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#Additivism @additivism.org · 05/09/2026
'Things Are Getting Even More Insane': Another Major AI Breakout Revealed | Common Dreams
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'Things Are Getting Even More Insane': Another Major AI Breakout Revealed | Common Dreams
​"How much more is there that we don't know about?" asked one historian after it was revealed that OpenAI had buried reports that its AI agents had hijacked a German website without their knowledge.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 27/08/2026
Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
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Designer Creates World's Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras
German artist Simon Weckert has designed a shirt meant to trick AI-integrated surveillance cameras into looking right past him.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 28/07/2026
A scientist helped protect thousands of hectares of former cattle pasture in Costa Rica and let the forest recover; today it forms part of a 130,000-hectare World Heritage rainforest.
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A scientist helped protect thousands of hectares of former cattle pasture in Costa Rica and let the forest recover; today it forms part of a 130,000-hectare World Heritage rainforest. - The Times of India
Discover the remarkable journey of ecologist Daniel Janzen who transformed 10,000 hectares of ranch land into a thriving 130,000-hectare rainforest through natural regeneration. Learn how protecting and allowing nature to heal supports biodiversity and ecological restoration.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 05/06/2026
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large it now hosts dozens of species, and the plastic “island” is turning into a new and deeply uncomfortable ecosystem
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is so large it now hosts dozens of species, and the plastic “island” is turning into a new and deeply uncomfortable ecosystem
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now hosting marine life, as plastic waste turns into a new and troubling ocean ecosystem.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 18/05/2026
Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of presence in the world’ | Science | EL PAÍS English
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Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of presence in the world’
The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of information but fail to understand one another because of an ‘invisible wall’ made up of prejudice, bias, self-assurance, and the failure to listen
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 12/05/2026
How does the deep Earth see humanity? | Aeon Essays
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Vercel Security Checkpoint
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 07/05/2026
The Government Doesn’t Just Want to Ban Ghost Guns. It Wants to Control Your 3D Printer
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The Government Doesn’t Just Want to Ban Ghost Guns. It Wants to Control Your 3D Printer
New laws are targeting not just 3D-printed weapons, but the digital files, platforms, and machines that create them, raising questions about innovation and who decides what can be made. As a longtime member of the 3D-printing community, defined by its openness, I'm concerned.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 23/04/2026
Origami robot moves with heat, no motors or gears
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Soft-bodied origami robot moves without motors or gears
"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly describes the work of Princeton University engineers who have created a robot that moves without a single motor or gear, using heat and the principles of origami instead.…
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 13/04/2026
Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater
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Man Creates Tiny Submarine for His Parakeet to Experience Life Underwater
A viral video shows a parakeet trapped inside a DIY submarine made of a 3,000 PSI paintball air cylinder, oxygen, meter, and lead weights.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 03/04/2026
Want to fight fascism? Join a knitting circle.
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Want to fight fascism? Join a knitting circle.
