James Martin
@jamesmart1n.bsky.social
Passionate about making tech more responsible, notably via my v own https://bettertech.blog. And sharing memes ofc
Just before he died, Charlie Kirk blamed black people for the scourge of mass shooters. "And then a bullet fired by a white man [classic mass shooter profile] tore through his neck." One of @privateeyenews.bsky.social’s best articles ever. Vs some stiff competition. All America’s crisis is here 🤯
September 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Just before he died, Charlie Kirk blamed black people for the scourge of mass shooters. "And then a bullet fired by a white man [classic mass shooter profile] tore through his neck." One of @privateeyenews.bsky.social’s best articles ever. Vs some stiff competition. All America’s crisis is here 🤯
Telling people on LinkedIn how to stop LinkedIn training its (Microsoft’s) AIs on your post content is my most viral post on LinkedIn ever. Conclusions:
- People don’t like having AI forced on them
- Trolling is very effective on social media 😜
Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3
- People don’t like having AI forced on them
- Trolling is very effective on social media 😜
Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3
September 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Telling people on LinkedIn how to stop LinkedIn training its (Microsoft’s) AIs on your post content is my most viral post on LinkedIn ever. Conclusions:
- People don’t like having AI forced on them
- Trolling is very effective on social media 😜
Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3
- People don’t like having AI forced on them
- Trolling is very effective on social media 😜
Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3
This French economist, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, is suggesting we tax the ultra-rich (those 1800 households with over €100m in revenues) 2% on those revenues, to generate c. €20bn for the state. Why? France’s 500 biggest fortunes = 42% of its GDP today, vs 6.4% in 1996. Sounds simple, no?
September 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This French economist, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, is suggesting we tax the ultra-rich (those 1800 households with over €100m in revenues) 2% on those revenues, to generate c. €20bn for the state. Why? France’s 500 biggest fortunes = 42% of its GDP today, vs 6.4% in 1996. Sounds simple, no?
NOT YOU, @firefox.com 🤢 #aieverywhere
September 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
NOT YOU, @firefox.com 🤢 #aieverywhere
"Chilling read" = understatement. The court filing for 16 year-old Adam Raine’s ChatGPT-enabled suicide is not only gut-wrenching in its conversation extracts, but also in its arguments that this was caused by deliberate OpenAI malpractice, to maximise engagement
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Chilling read" = understatement. The court filing for 16 year-old Adam Raine’s ChatGPT-enabled suicide is not only gut-wrenching in its conversation extracts, but also in its arguments that this was caused by deliberate OpenAI malpractice, to maximise engagement
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...
A majority of Californians - the state where most big tech lives - want AI regulated, and 70% think it benefits the rich vs middle or lower classes. Alas, its environmental impact is seen as a low priority problem 🤔 via @bcmerchant.bsky.social techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...
August 21, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A majority of Californians - the state where most big tech lives - want AI regulated, and 70% think it benefits the rich vs middle or lower classes. Alas, its environmental impact is seen as a low priority problem 🤔 via @bcmerchant.bsky.social techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...
Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…
August 17, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…
Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…
August 17, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…
Shocking. The @ec.europa.eu / EU agreed to buy $750bn in (what will be predominantly fossil) US fuels AND give them $600bn more, and it’s called a victory because "only" a 15% tariff?!? It will increase our emissions and debt. Trump’s gangster strong arming tactics are working a treat flip.it/mv7LfW
July 28, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Shocking. The @ec.europa.eu / EU agreed to buy $750bn in (what will be predominantly fossil) US fuels AND give them $600bn more, and it’s called a victory because "only" a 15% tariff?!? It will increase our emissions and debt. Trump’s gangster strong arming tactics are working a treat flip.it/mv7LfW
Paris just went from 35 degree heatwave to a tropical storm that destroyed hundreds of trees. In just a few hours. Climate change: this is fine 😨
June 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Paris just went from 35 degree heatwave to a tropical storm that destroyed hundreds of trees. In just a few hours. Climate change: this is fine 😨
This made my day/week/month/life. Go Venetians!
June 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This made my day/week/month/life. Go Venetians!
Paris always surprises. Whilst jogging through the sick amounts of trash left by the Seine by revellers at the previous night’s Fete de la Musique, I found "Paris Offline", a mini-festival where you’re encouraged to come and literally disconnect (from your phones). Great idea, wish it’d been busier
June 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Paris always surprises. Whilst jogging through the sick amounts of trash left by the Seine by revellers at the previous night’s Fete de la Musique, I found "Paris Offline", a mini-festival where you’re encouraged to come and literally disconnect (from your phones). Great idea, wish it’d been busier
Encountered some tourists doing a VR tour in Paris today. Seriously?! You visit the world’s most beautiful (and visited) city and pay to stick that shit on your head to look at graphics this awful, instead of the real thing? When you could’ve just stayed at home & done it?!!! (source: Viality Tours)
June 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Encountered some tourists doing a VR tour in Paris today. Seriously?! You visit the world’s most beautiful (and visited) city and pay to stick that shit on your head to look at graphics this awful, instead of the real thing? When you could’ve just stayed at home & done it?!!! (source: Viality Tours)
ICYMI in their report* (I did): Generating an 8 second video with AI can consume as much electricity as charging a laptop TWICE, as IEA’s Siddarth Singh reminded us at #VivaTech just now, with @sashamtl.bsky.social & Amini’s Kate Kallot 🤯
Full VT report soon
* www.iea.org/reports/ener...
