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Just three companies comprise “Big Cloud” — Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, which together control two thirds of the cloud computing market. But dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, write Nathan Kim and David Gray Widder.
‘Big Cloud’ is Building Power via Pervasive Investments | TechPolicy.Press
Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, write Nathan Kim and David Gray Widder.
www.techpolicy.press
August 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just three companies comprise “Big Cloud” — Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, which together control two thirds of the cloud computing market. But dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, write Nathan Kim and David Gray Widder.
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The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
Woman in line in front of me at the post office is not happy about the cost of shipping. She just whipped out her phone, asked ChatGPT how much it thinks the shipping should cost, and is trying to get the mailman to honor that price.
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.
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In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
July 21, 2025 at 1:48 AM
In a stunning moment of self-delusion, the Wall Street Journal headline writers admitted that they don't know how LLM chatbots work.
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One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions – as a client, patient, worker – a growing trend even in caring aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
aeon.co
July 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions – as a client, patient, worker – a growing trend even in caring aeon.co/essays/our-c...
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Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.
More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q
#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q
#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein.
More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q
#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q
#GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow
@uofgravity.bsky.social
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""We recommend that companies and authorities create exit plans for the use of, for example, cloud services, and that they also ensure that they have strong ownership of the data."" 👏
Yet again, how US sanctions can undermine US business and discourage interdependence, as per @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social: www.zdnet.com/article/why-...
Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.
www.zdnet.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
""We recommend that companies and authorities create exit plans for the use of, for example, cloud services, and that they also ensure that they have strong ownership of the data."" 👏
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Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint
sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint
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In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...
March 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
In case you're worried that you don't know where your story is leading you...
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Wow. Randall Monroe is not fucking around *at all*.
April 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Wow. Randall Monroe is not fucking around *at all*.
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Okay so yes, technically, the universe is currently dominated by an invisible mysterious something which will probably destroy it in the very distant future, and new data suggests it might be changing in confusing ways, but on the bright side, the physicists have a LOT of cool new ideas to work with
Last month, the DESI survey team announced hints of something that might upend the Concordance Model of Cosmology: a change in dark energy. What does it mean for the fate of the cosmos?
➡️ www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... by me for NatGeo
➡️ www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... by me for NatGeo
How will the universe end? The question just got an unexpected twist.
Cosmologist Katie Mack breaks down what the latest findings about dark energy mean for our universe’s future. Either way, it won’t be happy.
www.nationalgeographic.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Okay so yes, technically, the universe is currently dominated by an invisible mysterious something which will probably destroy it in the very distant future, and new data suggests it might be changing in confusing ways, but on the bright side, the physicists have a LOT of cool new ideas to work with
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Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
March 25, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
In fact, it was 4%.
And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.
Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
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# avoid the nightmare bicycle
March 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
# avoid the nightmare bicycle