And 2024's multilingual, globally collaborative holiday performance by students at Berklee College of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Berklee Valencia, Berklee NYC, and Berklee Abu Dhabi.
India.Arie's "Prayer For Humanity"
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
ICYMI: Drop everything and spend 13 minutes with Amy Sherald--with her singular vision and talent, with her clarity about her central place in the jagged American story. You will be stirred by it all. www.cbsnews.com/video/amy-sh...
Misty has spoken many times about how Prince helped her build her self-confidence and see herself differently at a critical junction in her career, acting as a mentor for years after they first worked together. youtu.be/WHtxzbJHb5o
Misty Copeland's glorious final bow
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
A part of AI adoption is driven by capitalization of knowledge and death of community. People used to help each other (for free!) and now we have service fees and social pressures that make it easier to just ask the bot.
So if you prefer a world with less AI, maybe go say hi to your neighbor.
Management keeps asking us to provide use cases for AI.
For every single vendor.
They are using business and governments to test use cases in a ‘live’ environment. There is no precautionary principle being applied here. We are so f as a society.
Social media use begins global decline. For the first time, time spent on social media is falling worldwide. An analysis of 250,000 adults across 50 countries shows average daily use dropped nearly 10% since 2022, reversing a decade of growth. buff.ly/z7nfRnN
#ShareGoodNewsToo
lol so I discovered this week that at this very moment I'm:
- An award-winning researcher
- An award winning founder and entrepreneur
- An acclaimed author and editor
- A #Harvard trained economist (with a PhD on the way)
At this point, I have NO REASON to have impostor syndrome.
“Imagine having a therapist available 24/7, who never judges you and is completely free.”
What could go wrong?
https://restofworld.org/2025/young-people-in-china-are-embracing-ai-therapy/
Please stop using Substack.
No, I won’t subscribe. I won’t even click on your links. I’m not supporting a company that allows literal Nazis on their platform. You cannot expect me to hear your complaints about Nazis on the Nazi website.
Use other platforms Ghost or Medium or write a newsletter.
Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.
This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.
I became a first-time author today. 🥹 #blacksky #booksky
"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." is so on-point.
1/5
Part 2of Nodestar, our mini series on decentralization, is out today. @alixdunn.com talks with @rudyfraser.com about his endeavor Blacksky Algorithms.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/node...
*stares at the camera*
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
"Many Black women didn’t 'leave' the labor force by choice. They were laid off, pushed out, or navigating impossible tradeoffs... which reflect the longer arc of systemic disinvestment." - Katica Roy
youtu.be/CeNTHPH3VIs?...
I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.
And finally the best evidence that AI is truly a revolutionary general purpose technology isn’t its midness but it’s politics. It is very good at undercutting, demoralizing and casualizing labor across a variety of fields, known & as-yet known.
I wouldn’t dismiss that. “Mid” is a political tactic.
