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List of articles I recently found interesting to read.

• I Feel Better Now. Depressed by the burden of life under capitalism? There's an app for that! (bypass PayWall)
• We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it. It's not time to chat with AI, but to resist it.
• Dangerous Designs Gene editing gives us transformative powers. But should we use them? A Reporter at Large (bypass Paywall)
• The California Problem greetings! this is a very long post about video games and capitalism.
• Switching to Linux as a Game Developer. Like most people, I’ve always used Windows on my computers. Like, what other choice is there?
• GPT-4o’s Chinese token-training data is polluted by spam and porn websites. The problem, which is likely due to inadequate data cleaning, could lead to hallucinations, poor performance, and misuse.
• Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture
• The Real Story Behind Patrice Lumumba’s Assassination. The Belgians wanted to protect their mining money. The Americans feared a Soviet foothold. A new book sorts through the fate of the leader of the fight for Congolese independence. (bypass Paywall)
• The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong. The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence.
• The Clintons Had Slaves. But the prison labor system is also rotten to the core…