Kate O'Neill

"Churchill thought a speech without dashes was not a speech but a magazine piece." (Peggy Noonan, On Speaking Well)

omg, maybe Churchill was genAI??!!?!?

huge if true

I fancy myself pretty smart, but I didn’t follow that all the way. What do you think about making a video explainer breaking it down even more? I’d be curious to understand what you’re saying here.

What if everyone eager to throw money at a "liberal joe rogan" that doesn't exist instead bought one failing local newspaper and hired a handful of real reporters and simply told them to go do journalism and print it.

The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw A closer look at both human psychology and artificial intelligence reveals they share the same dangerous flaw

open.substack.com/pub/koinsigh...

Like watching someone dunk Prometheus's flame in a lake.

I found the book to be ‘accessible hard work worth doing,’ Ferris.

Thanks for the education. :)

Only read books that teach you new meta-words, which define themselves? :)

AI startups that are like "we're gonna automate all the things" are going to lose so badly to ones that figure out novel interfaces that keep humans deeply in the loop & are best at intelligently presenting options while using AI to gently streamline out tedium

I don’t think we want a world where a few oligarchs can influence our beliefs very heavily, including in subtle ways by shaping what their social media sites do, where they can plagiarize anything without consequence, where they can defame anybody without consequence. We don’t allow that with people. With people, we say, “Well, you’re infringing on this person’s copyright, you’re defaming them, this is hate speech.” And yet, because machines aren’t clearly people, and because the laws were designed before machines like this were widespread, there are a lot of holes in the current legal structure that basically let the companies get away with anything they want. Every effort to hold them liable, whether for smaller things — like defaming an individual — or larger things — like conceivably giving rise to some cyber-attack that takes out the infrastructure for the entire United States for five days or whatever. They have resisted having any liability whatsoever.

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

Meanwhile I’m watching re-runs of the Dick Van Dyke show. Personally I think that says I’m a culture connoisseur who wants to better understand the shows that defined the medium, but ymmv

I’ve just read @explaintrade.com’s book, Why Politicians Lie About Trade, and this explainer is a fantastic bonus read. Be sure you get to the “Buying Real Things with Conjured Coin” section — that value exchange is an important formula to grasp.

Thanks for your fantastic (and funny!) work, Dmitry!

p.s. I don't want private aviation. Or at least: I don't WANT TO WANT private aviation, so I don't want to KNOW if I WOULD want it if I could have it

screen shot of LinkedIn solicitation about private aviation

Congratulate me, I guess, for somehow being (mis)classified somewhere as the owner of a business someone should be selling private aviation to

Texas flooding kills 24 at girls' summer camp with dozens more missing Emergency workers rescue more than 230 people after overnight flooding along the Guadalupe River.

This Texas campground flood is absolute nightmare stuff. These poor families. Hoping for a breakthrough and some miracle rescues.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thanks! I’m not too bad, could def be worse. That’s what I always remind myself, anyway :)

Took a spill riding a bike back home from Pride. On the bright side, my arms and legs now have their own sort of ‘rainbow’ flags all over them

“When I was young, because I was young once like you, I heard many organ grinders play, and I can assure you no two tunes ever sounded the same, even on the same instrument. That’s how it is, isn’t it? The less love you put into things the more they resemble one another. The same goes for stories, everyone knows them by heart, but when someone tells them with love, I don’t know, they seem new.” — Traveler of the Century: A Novel by Andrés Neuman https://a.co/fw9S2jU

Very genAI-coded insight

“Pride in Protest: Keep Protesting” sign

Happy #Pride from NYC 🏳️‍🌈✊🏳️‍⚧️

Neato ✅

Put plainly, banning books is unconstitutional and un-American, and an assault on the freedom to read and learn. (5/5)

Has anyone else seen this flood of genAI-created gratitude spam show up in your mailbox? I took a quick video scrolling through the many similar messages: they're obviously generated, but what's the catch? Am I supposed to be flattered enough to write back and be ensnared into a scheme of some sort?

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

What does civic engagement look like in 2025? Mila Atmos breaks it down—don’t miss this timely convo!
#FutureHindsight #NYC #DigitalDemocracy #CivicTech

Mila shares how activism, community, & small actions matter—especially as NYC politics take center stage. Listen now & get inspired to make a difference!
#NYPrimaries #TheTechHumanistShow #ZohranMamdani

NYC’s primaries just shook things up! 🗳️ Dive into our latest Tech Humanist Show episode w/ Mila Atmos on civic duty in the digital age & how tech shapes democracy.
🔗 thetechhumanist.com/2025/06/26/future-hindsight-civic-duty-in-the-digital-age-with-mila-atmos/

Tagging in @achangnyc.bsky.social for context

The Proposed AI Moratorium Will Harm People with Disabilities. Here’s How. | TechPolicy.Press A proposed 10-year federal moratorium on state AI laws could expose people with disabilities to harm, Ariana Aboulafia and Travis Hall write.

The proposed 10-year AI regulation ban would be devastating for disability rights. AI tools in high-stakes contexts like employment and healthcare disproportionately harm disabled people. We can't let them run unchecked for a decade. Learn more here:
www.techpolicy.press/the-proposed...

Woof, yeah, this is gonna hit some folks *hard*

www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/e...

This is repugnant.

Vienna's innovative social housing shows us what's possible when we design solutions that put both human wellbeing and environmental sustainability at the center.

It's a powerful example of #MeaningfulInnovation in action.

#TechHumanism #ClimateAction #SustainableDesign