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'Your AI Slop Bores Me' Gives You a Chance to See How the Sausage Is Made These days, you don't even need to be good at chess to be a Mechanical Turk.

'Your AI Slop Bores Me' Gives You a Chance to See How the Sausage Is Made

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true : As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks

LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true

T-Rex leather handbags made using fossil DNA

Radical Gaming A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.

Radical Gaming

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment

Alarming levels of microplastics found in human brains A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

Alarming Levels of Microplastics Found in Human Brains

The 3D Additivist Manifesto & Cookbook #Additivism is a movement concerned with critiquing ‘radical’ new technologies in fablabs, workshops, and classrooms; at social, ecological, and global scales. The term is a portmanteau of additive an...

To celebrate, we have an updated website at additivism.org

The 3D Additivist Manifesto (2015)

The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016)

Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel Rourke

An #Additivist Workshop

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of #Additivism!!

Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.

How worried should we be about microplastics in our brains? Average human brain contains enough plastic fragments to make a spoon

How worried should we be about microplastics in our brains?

‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

‘Technofossils’: How Plastic Bags and Chicken Bones Will Become Our Eternal Legacy

Nothing Is Safe From The Live-Service Grind, Not Even Sex Toys Lovense creates long-distance sex toys and their app includes daily tasks

Nothing Is Safe From The Live-Service Grind, Not Even Sex Toys

How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future Chickens, concrete, computers and clothes will leave a billion-year mark in the rocks.

How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company

Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup As the world's richest man seizes control of government agencies, mainstream outlets are treating it like standard political news

The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup

Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’ His comments to the hard-right Alternative for Germany party escalated efforts by the billionaire to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month.

Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’

Anti-Aging Fanatic Bryan Johnson Won’t Stop Comparing His Penis to His Teenage Son’s Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson reveals his latest health experiment: comparing "nighttime erection data" with his teen son.

Anti-Aging Fanatic Bryan Johnson Won’t Stop Comparing His Penis to His Teenage Son’s

Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence 'free from ideological bias' President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”

Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence 'free from ideological bias'

Elon Musk is a fascist The richest man in the world intends his far-right project to go global

Elon Musk is a fascist

Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of reactionary digital politics, the chan…

Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics

The Tech Oligarchy Arrives Donald Trump’s inauguration signaled a new alliance—for now—with some of the world’s wealthiest men.

The Tech Oligarchy Arrives

There’s Even Plastic in Clouds Five new places scientists have uncovered plastics.

There’s Even Plastic in Clouds

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday.

Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration

This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom Adobe Acrobat’s little-used JavaScript support gets exploited in Chromium browsers.

This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom

Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics A UN treaty could be the beginning of the end for single-use plastic production—but victory over this pollutant isn’t yet in the bag.

Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics

Saving Charlotte: How 3D Printing Helps Sea Turtles with Bubble Butt Syndrome Charlotte the turtle suffers from Bubble Butt. To help Charlotte swim normally again, Adia, New Balance, and Formlabs built a 3D printed custom harness.

Saving Charlotte: How 3D Printing Helps Sea Turtles with Bubble Butt Syndrome

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The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come The design of the gun police say they found on the alleged United Healthcare CEO's killer—the FMDA or “Free Men Don’t Ask”—was released by a libertarian group.

The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.

Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros