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Empire of Ones and Zeroes
Mar 13, 2025 ‘Digital justice’ intellectuals are right to condemn Big Tech for enabling Israel. But the problem is much bigger than they are willing to admit.
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Toward a People’s AI
Feb 19, 2025 DeepSeek isn’t fully “open source.” But the Chinese-made artificial intelligence does raise the question of what an AI, by and for the people, rather than corporations, might look like.
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What’s Missing from the TikTok Ban Circus
Jan 23, 2025 Both sides of the debates over national security and free speech share the same stunted vision of what social media can be.
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Punching Down to Silence the Radical Left
Jan 13, 2025 The Stop Terror-Financing bill would strangle nonprofits on the political and financial edge.
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The Disaster of Our Own Making Got Worse This Year
Dec 27, 2024 How the climate emergency deepened in 2024.
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Why the Left Should Keep One Foot in Big Social Media (For Now)
Dec 5, 2024 The ‘Xodus’ ignores the bigger problem of corporatized media.
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The Case for Digital Degrowth
Nov 29, 2024 AI and data center energy consumption has been overhyped. Greening the digital society requires confronting deeper structural problems.
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The Truth Behind Musk v. Brazil
Nov 18, 2024 The Brazilian government’s position on social media threatens the left that brought it to power.
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The Limits of Lina Khan and the ‘Neo-Brandeisians’
Aug 5, 2024 Democratic donors want to gut Biden’s antitrust brain trust. But even if they survive a Harris victory, what can they really accomplish?
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What’s Missing From the TikTok Debate
Apr 8, 2024 The problem isn’t Chinese ownership. It’s U.S. control of the digital economy and the need for community-run social networks.
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