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Sometimes I find it useful to compare Big Tech to climate change, another force that is altering the destiny of everyone on Earth, forever. Both present themselves to us all the time in small ways—a creepy ad here, an uncommonly warm November there—but are so big, so abstract, so everywhere that they’re impossible for any one person to really understand; to do so would be like asking a fly perched on your forehead to draw a portrait of you, or a person being engulfed by a tsunami to describe the shape of the wave.

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theatlantic.com

The dismissed board members, meanwhile, insist that their actions were wise.

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker

Charles Duhigg

That means reckoning with what’s called ambiguous loss: any loss that’s unclear and lacks a resolution. It can be physical, such as a missing person or the loss of a limb or organ, or psychological, such as a family member with dementia or a serious addiction.

Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful

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