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The Parrot in the Machine

James Gleick The New York Review of Books
The artificial intelligence industry depends on plagiarism, mimicry, and exploited labor, not intelligence.

Cautionary Tales From the New Left

Steve Early Jacobin
In a new memoir, New Left leader Michael Ansara wants to impart lessons from his own time as a campus activist to today’s protesters. But his later role in a corruption scandal that set back Teamsters reform for decades offers its own cautionary less
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