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IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

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I'd even go so far as to say intelligence is reduced to what computers can do

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Guess losing $150 billion got under the old boy's skin. No surprise, he's responding by throwing around tired old conspiracy theories meant to intimidate and discredit us. Guess we better make #teslatakedown so big no one can hear him over our noise! And lol he's signing his tweets now?

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"The mythology of founders and Silicon Valley too often obscures the indispensable role of American taxpayers in the innovation economy"—my recent remarks to @bloomberg.com about the critical importance of federally funded research. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Another world is possible and some people are living into it already.

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Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!

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I know this sounds crazy or conspiratorial but historically speaking: capital and right wing political movements have embraced recessions / depressions

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NEW: Google repeatedly promoted an AI slop "science" site in top search results, including in coveted spots in its News tab + "Top Stories" feature. The site, featuring fake authors + AI images, was beating out real publishers to rank alongside CNN + NBC, among others. futurism.com/google-ai-fa...

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i am a PhD-level agent. feel free to pay me $20,000/month

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hey liberals crashes the economy

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"The global spread of the internet has long been framed as a move to expand connection, freedom of expression, and other rights, but that was in part a cover for its other quality — the one that mattered most to the US government: that it was a form of economic imperialism."

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“There is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology—AI, mostly—that is used to exploit or replace a worker.” @bcmerchant.bsky.social in our most recent forum:

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In this new piece we show that as the imperial core imposed structural adjustment programs on Africa, Africans were forced to consume less while their surplus resources were transferred instead out to the capitalist world economy effectively for free. roape.net/2025/02/28/p...

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My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The bubble is bursting and perhaps not even cozying up to fascism can save it

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👇👇👇👇

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@dhtencate.bsky.social

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Remember those old LCD games that sold for $20 when game consoles were $200? We decried their sound quality and terrible screens, and still wound up pouring hundreds of hours into them anyways.

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UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

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ROMchip Journal (@romchip.bsky.social) is doing a 12 hour stream right now to raise money for their game history journal. Worth checking out even if you're not donating. But you should consider donating if you're able to. www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

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My new book from @mitpress.bsky.social, Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right, is out today! The book explores how play and gaming culture have mainstreamed far right ideology through social media platforms. #digitalculture #games #politics #platforms

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GenAI in two words: “success theatre”. From Jon Victor @theinformation.bsky.social

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In 3 days, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories [ @romchip.bsky.social ] is gonna try and raise $7K-11K w/ a 12-hour Twitch fundraiser. I'm the Managing Editor of this journal, and one of its cofounders. Here's a 🧵 on why ROMchip matters, what it stands for, & how u can help. donate.romchip.org

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AI reality setting in. Just in recent days: • Klarna backed away from all in on AI • Humane AI Pin canceled • Grok 3 didn’t meet expectations • Mathematician D Litt exposed massive hallucination in Deep Research • OpenAI implicitly acknowledged that they don’t yet have GPT-5 Look for a correction

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Davis and Marcus dive deep in AlphaGeometry 2, deflating hype but also pointing to some genuine positives. garymarcus.substack.com/p/alphageome...

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As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

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“There were “task scores,” from which 🎶 emerged as the byproduct or trace of a seemingly arbitrary process… There were “impossible scores” where sounds emerged from the failure to execute a difficult act properly… In “circuit-as-score” compositions, 🎶 decisions were shared with electronic circuits”

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Looks spot on. Preordered.

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sometimes hard nosed realism as a substantive perspective and hard nosed realism as an aesthetic pose send you in very different directions

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“It's a neat way to stumble upon interesting information randomly, learn new things, and spend spare moments of boredom without reaching for an algorithmically addictive social media” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

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The most crucial variable in addressing climate change is TIME. Early solutions accumulate impact; delayed solutions don't. That's why we talk about the "time value of carbon" and the need to pull "Emergency Brakes" to get back on track with climate change. And funders need to focus on this.

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Really powerful models are getting cheaper and cheaper to build - genuinely really cheap. Universities, do not tie yourself to OpenAI. We can and should use and develop open source only. (Desperately hoping that my own uni is listening)

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"ChatGPT and other Large Language Models are not a decision-making technology, they are decision-removing technologies. They generate text, but most powerfully, they generate pretext." Wonderful insight by @eryk.bsky.social, as usual. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...

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Wow: "our screening analysis demonstrates that driven by the growing demand for AI, the U.S. data centers could contribute to, among others, approximately 600,000 asthma symptom cases and 1,300 premature deaths in 2030, exceeding 1/3 of asthma deaths in the U.S. each year." arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06288

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Continuing my 🌶️🌶️ recent pieces: We deconstruct the concept of "AGI", and explain why it's a truly, truly awful goal for AI research. This project has been ongoing for almost 2 years. Thrilled to share this output today. Much gratitude for the leadership of @borhane.bsky.social. Read more here.👇 🤗

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We proudly present the new edition of the AI and Games Book by our main organizers Georgios N. Yannakakis & Julian Togelius - with over 500 pages of cutting-edge AI advancements in games! Join us for the #GameAISchool2025 & meet the authors in Malmö! school.gameaibook.org#registration

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I'm reading at NYU 6th March 7PM then in conversation with @harikunzru.bsky.social | Free with RSVP: as.nyu.edu/departments/...

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If the success of DeepSeek holds, it undermines “assumptions which undergird essentially the entire American tech sector’s approach to AI,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-great-...

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“To be honest, the race to build larger & larger data centers had already started to look like the race between the US and the Soviet Union in the 1960s to build and test larger & larger bombs: They got as far as 50 megatons before realizing it was all rather pointless…” —Stuart Russell

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OpenAI right now

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OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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Oh no! Did someone use your work to train their AI? Didn’t they pay you?

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The entire American AI industry is predicated on a narrative of relentless expansion—it needs more data, more compute, more investment, more state support, more power. It needs all that, to build AGI. A single Chinese startup has undermined all of that. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-great-...

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Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but pushing it -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

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Great thread on DeepSeek and its implicit critique of scaling as the best approach to AI development.

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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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This, this, this. Money is meant to circulate, not stagnate. When it reaches the working class and below, we SPEND it. The people who receive it also spend it, and so on, until it reaches someone who doesn't need to spend it. This is also why government spending is better than austerity.

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The Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social will open its digital library system to the public next week. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...

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