Rare Earth Elements: Technology’s Dirty Little Secret

Rare earth elements form the quiet core of our digital lives, yet their extraction reveals a world built on exploitation rather than innovation. When the minerals powering our devices are tied to violence and displacement, digital progress becomes inseparable from human suffering.
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How to Navigate the Crisis of Synthetic Reality

When the AI-generated lie becomes indistinguishable from the truth, our reality fractures. The emotional trust we place in our own eyes and ears is eroded, leaving us with a deeply unsettling sense of vulnerability.
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How AI is Failing Women

From bias to deepfakes, AI harms women in structural ways that mirror existing inequalities. Technology built to enhance human potential continues to reinforce gendered power and exclusion.
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It’s Not Piracy When AI Does It

When individuals used technology to share paywalled knowledge, it was condemned as piracy. When AI models now scrape, summarize, and reproduce that same information without paying for it, it’s celebrated as innovation. This double standard exposes a deeper contradiction in how we define ownership, creativity, and fairness online. Drawing on
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Crypto Money Laundering: A Record-Breaking Seizure

The US just announced its largest monetary seizure ever, worth more than $15 billion in bitcoins. The targeted entity is an investment conglomerate known as Prince Holding Group, responsible for running more than 10 scam compounds in Cambodia and for conducting international money laundering operations. This article explores the phenomena
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Food For Thought

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The Oppenheimer Test

Every system reaches a point where its makers lose the ability to contain it. Oppenheimer faced it in 1945. Artificial intelligence is moving toward the same line, where control slips and responsibility spreads to those forced to live with the consequences.
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No Target, No Trigger, No Mercy

In 1943, a German pilot spared a shattered Allied bomber, choosing mercy where orders demanded execution. AI in warfare would not have paused. It would have scanned, confirmed, and fired, not from hatred but from code. Humans still draw fragile lines in war: a flag, a hand, a refusal. Machines do not see lines, only patterns, and once flagged as enemy, context collapses.
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