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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/
* Gratitude - Aid Coordination www.kaggle.com/competitions... * Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com 5/
* 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/
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…
"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...
Hey look at this * AI Economics for Dummies www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-... * The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow longreads.com/2026/06/17/q... * A guide to ‘greedflation’ timharford.com/2026/06/a-gu... 4/
New Better Offline: I’m joined by @paulkedrosky.com to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be a Dot Com Bubble-style recovery for AI data centers, and how Google’s $80bn share sale shows we’re near the end. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee…
Hey look at this * Un internet post americano, resistente a la mierdificación supernovainterna.substack.com/p/traducir-s... * Best sketches from SNL season 51 a.wholelottanothing.org/best-sketche... * Revenge of The Business Idiot www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-... 4/
Ford switched a ton of jobs to AI last year, then a couple of weeks ago rehired the people they fired because AI cost a LOT more and was a LOT less reliable. And they're far from the only ones. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/01/e...
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/
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!
While making this collage (and snipping little medieval dudes out of Agostino Ramelli’s 16th C "Theatre of Machines") I was amused by how many had 6 or 7 fingers. Weird hands predate AI - plenty of overworked engravers seem to have lost count.
Center = By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C). Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.