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“GenerativeAI isn’t magic. It’s the product of millions of invisible creators—poets, coders, photographers, musicians—whose work has been harvested, scraped, & absorbed into AI models without consent or compensation…
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
AI Must Fund the Commons – Not Eat Them
AI feeds on the cultural commons—now it must pay its dues, supporting the creators and public institutions it depends on.
good-leadership.beehiiv.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“GenerativeAI isn’t magic. It’s the product of millions of invisible creators—poets, coders, photographers, musicians—whose work has been harvested, scraped, & absorbed into AI models without consent or compensation…
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt
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Let me tell you as someone who spent a decade supplying locums to the NHS why Streeting’s plan is awful 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Let me tell you as someone who spent a decade supplying locums to the NHS why Streeting’s plan is awful 🧵
I really wonder how this is going to go down. Like if you cut your teeth on QAnon and got pepper sprayed on Jan 6 and voted Trump 2 in so someone would release the Epstein files... Are you going to buy this or is this going to radicalise you in a new way?
Trump’s latest post on Truth Social is a six-minute video of Jesse Watters on Fox News:
“Congress is dumping thousands of documents and Democrats are using them to frame Trump. But we’ve been combing through them and can’t find anything, ANYTHING, nailing Trump.”
“Congress is dumping thousands of documents and Democrats are using them to frame Trump. But we’ve been combing through them and can’t find anything, ANYTHING, nailing Trump.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I really wonder how this is going to go down. Like if you cut your teeth on QAnon and got pepper sprayed on Jan 6 and voted Trump 2 in so someone would release the Epstein files... Are you going to buy this or is this going to radicalise you in a new way?
I'm going for it. Finally getting off Chrome and Gmail was one of my best decisions of 2025. Let's keep the momentum.
Spending money on Kagi has made my life much better
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I'm going for it. Finally getting off Chrome and Gmail was one of my best decisions of 2025. Let's keep the momentum.
Variety: Timothée Chalamet confirms his intention to star in a new trilogy of biopics about Pope Leo XIV. The title of the series has not yet been released.
My little brother really took the wind out of my sails on this one
November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Variety: Timothée Chalamet confirms his intention to star in a new trilogy of biopics about Pope Leo XIV. The title of the series has not yet been released.
The Baffler has been on a roll these last few months.
Americans used to worry about selling out. But in the last quarter-century, we’ve rejected Gen X’s adbusting ways; we hail the entrepreneur as an artistic genius and approach pop culture with an ill-considered, good faith omnivorousness.
thebaffler.com/outbursts/blank-generation-tavakoli
thebaffler.com/outbursts/blank-generation-tavakoli
Blank Generation | Mina Tavakoli
David Marx’s “Blank Space” takes a splash-zone seat to a theater of hypermodern twenty-first century mayhem.
thebaffler.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The Baffler has been on a roll these last few months.
Waiting for politicians to be like... 'The AI says I get to have sex with you. I don't make the rules, we don't know how it determined this, no you can't see my prompt.' Sorry, it's got to be done.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets
Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Waiting for politicians to be like... 'The AI says I get to have sex with you. I don't make the rules, we don't know how it determined this, no you can't see my prompt.' Sorry, it's got to be done.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
This stance from The Times only works if they could point to their own favoured policies working at all in the last 40+ years. It's like when the UK media machine implied Corbynism would be a disaster for the UK... look around. The disaster already happened.
And today it's the turn of The Times to try and patronise us all.
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Every single day the right wing establishment tries to close ranks.
And every day we are growing.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This stance from The Times only works if they could point to their own favoured policies working at all in the last 40+ years. It's like when the UK media machine implied Corbynism would be a disaster for the UK... look around. The disaster already happened.
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“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”
The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis
Sports betting is more addictive than ever, and millions of young Americans are paying the price.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”
Bookmarking this one.
SoftBank sold its entire stake in Nvidia, pocketing $5.8 billion ahead of a rash of planned investments by founder Masayoshi Son to build his own sphere of influence supporting artificial intelligence.
