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A turbulent America is at the peak of its long entanglement in Vietnam. The camera pans to the left, and there we spy our hero. Donald Trump, twenty-two years old, tall and lean of limb, the fair-haired scion of a prominent New York family.
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The automobile is a hundred years old. In a mere century, we’ve manufactured billions of them — and pumped trillions of litres of gasoline to keep them running. The oil and auto industries rose in titanic tandem, both creators of unimaginable wealth and sources of employment for generations of workers, around the world.
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Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.
Read More...Dive deep into long form features on everything from smartphone addiction to what a True-Cost global marketplace would mean for the economy.
Young guy in a vest, holding a clipboard, came to the door.His timing wasn’t good – we were busy. “Thanks, sorry, can’t today,” I said through the crack in the door.“One minute, max,” he said.“Sorry, man, no.”It wasn’t clear what he was canvassing for, and I didn’t have time to find out.But he wasn’t leaving. My No hadn’t registered. He’d actually stepped forward. He was half inside the house. Only his hind end stuck out into the cold.“Listen, man. No! Look at me: No!”He looked me in the face. Blinking like a carp.I felt my fist wanting to go somewhere I’d regret. I redirected it into my pocket and found a ten—here, bugger off.The guy didn’t take it.“Sorry, can’t do a one-time payment,” he said. “We’re asking for a commitment of a small monthly amount.”“What? Nooooo!”
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When I first heard about "illiberal democracy," and what Victor Orban was doing in Hungary, I didn't give it much thought. Then when Marine Le Pen became a rising star in France, and a Nazi-tinged party started winning big in Germany, I just shook my head and hoped this far right trend would pass.But instead, the dissolution of the liberal world order quickened: Narendra Modi transformed India into a Hindu dictatorship... Jair Bolsonaro pulled off a coup in Brazil... Javier Milei feverishly waved a chain saw around Argentina... and then, fuck it, unbelievable, Putin's tanks rolled into Ukraine... Bibi Netanyahu ripped apart the bodies of 20,000 children... and finally, the coup de grâce: Trump's landslide victory last November.
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GENERATIVE AI JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER, UNTIL IT'S INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE THING IT'S MIMICKING - NAMELY, US. AND THEN IT GETS SMARTER THAN US, UNTIL WE ROLL OVER AND SUBMIT.At least that's the drumbeat we hear.But what if it's bullshit? What if it's as big a bag of bullshit as generative AI itself is threatening to become?What if the feedback loops we assume will make generative AI better start spinning in the other direction, making it worse? Magnifying its imperfections. Each successive copy is a little more corrupted. Little white lies morph into monstrous, whole-cloth hallucinations … until whatever's left of anything that's authentic on the whole goddamn internet is buried irretrievably in inane slop.
Read More...Our fingers are on the global pulse, counting beats as we stutter towards the throes of death. If you want to know what Adbusters thinks about the news, this is where you find it.
We're in the middle of a guerrilla marketing war for the future of the planet. Conventional weapons are useless — all we have are ideas. These are the best of our culture jams.
Listen to the voice of Adbusters proffering sweet ASMR vibes about the end of capitalism and where Occupy Wall Street went wrong.
Memes can be cinematic too. Turn up the volume and watch the chaos of the world unfold and disintegrate before your very eyes.
Plagued by climate change–induced disasters, political turmoil, and the worst pandemic in a century, the world barely noticed when the United Nations released a report last month detailing calamitous prospects for the diversity of life on Earth.
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Just before it was revealed that he (and many other Republicans) had been infected with coronavirus, President Trump announced that he aims to limit the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year to just 15,000.
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From Occupy to Antifa, why are anarchist ideas and tactics appealing to an ever broader, younger audience?
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