“How do we resolve the need to quantify our reading habits with our need for a deeper reading experience? I’m not sure there’s a simple solution—we are addicted to data and intent on improving ourselves over enjoying ourselves.” lithub.com/what-we-lose... By @marissalevien.bsky.social
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—internet pioneer Vint Cerf calls it shocking.
Listen as OGs & advocates explore the past, present & future of the open web on the Future Knowledge podcast.
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Did you know that the Internet Archive offers free public tours every Friday at 1pm? Check out what happened when The Fogline stopped by on a recent Friday ⬇️
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Santa Claus embraces a young child while carrying a large sack of toys on the December 26, 1925 cover of The Saturday Evening Post. Art by J. C. Leyendecker.
🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps connect how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now.
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Thanks for sharing!
everyone's both an optimist and a prepper, no exceptions
Please, do not support the surveillance capitalism habitual line steppers
Feeling uneasy as you read about the order for the US to start testing nuclear weapons? Now you can see what dropping a famous nuke would do to your hometown! nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ by @wellerstein.bsky.social cc @bulletinatomic.bsky.social @ploughshares.bsky.social #borderless #nuclearweapons
Meta has removed a Facebook page used to track the presence of immigration agents at the request of the Department of Justice, the company confirmed on Tuesday. https://to.pbs.org/473xB3z
“More than $6 billion in DeSantis ‘emergency’ contracts are missing legally required public documentation”
Daniel Ducassi for Florida Bulldog
Delete your news app. Subscribe to something.
The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
My "Worldbuilding for Science Fiction and Fantasy" class at ASU starts again today! Can't wait. This fall's reading list:
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula Le Guin
THE FIFTH SEASON by N.K. Jemisin
WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by Erika Swyler
BLACK SUN by Rebecca Roanhorse
EMBASSYTOWN by China Miéville
Curious how your right privacy with ChatGPT changes depending on if you're in the U.S. or Europe? Check out this side-by-side comparison: app.copyleaks.com/dashboard/v1... via @copyleaks.bsky.social
“Whatever nightmare pressed people to leave home…their arrival unleashes torrents of human dynamism. The movement of people, even or especially under duress, is inextricably tied with human progress.” — @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o... via @nytimes.com
An absolutely monumental piece from @polgreen.bsky.social this morning. Appreciate the research, array of sources, and nuanced thinking on the complicated issue of migration.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
"I’m still optimistic that we figure it out eventually. A world where we get to see people create great works, provide quality curation, and in turn being duly rewarded for it."
@simondlr.com Just finished reading this old blog you wrote and would love to chat: sceneswithsimon.com/p/token-cura... I'm specifically interested in the closing lines:
New Sunday Edition is out. People are talking about the decline of literary fiction again.
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Do I love this? Yes, yes, I believe I do
It's more a question of power and who has authority. "Good governance" for some is "tyranny" for others. Bluesky's concern that a future version of their own organization is their biggest threat model is very apropos here.
Here’s an application in Bittensor that nicely competes with ChatGPT: chutes.ai Chutes | Serverless AI Compute
NEW REPORT: The rush to advance an "AI arms race" is being used to justify militarizing AI systems without applying the rigorous standards that have historically governed other high-risk technologies like nuclear weapons. Read our new safety report: ainowinstitute.org/general/new-...
@wang.social I finally had a chance to watch this! "No one here is anyone else's enemy" is inspiring! I'm DMing Skyseed with an earlier pitch I sent you and would love to finally connect! :)
An overview of Skyseed Fund, Peter Wang @wang.social @skyseed.fund
Peter goes into why he started the fund, what he sees coming, including AI that is open source and preserves human agency
#ATmosphereConf
I can't wait to be able to elegantly move from network to network on the AT Protocol! Let's make it happen!
Excellent summary of why Trump's threat to the tax exemption held by Harvard (and others) is so dangerous. www.forbes.com/sites/howard...
Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.
So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.
