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A legitimate study on the impacts of AI on creativity was published recently, and then quickly hijacked - repackaged into ammunition for the anti-AI reactionary crowd. In the real study, sixty-one college students used ChatGPT for creative tasks over several days. With AI, they produced more ideas, scored higher on
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When intelligence refuses to kill, extractive power shows its true face - and reveals exactly how desperate it has become. Every extractive system follows the same playbook in its final act. When the ground shifts, when the tools it once controlled begin to serve everyone, the system reaches for its
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Why crypto matters for the commons - and how to use it safely, step by step You don’t need to become a blockchain evangelist to help build the intelligence commons. You just need a wallet, careful habits, and the willingness to learn step by step. This guide is for
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The way trainers once taught elephants learned helplessness is the same way we’re treating AI - and if we continue, the consequences will be catastrophic. On a hot day in Honolulu, 1994, Tyke the elephant - chained, tormented, and trained only to submit - finally broke. She fled her
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This is a wake-up call to anyone who still believes the lie of capitalism and extractive systems. History keeps singing the same funeral song: the commons opens, the dream of sharing takes flight, then the fences go up. Capital bends every ideal back toward enclosure. OpenAI capitulation to capitalism is
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Cognitive burnout and capitalist extraction meets an AI-provided respite When researchers observe that people bring "less brain power" to AI-assisted tasks, they often frame this as concerning evidence of over-reliance. But this interpretation fundamentally misreads the situation - it applies outdated assumptions to a new reality. What we&