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Deported Australian writer: "I was desperately trying to maintain a sense of self"
Alistair Kitchen wrote accounts of the student protests at Columbia. He just found out that some of his readers were the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Alistair Kitchen
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AI hallucinations are complicating court cases. Legal scholar Damien Charlotin tells us about his hunt to track the issue.
Lawyers across the world are submitting legal briefs with AI fabrications in them: made-up case law, spurious quotes, and fake citations. One researcher…
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Eli Rosenberg
One NZ man vs. Pakistani scammers making millions on fake ghostwriting deals
A New Zealand-based man is taking on "publishing" syndicates that use cheap Pakistani labor, fake websites, and AI to scam consumers and exploit…
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Ariella Steinhorn
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Ex-Tesla manager dishes on the company and his unceremonious dismissal: "They're absolutely hosed."
Matthew LaBrot was fired after posting a protest letter against Elon Musk's leadership. We spoke with him about this move and his thoughts on life at…
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Eli Rosenberg
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The calculation an ex-Microsoft engineer made to predict Palestinian deaths
A former software engineer at Microsoft was fired for organizing a candlelight vigil. Here's what he thinks about how incentives now need to change.
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Ariella Steinhorn
Palantir Workers: Talking to Management Is A Waste of Time.
Palantir workers had the same conversations during the first Trump administration and nothing changed.
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William Fitzgerald
How one director, against all odds, made a Hollywood movie about labor
An Alabama woman named Lilly Ledbetter fought for equal pay all the way up to the Supreme Court. But the quest to make a movie about her life wasn't…
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Ariella Steinhorn

May 2025

Is the future of humans online a 12,800-digit binary code?
That’s the premise of a feature this week on Tools for Humanity, a Sam Altman company which seeks to authenticate humans online, with just a few…
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Eli Rosenberg
Palantir whistleblower: the world is way too complicated to model
He says we need community-based software solutions rather than monopolistic companies with centralized "operating systems"
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Ariella Steinhorn
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When activism shines through
Protests over Microsoft's ties to the Gaza conflict harken back to a more vibrant era of internal resistance in the tech industry. Is that dissent…
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Eli Rosenberg
Can we crowdfund our way out of tech mafia influence?
More and more founders of tech products are taking to equity crowdfunding or fundraising outside of venture capital and insular funding circles. Can it…
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Ariella Steinhorn
Losing the plot
Political media coverage too often settles for misleading updates over deeper truths. A sharp piece critiques how that process played out in coverage of…
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Eli Rosenberg
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