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Damon Beres

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Senior editor at The Atlantic, focused on tech // On leave until July writing EASY MODE, a book exploring technology, humanity, and the importance of friction, for Scribner SIGNAL: Damon.63 📨 dberes at the atlantic dot com ✴️ damonberes.com
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Extremely clever work @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social 🫡

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility 404media.co
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  • 404 Media hid an Apple AirTag in a roughly 1,000-book order sold on Biblio and followed it to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas.
  • The shipment terminated at Amazon's LAS8 site at 5801 Nicco Way, home to a team called VGT3 whose logo is a Tyrannosaurus rex clutching an open book.
  • Amazon told the outlet it 'purchases books through commercial channels'; the company classes its Nova family of models as 'frontier.'
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 6 ↻ 3 ↩ 0 · 13 from the directory shared this · 23h ago

One thing this article points to is the idea that people may no longer feel comfortable sharing information about what they're working on via social media, which is treated as a loss of an intrinsic quality of creativity rather than something weird that has been happening for …

AI Made Cloning Games Easier Than Ever 404media.co
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  • Freya Holmér posted a 50-second rotating Tetris demo to Bluesky in March 2026 and saw up to four AI-generated mobile clones within days.
  • A former Midnight Works employee told 404 Media that generative AI now accelerates the studio's cloning pipeline 'at every step,' from banners to 3D models.
  • Nintendo now ranks its eShop Best Sellers by revenue rather than downloads, blunting the visibility of $2-or-less clones that game download-based charts.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 7 ↻ 0 ↩ 1 · 6 from the directory shared this · 34d ago

I may never stop thinking about this

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Do data centers really use exorbitant amounts of water? The answer is "it depends" in about 10 different ways. (Unlike electricity, to which the answer is an unambiguous "yes.") Here's a lucid and helpful explanation: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... by @matteowong.bsky.soc…

The Truth About AI’s Water Use theatlantic.com View on Bluesky →

“a town supervisor on Long Island had to debunk a rumor about a new data-center project after an inaccurate AI-generated search summary attracted so much attention that residents planned a protest (which they promoted with a flyer that itself appeared to be AI-generated).” @ka…

How Much of Data-Center Activism Is Really AI Slop? theatlantic.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 80 ↻ 27 ↩ 2 · 2 from the directory shared this · 77d ago

Water, water, everywhere (and AI isn't drinking all of it, but it is sometimes drinking a lot of it, but actually the combustion plants powering the data centers probably are the bigger problem, and it's all very nuanced) by @matteowong.bsky.social

The Truth About AI’s Water Use - The Atlantic theatlantic.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 49 ↻ 16 ↩ 1 · 2 from the directory shared this · 32d ago

A lot of people are reading AI-generated fiction without realizing it—"stanning" it on TikTok and Instagram, even—though in fairness a lot of people have been doing the same with what might be considered human-written "slop" as well, for quite some time

Is This What Comes After AI Slop? theatlantic.com
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People criticize AI but you can’t convince me this isn’t an amazing use of natural resources

View on Bluesky · ♥ 25 ↻ 4 ↩ 1 · 23d ago

I really do struggle with the incongruity between Anthropic's messaging about safety, the idea that Fable 5 was dangerous in some way, and this cutesy presentation advertising the model's return in Claude.

View on Bluesky · ♥ 12 ↻ 2 ↩ 1 · 47d ago
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