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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
October 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
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This is a good analysis, I think. Notwithstanding the general trash fire, there are some poor decisions being made in US tech policy around AI (and also crypto) that the UK is choosing to lock itself into by taking this C20th view of progress
Something rather quaint / sad / tone-deaf about any UK Ambassador to the US suggesting a Memorandum of Understanding on technology will beat the Chinese, not least with this administration's disinterest in the subject. www.ft.com/content/d1bd...
Peter Mandelson warns US and UK must unite to halt Chinese tech supremacy
US ambassador describes Beijing as west’s ‘most formidable modern competitor’
www.ft.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 AM
This is a good analysis, I think. Notwithstanding the general trash fire, there are some poor decisions being made in US tech policy around AI (and also crypto) that the UK is choosing to lock itself into by taking this C20th view of progress
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Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
M365 Copilot fails to up productivity in UK government trial
: AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex
www.theregister.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)
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2/ “… he is a once in a generation storytelling talent who has a loose relationship with the truth.”
Telling the story, or painting a picture of the future that the person he was speaking with *wants to hear* is the priority… not substance or reality.
Telling the story, or painting a picture of the future that the person he was speaking with *wants to hear* is the priority… not substance or reality.
“Empire of AI” with Karen Hao
Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · 06/03/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
2/ “… he is a once in a generation storytelling talent who has a loose relationship with the truth.”
Telling the story, or painting a picture of the future that the person he was speaking with *wants to hear* is the priority… not substance or reality.
Telling the story, or painting a picture of the future that the person he was speaking with *wants to hear* is the priority… not substance or reality.
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"The same circumstances that made the soil fertile enough for agriculture to thrive also left behind the clay that became the medium for rcdg the 🍎 of that soil. I find this really moving—that the landscape made this leap in human innovation possible, that ingenuity worked in tandem w/ geology..."
How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word
If the birth of history happens when people begin to write things down, then our own journey must start with the first written words in ancient Mesopotamia. It was with these first words that my ow…
lithub.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"The same circumstances that made the soil fertile enough for agriculture to thrive also left behind the clay that became the medium for rcdg the 🍎 of that soil. I find this really moving—that the landscape made this leap in human innovation possible, that ingenuity worked in tandem w/ geology..."
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Who called it arson and not crime brulee?
August 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Who called it arson and not crime brulee?
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Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
August 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."
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August 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing??
(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)
How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...
(I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop)
How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say?
www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...
Newsom announces agreements to embed AI products from Big Tech into state colleges, high schools
The announcement comes amid massive hype and significant concerns over the “generative AI” technology that can produce text, video, sound and computer code in response to prompts from u…
www.mercurynews.com
August 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.
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Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
August 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era
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The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents
August 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents
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Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth.
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
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Art galleries a bit weird eh. Each time your visit, a 100 paintings scattered in rooms and you walk through like uh-huh, uh-huh, ok, that’s nice, uh-huh, ok. Then at random one of them skewers you through your soul and you’re transfixed by the image for life
July 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Art galleries a bit weird eh. Each time your visit, a 100 paintings scattered in rooms and you walk through like uh-huh, uh-huh, ok, that’s nice, uh-huh, ok. Then at random one of them skewers you through your soul and you’re transfixed by the image for life
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Limited replies on this because I am the Bishop of Fulham, this is my house and you're making a terrible racket
July 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Limited replies on this because I am the Bishop of Fulham, this is my house and you're making a terrible racket
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I think about this all the time
July 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I think about this all the time
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starbucks barista: order for cathy lou
cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
October 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM
starbucks barista: order for cathy lou
cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
cthulhu: (visibly incensed) i guess that's me
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A great looking role at IF and a really nicely framed job description that looks like it does a good job of explaining the org culture as well as the role.
Product Lead | Notion
The role
brass-gladiolus-d73.notion.site
July 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A great looking role at IF and a really nicely framed job description that looks like it does a good job of explaining the org culture as well as the role.
Why do drum solos feel so much more self indulgent than other instruments?
July 16, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Why do drum solos feel so much more self indulgent than other instruments?
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Yall asking Grok questions like it’s not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.
July 8, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yall asking Grok questions like it’s not pumping out 1000 cubic meters of poison gas into South Memphis every 15 minutes all so MFs can get a corny ass screenshot to dunk on.
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Harvey Price time then.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
March 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Harvey Price time then.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
In 2016, I had an ill fated stint as the Social Media Producer on Loose Women on ITV. It was a disaster, I should never have applied for the job, I certainly shouldn’t have been given it. I could do the actual job standing on my head, but the politics of the place…woof.
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Question: what do you think is the love of your life? Not WHO (boring and fake concept), but WHAT.
July 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Question: what do you think is the love of your life? Not WHO (boring and fake concept), but WHAT.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
You just enrolled for the Apple dev program, do you want 4 AirTags now? How about just one? Some headphones maybe? 🙄
June 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
You just enrolled for the Apple dev program, do you want 4 AirTags now? How about just one? Some headphones maybe? 🙄
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.