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Good morning my lovely friends! Already Sunday Funday on this side of the world... and that means my day off! Woot Woot. What are you guys up to today? For the second Sunday in a row, we are planning to

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In previous centuries, people had little to no need for identification documents because they didn't move around very much, meaning everyone else knew who they were without any need for documentation.

Many a dystopian novel has explored the consequences of failing to give basic human rights to artificial intelligence, and as we near the reality of a technological singularity we should really stop to