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An Immigration Advisory for Fictional Dystopias
If you are in the global north and want to migrate to a fictional dystopia, then you have lost your grip on reality but also, more worryingly, may have expat colonial/oligarch aspirations: your only possible reason for wanting to move could be to reinforce that dystopia’s ruling elite. This advisory is not for you.
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The Fountain of Youth May Be Flooded With Oil Money From Saudi Arabia
The obnoxiously affluent Saudi Arabia is trying to prove that maybe money can buy everything after all, pouring $US1 ($1.39) billion a year into researching ways to slow down the effects of ageing. The gulf state’s royal family started a non-profit organisation that would grant funds to scientists to understand the underlying causes of ageing,…
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Clearview AI Says It’s Bringing Facial Recognition to Schools
Clearview AI, the surveillance firm notoriously known for harvesting some 20 billion face scans off of public social media searches, said it may bring its technology to schools and other private businesses.
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9 Million People Died From Pollution in 2019, Report Finds
Pollution continues to be a huge global killer. A new report this week estimates that pollution contributed to 9 million early deaths worldwide in 2019, often from air pollution. The latest figures are unchanged from recent past annual estimates, and the authors lament that little has been done to mitigate the well-known harm of these…