Spruiking your billionaire-coded masculinity is now an invitation to feminine mockery. Real social power doesn’t come from trinkets or trophies
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AI-powered surveillance company Palantir created a chore coat. Great, now I have no choice but to burn mine | Van Badham ⊕
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The gentle French garment is now as cursed as the infamous megacorp, which has accumulated $80m in government contracts in Australia alone
It’s taken me years to find a chore coat with a cut that fla…
3 months ago
AI products are reaching further into our lives. Does it matter who controls the companies behind them? | Van Badham ⊖
Every organisation needs guardrails that channel them away from human fallibility and collectively minimise the harm they can do
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It is no fluke that social media platforms are addictive and causing harm. They were designed that way | Van Badham ⊖⊖
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The findings in two US court cases should embarrass anyone who claimed Australia’s social media ban was ‘boomer’ moralising
A disdain towards the notion of “consequence” somewhat defines the contempor…
4 months ago
As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham ⊕
When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have won
The Guardian reported on the arrival of “Fate” and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried…
6 months ago
Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham ⊖
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The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it
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9 months ago
AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham ⊕
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Despite the relentless insistence of tech’s grifters, AI is not industrially inevitable – or even sustainable. Which is why it is time to push back
Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid adv…
11 months ago
Middle-aged men are among society’s loneliest people – what does that say about the patriarchy? | Van Badham ○
The internet, toxic male influencers and ruthless marketeers – not biology – have helped create a cohort of men with few friends
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Microplastics are everywhere, even in human testicles. So will the patriarchy finally step in? | Van Badham ○
It’s not the sisterhood busting your balls, fellas – it’s the fossil fuel interests making money from the tonnes of synthetic garbage spewed on to the planet every day
There is plastic in your balls!
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Are young women finally being spared the unique cruelty of male literary opinions? | Van Badham ○
Oh, boys; with the passage of time, have you forsaken your Goldberry … or have you forgotten her entirely?
Gen X, millennial and gen Z men are reading less than boomers and older generations in Austra…