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It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideasβ€”but they are pretty much the same fantasies that have been spreading for hundreds of years.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/1...

05.11.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Changed Color Again, And Shows Signs Of Non-Gravitational Acceleration Behind the Sun, the comet appears to show signs of acceleration beyond what is expected by gravity. And for reasons not yet clear, it appears to have changed color.

www.iflscience.com/interstellar...

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ICE’s no-refusal face-scan app leaves no way to opt out Documents show ICE can scan your face without consentβ€”part of a growing network of federal surveillance tools.

reason.com/2025/11/03/d...

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School's AI system mistakes a bag of chips for a gun β€œI don’t think a chip bag should be mistaken for a gun,” said the student, as eight police cars showed up to take down him and his Doritos.

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

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Reality Is Too Complex For Any Cosmic Computer Simulation, Study Suggests The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

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03.11.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Real humans don’t stream Drake songs 23 hours a day, rapper suing Spotify says Proposed class action may force Spotify to pay back artists harmed by streaming fraud.

Nobody learned anything after the Ashley Madison incident. It's always been bots. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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White House launches spoof MySpace page mocking Democratic leaders over shutdown In entries on the webpage, the White House referred to Hakeem Jeffries as "Temu Obama" and posted additional photos of the House minority leader wearing a sombrero.

The good news is they just "own goaled" themselves if they try to prosecute parodies of the administration for going "too far" www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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The Weird History of Archival Film Formats
YouTube video by Adam Savage’s Tested The Weird History of Archival Film Formats

A trip down memory lane for any video folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8r...

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Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost β€œWe survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

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Yes, You Are the Literary Asshole If You Use AI to Edit Your Fiction Hello all you gals and ghouls! Welcome back to internet’s spookiest advice column, Am I the Literary Asshole?, a place where the monster mash is not only a graveyard smash, but also a drunken good …

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Nice tone! What an exclamation point does for a text Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Southern California report that exclamation point use is widely read as feminine and shapes impressions of warmth, enthusias...

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AI Ethics Is Simpler Than You Think We don’t need to figure out the meaning of life to get AI right, because it’s actually a limited tool.

www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...

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The Future Of Space Is More Than Human | NOEMA The time has come to expand our visions of life beyond Earth.

www.noemamag.com/the-future-o...

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Jeff Patterson Author of Don't Tweet Where You Eat, Solstice Chronicles, and Worlds Enough

Your regular reminder that I have a Goodreads Author page www.goodreads.com/author/show/...

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$20,000 Robot Servant Comes With a Major Catch Owners of the NEO butler-bot from 1X will have to schedule a time for remote operators to plug in and complete tasks.

futurism.com/future-socie...

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BPA - Molecule of the Month - November 2025 (HTML version)

The Molecule of the Month for November is L-4-Boronophenylalanine www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/BPA/bpa...

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Robots Celebrate Halloween in Style With Costumes and Spooky Videos Even robots are dressing up and celebrating Halloween this year!

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AI Agents Are Terrible Freelance Workers A new benchmark measures how well AI agents can automate economically valuable chores. Human-level AI is still some ways off.

www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

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AI Is Causing a Grim New Twist on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, New Research Finds New research shows how AI tools is making a Dunning-Kruger specimen out of everyone that uses them, no matter how smart.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

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YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos Creators can preserve their blurry 240p legacy.

How nice of them www.theverge.com/news/808717/...

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Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for β€œpersonal use” Meta says lawsuit claiming it pirated porn to train AI makes no sense.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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My Book Was Stolen by an AI Company. Why Does Suing Them Feel Wrong? | The Walrus The courtroom isn’t where this fight belongsβ€”each lawsuit legitimizes the very system artists oppose

thewalrus.ca/suing-ai-com...

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Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI Scientists have a unique role in guiding AI's future. Learn how they can steer it towards ethical and equitable outcomes.

spectrum.ieee.org/responsible-ai

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Samsung makes ads on $3,499 smart fridges official with upcoming software update Update introduces two ways for the fridges to show ads.

FINALLY! I can watch ads on TV. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker Texas sues Tylenol maker over unproven claim the pain medicine causes autism.

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

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Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.

Enshittification comes for meatspace futurism.com/space/scient...

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Stupidology | William Davies The challenge posed by this political crisis is how to take the stupidity seriously without reducing it to a wholly mental or psychiatric, let alone genetic, phenomenon. Stupidity can be understood as...

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

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Grok Around The Clock: The First Musical Hugo Nomination Album cover of Blows Against the Empire by Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship. Written by RL Thornton ofΒ Freakflag Once upon a time, the most important science fiction convention of 1971 (Nor…

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