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Investigation: AIRIS Labs
NOTE: This piece represents excerpts from a longer-form investigation. For the full investigation, available via PDF, is here: AirisLabs_FinalAirisLabs_Final.pdf4 MBdownload-circle Airis Labs is an Israeli AI facial recognition startup that we have followed since their stealth phase. Their product scrapes massive amounts of video from
When "Civilizational Destruction" Isn't Enough: Where the Fuck do we Go from Here?
Only a few days after President Donald Trump called for the annihilation of an entire civilization with the implicit threat that he, as the Commander in Chief, would have unilateral authority to use nuclear weapons to do so, everything seemed to have somehow returned to a tense and surreal "
Ad(s) Infinitum: To Build A Calmer World
Does anybody except the advertising industry even want advertising to exist anymore? This is a question that I now think about more or less every time I see an ad (which is way too often). Our online experience is now: ads at the top of, and mixed into your search
Decentralization: The Left Must Reclaim...Web3?
The increasing centralization and privatization of technology is strangling our ability to use technology the way we want. There are plenty examples of this, from social media companies’ increasingly restrictive content moderation policies, to nation and state governments imposing bans on entire apps and services. We have, in a very