Matouš Hrdina
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I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education
I wrote last week about how the tech dream is ending for mid-career workers. This is a really good companion piece about how entry level tech jobs are vanishing, too, and the Silicon Valley gold rush is coming to a close: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
August 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I don't have a good answer for what the alternative looks like, but asking 18 years to bet their future on highly specified training for jobs based on which they think will be in high demand 5-10 years from now turned out to be a very bad way to structure higher education
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CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
Nvidia's CEO described AI as essential infrastructure in today’s world, comparable to electricity in its importance.
July 16, 2025 at 3:18 AM
CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen
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If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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We are all going to have to get used to immediately checking for watermarks on all videos (like on this one, where you can see the 'Veo' logo in the bottom-right, proving it's not real). Except within a few weeks there will be a tool to remove them. Fucking hell the future is EXHAUSTING
June 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We are all going to have to get used to immediately checking for watermarks on all videos (like on this one, where you can see the 'Veo' logo in the bottom-right, proving it's not real). Except within a few weeks there will be a tool to remove them. Fucking hell the future is EXHAUSTING
Myslel jsem si, že imaginární kamarádi, bludy a psychózy budou jeden z méně důležitých problémů způsobených AI. Šeredně jsem se mýlil... 👇
www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
Pod čarou: Největší riziko AI? Možná se z ní prostě zblázníme - Seznam Zprávy
Každá nová technologie si nejprve hledá využití. Teď se zdá, že si lidé z AI nástrojů dělají hlavně kamarády, rádce a terapeuty. Rýsuje se tak i zásadní riziko – z neregulovaných chatbotů se mohou stá...
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June 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Myslel jsem si, že imaginární kamarádi, bludy a psychózy budou jeden z méně důležitých problémů způsobených AI. Šeredně jsem se mýlil... 👇
www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
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This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This lawsuit is brutal. One of the exhibits is the letter Universal sent to Midjourney, including a quote from a 2022 Forbes interview that I bet midjourney regrets
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Sněmovnou již prošel návrh ministerstva vnitra, který by umožnil identifikovat pomocí kamerových systémů osoby v reálném čase. Návrh však ignoruje pracně dohodnutá evropská pravidla. Napsali jsme senátorům, aby návrh 4. června zablokovali.
digitalnisvobody.cz/blog/2025/05...
digitalnisvobody.cz/blog/2025/05...
Vnitro chce rozpoznávat tváře bez patřičných pravidel a kontroly. Vyzýváme Senát k zamítnutí návrhu
Sněmovnou již prošel návrh ministerstva vnitra, který by umožnil identifikovat pomocí kamerových systémů osoby v reálném čase. Návrh však ignoruje pracně dohodnutá evropská pravidla. Senátorky a senát...
digitalnisvobody.cz
May 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sněmovnou již prošel návrh ministerstva vnitra, který by umožnil identifikovat pomocí kamerových systémů osoby v reálném čase. Návrh však ignoruje pracně dohodnutá evropská pravidla. Napsali jsme senátorům, aby návrh 4. června zablokovali.
digitalnisvobody.cz/blog/2025/05...
digitalnisvobody.cz/blog/2025/05...
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If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
May 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you thought social media had scrambled America’s CEOs just wait until they’re fully cooked by AI apple.news/AJ_ht7MMyT9G...
Jen malý teaser, že v zítřejším newsletteru konečně odpovídám na zásadní otázku současné digitální kultury... Pročež pokud ještě neodebíráte, přihlašujte se na seznamzpravy.cz/newslettery
May 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Jen malý teaser, že v zítřejším newsletteru konečně odpovídám na zásadní otázku současné digitální kultury... Pročež pokud ještě neodebíráte, přihlašujte se na seznamzpravy.cz/newslettery
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Unfortunately few people have ever wanted to pay for hard news and investigations, which have always been subsidized by ads, cartoons, crosswords, Wordle, recipe apps, paid events, etc., and can mostly only be undertaken by newsrooms. Readers of indy Substacks are paying for takes
It's crazy how much independent life does not incentivize reporting. I spent 2 days working on a piece about Meta censoring the biggest Muslim news acct in India, digging into Meta's relationship w/ India's far right BJP party & I lost paid subscribers. Meaning I lost hundreds of $ doing this story
Meta bans largest Muslim news page in India
The platform is facilitating government requests to censor social media influencers and journalists in the region for 'anti-national content' following the terror attack in Kashmir.
www.usermag.co
May 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Unfortunately few people have ever wanted to pay for hard news and investigations, which have always been subsidized by ads, cartoons, crosswords, Wordle, recipe apps, paid events, etc., and can mostly only be undertaken by newsrooms. Readers of indy Substacks are paying for takes
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I have become momentarily obsessed with scrolling down the homepage of the MetaAI tool and seeing the infinite feed of what people have been asking of The Machine. The outputs are horribly banal, but the requests are a weird window into THE (NORMIE) HUMAN SOUL AND ITS DESIRES: www.meta.ai
May 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I have become momentarily obsessed with scrolling down the homepage of the MetaAI tool and seeing the infinite feed of what people have been asking of The Machine. The outputs are horribly banal, but the requests are a weird window into THE (NORMIE) HUMAN SOUL AND ITS DESIRES: www.meta.ai
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#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1064...