Full VT report soon
* www.iea.org/reports/ener...
June 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
ICYMI in their report* (I did): Generating an 8 second video with AI can consume as much electricity as charging a laptop TWICE, as IEA’s Siddarth Singh reminded us at #VivaTech just now, with @sashamtl.bsky.social & Amini’s Kate Kallot 🤯
Full VT report soon
* www.iea.org/reports/ener...
Full VT report soon
* www.iea.org/reports/ener...
A writer gave 5 texts, via substack links, to ChatGPT. It gave detailed feedback on each one. Then admitted it hadn’t actually read them. Apologised. Then carried on lying again. "Making shit up" (c. S. Altman) is in its DNA. And yet y’all keep using it amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
June 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A writer gave 5 texts, via substack links, to ChatGPT. It gave detailed feedback on each one. Then admitted it hadn’t actually read them. Apologised. Then carried on lying again. "Making shit up" (c. S. Altman) is in its DNA. And yet y’all keep using it amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...
Sharing this via @jillmcardle.bsky.social on LinkedIn because it’s just PERFECT👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
May 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Sharing this via @jillmcardle.bsky.social on LinkedIn because it’s just PERFECT👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Yes, "green prompting" is a thing! Re. this white paper, and confirmed by other experts, 2x shorter LLM results - e.g. by adding "be concise" to your prompts - will use 2x less energy (because it can half the no of tokens generated). Nice! arxiv.org/abs/2503.10666 cc @dataforgoodfr.bsky.social
May 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Yes, "green prompting" is a thing! Re. this white paper, and confirmed by other experts, 2x shorter LLM results - e.g. by adding "be concise" to your prompts - will use 2x less energy (because it can half the no of tokens generated). Nice! arxiv.org/abs/2503.10666 cc @dataforgoodfr.bsky.social
The Last of Us S2E2: what a shocker. For those who gave up on the game from the get go ofc. & what incredible horde action sequences 🫨 Nice touch getting Mark Mylod in for those, it was almost as gripping as GoT’s best battles ⚔️
May 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Last of Us S2E2: what a shocker. For those who gave up on the game from the get go ofc. & what incredible horde action sequences 🫨 Nice touch getting Mark Mylod in for those, it was almost as gripping as GoT’s best battles ⚔️
👏🏻 @humanetech.bsky.social’s Tristan Harris’ standing ovation when asking TED attendees to show restraint with AI development. If only the super-powerful present in that room could now honour that promise. AI’s "ever bigger" race is one of humanity’s gravest ever risks
www.ted.com/talks/trista...
www.ted.com/talks/trista...
April 30, 2025 at 10:09 PM
👏🏻 @humanetech.bsky.social’s Tristan Harris’ standing ovation when asking TED attendees to show restraint with AI development. If only the super-powerful present in that room could now honour that promise. AI’s "ever bigger" race is one of humanity’s gravest ever risks
www.ted.com/talks/trista...
www.ted.com/talks/trista...
I’m speaking at ChangeNOW next Thursday, about the impact of AI. See you there? 👋🏻🤖🌍
April 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I’m speaking at ChangeNOW next Thursday, about the impact of AI. See you there? 👋🏻🤖🌍
Probably why it’s currently reassuring WhatsApp users that it never looks at their messages. Only their AIs do (right?) 😰
April 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Probably why it’s currently reassuring WhatsApp users that it never looks at their messages. Only their AIs do (right?) 😰
April 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Rant on: is it too much to ask for artists to play live music at concerts? For the third time I’d seen him last night, genius producer Jamie xx played a DJ set that was advertised as a live set (i.e. no "DJ set" written after his name). Yes, nice lights and all. But €60 to see him play his records?!
March 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Rant on: is it too much to ask for artists to play live music at concerts? For the third time I’d seen him last night, genius producer Jamie xx played a DJ set that was advertised as a live set (i.e. no "DJ set" written after his name). Yes, nice lights and all. But €60 to see him play his records?!
"Sam Altman said AI could solve the climate problem. Man, you have billions, just solve it with that directly!" @dataforgoodfr.bsky.social’s Theo Alves Da Costa spot on as ever when answering the recurring question of whether AI can be a net positive for the planet cc @sashamtl.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
"Sam Altman said AI could solve the climate problem. Man, you have billions, just solve it with that directly!" @dataforgoodfr.bsky.social’s Theo Alves Da Costa spot on as ever when answering the recurring question of whether AI can be a net positive for the planet cc @sashamtl.bsky.social
Just finished - in 1 weekend - Careless People, by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynne Williams. Unexpectedy, the most shocking parts are when she’s attached by a shark at age 13; & this👇🏻 tale of a Meta manager being too busy to handle a colleague’s epileptic fit. The rest: sadly unsurprisingly evil
March 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Just finished - in 1 weekend - Careless People, by Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynne Williams. Unexpectedy, the most shocking parts are when she’s attached by a shark at age 13; & this👇🏻 tale of a Meta manager being too busy to handle a colleague’s epileptic fit. The rest: sadly unsurprisingly evil