SoftBank unloads Nvidia stake for $5.8 billion in surprise move
The Tokyo-based company now boasts a portfolio that includes some of the world’s most sought-after names in artificial intelligence: OpenAI and Oracle.
ebx.sh
November 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Bookmarking this one.
One of the bleaker and perhaps more prescient interpretations about what's going on with the mad rush to use AI or the excuse of AI to deskill and disempower the general populace.
"For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. [...] For the first time in centuries, the elite no longer feel they need educated workers and soldiers to uphold and reproduce the system."
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
One of the bleaker and perhaps more prescient interpretations about what's going on with the mad rush to use AI or the excuse of AI to deskill and disempower the general populace.
Good to be remember that given the chance, billionaires will always try to incite a fascist, corporatist coup.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Good to be remember that given the chance, billionaires will always try to incite a fascist, corporatist coup.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busines...
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if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
if you believe fully autonomous robot butlers are just over the horizon you are actually one of the dumbest motherfuckers alive and we should take your money from you so we can put it towards something worthwhile
Remake of Encino Man except Mark Zuckerberg comes out of his bunker in 2055 and everything is just chill and normal so he tries to get everyone to wear his pervert glasses and go into the Metaverse.
You may think this is an easy one, but what if you're a billionaire already planning to have retreated to an underground bunker in ten years, and need a technology which can persuade everyone else that everything is fine, really?
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Remake of Encino Man except Mark Zuckerberg comes out of his bunker in 2055 and everything is just chill and normal so he tries to get everyone to wear his pervert glasses and go into the Metaverse.
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Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
One thing that's hard to convey is how liberatory solar and electric is. I can charge my car, my power tools, my landscaping equipment all on my home solar set up. We have a 2010 Nissan Leaf that still works well enough to run errands in the village.
since no one clicks the article i'll keep lugging the hopium over here
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
One thing that's hard to convey is how liberatory solar and electric is. I can charge my car, my power tools, my landscaping equipment all on my home solar set up. We have a 2010 Nissan Leaf that still works well enough to run errands in the village.
Good thread happening here.
John Fetterman looks like something the Flintstones would use to cut grass.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Good thread happening here.
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The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.
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basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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👇🎯 Also true of a global financial crisis in 2007-10. We are terrible about this, over and over again, in our uniquely parochial American way.
The sum total of elite pundit thought is downstream of the entirely contingent timing of a global pandemic vis-a-vis US elections. Move the pandemic 4 years earlier and all the deep conclusions about the character of the nation and the fates of the major parties would change.
So much time, ink, & nonsense spilled explaining why the smallest pandemic/inflation-driven anti-incumbent backlash in the entire democratic world was a Paradigm Shifting Tidal Wave Of Crisis For The Democrats. Incredibly parochial in so very many ways.
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
econbrowser.com/archives/202...
November 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
👇🎯 Also true of a global financial crisis in 2007-10. We are terrible about this, over and over again, in our uniquely parochial American way.
Retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis but the twist is that Ezra Klein wakes up as Ezra Klein and has to deal with the implications of that.
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis but the twist is that Ezra Klein wakes up as Ezra Klein and has to deal with the implications of that.
Listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social with @bondhack.ft.com and I think again about the 'glaze' factor in financial arrangements. How making financial assets too boring and complicated to understand seems to grant immunity. If you can't explain the arrangement to your nan, it should be illegal.
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social with @bondhack.ft.com and I think again about the 'glaze' factor in financial arrangements. How making financial assets too boring and complicated to understand seems to grant immunity. If you can't explain the arrangement to your nan, it should be illegal.
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Oh look - standing up for what you believe might just be a good idea
Republicans thought they had a permanent hold over young men. They didn't.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
Spanberger wins men 18-29 by 14%, Sherrill by 10%, and Mamdani by a stunning 40%.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Oh look - standing up for what you believe might just be a good idea
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you know what cures a lot of intracoalition friction, is winning
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
you know what cures a lot of intracoalition friction, is winning