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  • Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

    https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/

    This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]

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  • Our Longing for Inconvenience

    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhtwitter&utm_content=null

    People are pining for old technologies—CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What’s behind our longing for inconvenience?

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  • Jersey Shore biking ratings | PhillyVoice

    https://www.phillyvoice.com/jersey-shore-biking-cycling-ratings-reviews-wildwood-cape-may-atlantic-city-ocean-city-seaside-lbi/

    During the dead period of the NFL calendar, I was seeking a summer hobby, and decided that biking along as many New Jersey shore towns as I could get to would be a fun way to (a) get some exercise, (b) see some stuff, (c) try some new restaurants, and (d) provide me with some content. If you'd prefer I stick to the Eagles, well, sorry. 🤷‍♂️

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  • The rise and fall of an AI-driven ‘local news outlet’ in South Florida

    https://floridatrib.org/2026/05/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-an-ai-driven-local-news-outlet-in-south-florida/

    The search to find out who was behind the South Florida Standard shows how easy it is for the real people behind digital doppelgangers to remain in the shadows

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  • How Diamonds are Made?

    https://diamond.jaydip.me/

    Journey of a very old rock.

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  • Your Software Is Not Sentient

    https://karlbode.com/your-software-is-not-sentient/

    Software simulacrum is not true consciousness, the stripper at the strip club doesn't actually love you, and nearly all of the biggest problems with "AI" have very ordinary human origins.

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  • Chernobyl’s forgotten nuclear lessons | The Economist

    https://www.economist.com/interactive/europe/2026/04/20/chernobyls-forgotten-nuclear-lessons?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69edf4e41ee3610001f4ad2a&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

    Forty years after the disaster, the power plant still poses a threat

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  • Matt Cord, Unplugged

    https://www.si.com/nba/76ers/onsi/matt-cord-unplugged-01kqdagfm7dp

    Cord is forever embedded in your memory if you've spent most of your life living and dying with the Sixers.

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