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"SoftBank, whose shares have more than doubled in value this year, is in talks to borrow $5 billion from global banks. The move to refill coffers.... wait.
"REFILL COFFERS" "BORROW FIVE BILLION.."BETS". Calling it, Softbank / banks it's borrowing from, is first one to fall off the AI merry-go-fund.
October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
how do you chat w your "Assistant" (soon-to-be Arbiter-King of Knowledge-Culture)? You must train it well -- before it finds out that the neighbors Alexa isn't updated and uses the hidden mesh network to unlock their Rivian and [experience] the closing set @ the final Phish concert.
September 9, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Wrote up a post related to my recent #IJF panel on what tech accountability journalism and research (and funding priorities) should look like in 2025 and beyond: d1gi.medium.com/from-black-b...
From “Black Boxes” to Black Holes: Navigating Tech Accountability in 2025
Over the past decade, the landscape of “Big Tech” accountability has fundamentally transformed. We now inhabit the “post-API era,” where…
d1gi.medium.com
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"[The] agreement will set new standards for veracity, for virtue and for value in the digital age" — NewsCorp CEO.
Because “virtue” is definitely the first word that comes to mind in looking at this publication list.
November 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Apple's #Thinpossible campaign for the new ipad pro not the best marketing decision. Or maybe it is? Aka code for edgy late.capitalist emo-compulsive industrial design chic.
...'the thinnest we've ever created'
# thinsPad # thinsPro # butterflyPencil # 🦋📱
November 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Apple's #Thinpossible campaign for the new ipad pro not the best marketing decision. Or maybe it is? Aka code for edgy late.capitalist emo-compulsive industrial design chic.
...'the thinnest we've ever created'
# thinsPad # thinsPro # butterflyPencil # 🦋📱
November 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Reddit is pre ~2020 Google - Google Search has become a consumption-focused product engine. The Web AI content flood and content depth decay has resulted in G SRPs increasingly linking to Reddit subs for human opinions and analysis. Ten years ago, the Web/blogs/non-AI journalism sufficed
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content
Reddit’s reported AI deal comes as it prepares to go public.
www.theverge.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:48 PM