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Where is AI headed? Two media theorists from the 1960s can help us figure it out

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:43:18 +0000

The 1960s were a time of great change in technology, culture and politics. Television was radically altering the media environment, and nobody was …

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We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:39:09 +0000

Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction. After reading Jill Lepore’s The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one. I’d set the dial to some …

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China Is Flatlining

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:36:42 +0000

The country’s “stability” hides a host of problems. Compared with Donald Trump’s chaotic, divided, and violent America, China is a bastion of steady progress and serene order. This, at least, is the story that Beijing’s propagandists have been eager to spread. The Global Times, a Communist Party–run …

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The U.S.-Venezuela oil deal won’t lower your gas prices. Here’s what you need to know

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:36:29 +0000

The Trump administration announced an agreement with the Venezuelan government on Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves. The U.S. government says it is entering into a joint venture with a private Venezuelan company, according to an official who spoke to NPR on the condition of …

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How Ukraine is bringing the war home to Russia

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:37:39 +0000

In recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have targeted large warehouses across Russia, destroying millions of dollars of merchandise stored inside …

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Lake Ontario to Lake America – who gets to decide what goes on maps?

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:36:49 +0000

On Aug. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” claiming his administration had already …

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Will the unusual oil deal between the U.S. and Venezuela work? : Consider This from NPR

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:35:37 +0000

President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves. NPR's energy and climate correspondent Julia Simon explains the hurdles that remain before the oil can start flowing. This episode was produced by Henry Larson. It was edited by …

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AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:19:49 +0000

For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access, but if you use …

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What game theory teaches Canada about negotiating with an untrustworthy Donald Trump

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:18:57 +0000

Every negotiation assumes that both sides will honour what they agreed to, or that someone else — a court, a regulator, a contracting authority — can …

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Amazon is buying 2 million Nvidia GPUs for AWS data center expansion

Ilene — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 02:17:26 +0000

Amazon Web Services and Nvidia have expanded their long-running partnership to add far more computing power for artificial intelligence workloads. The …

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