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The Ghost in the Machine. Artificial Intelligence and the Spectral Ontology of Value
Last February, I publicly questioned the existence of Jianwei Xun, an author who published a best-selling, critically acclaimed book titled Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the New Architecture of Reality. On his website and on academia.org — the original version of his profile can now be found only on Internet Archive — he claimed to be… Continue reading
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Propaganda: Automated bots defending the government
If you’ve ever wondered whether social media is just a vast network of automated bots interacting with other bots, congratulations, your worldview may be dystopian, but it’s not exactly wrong. In fact, if anything you’re way ahead of what most people believe. Continue reading
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Israel blames “bots” for Eurovision boycott Asa Winstanley
Last month, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a report titled “The Big Scam.” In it, the ministry claimed to have exposed “bots” and “fake accounts” allegedly used by Palestinians and their supporters during the boycott campaign against the Eurovision Song Contest in Tel Aviv. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 