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Palmer Luckey unveils “Warhound,” a $200 million startup developing genetically enhanced dogs for the US military in partnership with Colossal Biosciences and Anduril Industries.
Colossal will provide genetic engineering and cloning expertise, while Anduril will equip the dogs with advanced cybernetic technology and battlefield awareness systems.
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there was a time when equality meant "to stand shoulder to shoulder with elites"
Today is the official release date for my new book, First Among Equals: Visions of Equality before Egalitarianism (Belknap, 2026).
It explores how and why “equality” became, rather suddenly, a basis on which ordinary men and women could make political demands in early modern England.
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"indigenous resistance is not a path to liberation but a double bind"
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"boot camp becomes a form of mortificatio, or ritualized stripping of civilian selfhood"
As Within, So Without: Veteran Identity and Posthuman Alchemical Inquiry
Natalie Danielle Baker and Zeno Franco
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exhibition of power and power of exhibition
Exhibition Ecologies: Entanglements of Art, Institutions, and Politics in the Environmental Crisis
Edited by Regine Ehleiter and Friederike Schäfer
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"Europe’s only recognised Indigenous people" smacks anthropological forcefulness
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Andrei Sokolov’s vision of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, 1950s. A strikingly sleek vision of dystopian domestic life.
"strategic silence" as a response to the blurring of the coloniser/colonised distinction
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"traditional, formal, witty or inspirational"
the trouble with generative AI is the normalised resignation to a given classification
still, technology is out-and-out political
AI did not go 'rogue', did not 'solve' the Navier-Stokes problem, does not have 'goals', is not and will not ever be conscious, certainly is not going to evolve into a god-device and wipe out humanity. Criti-hype obscures the real dangers.
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the Robinson Crusoe syndrome:
Replying to @hilbertspaess
Do not underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field overnight, and acquire real power and resources. We have all witnessed the progress in each of these domains, and progress is not slowing.
what happens when a speculative hype dies out?
quick answer: it becomes the infrastructure of everyday life
new from me (OA tks to @ulapland)
the datafication of the state is not a foregone conclusion: its inevitability rather counts on our suspension of disbelief
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in my reading of Financial Thriller, the factual prevalence of speculative finance ceases to obscure our reliance on the fictionality of financialisation
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