5LL #256 - AI, Momfluencers, Union-Busting, Football, Greens

'A Certain Danger Lurks There': How the Inventor of the First Chatbot Turned Against AI
Ben Tarnoff, The Guardian
Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans.
The Good Enough Momfluencer
Sophie Lewis, The Baffler
Disavowing maternal fantasies is easier said than done.
Why We Know So Little About The U.S. ‘Union-Busting’ Industry
Dave Jamieson, HuffPost
Weak disclosure rules have helped keep anti-union consulting and legal work out of sight.
Time to Stop Running
Dave Zirin, The Nation
NFL running backs are in the same fight as all laborers: the struggle to be treated as humans, not “cattle.”
Environmental Utopia
Erlend Sandøy, The Nib
Can the global Green movement deliver it to us?
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