
Steven Poole
Author and Cultural Critic at The Guardian
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Steven Poole
At the beginning of this year, Keir Starmer announced an “AI opportunities action plan”, which promises to mainline AI “into the veins of this enterprising nation”. The implication that AI is a class-A injectable substance, liable to render the user stupefied and addicted, was presumably unintentional. But then what on earth did they mean about AI’s potential, and did they have any good reason to believe it?
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Steven Poole
One of the best series of the golden age of TV drama, The Americans (2013-2018), centred on a pair of Russian sleeper agents operating in suburban Washington DC during the height of the cold war. By day they seemed to be a boring married American couple; by night they set honey traps, sabotaged facilities, recruited traitors and assassinated enemies.
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2 months ago |
independent.ie | Steven Poole
Some scientists would tell you there’s no difference, because “a calorie is a calorie”, and you will get fatter if you consume too many calories from any type of food. What won’t necessarily be made clear is that some of those scientists were given money by the very same Coca-Cola Company.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Steven Poole
If Douglas Coupland’s 1995 novel about young tech workers, Microserfs, were a dystopian tragedy, it might read something like Careless People. The author narrates, in a fizzy historic present, her youthful idealism when she arrives at Facebook (now Meta) to work on global affairs in 2011, after a stint as an ambassador for New Zealand. Some years later she finds a female agency worker having a seizure on the office floor, surrounded by bosses who are ignoring her.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Steven Poole
Which is more likely to contribute to obesity: a can of Coca-Cola, or the calorie-equivalent amount of broccoli? Some scientists would tell you there’s no difference, because “a calorie is a calorie”, and you’ll get fatter if you consume too many calories from any type of food. What won’t necessarily be made clear is that some of those scientists were given money by the very same Coca Cola Company.
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