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Who Goes MAGA?
With apologies to Dorothy Thompson, whose 1941 essay in Harper’s, “Who Goes Nazi?” remains a worthwhile read on the cultural archetypes of who is drawn to fascism, and who would never go down such …
Mike Masnick
Not Back to the Future
Why Robert Zemeckis’ classic wouldn’t work in 2025
Philip Ogley
‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots
The users of AI companion app Replika found themselves falling for their digital friends. Until – explains a new podcast – the bots went dark, a user was encouraged to kill Queen Elizabeth II and an update changed everything …
Stuart Heritage
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