Remembering the dozens of fawning profiles of Peretti, the alleged genius who supposedly understood the digital economy.
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BuzzFeed dying after chasing profits into a sinkhole vs. Gawker getting killed for challenging entrenched power is the perfect conclusion to the 2010s content philosophy wars.
An honor to talk to Dahlia Lithwick about the policy + legal history of US citizenship & migration. It is horrifying that my book drops as SCOTUS decides the constitutionality of the birthright citizenship stripping EO. What U don't know about this history can shape your support for present law. 1/
Absolute Queen behavior from the Zamboni Rider today at the Minnesota Frost game.
No ICE
No War
No Kings
No Fear.
Jazz OTD: Trumpeter Lee Morgan contributed two pieces - this terrific piece and the title track - to the lively Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers session on March 14, 1961, for the album "The Witch Doctor." They're joined by Wayne Shorter (ts), Bobby Timmons (p), and Jymie Merritt (b). #jazzsky
Jazz OTD: Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander recorded one his best, the terrific "Second Impression," on March 14, 2016 with his frequent collaborator, drummer Joe Farnsworth, his former professor Harold Mabern (playing a mean electric piano here), and the legendary bassist Bob Cranshaw. #jazzsky
Commodities only do this when they're stressed
“Since ChatGPT’s launch, in November 2022, the capital expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google have exceeded $600 billion, and much of that spending has gone toward data centers...”
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"Reality soon set in. The AI quizzes were underwhelming, and the site was soon caught publishing entire AI-generated articles that were sloppy and repetitive"
We are seeing over and over again that apparently you can't replace people or creativity with AI...
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How many boxes of Franzia Zinfandel did Jeanine drink last night? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzGT...
Lula tells Trump he won’t allow a Neo-Nazi envoy in Brasil!
Its top headline story in Brasil.
No one in US is talking about it
Having five synagogue attacks (three in Canada, one in the U.S., now this) hit the news in a matter of days has me thinking about how many more didn't grab media attention. It's shabbat. Look out for your Jewish comrades.
“Measles in Utah is raging through unvaccinated children in several communities”.
“Since measles began spreading in Utah last summer, state health officials have barely acknowledged it”.
“We’re trying to find ways of tweaking the message”
“Few seem to be listening”.
WSJ: Investors in social-media platform’s U.S. business, including Oracle and Silver Lake, agreed to give the government several multibillion-dollar payments, sources say. www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-...
Boo hoo.
This verdict is appalling — especially the conviction of Daniel Sanchez-Estrada merely for transporting constitutionally protected zines, similar to the pamphlets that prompted the press freedom clause.
The implications extend far beyond so-called "Antifa."
It's Lebanon all over again.
For almost 50 years.
his smoke is horrible to inhale, and inhale it you must, and not only that, but you must live in it for the time
Who could have predicted the Department of Whiskey would be a clusterfuck?
South African immigrants to the US are returning to South Africa because the US does not feel safe, citing school shooters and ICE raids. apple.news/A9pQEUbPrT_W...
Fred Astaire was 71 when he first performed at the Oscars. My (Cuban) mom was a dancer and he was her favorite and she always pronounced his name in Spanish lol
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4/ The GOP’s “Save America Act” wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s objectively suspect voter purge system while simultaneously making it very difficult to re-register. Remember the 2000 presidential election in Florida? This wld be 50X worse.
I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle NCAR Research Lab www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
Fun fact: Tim Walz has not gone along with sports betting. Sports betting is illegal in Minnesota, even at tribal casinos.
"AI targeting machines like Maven can generate industrial-scale target banks without a theory of victory"
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The structuralist thesis about AI (as constructive realization of subjectless minds) was already put forward in 1994 by Jean-Pierre Dupuy in his book about cybernetics and cognitive science.
