Gigamouse

Private companies could ruin the night sky and international law can't stop them

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday July 27, 2026 @11:56AM
from the space.com dept.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/private-companies-could-ruin-the-night-sky-for-the-entire-world-and-international-law-cant-stop-them

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How to Visualize Capitalism

Posted by Gigamouse on Saturday July 25, 2026 @07:16AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/how-to-visualize-capitalism

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Humanity-as-a-Service

Posted by Gigamouse on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:34AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/humanity-as-a-service

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The Stranger King of Venezuela: The Anthropology of Trump's American Colonialism

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:13PM
from the alteredstatesof.money dept.

https://alteredstatesof.money/the-stranger-king-of-venezuela-marshall-sahlins/

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Life on the Tip of the Economic Pyramid

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:12AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/scraping-the-sky-tip-of-economic-pyramid

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The ecological cost of AI is much higher than you think

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday November 17, 2025 @01:55PM
from the reclaimedsystems.substack.com dept.

https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/the-ecological-cost-of-ai-is-much

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An open letter to all those building AI in 2025

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @07:54AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/an-open-letter-to-all-those-building-ai

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Re:My Truck Desk on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @04:51AM (#45809146)

Lovely. I kind of wanted to hear this guy reading this out aloud

The Joys and Importance of Reading

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:40AM
from the fromthethornveld.co.za dept.

https://fromthethornveld.co.za/the-joys-and-importance-of-reading/

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Re:I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don't Trust Its Claims About 'Eroti... on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:40AM (#45808396)

When a DJ remixes a song they normally have to pay some kind of royalties to the actual creators. When AI remixes the material we have created though, it gets to take credit and not pay any royalties while the bosses of AI firms become inhumanly rich

Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday November 03, 2025 @01:03PM
from the howtogeek.com dept.

https://www.howtogeek.com/how-google-tracks-and-scans-everything-on-your-android-device/

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I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don't Trust Its Claims About 'Erotica.'

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:56PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/opinion/openai-chatgpt-safety.html

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New California law requires AI to tell you it's AI

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:48PM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/news/798875/california-just-passed-a-new-law-requiring-ai-to-tell-you-its-ai

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Making Capitalism Bad Again

Posted by Gigamouse on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:23PM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/making-capitalism-bad-again

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Our Bodies, Their Data: Platform Capitalism and Exclusion of the Global South

Posted by Gigamouse on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:30AM
from the countercurrents.org dept.

https://countercurrents.org/2025/09/our-bodies-their-data-platform-capitalism-and-the-exclusion-of-the-global-south/

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Ways of Catching a Spark: A History of Fire-Making Methods

Posted by Gigamouse on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @06:52AM
from the sciencemuseum.org.uk dept.

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/ways-catching-spark-history-fire-making-methods

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The World Map of Swiss Mines

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @03:00AM
from the publiceye.ch dept.

https://www.publiceye.ch/en/the-world-map-of-swiss-mines

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How working class culture became an elite game

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:48AM
from the blogs.lse.ac.uk dept.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2025/07/16/how-working-class-culture-became-an-elite-game/

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Which Country Should Design U.S. Industrial Policy?

Posted by Gigamouse on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:07AM
from the carnegieendowment.org dept.

https://carnegieendowment.org/china-financial-markets/2024/07/which-country-should-design-us-industrial-policy?lang=en

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The Global Money System in 10 Pictures

Posted by Gigamouse on Sunday September 07, 2025 @09:02AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/the-global-money-system-in-10-pictures

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What is this? The case for continually questioning our online experience

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:43AM
from the systems-souls-society.com dept.

https://systems-souls-society.com/what-is-this-the-case-for-continually-questioning-our-online-experience/

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Against the Factory Farming of Creativity

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @05:31AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/against-the-factory-farming-of-creativity

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Government Monitoring Those with "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies

Posted by Gigamouse on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:19AM
from the kenklippenstein.com dept.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/government-monitoring-those-with

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Stack Overflow 2024 Survey Analysis

Posted by Gigamouse on Thursday January 16, 2025 @06:41AM
from the github.com dept.

https://github.com/ousstrk/Stack-Overflow-2024-Survey-Analysis

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Tracing Military Command Chains Through Time and Location

Posted by Gigamouse on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:06AM
from the dot.studio dept.

https://www.dot.studio/en/notes/case-study-under-whose-command/

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The Art of Crypto Kayfabe: How the fight between Bitcoin and the Dollar is faked

Posted by Gigamouse on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:53AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/the-art-of-crypto-kayfabe

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Russia reportedly paid Florida cop to pump out anti-Harris deepfakes

Posted by Gigamouse on Friday October 25, 2024 @05:58AM
from the theverge.com dept.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24278626/russia-disinformation-deepfakes-john-dougan-2024-election

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Of Silicon Valley, AI, and the Laws of Infinite Growth

Posted by Gigamouse on Saturday October 12, 2024 @08:53AM
from the reclaimedsystems.substack.com dept.

https://reclaimedsystems.substack.com/p/of-silicon-valley-ai-and-the-laws

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A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning

Posted by Gigamouse on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @06:51AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/lego-capitalist-central-planning

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Socializing Homo Economicus

Posted by Gigamouse on Friday July 19, 2024 @05:22AM
from the asomo.co dept.

https://www.asomo.co/p/socializing-homo-economicus

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