The Sorting Some People Will Think. Everyone Else Will Perform Thinking. The Sort Is Happening Now.

" Some People Will Think. Everyone Else Will Perform Thinking. The Sort Is Happening Now. " The current state of AI in the #workspace / #HR and #education – and what lies ahead, possibly. ft.azmackay.com/p/the-sortin...

YouTube video by Good Work What does Palantir actually do?

The Palantir share was one of the biggest outperformers in 2024 with a gain of around 360%. what does Palantir actually do? www.youtube.com/watch?v=KipD...

Commissioner Slaughter and I just sued to clarify that we're still FTC commissioners. But this is bigger than us. This is about economic stability. If the President can break a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to fire us for no reason, he can do it to the Fed, the FDIC and SEC.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Elon Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

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Call for Contributions: The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy | TechPolicy.Press We welcome essays, research, reporting, data projects, and other contributions for this series by Friday, April 25th, at Noon Eastern Time.

For "journalists, researchers, policymakers, journalists, technologists, and thinkers across disciplines" @techpolicypress.bsky.social is accepting contributions to this important topic: The Age of Tech Trillionaires and Challenge to Democracy
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Unregulated advanced therapy medicinal products pose serious risks to health | European Medicines Agency (EMA) Authorities warn about unregulated products in the EU, including dendritic cell cancer therapies

Unregulated advanced therapy medicinal products pose serious risks to health | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/unre...

Philosophy Eats AI AI’s ability to create value rests on the philosophy determining how and what it learns.

Philosophy Eats AI sloanreview.mit.edu/article/phil...

Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb A Delaware bill would award Elon Musk $56 billion, shield corporate executives from liability, and strip away voting power from shareholders.

Musk Has Triggered A Corporate Deregulation Bomb www.levernews.com/musk-has-tri...

Eine Rheinmetall-Tochter hat im Wahlkampf Geld an mehrere Bundestagsabgeordnete überwiesen. Es ging gezielt an Mitglieder des Haushaltsausschusses, die über milliardenschwere Aufträge mitentscheiden. 🧵

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.”

Time to re-read 1984.

The error of our ways - FinTech Futures: Fintech news Nobody likes being wrong, but we all are sometimes. So. Since it will happen. Inevitably. At some point... to all of us. Be nice.

It’s Thursday #mytribe so #LedaWrites
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The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.”

Huge.

Elon Musk and his band of interns are ransacking the government, and online, big tech is colonizing the web with AI slop.

How do the humans, the users, fight back? Guest host Cory Doctorow helps break down the carnage and even offers some words of hope.

Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2425400/epis...

Once more for the MagicSchool AI crowd and anybody else using narratives of magic to sell AI to school admin, teachers, and students: “We are doing this because AI is not magic. Behind every algorithm are thousands of hidden workers labelling, training & moderating data under precarious conditions.”

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

BREAKING: Two members of Congress bought Palantir $PLTR in January.

Gil Cisneros and James Comer both bought $PLTR, which is up 56% YTD!

Both members are up 50% on their purchase.

See all of Congress’s portfolios: unusualwhales.com/portfolios

#DeepSeek suscite un emballement technologique, mais derrière l’efficacité et l’open-source se joue une bataille politique : celle de la souveraineté numérique et de la gouvernance de l’IA.
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Dans La Revue Esprit, je cosigne un article avec Nicolas Léger sur le duo Musk-Trump signe d'une concentration des pouvoirs économiques, médiatiques et politiques, associée à l’automatisation des processus de prise de décision contre le contrat social démocratique esprit.presse.fr/actualites/n...

... and Grenell as interim Executive Director:/

When you fire people who don't agree with you and replace them with puppets, is this still an "election"?

Why can't he just leave Kennedy Center alone? It's not like he understands nor appreciates arts. And even he admits that he has "NEVER" been there.

Such arrogance. And so gross.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time.
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Will AI threaten the role of human creativity in cyber threat detection? AI has already automated many repetitive, time-consuming cybersecurity tasks. But will AI threaten the human creativity threat detection depends on?

Will AI threaten the role of human creativity in cyber threat detection? securityintelligence.com/articles/wil...

Kann #KI wirklich einen gesellschaftlichen Mehrwert bieten?
Bei Radio CityLAB hat @thezueger.bsky.social mit @benjaminseibel.bsky.social über das Spannungsfeld von Gemeinwohl & privatwirtschaftlichen Interessen in der KI-Entwicklung gesprochen.

Jetzt hören 👉 radiocitylab.podigee.io/22-new-episode

Eine Person hat eine Zeitung auf einer Parkbank aufgeschlagen

Desinformation ist ein Problem - aber sie erschüttert unsere Demokratie nicht in ihren Grundfesten. Das sagt Matthias Kettemann (@hiigberlin.bsky.social). Wo wir seiner Meinung nach wirklich ansetzen müssen, lesen Sie im Interview 👇
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This will be big. Not just next week when the EU Commission release their "Competitiveness Compass", but for the next 4-5 years. Myopia developing fast - competitiveness is everything, people and planet secondary.