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Multiple readings Is AI Profitable Yet? Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI business Analysis 9d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

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Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest Damien Williams Sasha Costanza-Chock Prof. Dr Beth Singler Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Roland Meyer Stephen Turner +4
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“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

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Established Policy & governance Signal 11d ago

Uc berkeley law school adopts new strict ban on ai use by students

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Teresa Heffernan

“[published May 22, 2026] UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Students By Michael T. Nietzel”

“"AI" is not any future compatible with democracy. Universities catering to techbro demands to incorporate "AI" everywhere will suffer. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...”

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Established AI business Signal 11d ago
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Here is UCPH’s new deputy prorector for AI

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Teresa Heffernan

“Ignoring all the research, university admin repeat AI industry hype: 'I believe that this new capacity will lead to major scientific discoveries.' No need to worry about the fascist broligarchs, the environmental costs, labour exploitation...just believe in…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago

Publications

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Teresa Heffernan

“🙏this I was writing for a talk for the Finance & Society conference, but in case they are of interest...a bunch of pubs here: www.socialrobotfutures.com/publications...”

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Tim Carmody: At the very least, dematerialization (including the attack on the material conditions of specific communities) transforms those communities in profound ways we have to recognize in order to underst…
Teresa Heffernan: Was just writing about the AI industry & life beyond the suffocating constraints of a toxic corporate-controlled fascist digital screenscape that wants to vacuum up freedom, democracy and imaginati…
Tim Carmody: A comparative analysis also reveals a lot. Upper-middle-class white communities are also dealing with digital and network transformation. But have they also had the material basis for their communi…
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4 experts · 26 posts · 9d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Teresa Heffernan
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Something I notice watching top trending github repos and the eng discourse on bsky (on an alt acct) is that a significant amount of the popularly socialized software engineering behavior now is fu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: That’s pretty much what a lot of skills, agent frameworks, harnesses, etc amount to at the end of the day. And it’s not that these sort of artifacts do nothing at all — I have enough hands on exper…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 10d ago
Timnit Gebru Olivia Guest Teresa Heffernan
Teresa Heffernan: How he made it on the list: "effective altruism community"--sketchy people with tons of money & power; the same way Kurzweil's Singularity and Bostrom's Superintelligence (fiction posing as science…
Timnit Gebru: A rando effective altruist with no expertise in what he's talking about appears on this list and gets cited by mainstream media etc after a coordinated social media campaign and effective altruist …
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2 experts · 5 posts · 11d ago
Olivia Guest Teresa Heffernan
Multiple readings Markets & investment · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Olivia Guest: These "precocious teens" have, it seems, a thing or two about owning / colonizing [*] the galaxy. (* They prob. believe that colonization and private property are inherently good, but that's expect…
Olivia Guest: Worst Cypriot
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