Articles by SLHamlet
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The Death of an AI Whistleblower (thenation.com)

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UFOs in the Academy: A Case Study in Stigma and the Edges of Legitimate Science (osf.io)

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The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse (nytimes.com)

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Did AI Misidentify the Minab School? (msukhareva.substack.com)

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Study: LLMs Able to De-Anonymize User Accounts on Reddit, Hacker News (wjamesau.substack.com)

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Is It All over for Filmmakers? (shokunin.studio)

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What Virtual Worlds Can Learn from the Social Serendipity of Arc Raiders (wjamesau.substack.com)

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OpenAl Showed Up at My Door [video] (youtube.com)

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Gamers Overwhelmingly Hate Gen AI in Games, Major Industry Report Finds (wjamesau.substack.com)

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What Sam Altman Doesn't Want You to Know [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Train Yourself to Have Lucid Dreams Through VR (wjamesau.substack.com)

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The Artist's Hand: AI Art Pioneers That Existed Before the Boom (nettricegaskins.medium.com)

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What companies can learn from past products we love – a retro tech gift guide (caseorganic.medium.com)

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I'm an A.I. Developer (nytimes.com)

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I Worked All over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine (nytimes.com)

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Measured AI (notetoself.studio)

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Where's the AI Design Renaissance? (learnui.design)

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed last year (gamefile.news)

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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia (theverge.com)

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Calm Tech: Texture, environment, and what the mind needs [video] (youtube.com)

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Philip Rosedale making manifesto for "playing entrepreneur on Hard Mode" (philiprosedale.substack.com)

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You Need to See Epstein's Birthday Book for Yourself (theatlantic.com)

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The Secret Psychology of Wainscoting (caseorganic.medium.com)

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The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius (theatlantic.com)

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Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson (twitter.com/nealstephenson)

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Microsoft game workers call out company over Israeli military ties (gamefile.news)

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The Rise of Silicon Valley's Techno-Religion (Gift Link) (nytimes.com)

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When swiping supplants scissors: The hidden cost of touchscreens (caseorganic.medium.com)

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PWM flicker: Invisible light that's harming our health? (caseorganic.medium.com)

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Systemic bias inside Big Tech creates unsafe products outside (overturned.substack.com)

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I write novels and build AI. The debate is more complex than either side admits (fastcompany.com)

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New AI Company Launches Model That Tracks IP Rights; Hollywood Agency Advising (variety.com)

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The Weaponization of Waymo (bloodinthemachine.com)

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Why Apple's VisionPro won't make XR headsets mainstream (fastcompany.com)

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Artificial intelligence isn't magic. It's just weird (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

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The Crafters of "Andor" (anildash.com)

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"How you design the beep is important." Behind the movement for calmer gadgets (arstechnica.com)

5

The Tech Right is not succeeding (noahpinion.blog)

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Will Wright's memories game, Proxi, as hard to pitch and fund as The Sims (venturebeat.com)

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Evolution of the Manosphere Alpha Male Aesthetic (bloomberg.com)

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The Missing Manual: Safety Engineering for Organizations Using LLMs (caseorganic.medium.com)

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Meta Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams Testifies to Senate Judiciary Committee (youtube.com)

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Former Substack creators say they're earning more money on new platforms (digiday.com)

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What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology (drilled.media)

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Video game industry group expects Trump tariffs to have dire effects (gamefile.news)

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The Rise of Agentic AI Could Be a Return to Form for the Internet (adweek.com)

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'I Want to Make You Immortal' – How one woman confronted her deepfakes stalker (404media.co)

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We Need an Interventionist Mindset (techpolicy.press)

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Why our brains crave natural materials in our products and environments (calmtech.institute)

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The Road to Lucid Dreaming Might Be Paved with VR (hackaday.com)

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on her company's ascendant year and what's next (fastcompany.com)

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber pokes fun at Zuckerberg with Latin phrase T-shirt (techcrunch.com)

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Infinite Realms turns fantasy books into MMOs through procgen/LLM (venturebeat.com)

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What went wrong with Horizon Worlds? Ex-Meta dev shares insider insights

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How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta (johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com)

2

Grok 3 on Elon Musk – Isobel Moure and Tim O'Reilly (asimovaddendum.substack.com)

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The Color of "The Future" Isn't Calm: The Problem with Bright Blue Light (calmtech.institute)

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Designing Products for Resilience and Graceful Failure (calmtech.institute)

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Is Social Media Doing You Dirty? Apply the Cue Test (kottke.org)

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Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters' Racist Anger (kottke.org)

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Corporate "DEI" is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals (charity.wtf)

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'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook (thenerdreich.com)

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Your hands have eyes, too: Engaging peripheral attention (calmtech.institute)

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When 10 seconds means 23 minutes: the attention costs of bad design (calmtech.institute)

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Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? (celestemdavis.substack.com)

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Bluesky boom worries Chinese media (semafor.com)

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Tech gifts to help lower loved ones' stress levels (fastcompany.com)

1

Philip Rosedale: On the Election (philiprosedale.substack.com)

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New law could help gaming industry by clarifying what video games are (gamefile.news)

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Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup (wikipedia.org)

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Famous Quotes of All Time – Backed by data and with real sources (baos.pub)

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A centaur solution for customer support (caseorganic.medium.com)

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Ways of Being: Rethinking Intelligence (themarginalian.org)

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Experts explain the legacy of GamerGate, 10 years after it started (linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com)

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Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche (Gift Link) (nytimes.com)

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Website Turns Traffic Cameras into Photobooths on the Street (petapixel.com)

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He Made a Game About a Joyous Journey. He Also Got a Bit Lost. (Gift Link) (nytimes.com)

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Virtual and Physical Game Museums Directory (virtualworlds.museum)

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Unleashed is making a platform for MMOs to bring people together (venturebeat.com)

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Three ways to stop helping Elon Musk erode truth (theframelab.org)

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LA city pilot guaranteeing families $1k a month gets "transformative" results (latimes.com)

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YouTube Took over Our Television Screens (Gift Link) (nytimes.com)

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Matt Ball Interviews Tim Sweeney and Neal Stephenson (matthewball.co)

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Our "smart" devices have a blue light problem (caseorganic.medium.com)

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Can our tech calm down? (ericathas.substack.com)

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AI industry needs to earn $600B/year to pay for hardware spend (tomshardware.com)

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Apple's Approach to AI Should Rewrite the Industry's Expectations (caseorganic.medium.com)

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Why a Half a Million Artists Left Instagram for Cara Last Week [video] (youtube.com)

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Philip Rosedale: Learning from Second Life's Digital Currency (philiprosedale.substack.com)

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Gamers Have Become Less Interested in Strategic Thinking and Planning (quanticfoundry.com)

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Helldivers 2 players knew how to mobilize against Sony after training in-game (polygon.com)

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The First Fraction of a Second: Dr. Katie Mack on the Universe [video] (youtube.com)

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The Myth of the Second Chance (pressreader.com)

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Philip Rosedale on "The Price of Distrust" (philiprosedale.substack.com)

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[flagged] Meta's AI image generator can't imagine an Asian man with a white woman (theverge.com)

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Roblox Studio boss: children making money on the platform isn't exploitation (eurogamer.net)

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Philip Rosedale: Consciousness as a Hall of Mirrors (philiprosedale.substack.com)

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Brands forbid advertising agencies from using AI (80.lv)

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Myths of Metaverse Interoperability (nwn.blogs.com)

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Mars After Midnight – Lucas Pope's new gloriously weird "happy dad" game (adrianhon.substack.com)