No Kings, Just a Few Techno Lords
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Private ownership of digital infrastructure can give a small number of companies the power to determine the conditions under which everyone else participates in economic and public life.
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OpenAI Employee Uses "Unnamed Chatbot" to Spy on OpenAI, Gets Arrested by FBI
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We all can learn something from the latest episode of the OpenAI drama, this time involving corporate espionage, a foreigner, and an absolute slop attempt to steal insider information.
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Why Does Top Gun (1986) Feel so Gay Despite Being About a Straight Navy Pilot?
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Why does Top Gun feel so homoerotic despite being a movie about a heterosexual fighter pilot? Rather than assuming Maverick is secretly gay, this essay argues that the film's juvenile obsession with male approval, masculine competition, and the male body creates a homoerotic subtext almost entirely by accident.
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3 Hypothetical Paintings and Why AI-Generated Art Can Feel Soulless
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We don't value artworks as mere objects. We value them as objects with histories, makers, intentions, processes, and relationships. AI-generated art challenges our established methods of art valuation because it can reproduce the perceptual object while making those other dimensions of authorship substantially more ambiguous.
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A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber
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Justin Bieber's "Sorry" is a song about regret, asking for forgiveness, and wanting another chance after having hurt someone. But philosophically speaking, what exactly makes an apology morally meaningful?
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