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For our cover essay, Philip Ball argues that the “AI could destroy humanity” story has been imposed by Silicon Valley itself—and it’s time to challenge it: prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
✍🏼 @ben_clark56 on the new play about JM Keynes: “the intellectual history it presents particularly relevant to Britain today, as Andy Burnham promises to end the neoliberal settlement”
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While most of Hong Kong’s democracy movement had been dismantled, Chow Hang-tung was a rare voice of defiance—until her conviction last week. Frankie Vetch reports
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Lula has won the Brazilian presidential runoff. But, as @brumelianebrum wrote on Saturday, the first round results still spell trouble for the Amazon. Seven of the forest’s nine governors now have ties to Bolsonarism...
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“For many people in the 21st century, freedom is a set of keys.” So said a druid protesting against traffic curbs in Oxford.
Stuart Jeffries on the car as a symbol of identity:
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“A president need not like teenagers. But when they spell out what they need, down to the length of the lunch break, ‘I don’t understand’ starts to sound like a choice.” @Diane2V on the French protests: prospectmagazine.co.uk/world…
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“A 59-year occupation has rendered the Palestinian people faceless to most Israelis.” Jo-Ann Mort on the NAZA documentary: prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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Ten years after Brexit, even Eurosceptics have discovered Brussels’ value, writes Catherine E De Vries and Alexandros Kentikelenis
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“The closest that leaders have to a quick fix is to close Europe’s borders to immigrants, which is happening country by country. But when the borders close to outsiders and growth doesn’t follow, what then?” writes Andrew Adonis
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✍🏼 @brumelianebrum on today’s Brazilian election: the return of Bolsonarism could mean the death of the Amazon. Other countries must take heed prospectmagazine.co.uk/polit…
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“Mr President, this is Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Manchester who once said that any politician who gives you the time of day should be ashamed...”
@mrhenrymorris’s latest satire:
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Tell Me Why is Prospect’s weekly pod dissecting the ideas behind the news headlines.
Our guests include @NaomiAKlein, @astradisastra, @alys_key and @jessphillips.
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We’re all going to die...
But not from AI, argues science writer Philip Ball in our recent cover essay 🧵
Another strange aspect of the current panic is that the claims made by Coxon and another Anthropic researcher, Evan Hubinger, are nothing new. Warnings of humanity’s demise at the hands of AI have been voiced for years
So why is the world in panic-mode?
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The apparent implosion of Trump’s latest attempt to force Ukraine to cave in to Putin highlights Zelensky’s astonishing success, writes @Andrew_Adonis
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“I am in no mood for logic or common sense... Instead, like centuries’ worth of people before me, I am pinning my desperate hopes on the turn of the annum,” writes @journalist_sar
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Fires and lootings dominate coverage of the student protests. The classrooms behind them tell the real story, writes @Diane2V
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Ten years after Brexit, even Eurosceptics have discovered Brussels’ value, writes Catherine E De Vries and Alexandros Kentikelenis
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Settlers can do what the Israeli state cannot do openly, without diplomatic cost. They can steal property, attack villages and even kill Palestinians, writes Dana El Kurd
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