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href weekly | Jan 19 – Jan 25 2025

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“When users complain about their app being banned, a lot of them are also decrying the circumstances that make virality their best shot at economic security.” https://archive.ph/CKA5a

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Sound & Music

“a slick social climber, three good-time Charlies, and a genius https://www.theringer.com/2025/01/22/music/garth-hudson-the-band-obituary

Politics & Economics

“Movement organizations could fail to provide any real relief for those whose lives are most endangered and leave newly scared and angry people to the most passive and ineffective forms of expressing their opinions.” https://lib.edist.ro/library/gus-breslauer-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-liberalism

illionaires are on a mission to make the stories of science fiction a reality: space colonization, human/machine bio organisms, and living forever in a state of unhindered bliss. To most of us, this version of a far future utopia comes off as “billionaire boys and their toys” but critics say such a dismissive attitude is naïve. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16122923-techno-utopia-billionaires-wet-dream

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Canada’s intent to ban the Flipper Zero wireless tool over car thefts is, on the one hand, an everyday example of poorly researched government action. https://hackaday.com/2024/02/12/canada-bans-flipper-zero-over-what-it-imagines-it-does/

Replicating our existing capabilities, simply at greater speed and lower cost, is a minor achievement. The most valuable tools complement human capabilities and open new frontiers of possibility. The most pedestrian ones incrementally outperform existing tools. https://www.noemamag.com/how-ai-could-help-rebuild-the-middle-class/

The University of Michigan is selling hours of audio recordings of study groups, office hours, lectures, and more to outside third-parties for tens of thousands of dollars for the purpose of training large language models https://www.404media.co/university-of-michigan-sells-recordings-of-study-groups-and-office-hours-to-train-ai/

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Politics & Economics

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“If you want to operate on a private-sector-market-economy level playing field, then you have to be internally consistent and do that to the highways as well.” https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/transportation/privatization-ahead-for-vias-most-travelled-route/