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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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If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/magazine/chatbot-writing-style.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.ClUh.Sb1fCpBAo94F&smid=url-share&ref=platformer.news more ›
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Sisqo & AltVerse – Thong Song (TikTok Trending 1950’s Motown Choir Cover) #sisqo #thongsong #altverseaimusic #aimusic #1950s #motownchoir #cover #tiktokaudios #tikokremix COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: All copyright owners please contact us by email (lukosemusicgroup@gmail.com) for ANY changes OR removals. We will happily… more ›
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From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool. As climate change drives regional temperatures higher, and CO2-emitting climate control technologies contribute to the problem, some climate… more ›
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Looking for part one? Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9XRREj1DSo On this episode of the Prospect Podcast, our hosts Ellen Halliday and Alona Ferber are joined by journalist, tech activist and sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “ensh*ttification” to describe the… more ›
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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 ›