Nice to see Cal Newport getting it right in the NYT. "This style of anxious talk also allows the A.I. companies to portray themselves as the reluctant 'stewards' of an inevitable technology, which is a framing they can use to deflect blame for damage caused by their own produc…
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Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
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Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez youtu.be
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Episode 7: The History (and Future) of Technology, with Susannah Glickman youtube.com
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AI Now's Alli Finn joined @dreamingagainstthemachine.com to speak with host @adambecker.bsky.social and @athenaforall.bsky.social's Matt Rodriguez about the speed and scale of data center construction, its impact on surrounding communities, and how people can fight back. youtu…
New episode of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com is up! This week my guest is Susannah Glickman, a brilliant historian of science and tech. We talked about AI, Moore's Law, quantum computers, a rocket-ships-and-chrome vision of the future, and more! This might be my favorite epis…
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