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‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at techno-libertarianism as her book returns from the dead; plus, Grok released the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

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Last year, “Nerd Reich” author Gil Durán declared that it was time to revive the career of Paulina Borsook, who he said “saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago.”

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