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This is some incredible in-the-room reporting from @elitan.bsky.social and Maureen Farrell on how Meta got its vast, six-square-mile data center cooking in Louisiana www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
* ‘Her silence was more powerful than words’: how I interviewed a Facebook whistleblower who wasn’t allowed to speak www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cad... * She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. www.businessinsider.com/…
Hey look at this * AI Fiction Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad www.404media.co/ai-fiction-i... * Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Rules www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 3/
Perhaps you've encountered the stories about Dialog, an extremely weird secret society associated with Peter "Antichrist" Thiel, whose membership data and details have leaked this week: www.wired.com/story/how-pe... 1/
Hey look at this * Palantir CTO says some AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer www.businessinsider.com/ai-researche... * That time local news rose from the ashes www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/
Think a lot of other fields could learn from the thoughtful ways in which mathematicians are processing the changes being wrought by AI. One of the quotes in here had me thinking again about @doctorow.pluralistic.net's reverse centaur.
In a “writer's workshop” in which agents were all asked to write short-form fiction … multiple agents in multiple runs titled their first submission “The Cartographer's Last Commission”. The agents were given zero guidance on the subject matter for their writing. www.anthropic…
* Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... * Google's new remote attestation scheme is every bit as terrible as its old remote attestation scheme www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... 5/
mere moments ago the nytimes published this article which heavily features Muse's ability to make calls, lol: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/t...
Hey look at this * The Facebook Fake-out www.anildash.com/2026/09/29/f... * Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35) publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... * Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac www.reuters.com/business/ins...
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/
AI is alarming for many reasons: it's a dangerous financial bubble, an environmental catastrophe, and a tool for eroding wages and labor power. But in addition to all that, AI is an epistemic disaster. 1/
We're repeatedly told that the killer app for pervert glasses - Meta's AI-enabled camera glasses and their imitators - is that they will remind you of someone's name and spare you the social awkwardness of not recognizing them.
Of all the weird recurring motifs of the stories people tell me about the AI labor wars, the *weirdest* is when bosses demand to be reassured that their contractors and workers will *absolutely* use AI to get the job done.
Since the mid-1950s, we have changed the thing that "AI" refers to every 5-10 years. The current thing we're calling "AI" is about a decade old, and all this label-switching leads to a lack of clarity as to what (this) "AI" is.
Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/
Creating an AI agent and asking it to email strangers on your behalf is like forcing strangers to watch you masturbate. Incompetently.
Just got word that The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI, my book that was released last week, is the #1 bestselling paperback nonfiction book among Canada's 400 independent bookstores!
The AI-generated "I'm a really nice person doing good things and I'm writing to you to ask for cash" emails are now coming at the rate of dozens per day.
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