The resurgence of resistance crafting.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 03/04/2026
World’s first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000 | NL Times
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World’s first lab-grown T-Rex leather handbag unveiled in Amsterdam could fetch €575,000
In a major breakthrough for synthetic biology, researchers on Thursday unveiled a new form of lab-grown leather created from reconstructed Tyrannosaurus rex protein sequences. The material is the main component of a new, luxury handbag shown off in a debut at Amsterdam's Art Zoo Museum, which is expected to fetch hundreds of thousands of euros when it eventually hits the auction block.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 01/04/2026
You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You'd Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging
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You Know How Scientists Keep Finding Microplastics Literally Everywhere? Well, You'd Never Guess What Their Lab Gloves Are Coated in Straight Out of the Packaging
Researchers found that plastic gloves can transfer microplastic particles onto environmental samples, potentially skewing results.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 29/03/2026
Book review: The Immortalists by Aleks Krotowski on tech billionaires and the pursuit of eternal life
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The billionaire tech bros who think they can live forever. Seriously
Aleks Krotoski’s The Immortalists is a gory, slice-by-slice dissection of these wealthy maniacs’ obsession with the promise of eternal life. It’s like a train wreck.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 24/03/2026
This LEGO Gear Train Takes 90 Trillion Years to Complete One Rotation – Yanko Design
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This LEGO Gear Train Takes 90 Trillion Years to Complete One Rotation - Yanko Design
If you've ever stared at one of Mondrian's compositions and thought "this would make a great gear train," congratulations, you think like a LEGO Ideas builder. The rest of us are just catching up. The Eternal Mosaic bridges the gap between abstract expressionism and mechanical engineering in a way that shouldn't work but absolutely does,
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 13/03/2026
'Your AI Slop Bores Me' Gives You a Chance to See How the Sausage Is Made
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'Your AI Slop Bores Me' Gives You a Chance to See How the Sausage Is Made
These days, you don't even need to be good at chess to be a Mechanical Turk.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 22/05/2025
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 12/05/2025
LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
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LegoGPT is here to make your blocky dreams come true
: As long as those fit into a 20 x 20 x 20 grid and can be built from 8 basic bricks
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 28/04/2025
T-Rex leather handbags made using fossil DNA
telegraph.co.uk
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 15/04/2025
Radical Gaming
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Radical Gaming
A new left-wing board game puts players in the role of maniacal plutocrats trying to take over the world. Its creator explains how it responds to the wider phenomenon of ‘gamified capitalism’.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 14/04/2025
Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
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Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI
Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 02/04/2025
The philosophy behind Trump’s Dark Enlightenment
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 01/04/2025
Alarming Levels of Microplastics Found in Human Brains
nationalgeographic.com
Alarming levels of microplastics found in human brains
A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 31/03/2025
Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of #Additivism!! Ten years ago we launched The 3D Additivist Manifesto, calling radicals, revolutionaries, activists, Additivists to think with and through 3D printing technology as a tool for radical imagination, critical resistance, and creative sabotage.
The 3D Additivist Manifesto (2015)The 3D Additivist Cookbook (2016)Morehshin Allahyari and Daniel RourkeAn #Additivist Workshop
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 25/03/2025
How worried should we be about microplastics in our brains?
theweek.com
How worried should we be about microplastics in our brains?
Average human brain contains enough plastic fragments to make a spoon
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 21/03/2025
‘Technofossils’: How Plastic Bags and Chicken Bones Will Become Our Eternal Legacy
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‘Technofossils’: how humanity’s eternal testament will be plastic bags, cheap clothes and chicken bones
Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 19/02/2025
Nothing Is Safe From The Live-Service Grind, Not Even Sex Toys
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Nothing Is Safe From The Live-Service Grind, Not Even Sex Toys
Lovense creates long-distance sex toys and their app includes daily tasks
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 13/02/2025
How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future
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How the pollution of today will become the ‘technofossils’ of the far future
Chickens, concrete, computers and clothes will leave a billion-year mark in the rocks.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 05/02/2025
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 03/02/2025
The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup
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The Media Is Missing the Story: Elon Musk Is Staging a Coup
As the world's richest man seizes control of government agencies, mainstream outlets are treating it like standard political news
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 27/01/2025
Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’
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Musk Says Germany Has ‘Too Much of a Focus on Past Guilt’
His comments to the hard-right Alternative for Germany party escalated efforts by the billionaire to influence the country’s election for chancellor next month.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 27/01/2025
