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    Eddington: America's Digital Divide

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    Ari Aster's 'Eddington' uses a mask-resistant sheriff and tech-friendly mayor to explore how political algorithms and information bubbles are fracturing American society, with data centers emerging as the true winners of our cultural conflicts.

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    There are many winners and losers at the end of the film, but there's only one unequivocal winner, and that's the data center. All the violence and suffering is just noise that feeds the machine.

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