Finally dropping tomorrow
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The ‘End Times Fascists’ Behind the AI Industry
Brian Merchant · Blood in the Machine
A conversation with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor about what they call end times fascism in the tech industry.
As audio or video
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The multiplying risks of financing data centres
Michelle Chan, Martha Muir, Rafe Rosner-Uddin and Lee Harris · FT
So great are the sums involved that even Big Tech groups with tens of billions of dollars in cash need to fund the infrastructure with debt.
This is presenting major lenders with a complex set of calculations as they stretch themselves to finance, insure and underwrite an entirely novel asset class.
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Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Dhruv Mehrotra · WIRED
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Woodbine v HyperNormalisation
Also at Woodbine
One of my fav Adam Curtis filmshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation
Thursday, Sept 24th 2026
Woodbine
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Woodbine v Communist Ontologies
Communist Ontologies with Richard Gilman-Opalsky & Bruno Gulli
Join us on Saturday September 19th for Communist Ontologies, a discussion with Richard Gilman-Opalsky and Bruno Gullì based on their 2024 book, “An Inquiry into the Construction of New Forms of Life.”
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
Joseph Cox · 404 Media
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol’s predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Sacred Ground
Download 720p version:
https://drive.proton.me/urls/2JE2MBJ56C#MzQSfZEXMZtl
Within days of the Sept. 11 attacks, the questions began: What should be built on the site of Ground Zero? Who should build it? And should anything be built there at all?
In “Sacred Ground,” FRONTLINE tells the inside story of the first stormy year in the struggle to design the Freedom Tower, the signature skyscraper to rise on the site where the World Trade Center once stood. The central battle involves relative newcomer Daniel Libeskind — who, in February 2003, won a competition to design the site’s master plan after the original six designs for the site were overwhelmingly rejected by the public — and David Childs, the architect handpicked by the site’s developer, Larry Silverstein, to actually build the tower.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/sacred
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
Daniel Boguslaw · The American Prospect
As Anthropic ramps up its efforts to monitor dissent with in-house intelligence teams and real-time protest tracking powered by AI, it will have to contend with the increasing economic desperation that plagues human beings outside its Bay Area towers. Last week, the security guards who patrol the campuses of OpenAI and Anthropic announced that they had authorized a strike over stalled pay negotiations. In response, Anthropic sent a company-wide email telling employees that it was best if they worked from home.
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Electronic shelf labels likely to cost jobs and drive up grocery prices, US report warns
Michael Sainato • The Guardian
Surveillance capitalism strikes again