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Thursday’s Links

  • Blog
  1. In 2020 we will see more disinformation. Deceptively edited videos and photos (“dumbfakes”). Synthetic media (“deepfakes”) will follow in the years to come. A deceptively edited video of Joe Biden signals what’s coming.
  2. Mind control for the masses – no implant needed
  3. Statement by T.S. Eliot on the opening of the Emily Hale letters at Princeton
  4. How we survive the surveillance apocalypse by the ever talented Geoffrey Fowler
  5. Mass adoption of AR is years away – Facebook’s Chief Scientist Michael Abrash
  6. Everything you need to know about the CCPA
  7. Median wage growth at the bottom has been faster in states that recently raised their minimum wage

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