Bill Greenland
@schwanul.bsky.social
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Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.
arstechnica.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."
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if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus
March 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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at the observer, got to write about Gilliam's Brazil at 40, and how (unlike Orwell) it understands that fascists are often really incompetent, which makes them even more dangerous. observer.com/2025/02/terr...
Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ At 40: More Prescient Than Orwell
Gilliam’s vision of totalitarianism as both evil and bumbling, with parallels to our current dystopian moment.
observer.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
at the observer, got to write about Gilliam's Brazil at 40, and how (unlike Orwell) it understands that fascists are often really incompetent, which makes them even more dangerous. observer.com/2025/02/terr...
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Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera
Just a fluke: whale spits out kayaker in incident captured on camera
‘I thought I was dead,’ said the kayaker, who was let go by humpback off the Chilean coast after a few seconds
A humpback whale briefly scooped a kayaker into its mouth off the Chilean Patagonia before quickly releasing him unharmed in an incident caught…
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
February 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"I just want to be clear about what's going on here."
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
- @warren.senate.gov
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
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Government workers when DOGE shows up.
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
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Ok, this is funny as fuck.
January 2, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ok, this is funny as fuck.
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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
December 20, 2024 at 2:05 PM
"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf."
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
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Me.
He died as he lived, clicking “Forgot password,” then checking his inbox for a code, then putting in that code, then setting up two-step verification, and then waiting for the text message that doesn’t come, and then calling the 800 number, and then downloading an authenticator app, and dying.
December 19, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Me.
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December 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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December 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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I like how Little Shop of Horrors stops for a second and goes “yeah I’ve got a real fuckin beef with Dentists!!” and then goes back to the plant stuff
December 5, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I like how Little Shop of Horrors stops for a second and goes “yeah I’ve got a real fuckin beef with Dentists!!” and then goes back to the plant stuff
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Imagine if we did this on January 7th
December 4, 2024 at 6:56 AM
Imagine if we did this on January 7th