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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.

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My chart on the history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

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Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

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Trump's bunker buster is a 'Hole-in-One' for World War Three! The PNG Courier reports from Iran. mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/the-png-co...

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The Leeroy Jenkins Administration

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

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Good Morning to all who understand the celebration of Juneteenth. We must not let the corrupt, fascist Republican Party literally “whitewash” our history. Stay free, y’all! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1

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Today in 1904 Leopold Bloom set off on a famous day in Dublin #Ulysses. here's Brian O Nolan, (Flann O Brien), already well oiled, by the looks of things, Paddy Kavanagh and friends on the very first Bloomsday crawl, retracing his steps and pubs Bloom popped into, in 1954. 1/2

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This.

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The photos coming from Trump’s birthday parade are just incredible. No one showed up.

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This what happens when you let a straight person plan a parade.

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With you in spirit, LA. ❤️ from Portugal.

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The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

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Hell of a photo

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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

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Absolute beast of a newsletter today: The war of the Musk-Trump morons, a story of scientific progress, and a love letter to Nintendo. All yours for the grand total of fuck-all English pennies iandunt.substack.com/p/musk-vs-tr...

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finally a worthy Alien vs. Predator installment

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This is a hell of a thing to read.

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Taking back control of your digital life: How to get the most out of tech while freeing yourself from the lunatics in Silicon Valley iandunt.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

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Interesting that this article doesn't mention what seems an increasingly obvious problem for LLMs - every new iteration is trained on data that has been increasingly poisoned with garbage from the previous iteration. The web is full of AI-generated nonsense, and that's now part of the input.

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We despise immigrants for not putting down roots, even as we make sure that it is impossible for them to do so. We do this because we have no idea what we want. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

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Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

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it's published! finally! in this week's newsletter: my attempt to go through every single reason why I both dislike and distrust generative AI: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-... [free to read!]

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Serious consideration should be given to banning under-16s from using social media, similar to a law passed last year in Australia, according to Tánaiste Simon Harris

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A big thank you to @jillianbolger.bsky.social and the @irishexaminer.bsky.social for slapping me on the cover of their mag this week ahead of my turn at the Ballymaloe food and drink festival later in may. Have a link to the piece: www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...

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I thought it pitched outside leg, myself

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One of those Great but Terrifying articles ftedit.ft.com/Ju3k/n584ptdo Welcome to slop world

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1. I've been banging on about the existential crisis facing our food system for years. But don't take it from me. Take it from the food professionals now risking their careers in an urgent and devastating warning to their own industry. Key quotes from their memo in 🧵 drive.google.com/file/d/1tATF...

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If you are fed up with Meta's intrusive advertising, if you want to defund Zuckerberg, here's what to do... goodlaw.social/htfc

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Noted free speech absolutist Elon Musk permabanned @therickwilson.bsky.social from Shitter for this post: therickwilson.substack.com/p/kill-tesla... #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #FreeSpeech

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We're suing - to stop Trump and Musk exporting their hate to our shores. goodlaw.social/yce9

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And there was me thinking this administration was opposed to importing sex offenders.

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I wonder why this type of actual criminal is welcomed into the White House, whilst other alleged criminals are held for deportation from the US? Disgusting. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...

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Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

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EXCLUSIVE - The Papua New Guinea Courier's USA correspondent on red pilled despots. Click through to my blog for more... open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

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