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    Macmillan is defending its new tech memoir, Careless People, against Meta’s claims.

    By James Folta  March 14, 2025
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    What Nathaniel Hawthorne Has To Say to Silicon Valley About Techno-Optimism

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    What the Rise of AI-Powered Weapons Reveals About the State of Modern Warfare

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    Ted Chiang on Superintelligence and Its Discontents in J.D. Beresford’s Innovative Work of Early 20th-Century Science Fiction

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    Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks.

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    The first issue of Reader’s Digest from 1922 is both shocking and relevant.

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