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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/WMFoBgp Why are games so deeply engaging? What psychological principles make game design such a powerful tool for shaping attention, emotion, and learning? Game design is not a niche skill. It’s one of the most refined disciplines we have… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/BEQs6Ic The Afro is one of the most iconic hairstyles of the last century. And one of its main ingredients was a hair product – Afro Sheen. But Afro Sheen did so much more than make Black afros shine.… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/rYkJ9He What if you could witness the 1979 revolution of a nation through the eyes of someone who lived it? Join us for an insightful conversation with Amir Tahiri, an esteemed Iranian-born journalist and scholar, as he takes us… more ›
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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 ›