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Pieces of the web that make differing and complementary sense of the threat and promise of AI.
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‘Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things,’ declared William Morris in his 1894 essay ‘How I Became a Socialist’, ‘the leading passion in my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.’ As his characteristically bold assertion suggests, Morris cast a sceptical eye on his era’s triumphant claims to social and technological progress. […]
People say to me often enough: If you want to make your art succeed and flourish, you must make it the fashion; a phrase which I confess annoys me: for they mean by it that I should spend one day over my work to two days in trying to convince rich, and supposed influential people, […]
Top secret papers reviewed by The Grayzone reveal Tony Blair demanded strikes on civilian targets in Yugoslavia days before NATO attacked them. While the UK military acknowledged a NATO strike on Hotel Jugoslavia would mean inflicting “some civilian casualties,” it insisted the deaths were “worth the cost.” Declassified British Ministry of Defence (MOD) files reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that officials in London conspired to embroil US troops in a secret plan to occupy Yugoslavia and “topple” President Slobodan Milosevic […]
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