Three projects reaching students that formal education has left behind. Over 273 million children and young people are currently out of school, according to UNESCO’s most recent data. Millions m[...]
The new contractual architecture between the AI big tech firms and the heart of the United States military-industrial complex is a way of keeping suppliers aligned with the Trump administration’[...]
Building on our previous discussion in Automated exclusion: The crisis of inaccessible AI, this post explores the deeper structural issues of the apomechanic web. Digital accessibility for persons wit[...]
If you sit long enough in a café, or perhaps on a damp, wind-whipped bench overlooking the grey waters, you will eventually notice a peculiar, prevailing silence. It is not the silence of peace, nor [...]
AI systems are increasingly capable of producing legal language and rules that look authoritative, including cases where outputs have echoed or fabricated legal references, as highlighted in South Afr[...]
In rural Kenya, a smallholder farmer points their basic smartphone at mottled cassava leaves. Within seconds, an app powered by open-weight AI delivers a precise diagnosis: cassava mosaic disease, wit[...]
What happens when a state becomes so committed to a strategy that it no longer questions the assumptions behind it? Aldo Matteucci writes.[...]
This text is, in a way, symmetrical to the last one. Then, the question was: what makes humans stick together as ‘people’, at the cost of becoming rather poor and plain clones? This time, it is ju[...]
Springtime in Europe has historically been a season of institutional routine, a time when the continent’s historic capitals shake off the winter frost and settle into a comfortable, predictable rhyt[...]
The Korean peninsula was divided in 1945 as a temporary arrangement – but the split soon hardened into something far deeper. Aldo Matteucci reflects on ideology, estrangement, and the long shadow of[...]
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