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Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”

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When your neighbors become your overlords

In HOAs and condos, everybody’s a little bit hero, a little bit villain. | SIphotography via Getty Images/iStockphoto How HOAs became an unnecessary necessary evil. There are few things more delicious than a homeowners a...

3 theories to explain why syphilis rates are exploding among women

A woman with substance use disorder pauses under the bridge where she lives in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 21, 2017. Substance use disorder and homelessness are risk factors for syphilis. | Spen...

The devil lurking in the dust

Millie von Platen for Vox How extreme weather is driving a deadly fungus further into the American West Part of the issue The 100-year-old-mistake that’s reshaping the American West from The Highlight, Vox’s home for am...

Meta’s lingering layoffs enter their next phase

Mark Zuckerberg leaving a federal courthouse in San Jose in February 2022. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images The company started notifying laid-off employees early Wednesday morning in the second recent roun...

What we know about the Louisville shooting

A memorial to those killed in the Louisville Old Dominion Bank shooting on April 10, 2023. | Michael Swensen/Getty Images There were multiple casualties in a shooting at a downtown bank. On Monday, at least five people ...

Clarence Thomas’s brazen violation of ethics rules, briefly explained

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas attends the swearing-in ceremony for new Justice Amy Coney Barrett, at the White House in October 2020. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images By allegedly accepting luxury trips from a Repu...

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