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Grimes is Right About Communism and AI – Kind Of
by Aaron Bastani
Grimes took to TikTok last week with a 'proposition for the communists': drop enforced farming, adopt AI. While she's right to claim technology could recast our world for the better, she's wrong to think it can do so on its own.
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Police State of Mind
Rivkah Brown presents a special episode examining how the blue tentacles of police power creep into our lives.
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Afterburn
Kate Aronoff explores climate denialism, oil companies' predictions of the future, and the fate of the Green New Deal.
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Jeremy Gilbert tunes into the politics of folk music, from communist troubadours to pastoral psychedelia.
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