The nuclear industry wants you to forget more than 80 years of collective cultural fear.⚛️
Powerful media campaigns are on their way to give nuclear energy new meaning.
What story will they tell you to change your mind about atomic power?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhuc...
In the hands of any extreme ideologue, right or left, AI tech fused with government process can easily become legal, normalized domestic surveillance in which enforcement can find YOU with 1-Click. 4/4.
Read more ➡️ rozfoster.substack.com/p/american-d...
In @lawfaremedia.org, Tillipman writes that third-party contracts “were not designed to provide the democratic accountability, public deliberation, and institutional durability that [law] provides." She warns that speed in the present will create systemic problems in the future. ⬇️ 3/4
Expert on government contract law, #JillTillipman is a critic of the DoD’s new high-velocity strategy of regulating AI by contract. ⬇️ 2/4
The DoD's war with @anthropic.com has been sidelined in the news cycle by war with Iran. But with American civil liberties at stake, the face-off is worth a much longer look. 🧵⬇️1/4
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The unchecked momentum of tech corporations fused with government surveillance is paving the way for OpenNSAi to find you with 1-Click® ⬇️
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Loved this—apart from the dark irony of counsel to go into nuclear ☢️ or cancer treatment 😂😭 and one leader tossing the need for "communications skills" in our AI future.
Get a broad education, be adaptable, think critically, creatively and develop human skills & ethics.
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“Washington was more than a Founding Father — he was America’s first fashion icon.”
Chloe Chapin @sexandstatus.bsky.social, author of SUITABLE: The Sartorial Revolution & the Fashioning of Modern Men from @oxunipress.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com ⬇️
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
🎙️ Listen to this and you'll be among the first to see a major shift that’s being introduced to the way Americans think about one of the most important forms of power in the world.
Atomic power. ⚛️
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Happy Friday! 😂
#fridaythe13th #lucky13
⚛️Atomic energy is getting a brand overhaul funded by Big Tech in alignment with the US government.
It’s good for the economy, they say. It’s good for the creation of new jobs. And it’s carbon free!
Yay nuclear? Read about it here ⬇️
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Massive layoffs are the ROI everyone is pretending AI doesn't have.
AP reports a litany of layoffs and points to clear signs AI integration is the driver:
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The largest grid operator in the US is warning the Mid-Atlantic about strain during the storm.
Burdensome data-centers should reduce their draw to accommodate.🤞
Big Tech & Energy have decided the long-term solution to the crisis is going nuclear.☢️
Watch⬇️(5 mins)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Sv...
The power grid serving mid-Atlantic data centers are at capacity & Big Tech wants more. If they want to avoid a disastrous outage, they're going to have to bring their own power—fast.
The 1st in a series on a return to nuclear energy.
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Working 9 to 5 with cookies & coffee today! 🎶 I love these cookies!! Such a fun gift from @marthaackmann.bsky.social, author of the riveting biography: AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🙏☕️ 🍪
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
✨Journalist & biographer @marthaackmann.bsky.social dives deep into Parton’s life [telling] the story of a woman whose talent, faith in herself, & humility...helped her...become a cross-generational icon.✨
— @bostonglobe.com
@stmartinspress.bsky.social
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⭐️"A deeply detailed...account of Ms. Parton's life and career..., Ms. Ackmann adds factual heft to Ms. Parton's ... narrative." — @wsj.com on @marthaackmann.bsky.social's AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON. ⭐️ @stmartinspress.bsky.social
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Happy Pub-Day @marthaackmann.bsky.social and AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton! 🩷 🎊
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Photo by Kathryn Hough 🙏
3 heavy-hitting American talents, 1 podcast:
✨Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social✨ interviews ✨Martha Ackmann✨ on her biography of ✨Dolly Parton✨, AIN'T NOBODY'S FOOL, out 12/30 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social.
Pre-order here ➡️ shorturl.at/hysDX
Watch here⬇️
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Claire Potter @tenuredradical.bsky.social in the @yalereview.bsky.social writing on Susan Brownmiller's radical blockbuster, AGAINST OUR WILL: "The book [was] a larger rebuke of a society that rendered women, and the violence used to keep them in check, invisible.⬇️
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THE NEGOTIATION (2 mins)
Death & the Empress negotiate a price.
Look at those costumes! 😳 The characters & their drobe were rendered w AI from my own hand-drawn illustrations.
I hope this inspires for Halloween.
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Theo wants to lead a seminar: HOW TO GET BY ON YOUR GOOD LOOKS FOR LIFE. He's not much of a lecturer, tho. It would be more of a silent, learn by example thing. Very pro-luddite. Very anti-AI. Super grassroots.
10 Rules You Need Now for Stability in the Risky Age of AI
1-Know yourself
2-Take care of yourself, then others
3-Live & work w purpose & meaning
4-Think well
5-Communicate well
6-Solve problems
7-Connect w people
8-Adapt & learn
9-Master basic tech
10-Know data/digital literacy
If you have a problem you can't get rid of:
1. Face it.
2. Understand it.
3. Solve it.
AI in the arts, humanities, publishing, tv & film is a problem. It's not going away.
I'm working on solutions.
What are YOU doing?
How am I facing AI? Visit me👇
www.youtube.com/@TheSpindleM...
What's with the hard, corporate push to use AI—even when it threatens the need, purpose & meaning of our work?
Are we paying too much attention to the excuse of beating China to AI dominance?
Or not enough?
The answer affects us all. ⬇️
youtu.be/d7Rr4q5PKWs
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I have a new book coming out at the end of the year. AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DOLLY PARTON is a deep dive into an American Original.
Woot! 🙌 Congratulations, @robinmbernstein.bsky.social 🏆
