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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

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Can't these tech bros read another novel besides Atlas Shrugged? As I wrote a long time ago @motherboard.bsky.social "Science Fiction is not social reality" - www.vice.com/en/article/s...

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WIRED has been downright exceptional in covering this carnage.

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Biden bids farewell with dark warning for America – the oligarchs are coming | David Smith

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It's not just Big Tech: The UK's Online Safety Act applies across the board

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New by me on Computer Weekly: 'Labour's AI Action Plan - a gift to the far right' www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Labo...

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"Decomputing argues that, wherever AI is proposed as 'the answer', there is a gap for the self-organisation of people who already know better what needs to be done," such as "teachers and students resisting generative AI in the classroom" or "challenging the algorithmic optimisation of workloads"

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OpenAI quietly revises policy doc to remove reference to ‘politically unbiased’ AI

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New essay by me – I argue that the best way to understand artificial intelligence is via the Tinkerbell Effect. This technology's existence requires us to keep channeling our psychic energy into the dreams of mega-corporations, tech billionaires, and venture capitalists: futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell

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🤖🌍 GenAI’s Hidden Costs A new study highlights the environmental toll and social inequities of GenAI - from mining rare metals to energy-hungry data centres and underpaid labour. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #AI 🧪

submitted 56 days ago • 4 comments

mark zuckerberg in... an act of desperation! www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24...

submitted 58 days ago • 24 comments

With both Meta and X, as with Elon's attempts to undermine the state, the UK government needs to remember that it is actually, you know, a government of a nation and can just do things like this. We should be taking lessons from Brazil's approach.

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Solly March scores for Brighton! This is the Magic of the FA Cup #BHAFC

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Plymouth Argyle have done it — they have pulled off the biggest upset of the FA Cup third round so far. Morgan Whittaker's strike was enough for the Championship strugglers to beat Brentford, whose home form is faltering.

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4-0 win. Into the 4th round of the FA Cup. Confidence boosting goals for Rutter and Enciso. Solly March scores after 14 months injured. Welbeck returns. And we even got to see King Shane Duffy I'd say that is a pretty bloody good day's work for Brighton #BHAFC

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Delighted to say that, after a period away, I am writing again for @financialtimes.com. In tomorrow’s print edition is a long piece on Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s regulatory strategies. And why recent events show that X and Meta are weak, not strong, when faced with determined state action.

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

yup. zuck wants trump to destroy EU regulation. what a colossal jerk. here’s hoping the europeans stand firm.

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I strongly encourage you to read this op-ed by Peter Thiel. He is considered the true brain of the Paypal mafia. The incoherence, paranoia & self-absorption, the meandering, impenetrable prose, the paper-thin thesis & logic… These are the men who want to run the world. www.ft.com/content/a46c...

submitted 58 days ago • 188 comments

a must listen on how big tech alters (and in this case degrades) art. a great interview from @parismarx.com with @tavlin.bsky.social on how Netflix’s “data-driven” business decisions have erased the visibility and seeming worth of creative labor and debased an artform in the process.

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To resist the climate crisis, we must resist the billionaire class | Peter Kalmus

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AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it? | Arwa Mahdawi

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Elon Musk is amplifying far-right figures, spreading harmful disinformation, and meddling in UK politics. Let’s stop billionaire interference—join me and sign this @hopenothate.org.uk petition today: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/163807/...

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A DDOS attack on our minds.

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It occurs to me that some things happened in those Mar a Lago visits. Marching orders, perhaps. Let's watch the actions of the other "$1M donation titans" who are now implementing those "orders."

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Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...

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New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

submitted 62 days ago • 72 comments

Facebook is a social cancer. Our governments should be targeting it with much stricter regulation to make it abide by our norms and values — or have it leave our markets entirely. The days of Mark Zuckerberg shaping discourse and controlling communication must end.

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The European political establishment has had enough of Elon Musk. My latest for @fastcompany.com on what Keir Starmer, Olaf Scholz, Emmanuel Macron and Jonas Gahr Støre's comments tell us www.fastcompany.com/91255505/the...

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Uniqlo, Gymshark and Lush stop hiring UK workers via gig economy apps

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Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

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BLOGGED: 2025 Tech Predictions It's that time of the year again, when I make predictions for the upcoming year. As has become my tradition now for almost two decades, I will first go back over last years' predictions, to see how well I called it, and... blogs.newardassociates.com/blog/2025/20...

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz thinks he’s found the recipe to deal with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online political fussing. His approach? “Don’t feed the troll.”

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

How to stop Musk. A playbook

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In the space of three days, Elon Musk has posted 200 TIMES about the UK grooming gangs on Twitter, including calls for: • The king to dissolve parliament 🙄 • @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social to be jailed • Government officials to "hang" • ...and the UK to be "liberated" www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

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Saudi Prince Alwaleed’s Kingdom Holding has now invested $800 million in Elon Musk’s xAI and in related news Elon Musk has just set-up a new company X.AI London Ltd as he aligns with Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform party, my latest: newstracs.com/saudi-prince...

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Farage, Musk and Candy say ‘cheese’ – now British democracy’s toast | Stewart Lee

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With Assad’s fall, Putin’s dream of world domination is turning into a nightmare | Peter Pomerantsev

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The Dark Side Of AI: Tracking The Decline Of Human Cognitive Skills www.forbes.com/sites/chrisw...

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