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$100b Slaughterbots. Godfather of AI Shows How AI Will Kill Us, How to Avoid It., 2024. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deMxLYwhids. 

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Smith, Noah. “Don’t Be a Decel,” October 7, 2023. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/dont-be-a-decel. 

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Kelly, Kevin. “Lessons from Amish Hackers.” In What Technology Wants, 217–38. Kevin Kelly, 2011. 

Ems, Lindsay. “Amish Workarounds: Toward a Dynamic, Contextualized View of Technology Use.” Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies 2, no. 1 (October 19, 2019): 42–58. 

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Hudson, Andrew Dana. “On the Political Dimensions of Solarpunk.” Solarpunks (blog), September 29, 2021. https://medium.com/solarpunks/on-the-political-dimensions-of-solarpunk-c5a7b4bf8df4.