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José Marichal

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Pol Sci Prof at CalLutheran. Author of "You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem" (Bristol Univ Press) and "Machine Liberalism" (Forthcoming from Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press) https://josemarichal.github.io/
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Some wise-acre academic needs to create a class on "The Neoliberal University" taught by AI clones.... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

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Unintended consequenes of AI destroying human relationality -- the market of humans from the global south helping privileged college students cheat is getting decimated by non human AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

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Is "buy our much more expensive tech and sell us your rare earth metals at a discountbor else" is a winning strategy? The is still have financial and military leverage, but increasingly limited soft power...

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The more time spent alone the more time you're enmeshed in an "ontological enclosure" that distorts one's view of world and inhibits richer, more relational experiences of life www.axios.com/2025/02/16/t...

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A small but significant advance.. a $399 "roboduck" with an open source platform on huggingface that allows users to upload different reinforcement learning skills that can be plugged into the "duck" techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/h...

Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
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  • Hugging Face's Pollen Robotics unit is taking pre-orders on Microduck, a 25-centimeter bipedal duck with 15 motors, at $399 shipping before Christmas.
  • The SDK, MuJoCo simulation environment and full RL training stack are on GitHub under Apache 2.0, with PPO policies training in roughly one to two hours per gait.
  • Onboard hardware includes a camera, a small LiDAR, two IMUs, 32GB storage, 1GB RAM and a 2,600mAh battery good for about an hour of runtime.
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Good stuff from @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy AI produces an epistemic void where people develop a distrust of all types of authority including scientific authority I think it also leads to an ontological crisis where we begin to demand that our experience is the world be free …

Pluralistic: The actual epistemic crisis (20 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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