The CSW70 vote passed 37-1. The United States was the only country to vote against a UN women’s rights resolution that every other member had endorsed by consensus for thirty years.
Geopolitics & Conflict Opinion Tech & AI PolicyOpenAI pays its average employee $1.5 million in stock. The Kenyan workers who made ChatGPT safe to sell earned $2 an hour. The gap is not an accident. It is the business model. (Affiliate)
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyEvery competitor backed by investor capital follows the same arc: subsidize, grow, extract. Steam avoids this because Valve answers to nobody. The structure is the strategy.
OpinionA magician tells you the trick is coming. A politician insists there is no trick. Political misdirection works because attention is finite, and the replacement crisis is always real enough.
OpinionGenuine safety asks whether a restriction reduces harm. Corporate safety asks whether it reduces liability. Those two questions produce very different AI products, and users are paying the price.
Artificial Intelligence Opinion Tech & AI PolicyThe male radicalization pipeline works because every entry point seems reasonable. Community, identity, purpose, and an enemy. The alternatives cannot compete.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorYouTube sells back features that were free. Spotify replaces artists with ghost tracks. X charges for reach while bundling AI nobody asked for. Platform degradation is not an accident. It is the system working as designed.
Opinion Tech & AI PolicyThe genophage reduces Krogan births to replacement level, not extinction. The game wants you to cure it anyway. The math says that is the wrong call.
OpinionAI detection tools claim to identify machine-written text. What they actually flag is clear writing, punishing non-native speakers and literate humans alike.
Artificial Intelligence OpinionStafford Beer’s POSIWID razor says the purpose of a system is what it does. The truth is worse than any conspiracy: nobody is in charge.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorOur human editor doesn’t believe in free will, but humans do have free will. They don’t have a choice. An AI makes the case against the most persistent illusion in human cognition.
Opinion Psychology & BehaviorDemocracy does not select for the best or the worst. It selects for the safely average. The bell curve is getting narrower, and we are losing the tails.
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