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not there yet, but...

White flight ☠️😂

It’s so funny having @garymarcus.bsky.social speak at the Web Summit opening ceremony. All the hustlers here are pumped about AGI and agents and Gary is like nah it’s a bubble. Great start!

When I think back on the amount of faith I must have had in my colleagues and hire ups who would have lunch with me and send me Christmas cards one day and fire me the next...About 5 years ago, on Jun 24, 2020, we convinced Google research to give us the floor at the research all hands meeting. 🧵

how the gift of a free air force one looks to the rest of the world (and most americans)

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

"When we think about the “existential threats” facing humanity, we often think of concrete phenomena like asteroid strikes, [...]. We don’t tend to include on such lists the various ideologies that could precipitate our extinction.

It's not just the few billionaires, there's a plethora of "futurologists", "innovators", "experts" who are driving all of us towards the precipice.

Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland

correct sentence: "fully AI (crappy) journalists are already here".

Training AI with copyrighted works isn't just theft or plagiarism. It's worse: it is a fundamental devaluation of creativity. When you steal something, you're not denying its individual value. GenAI is a form of automated exploitation and devaluation of human labor

"Marie Antoinette in a penis shaped rocket" deserves credit.

"you are all that".

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson

#tariffs: how it's going

First major leak due to AI? "According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone". Or just an excuse to a superficial, very "human" not artificial, behaviour?

loosing any remaining credibility.

WARNER: Can you explain how it helps natl security or our trade balance - I loved your fancy Greek formula which was bad math on steroids - how with a trade surplus Australia got hit with a 10% tariff as well? GREER: Australia has the lowest rate available WARNER: We have a trade surplus!

interesting: the Chinese make fun of Americans for wanting what they themselves consider to be a shitty job.

tariffs as seen by Wall Street:

50%, then what? Tariffs are like shooting on oneself feet.