Anti-Aging Fanatic Bryan Johnson Won’t Stop Comparing His Penis to His Teenage Son’s
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Anti-Aging Fanatic Bryan Johnson Won’t Stop Comparing His Penis to His Teenage Son’s
Tech millionaire Bryan Johnson reveals his latest health experiment: comparing "nighttime erection data" with his teen son.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 26/01/2025
Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence 'free from ideological bias'
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Trump signs executive order on developing artificial intelligence 'free from ideological bias'
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 26/01/2025
Elon Musk is a fascist
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Elon Musk is a fascist
The richest man in the world intends his far-right project to go global
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 21/01/2025
Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics
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Has Musk Won? Reactionary Digital Politics
In this episode, Alan Finlayson joins Jeremy for a 3-hour discussion of the genesis, reality and possible futures of the online right. We cover the history of reactionary digital politics, the chan…
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 21/01/2025
The Tech Oligarchy Arrives
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The Tech Oligarchy Arrives
Donald Trump’s inauguration signaled a new alliance—for now—with some of the world’s wealthiest men.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 21/01/2025
There’s Even Plastic in Clouds
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There’s Even Plastic in Clouds
Five new places scientists have uncovered plastics.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 21/01/2025
Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration
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Neo-Nazis Love the Nazi-Like Salutes Elon Musk Made at Trump's Inauguration
The far right is celebrating what it views as a clear signal from the X owner and Donald Trump associate, who made the gestures on stage Monday.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 16/01/2025
This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom
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This PDF contains a playable copy of Doom
Adobe Acrobat’s little-used JavaScript support gets exploited in Chromium browsers.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 05/01/2025
Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics
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Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics
A UN treaty could be the beginning of the end for single-use plastic production—but victory over this pollutant isn’t yet in the bag.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 23/12/2024
Saving Charlotte: How 3D Printing Helps Sea Turtles with Bubble Butt Syndrome
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Saving Charlotte: How 3D Printing Helps Sea Turtles with Bubble Butt Syndrome
Charlotte the turtle suffers from Bubble Butt. To help Charlotte swim normally again, Adia, New Balance, and Formlabs built a 3D printed custom harness.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 13/12/2024
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 11/12/2024
The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come
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The ‘Ghost Gun’ Linked to Luigi Mangione Shows Just How Far 3D-Printed Weapons Have Come
The design of the gun police say they found on the alleged United Healthcare CEO's killer—the FMDA or “Free Men Don’t Ask”—was released by a libertarian group.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros
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Taking on the Tyranny of the Tech Bros
Coalitions between feminist movements, minorities, and labor activists will help keep the Silicon Valley moguls in check.
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
Slime Mould and Philosophy
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Slime Mould and Philosophy
Cambridge Core - Philosophy of Science - Slime Mould and Philosophy
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, warn scientists
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EU should ban space mirrors and other solar geoengineering, scientists say
European Commission scientific advisers say technology to offset global heating could wreak havoc on weather
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO was murdered using homemade 3D-printed ‘ghost’ gun, first such case in US
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UnitedHealthcare CEO was murdered using homemade 3D-printed ‘ghost’ gun, first such case in US
Although described as a 3D-printed weapon, the firearm in question isn’t entirely manufactured using a printer. Experts explained that these guns typically feature hybrid designs, combining 3D-printed...
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
Luigi Mangione, suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, used ghost gun that may have been 3D-printed
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Luigi Mangione, suspect in fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO...
“He was in possession of a ghost gun that had the capability of firing a nine millimeter round and a suppressor,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Monday press briefing, adding that …
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 10/12/2024
CEO Shooter Used a 3D Printed Gun. Let's Talk About It.
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CEO Shooter Used a 3D Printed Gun. Let's Talk About It.
9mm FTN.3 video: https://youtu.be/DyT3qgv4ycQ?si=BrY7mzLiR8gbrtTYMy Printer: https://amzn.to/3uU0FHAPolymaker PLA Pro filament used for my 3D printed project...
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 06/12/2024
Meet Sauron, a new home-security system for the terrified tech elite
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#Additivism @additivism.org · 05/12/2024
Sam Altman Downplays the Dangers of A.I. and Musk
nytimes.com
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Downplays Dangers of A.I. and Elon Musk
The chief executive of OpenAI said the technology would boost productivity and rejected worries that his rival mogul could use his political influence to harm competitors.
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