Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
I’m an English professor with an interest in computers. When the first AI chatbots came out a few years ago,…
Every communist state in history has either collapsed, reformed into something unrecognisable, or survived only through external life support. The…
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You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court killed off the practice of nationwide injunctions, the practice where a…
from the gaming-like-it’s-1930 dept It’s time for the second in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of…
In brief Anthropic has filed with the FEC to create an employee-funded political action committee called AnthroPAC. The move follows…
NA For a variety of reasons, I oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants…
In brief Anthropic researchers identified internal “emotion vectors” in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that influence behavior. In tests, increasing a “desperation”…
The debate over independent contractors is taking off again. In recent weeks, the Department of Labor issued its long-awaited independent…
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Karl Marx said that when history repeats itself, we’re supposed to get tragedy first, then farce. But Donald J. Trump has spent his…
from the occupied-territories dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. They asked nicely at first. After an…