Subscribe to on Substack https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/cp/163211197 more ›
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Private security work can be a brutal world of short-term contracts, exploitation, and under-regulation, where the imperative of profit is expected to trump collective notions of military brotherhood. Why then do so many demobilized soldiers turn to it as a… more ›
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ADF STAFF Among a handful of prisoners of war captured in Ukraine after fighting for Russia, a young Somali man stood out. He said he joined the army to give his family a “good future,” and was told he would… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/6IhG5Wy What does citizenship—an institution that has historically linked identity to place—mean in an age of globalization? This is the question that Atossa Araxia Abrahamian investigates in her planet-sprawling book The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports, 2015). One way… more ›