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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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manufactoriel: Grace Jones’ Night Clubbing, by Colby Bird more ›
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magictransistor: Maurice Tabard, Lignes Electriques, c.1930. #softwarestudies more ›
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“ Favorite tweets: @chumbonet interesting read https://t.co/bvutr7IQZp — isabel brison (@ijayessbe) July 16, 2015 ” – via http://twitter.com/ijayessbe more ›
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Mexico: Making the Dogs Dance Within a few hours of his relaxed escape from Mexico’s highest security prison early Saturday evening, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, better known as “el Chapo” for his stocky build, was back on Twitter, hopping about the… more ›
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Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans This is a still from the classic film 1960 ‘The Apartment’. Jack Lemmon plays CC Baxter, a clerk in a large insurance company in New York, and so here you see his office… more ›
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If you laughed when 50 Cent went bankrupt, you don’t understand hip-hop When a rapper with as high a profile as 50 Cent declares bankruptcy, you could power a small nation with the schadenfreude. Twitter wags – inevitably – weighed… more ›
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shihlun: George Uvedale Price, Amoy, China, 1890s. more ›
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Yanis Varoufakis full transcript: our battle to save Greece Read the report from Greece of our interview with Varoufakis here. This conversation took place before the deal. from http://ift.tt/1HpGK4m more ›
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Platform Creep The platforms: they’re creeping. There’s Twitter: On Twitter’s mobile app, there will be a new button in the center of the home row. Press it and you’ll be taken to a screen that will show various events taking… more ›
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Why are the most important people in media reading The Awl? In February, at the Code/Media* conference in Dana Point, California, some of the most powerful people in media found themselves discussing an unsettling story published two weeks prior. from… more ›