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AI Is Already Making Us Less Human As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans. By David Brooks
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYdEjtWd3g9KRpFfJAkjtEf4 Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
MAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial Complex
After a year and a half, the Trump administration has found no evidence of the “censorship-industrial-complex,” @anneapplebaum writes. When examined closely, it disappeared “like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/censorship-industrial-complex-conspiracy/688490/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYY-UbT-jDvZWl1ccgfNsQBE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/ai-future-reckoning-singularity/688487/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbfWjTGO3RjQDD5qSRMf5nc Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
Data Centers Are a Distraction What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-nonproliferation-usa-china/688421/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYVHx4gOIiwM1TF8taRvNWow Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
NYTimes: Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
******* People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Regulation alone won’t fix the social web, @ibogost writes. But limiting how much people can talk on it could. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZQSqipOLJ3T8MrgRbkhl_o&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** Iran Unleashed
“Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,” Robert Kagan argues. The world will now “discover what Iran unleashed looks like.” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/08/iran-middle-east-power/688374/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTiK6BVMS9iHZIp6P_OVaCk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
NYTimes: Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did
Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/opinion/twitter-x-woke-1-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
NYTimes: Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop.
Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
Why Do Rich Kids Love Socialism?
Rather than elevating leaders who pretend to be working-class, socialists should present “themselves as what they mostly are: worried, frustrated, and often justifiably angry members of the educated professional class,” @Tyler_A_Harper argues. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/socialism-rich-kids-gordillo/688382/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUFOsEbjmAxPCTZnP9x9GXM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

AI Is Already Making Us Less Human As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans. By David Brooks
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/open-ai-consciousness-morality/688535/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYdEjtWd3g9KRpFfJAkjtEf4 Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
MAGA’s Imaginary Censorship-Industrial Complex
After a year and a half, the Trump administration has found no evidence of the “censorship-industrial-complex,” @anneapplebaum writes. When examined closely, it disappeared “like a soap bubble that vanishes with the touch of a hand”: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/censorship-industrial-complex-conspiracy/688490/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYY-UbT-jDvZWl1ccgfNsQBE&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
The Singularity Is Not What It Seems Whatever the AI future is, we’re in it right now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/09/ai-future-reckoning-singularity/688487/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYbfWjTGO3RjQDD5qSRMf5nc Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
Data Centers Are a Distraction What humanity needs is an international AI nonproliferation treaty.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/ai-nonproliferation-usa-china/688421/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYVHx4gOIiwM1TF8taRvNWow Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
NYTimes: Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit
Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
******* People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Regulation alone won’t fix the social web, @ibogost writes. But limiting how much people can talk on it could. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/10/fix-facebook-making-it-more-like-google/620456/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYZQSqipOLJ3T8MrgRbkhl_o&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
***** Iran Unleashed
“Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf,” Robert Kagan argues. The world will now “discover what Iran unleashed looks like.” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/08/iran-middle-east-power/688374/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTiK6BVMS9iHZIp6P_OVaCk&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social
NYTimes: Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did
Republicans Are Making the Same Mistake Democrats Did https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/opinion/twitter-x-woke-1-elon-musk.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
NYTimes: Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop.
Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html?smid=nytcore-android-share Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S25 FE, an AT&T 5G smartphone Get Outlook for Android
Why Do Rich Kids Love Socialism?
Rather than elevating leaders who pretend to be working-class, socialists should present “themselves as what they mostly are: worried, frustrated, and often justifiably angry members of the educated professional class,” @Tyler_A_Harper argues. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/08/socialism-rich-kids-gordillo/688382/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYUFOsEbjmAxPCTZnP9x9GXM&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social