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Ai slop books biography amazon

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Hypervisible Kashmir Hill Sarah T Roberts, PhD Mor Naaman evacide Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Andrew Heiss +3

“Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...”

““As economists, they told me, they’re less concerned with literary quality or customer satisfaction than revenue growth and market expansion.” You don’t say.”

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Kashmir Hill: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Salomé Viljoen: Got this text a couple months. Had to investigate it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/t...
Kashmir Hill: To quote myself... "My biography was no 'Fifty Shades.' The only punishing part was reading it."
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AAUP essay on what AI does

What Does AI Do?

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Dan Greene Salomé Viljoen

“The reason they want to automate education is the same reason why we know how to fix it: what makes for "good education" hasn't really changed in 100 years. Small classes, high contact. Lots of movement around the edges but this basic proposition is expensi…”

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Dan Greene : It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals,…
Neil Turkewitz: It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals,…
Dan Greene : There are urgent political problems--like electrification--that are very complicated and difficult. But there are a lot of them, this included, that relatively simple but still quite difficult.
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