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A Second Gilded Age

Now, more than a century later, America has entered a second Gilded Age. Monopolies are once again taking over vast swaths of the economy. So we must strengthen antitrust enforcement to bust up powerful companies. Now another generation of robber…
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Ranked Choice Voting would be good for North Carolina

Ranked Choice Voting would be good for North Carolina (NC Newsline)
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The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling

Given the high stakes of this moment, I set out to understand exactly what the world is getting out of this recycling technology. For months, I tracked press releases, interviewed experts, tried to buy plastic made via pyrolysis and learned…
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Elon Musk, the Right, and Wikipedia

Similar attacks on speech are becoming only more common throughout the American right, with president-elect Trump’s longstanding hostility to the media escalating at a rapid clip. In recent months, Trump has suggested he wouldn’t mind if reporters were shot, threatened…
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The LLMentalist Effect

One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent. But there isn’t any mechanism inherent in large language models (LLMs) that…
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My Doctor Emailed Me Back

Here we reach the crux of the matter and the source of the distrust many trans people have for the NHS. We tell them we are trans, we want to transition. But that information about who we are and what…
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A Second Gilded Age

Ranked Choice Voting would be good for North Carolina

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling

Elon Musk, the Right, and Wikipedia

The LLMentalist Effect

My Doctor Emailed Me Back

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