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The 1999 novel that predicted our (traumatic, relentlessly bleak) future
South African author J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning 'Disgrace' stacks crisis atop crisis — and depicts its characters learning to live with it anyway. Sound familiar?
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Exclusive: Speech recognition AI learns industry jargon with aiOla’s novel approach
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The Hill - Politics
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We need more accountability in our politics — I’ll go first.
we’re a little over halfway through the year, so it’s time to take a look back at some of the good (and bad) predictions I made back in the frosty winter months of 2024.
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