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Silicon Savanna: The Workers Taking on Africa’s Digital Sweatshops
“Kenya has become ground zero in a battle over the future of content moderation in Africa and beyond.”
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The Tinder Car Heist Was a Mess — and the Revenge Plot Even Messier
“He was a self-made tech millionaire looking for a good time. But a Tinder date turned out to be a brazen car theft scam.”
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Technology That Lets Us “Speak” to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Are We Ready?
“Digital clones of the people we love could forever change how we grieve.”
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Escaping China with a Spoon and a Rusty Nail
“I never imagined that I would stay there for three years and eight months, from the ages of 16 to 19.”
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Taking Stock
Rob Horning explores the term “creator” in this essay on labor, exploitation, and content production and consumption on the internet. “Creator,” like “creativity,” is essentially a null term that signifies nothing about one’s activity but instead marks one’s limitless availability — a willingness to make anything at all in one’s life into content for sale.
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Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop
“What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed.”
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How the AI Industry Profits from Catastrophe
The demand for data labeling in the artificial intelligence industry — tagging videos, sorting photos, and transcribing audio in order to train AI — has created a massive need for cheap labor, leading data-labeling platforms such as Appen to hire low-pay workers in countries like Venezuela, the Philippines, and Kenya to do these tasks. In […]
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Unraveling the Mystery of the Art God
“For a decade, one writer tried to unravel the story of Dorje Chang, whose artwork sold for millions and who claimed to be the third coming of Buddha. Then he got an email: Dorje Chang and his wife were dead. What really happened?”
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The Death Cheaters
“The members of Longevity House are united by two things: a willingness to hand over $100,000 and a burning desire to live forever. Inside the weird world of cryotherapy, biocharging and fecal transplants.”