May 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#OtD 6 May 1933 Nazis raided the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin. It was a pioneering org which supported LGBT rights, and equality for women. It employed numerous trans workers and pioneered gender affirmation surgery. Its library was then burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1064...
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the problem with “tech journalism” is that we had 2 decades of mainly white men regurgitating press releases about new cell phones and usb ports on laptops who now are their own publishing platforms while being unable to grasp how the future became automated high frequency feudalism
May 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
the problem with “tech journalism” is that we had 2 decades of mainly white men regurgitating press releases about new cell phones and usb ports on laptops who now are their own publishing platforms while being unable to grasp how the future became automated high frequency feudalism
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Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international waters
A ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists for Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its have organisers said.
“At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
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A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.
In other words, when you ask for example “do vaccines cause autism?” you are looking for information about whether a thing in the world (a vaccination) produces an outcome (autism). But the LLM can only answer “what words could sound right after this?”
April 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A very succinct summation of why AI isn't going to be the thing they say it is. There's no road to there from where we are.
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As discussed in the Dawn of Everything.
A massive study of 50,000 households over 1,000 archaeological sites provides ample evidence that inequality is not a "natural" outgrowth of sophistication. Instead, it is a political choice. Which means, kids, that we don't have to choose it.
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
archaeologymag.com/2025/04/stud...
New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable
A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality
archaeologymag.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As discussed in the Dawn of Everything.
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this is literally all of it, in every single anti affirmative action movement everywhere on earth
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
Just read this.
April 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
this is literally all of it, in every single anti affirmative action movement everywhere on earth
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Not only is predicting what happens in 10 years bullshit but even if we have the technology then doesn’t mean we would live without disease. Even now we have enough knowledge, technology and resources to end hunger or stop climate change yet we don’t do it.
Anyone old enough to remember the human genome project press releases circa 1995 or so?
April 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Not only is predicting what happens in 10 years bullshit but even if we have the technology then doesn’t mean we would live without disease. Even now we have enough knowledge, technology and resources to end hunger or stop climate change yet we don’t do it.
Některé memy z roku 2009 si ještě pamatuju, ale bylo by fajn, kdyby byly archivovány i nějakou oficiálnější cestou. Nový newsletter nejen o tom, že věčnou památku si zasluhují i komentáře na Youtube... www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
Pod čarou: Co by měla vystavovat muzea? Vaše komentáře pod článkem - Seznam Zprávy
Velká část online obsahu není archivována a cenné části internetové kultury mizí v nenávratnu. Občas si toho všímáme u webových stránek či fotek. Ztrácejí se ale i přehlížené, a přitom také hodnotné k...
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April 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Některé memy z roku 2009 si ještě pamatuju, ale bylo by fajn, kdyby byly archivovány i nějakou oficiálnější cestou. Nový newsletter nejen o tom, že věčnou památku si zasluhují i komentáře na Youtube... www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/nazor...
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Most prominent mainstream media libs—in my experience—are from backgrounds that have precluded them from interaction with evangelicals in any meaningful way, which means that the people who look to them for information and analysis are at a real disadvantage on this topic
April 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Most prominent mainstream media libs—in my experience—are from backgrounds that have precluded them from interaction with evangelicals in any meaningful way, which means that the people who look to them for information and analysis are at a real disadvantage on this topic
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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
April 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
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nevim jak to @matoushrdina.bsky.social dela, ale vzdycky kdyz mi od nej prijde newsletter, tak je to na neco, co me zajima - odebirejte taky! www.seznamzpravy.cz/tag/pod-caro...
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April 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
nevim jak to @matoushrdina.bsky.social dela, ale vzdycky kdyz mi od nej prijde newsletter, tak je to na neco, co me zajima - odebirejte taky! www.seznamzpravy.cz/tag/pod-caro...
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1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bring back proper games journalism.
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Bring back proper games journalism.
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After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
Flyover Country
What a future where iPhones are made in America would really look like.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
After Trump was elected the first time, there was also a lot of talk about making iPhones in the US. At the time, I co-edited the sci-fi outlet Terraform, and asked @timmaughan.bsky.social to imagine what such a future might really look like.
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full:
With his permission, I'm republishing the story in full: