A standing ovation for someone found guilty of tweeting about burning migrants alive. She was sentenced to 31 months for inciting racial hatred. The judge said “You intended to incite serious violence. What you did encouraged activity which threatened or endangered life.” Who’s calling this out?
Donald Trump isn’t a POPULIST, he’s an UNPOPULIST.
His actions are designed to pander as much as they are to polarize and provoke.
“Can you enhance that”
"When a technology is truly transformational, it’s probably safer to bet on premature optimism than to prematurely dismiss it out of hand," @mcmegan.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/3HBftFu
They probably mean they’re using to find relevant web pages via semantic search - this is a solid use case
The Online Safety Act is exactly the kind of thing I warned about in my April @theguardian.com article.
Big Brother isn’t Going to Prevent Techno-Dystopia.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
What happened when the internet suddenly allowed low cost/free international phone calls? Well, incumbents tried to stop them! We explore in our latest post.
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📜 Most Americans Opposed the Moon Landing
> After President Kennedy’s 1961 declaration to put man on the lunar surface by the end of the decade a Gallup poll revealed only 33% supported, compared with 58% opposed
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Hey, Republicans! You know what would really make Elon Musk super mad? If you restored science funding, foreign aid, and thousands of government jobs. He’d be so owned.
I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic #MoralPanic decamps the Guardian.
‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A new progressivism embracing construction over obstruction must find new allegories for technology and the future. A well crafted piece with elements of hope, fears, and hypocrisy.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Have you heard of this thing called religion?
Adolescence is mostly fictional
I specifically talk about how people have inadvertently run away from nuclear power towards more reliance on fossil fuel! Like Germany. France resisted this fear based thinking and get 70% of energy from nuclear. Same thing playing out with lab grown meat
YES. All roads lead to optimism - though active, pragmatic optimism - rather than complacent.
If it makes no different whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, you might have a better time being an optimist.
If it does make a difference, if we become what we dream, why wouldn't you be an optimist?
(cf. Political satire)
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I watched maybe half a dozen episodes of Black Mirror before I stopped. It was too depressing, and if I wanted that I could've watched the news. Pessimism Porn is an absolutely accurate description of that show.
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I've been saying this for a long time. Black Mirror is just small-c conservative pessimism, and the better episodes are precisely those which stray from this unrelenting, po-faced, finger-wagging misery. Caveman Sci-Fi, without the self-awareness.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Idiot
My latest: Has RFK changed his tune on vaccines? Not so fast. His measles statements are chock-full of anti-vax code words, signs of how he intends to transform recommendations for, availability of, and trust in vaccines.
newrepublic.com/article/1923...
The screen-time depression/anxiety thing is deeply misleading. These studies don’t control for ADHD, those people have more compulsive behaviours and more prone to anxiety/depression. This moral panic distracts from actually helping those kids
Oy. Copyright cops go full tabloid. Ironic, as the odious Daily Mail does just what it accuses AI of doing: reading and regurgitating others' reporting. AI does it to train the machine to speak. The Daily Mail uses it to make clickbait...like this.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Don’t slop shame!
This is embarrassingly stupid. This is literally Senate Dems handing censorship power to Donald Trump and Elon Musk. WTF are they thinking?
It just clicked.
This is about daddy issues.
Trump is Elon’s surrogate papa.
Wow impressed- more tasteful than I expected
People with a scarcity mindset can comprehend abundance without redistribution
