so — i am not the only one who thought this… www.frieze.com/article/tech...
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so — i am not the only one who thought this… www.frieze.com/article/tech...
A point referenced and ‘enhanced’ during #BladeRunner
"...the cost (the unpleasantness) of looking at the images was being weighed against the potential benefit of understanding what was actually going on in the scenes, and so reducing uncertainty."
www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...
UK slashes climate aid programmes for developing countries - @fionaharvey.bsky.social @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.
It is remarkable how quickly the climate failures of COVID and the 2022 energy crises have been forgotten. Weak centrist hand-wringing and fossil fuel corruption caused additional harm on top of the cost of war and disease. Time to stop repeating this
www.earthsystemgovernance.org/publication/...
They are planning it out in the open
“The animating idea of liberal democracy is that you put up with a lot of inefficiency because it makes the overall system more robust [&] more free. Up until this year, Americans preferred liberty to executive efficiency. But we’re clearly past that as a society.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/everything...
The decline is reading is real but modest - and books are far from dead
www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king
This paper is excellent and shows how the fossil fuel industry deploys false solutions- CCS, hydrogen, and CDR- in order to further entrench and protect fossil fuel hygemony
Australians impacted by Robodebt have until 4pm on Friday, March 6, to register for a new class action settlement with payouts between $1,000 and $50,000 au.finance.yahoo.com/news/centrel...
A great example on why the data about one's pets is also one's personal data.
@christogrozev.bsky.social asked for a favor from an Austrian police officer who had a colleague in Italian police and incorrectly explained that cats are not subject to privacy laws.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjo0...
Hey kids now would be a good time to switch to renewable energy sources
(It has been been a good time to switch for decades)
amazing, no notes.
Microsoft gets tired of people using the term “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash to the ban
www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...
Guest writer Gloria Horton-Young examines shocking new U.K. reporting showing Jeffrey Epstein maintained storage units filled with computers, tapes, and evidence removed before police searches—materials the FBI still hasn’t confirmed examining.
“‘This is not an easy task for any of the providers of AI services,’ said [CDT's] Greg Nojeim. ‘Discerning whether a series of prompts indicates that there’s an emergency involving the danger of death [...] that’s a difficult determination to make.’” www.politico.com/new...
Like I said on LinkedIn, this is a bad product that is bad for people. People should feel bad for buying it, using it, developing it, doing marketing for it, and otherwise contributing to its existence. (This is not about the Kenyan gig workers)
we really need to bring back social shaming
When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast.
They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
"Researchers uncovered emergent vulnerabilities such as unauthorized compliance, sensitive data leakage, resource exhaustion, identity spoofing, and the propagation of unsafe practices, arising from the complex interplay of LLM capabilities with autonomy and tool use."
alphaxiv.org/overview/260...
*Sometimes you've just got to set-aside the ol' briefing-papers, kiss-up to the Black Swan, and accept that the Wolf is thru-the-door and gnawing fresh bones in the living room. #Futurism
"I created you, Jack. I am your god."
"Fuck you, Sally"
Absolutely underrated film.
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
The Milky Way galaxy near the constellation Sagittarius, splashed across the sky above the National Scouting Museum at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron, NM.
And beyond even our research, it's important to protect the night sky just for its own sake. I spent most of last summer living in a Bortle 2 area, and the stars were life-changing. Everyone should be afforded that experience, and AI compute shouldn't be allowed to take it away.
Starting to hear buzz about Valerie Veatch's @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social and want to where you can see it? They've got a form on their website to bring Ghost in the Machine to your university, club, festival, institution, or any other place with a screen + humans, virtual or IRL.
notaidoc.com
In addition to promoting entertainment, X's feed algorithm tends to push more conservative content to users' feeds. Seven weeks of exposure to such content in 2023 shifted users' political opinions in a more conservative direction, particularly with regard to policy priorities, perceptions of the criminal investigations into Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. The effect is asymmetric: switching the algorithm on influenced political views, but switching it off did not reverse users' perspectives on policy priorities or current political issues.
We show that exposure to algorithmically curated content led users to follow conservative activist accounts. In contrast, when the algorithmic feed was switched off, users continued to follow the accounts they had engaged with previously. This indicates that exposure to feed algorithms has a lasting impact on users' feeds and their political attitudes.
This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes.
No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
For a bettir future
Teach artes and humanityes
Facial recognition technology is dangerous when it works and when it doesn't.
The last thing we need is Big Tech, the government, or anyone else capturing our biometrics as we go about our lives.
Meta must not add this unreliable and invasive technology to its glasses.
lol i just started bashing out bullets on the current state of ai for el lettero del newso; going out probably tomorrow or friday if y'all wanna subscreezey: buttondown.com/dorian/
*Shoggoths gone spooky
*This may not be a real-deal "singularity" but it sure is a tsunami of news-slop
