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Harnessing anti-data center sentiment is good but unless it can be funneled into getting tech giants to pay for grid upgrades as part of going in they're just going to keep building them in the poorest parts of the South www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
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
When I ran BLS, I was asked constantly about the impact of AI on jobs. It's still one of the most common questions I get. So we put together a policy brief - for policymakers, journalists, and anyone trying to sort through what is happening with AI and jobs: siepr.stanford.edu…
🚨🚨🚨🚨 VICTORY! Following months of negotiations between @pen-guild.bsky.social leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both AI products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling! wbng.org/2026/05/22/p...
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
The reason they want to automate education is the same reason why we know how to fix it: what makes for "good education" hasn't really changed in 100 years. Small classes, high contact. Lots of movement around the edges but this basic proposition is expensive and labor intensive!
Quite liked this from Blekhman. There's real value for AI in science--especially the (currently) expensive simulations. But the real bottlenecks are getting funding, recruiting participants, approving IRB etc. I would also note that most AI barons have signed onto an assault o…
Alright don't make me regret this: Doing some revisions to the Future of Work grad class. Who's got serious research about actually existing AI in actual workplaces? Closer to the shopfloor the better, we traditionally use each week for a different domain (health, transport, etc).
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
I'd like to see an llm sit bolt upright in the middle of the night and tap out 1000 words of the article you've been trying to figure out while your spouse tells you to go to bed or go downstairs
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.
One fun email I got about the "What does AI do?" essay was along the lines of "ai is a mechanical satan sent to destroy us but is cost disease really a problem in higher ed? What about skyrocketing benefits?" Like my man what do think health insurance consists of? An assembly line of care widgets?
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