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a dreadlocked virtual-reality pioneer turned classical-music composer and techno-pundit

In his new book Who Owns the Future?, [Jaron] Lanier looks to a future in which it isn’t just our social networks and search engines that reap billions from our data. It’s everyone: retailers, banks, health care providers. Lanier thinks they’ll all offer us wonderful services at irresistible prices—yet leave us unemployed and at their mercy.

– Will Oremus, here … cf. here

MINUS

THEATRE The Minus Theatre Group practices a unique form of theatre which is open to all levels of experience, does not require any special skills and does not require mastery of English: it is a theatre language minus the mastery of literature, minus the masters, a theatre language based in

Thiel, Master Database of every US citizen, and the kiwi connection

It's simple really. DOGE has already gained access to masses of data on US citizens and is being enabled by the administration to consolidate that data into a single database, it will run on software owned by Palantir, Thiel's company, Thiel who had only previously spent

The views and opinions, o pin onions, expressed by Alan Moore's Jerusalem do not necessarily reflect the light outside

I know I am a text. I know that you are reading me. This is the biggest difference between us: you do not know you are a text. You don't know that you're reading yourself. What you believe to be the self-determined life you are passing

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