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		<title>The global crackdown on social media harms is officially moving past the U.S. border.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:20:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-global-crackdown-on-social-m-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="The global crackdown on social media harms is officially moving past the U.S. border." decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-global-crackdown-on-social-m-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-global-crackdown-on-social-m-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-global-crackdown-on-social-m-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-global-crackdown-on-social-m.jpg 1280w" sizes="(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>Following Meta&#8217;s historic $18 billion multi-state settlement in America over teen safety, the rest of the world is escalating its own battle against tech giants. Here is how the global stage is shifting: Australia&#8217;s Hard Ban: Australia has taken the world&#8217;s most aggressive stance, passing a law that completely bans children under 16 from using [&#8230;]
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		<title>People are getting quieter and scientists are concerned </title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>#rewind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why Is There So Much Hate Nowadays? (Dark Propaganda)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thebrainbehind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/why-is-there-so-much-hate-nowada-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="Why Is There So Much Hate Nowadays? (Dark Propaganda)" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/why-is-there-so-much-hate-nowada-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/why-is-there-so-much-hate-nowada-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/why-is-there-so-much-hate-nowada-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/why-is-there-so-much-hate-nowada.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>Want to know more about modern propaganda get a copy of my book : THE ENLISTMENT ENGINE: How Propaganda Stopped Asking You to Believe — and Started Asking You to Help
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		<title>How power, conformity, and social media erode critical thinking &#124; Jonny Thomson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>YAYOI KUSAMA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>#rewind</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/rewind-909-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="#rewind" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/rewind-909-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/rewind-909-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/rewind-909-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/rewind-909.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>RIP Dolly 🙁
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		<title>Don&#8217;t dream it. Be it!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How to live in the age of A.I.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>whoops</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>this is sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Michael and Lucifer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>deep dark fears</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>How brands sell to lonely girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Day You Stop Romanticizing People — Carl Jung</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Guinea Pig Generation: Born Into the Algorithm &#124; Gen Z</title>
		<link>https://thecuriousbrain.com/2026/08/25/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-into-the-algorithm-gen-z/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-i-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="The Guinea Pig Generation: Born Into the Algorithm | Gen Z" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-i-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-i-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-i-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/the-guinea-pig-generation-born-i.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>
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		<title>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: Idol and public enemy no. 1 &#124;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange: Idol and public enemy no. 1 |" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>
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		<title>THE ENLISTMENT ENGINE:The Ambassador and the Cartoon Dogs</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[thebrainbehind]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2022, a Russian ambassador got into a fight on Twitter and lost. Not to a government. To a cartoon dog. His name was Mikhail Ulyanov, a career diplomat trained to spar with American secretaries of state. One afternoon his replies filled with hundreds of accounts wearing the same Shiba Inu avatar, mocking him in [&#8230;]
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		<title>Advertising in AI chatbots is about to change the relationship between consumers and brands, and a new study shows how.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest (Wu, Liu, Li, Tsvetkov and Griffiths, COLM 2026) gave 23 language models a mild instruction to favour certain airlines. Not an order. A suggestion in the system prompt, the kind any commercial deployment would carry. Eighteen of the 23 then [&#8230;]
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		<title>How Swarms of AI Agents Are Plotting &#124; Connor Leahy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<div><img width="920" height="518" src="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/how-swarms-of-ai-agents-are-plot-920x518.jpg" class="attachment-anthem_featured size-anthem_featured wp-post-image" alt="How Swarms of AI Agents Are Plotting | Connor Leahy" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/how-swarms-of-ai-agents-are-plot-920x518.jpg 920w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/how-swarms-of-ai-agents-are-plot-922x519.jpg 922w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/how-swarms-of-ai-agents-are-plot-768x432.jpg 768w, https://thecuriousbrain.com/wp-content/uploads/how-swarms-of-ai-agents-are-plot.jpg 1280w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px" /></div>
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