Dan Greene

This is pretty fun and it's also lowkey insulting (personally, collectively, spiritually) that Cory doctorow is the patron saint of The Union Organizer Archetype

The AI Compass bambamramfan.github.io

Missed this back in Feb. Any reporting on it since then? I.e., how much are they spending, how has this changed zoning fights, etc

Covering electricity price increases from our data centers anthropic.com

Really thought "AI" would replace "fake news" and "polarization" but unfortunately it appears "chatbots to reduce misinformation and polarization" is a good way to get grant money

When meta says they're laying off 8000 people because of "ai" they mean "we hired too many people in 2021 but that's kind of embarrassing and we shouldn't talk about the past"

My Facebook feed (I know I know but local politics) is now about 50% ai-generated group pages with ai-generated anti-data-center protest art and hundreds of real commenters who believe (?) it's real

We really gotta watch out for yellow peril tech policy. It distorts your whole world view. AI is an authoritarian nightmare in the US too--witness ICE's face scans. And Chinese AI implementation is, if anything, more focused on business applications than the US where its frontier models or bust

Really worried that ai is gonna make Improv more popular as an alternative

'It is clear: All “idée napoléonienne” are ideas of the undeveloped small holding in the freshness of its youth; they are a contradiction to the outlived holdings. They are only the hallucinations of its death struggle, words transformed into phrases, spirits transformed into ghosts.'

THE FURIOUS was terrific. Best martial arts movie in years, even with the baffling choice to put half of it in English via ADR/AI. Wide, unbroken shots that let top athletes show off for long stretches. Crucially, much funnier than, say, THE RAID. Brian Le is a revelation, deserves big money roles.