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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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The potential for serious negative effects from the AI boom demands robust deliberation and real democratic governance. Data center moratoria won’t get us there. https://jacobin.com/2026/04/ai-data-center-moratorium-democracy more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/YBzEFUx As an anthropologist, Natasha Schüll spent more than a decade doing field work in Vegas casinos, especially among the slot machine addicts. She tells Michael Lewis why many of those who play slots actually hate to win. And… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/FG1Y8Tf Nabiha Saklayen is the co-founder and CEO of Cellino. Nabiha’s problem is this: How can you make personalized stem cell therapies quickly and cheaply? Induced pluripotent stem cells, or IPSCs, have shown tremendous promise as treatments for illnesses… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/gQAfGbt Keke kicks it with Anderson .Paak for a real hang on new music, his directorial debut, and watching his kids make music of their own. He breaks down how a song he wrote years ago just became another… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Tjfrln3 The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the United States, from its origins to its current incarnation. How strange would it once… more ›
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We couldn’t be happier it’s getting some time in the spotlight. https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-moroccan-city-is-unescos-world-book-capital-of-2026?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=cnt&utm_mailing=CNT_Daily_042826&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=6308580878f3f62439092df7&cndid=70680580&hasha=1f133878b462d1555feb56cb37f5d96b&hashb=60b2ed9a378313ce403ddcce307a0f47e27c83aa&hashc=e135e2c06fd7cd23bbbc2dcf872696857afc164383078a23e7d39a117b1ffa10&utm_term=CNT_Daily more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/DBAvo0F Scott Kerr speaks with Stefano Peccatori, president & CEO of Rizzoli International Publications, the famed Italian publishing house recognized for producing high-end illustrated books in fashion, architecture, art, and design and its world-famous Rizzoli Bookstore in New York… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/C920DrL Historian, author and podcaster William Dalrymple believes it was India’s Golden Road – not China’s Silk Road – that transformed the world. He tells Kim Hill about his latest book and his own family history in the Empire.… more ›