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New AI-Generated Content Derived from Your Work Posted on Academia.Edu

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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 01:02

“By making any Member Content available through the Site or Services, you hereby grant to Academia.edu a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable license to exercise any and all rights under copyright, in any medium… including the generation and hosting of Output and the use of AI to generate adaptations and other derivative works of Member Content.”
— Excerpt from the social platform Academia.edu’s terms of service.

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Our AI has turned your book chapter about the ecology of the Southern Appalachian mountains into a five-minute podcast.

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Our AI has turned your article about seahorse reproduction into a webcomic.

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Our AI has turned your book chapter on pleromatic forms in gnostic cosmogony into a cute cat video.

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Our AI has turned your dissertation on novel applications for multi-qubit nanoscale sensing into a catchy K-pop song.

wait wait wait, these feelings don't go away? I NEVER EVEN ASKED FOR THEM AND ALL MY FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS ARE ROBOTS; WHAT THE HELL

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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 19:00
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Carney’s Speech Transcript + Comments: Time For the Truth & For the Middle Powers To Align

https://www.ianwelsh.net/carneys-speech-transcript-comments-time-for-the-truth-…
Created
Wed, 21/01/2026 - 16:33
I think this is worth posting in full. Once again Carney and Canada are moving faster than any of America’s vassals, which is fascinating because Canada is the most vulnerable to the US of all the vassals. But then, that’s why, plus some luck. Carney was the UK’s and Canada’s central banker. He did a […]

Grayzone report prompts Google to suspend ads from Atlanta influencer recruiting Iranians for Mossad

https://thegrayzone.com/2026/01/20/google-suspends-mossad-recruiter/
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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 12:20

Following reporting by The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal, Google confirmed it has suspended the account of Desi Banks Productions LLC for violations of advertising policies and deleted the Mossad recruitment ads from its transparency portal. This article was originally published by All-Source Intelligence. The Mountain View-based advertising and technology giant Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has suspended the advertising account of the Atlanta-based comedian Desi T. Banks Jr., Desi Banks Productions LLC, following exposure of a months-long, international ad campaign attempting […]

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The Future of AI-Powered Web Creation Is People-First, Not-Prompt First

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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 05:05

Aidan Foster - Strategy Lead, Foster Interactive

The Big Shift in Web Creation

For years, the hardest part of building a website was technical execution. Slow development cycles, code barriers, and long timelines created bottlenecks.

AI has changed this.

Execution is no longer the limiting factor. Understanding is. The new challenge is knowing your audience, clarifying your message, and structuring the story your website needs to tell.

The future is not prompt-first. It is people first. Strategy, insight, empathy, and structure.

This was the core message of my talk AI Page Building with Drupal Canvas. It is also why Foster Interactive joined the Drupal AI Makers initiative.

But none of this works unless the human layer comes first.

The Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-democrats-of-the-seven-kingdoms
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Wed, 21/01/2026 - 05:01

“As support for abolishing ICE grows among Democratic voters, party leadership continues to argue for reform instead.” —Salon

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The Delegation to the Wall

When word reached King’s Landing that the dead were stirring beyond the Wall, the brave Democrats of the Seven Kingdoms sent a delegation north. They did not bring dragonglass, nor men for the Night’s Watch, nor coin to repair the Wall where it wept with meltwater. They brought parchment marked with sternly written words.

The Lord Commander thanked them while a savage wind cut through his heavy cloak and the dead moaned incessantly down below. The letters expressed concern about the White Walkers, but urged restraint. They reminded the Wildlings, should they be listening, that their murderous behavior did not represent who the Realm was. The delegation stayed long enough to be seen shivering as they glanced briefly northward, then rode south, satisfied that the issue had been thoroughly acknowledged.