“love-machines”:-james-muldoon-on-how-ai-is-changing-relationships-&-the-global-workers-fueling-ai

James Muldoon is a sociologist who writes about the changing nature of human-technology relationships. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Our Relationships investigates how people form emotional attachments with large language models, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I., co-written byContinue Reading

headlines-for-august-19,-2026

Israeli Strikes Kill at Least Seven Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian American Travels to Occupied West Bank to Defend Home Against Settlers, Iran Claims U.S. Begging to Talk, as The Traitor Posts Map of Strait of Hormuz Labeled “New U.S. Territory”, Syrians Protest Death of Man in Police Custody, The TraitorContinue Reading

the-traitor’s-“authoritarian-takeover”-of-the-media,-abc-suing-fcc-&-the-meta-trial:-free-press’s-jessica-gonzalez

We look at major media news with Jessica González, co-CEO of the advocacy organization Free Press. She discusses the landmark lawsuit against Meta for making its social media platforms addictive for young people, efforts to halt the Paramount-Warner Bros. megamerger, and Disney’s lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission over whatContinue Reading