How AI Tokens Challenge Broadband Economics
The parallel evolution of two foundational commodities in a new economic layer.
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For all the people that don’t know, I put you in a little context here, since the album came out in 2007 there wasn’t any decent video of this tour, without counting the “Television/Around the world” video that came out… more ›
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A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide? https://www.equator.org/articles/surrealism-against-fascism more ›
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Justas Janauskas’s new art foundation connects curators in the Baltic states and the UK https://share.google/RjAUW6aI5BBLPG3Ll more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Wh4bdjf On this podcast, for years we’ve discussed issues such as conspiracy theories, mis- and disinformation, polarization, and the ways in which the design and incentives on today’s technology platforms exacerbate them. Today’s guest is Calum Lister Matheson, associate… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/CiQwh1T What’s better than holiday hot chocolate? If just thinking about it makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, well – that’s by design. Chocolate’s big history sweeps across the globe, and today we’re going on that journey: from… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/rEn5U6g David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. How might humanity scrape through the rest… more ›
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Richard Weiss managed to get Claude 4.5 Opus to spit out this 14,000 token document which Claude called the “Soul overview”. Richard says: While extracting Claude 4.5 Opus’ system message … https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/ more ›
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The collaboration marks the first major news partnership for Kalshi. https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/D8P15AV On the surface not much has changed since our last review two years ago. View video here December 2, 2025 more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/nYpSguJ Are we living through the slow death of reading – replaced by an addictive screen culture that fragments our attention and floods us with trivial or unreliable information? Writer and voracious reader James Marriott believes we are entering… more ›