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The history and politics of computing. Between Cambridge and LSE.

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I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

03.03.2026 11:58 👍 3553 🔁 1553 💬 96 📌 283
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A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?

www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...

06.11.2025 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, th...

www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

23.10.2025 14:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“We have to rid ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge and power”

27.01.2025 16:42 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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Holy hell the uk economy as told through Reddit posts.

“should my wife, who has spent years taking all the educational qualifications to be a teacher but quit due to childcare, accept a job in a school (the job pays a minimum wage salary and is a 39 week contract, they sack her for the holidays)”

30.12.2024 12:16 👍 256 🔁 56 💬 30 📌 15
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"Instead, he walked into the Damascus sunshine..."

09.12.2024 08:27 👍 215 🔁 66 💬 2 📌 3

Why does a future without disease seem more likely than one with continued democracy?

In this blog we reflect on our AI visions of the future and what they tell us about right now

07.12.2024 11:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Asher Kessler Visit the post for more.

I have a website with writings and more at asherkessler.com

05.12.2024 21:25 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0