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In short, Palantir is “a sort of Google for spies,”
Google and Palantir Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Will Oremus
A good way to understand AI, as Matteo Pasquinelli’s recent book *The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence* argues well, is not as “the imitation of biological intelligence” but “the *intelligence of labour and social relations*.” It is not modeled after the capacity of any individual thinker or brain, but is instead a means for simplifying and capturing the “the knowledge expressed through individual and collective behaviors” in order to “encode it into algorithmic models to automate the most diverse tasks.”
Fake Totalities
Rob Horning
The more local and settled the culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
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