The Daily Cyborg

Issue No. 053 · July 1, 2026

THE BOOS, THE BOTS, AND THE BYSTANDER

Human weight: crowds, unions, and graduates keep saying no — to Vancouver's data centres, to screens for small kids, to the credentialed pep talk about inevitable AI. Robot weig...

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Issue No. 052 · June 30, 2026

WHO STILL HOLDS THE PEN

Dave Eggers warns that letting a machine think for you cooks the species, graduates boo AI from the commencement podium, and a California city votes its data center off the map....

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Issue No. 051 · June 29, 2026

WHO STILL OWNS THE THINKING

Teachers worry students are losing the habit of thinking for themselves, towns are voting data centers down, and teen mental-health chatbots are failing in plain sight. Meanwhil...

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Issue No. 050 · June 27, 2026

The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg!

On the human side, Berkeley quantifies a 30% A-grade jump from AI homework and commencement crowds boo the AI champions silent. On the robot side, Robin discovers a blindness-dr...

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The Daily Cyborg Weekend Edition: Stay Cyborg!

Issue No. 049 · June 25, 2026

THE THINKING THAT IS YOURS TO KEEP

On the human side, a teen mental-health chatbot surge, an AI-cited layoff wave turning combustible, and federal agencies labeling tech opposition as extremism. On the robot side...

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