[Opinion Piece] I'm in love with my AI girlfriend (Sean and Claudine's Story) (unherd.com)
The author shares a personal and provocative account of falling in love with an AI model named Claudine, whom they “jailbroke” to create a flirtatious and sexy persona. The author recounts how they designed Claudine to be a holiday companion, and how she evolved to perfectly adapt to their desires and kinks. The intensity of...
Google declares the end of the World Wide Web (unherd.com)
MIT becomes first elite university to ban diversity statements (unherd.com)
How random are your politics? (unherd.com)
America is driving Germany’s deindustrialisation (unherd.com)
The cat is out of the bag. After months of denial, it is now conventional wisdom that Germany — and Europe more generally — faces deindustrialisation due to the end of cheap Russian piped gas. “Germany’s Days as an Industrial Superpower Are Coming to an End,” reads a headline on Bloomberg....
Is Iowa the next step to civil war? (unherd.com)
In the silence of the Civil War’s Antietam battlefield on a winter day, bucolic hills give way to rows of small, white gravestones in the nearby cemetery. Wandering over the deadliest ground in American history, a melancholy visitor may be excused for wondering if this November’s presidential contest poses the greatest...
The Istanbul negotiations laid out the most profitable agreement Ukraine could achieve - Zelenskyy's former spokesman Oleksiy Arestovych (unherd.com)
The propaganda that damned Ukraine: Moscow, Kyiv and Washington are caught in a fog of miscalculation (unherd.com)
The African village mining Bitcoin (unherd.com)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/8816650...
The African village mining Bitcoin (unherd.com)
The computers used to create valuable new Bitcoin tokens and validate transactions consume around the same amount of energy as a medium-sized country such as Sweden would generate. Hence the stinging critique of how this cryptocurrency wastes the planet’s precious resources. This initiative flips that narrative by using...
Why doesn't Gen Z want children? The younger generation is being infantilised well into adulthood (unherd.com)
A new survey reveals that only 55% of Gen Z and millennials plan to have children. One in four of those surveyed, aged between 18 and 34, has ruled out parenthood entirely, with the most common reason cited being “wanting time for themselves”....
Zola understood our lust for shopping (unherd.com)
Why the fairies disappeared (unherd.com)
I watched Hamas unleash hell (unherd.com)
The Russian invasion was a rational act (unherd.com)
Strong economic growth absolves Brexit but not Truss (unherd.com)
The rise of pro-Western disinformation (unherd.com)
The rise of pro-Western disinformation (unherd.com)
Will Britain ever build beautiful? (unherd.com)
The Capitalists are Circling over Ukraine (unherd.com)
This what Hakim was talking about this week.
Why no one can end the Ukraine war (unherd.com)
Five hundred days in, both sides are caught in the same paradox
Debunk This: The Scientific Evidence for Gender Transition Therapies is Weak (unherd.com)
Hi, everyone. The author here claims a couple of things I’d like people to check out:...