I've found that DDG gets much better with consistent use. But it is pretty jarring at first when the results aren't as expansive as one would expect from a basic keyword request.
Bonus: No AI overview or slop results though
So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.
"The Origin of Ultraman" documentary is coming in Japan on July 3.
Planning: Hirokazu Kore-eda.
Starring: Guillermo del Toro, Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, Nicholas Winding Refn, Hideo Kojima, Shannon Tindall, John Aoshima, Kairi Narita...
m-78.jp/news/post-7780
Palantir's manifesto is not new for us who have been critical of them for years. But a reminder that Anthropic has a partnership with them, so it's crucial that people understand the politics of Anthropic's unsubstantiated AI claims and their relation to fulfilling the manifesto.
Essential reading for anyone who values education at any level — preK, elementary, secondary, post secondary or vocational:
The core problems that we face in education (and honestly have always faced) are social, economic, and political problems; not technological.
We need political will not AI.
It is absolutely wild how Facebook is full of Generative AI ads targeting PhD students. Facebook, that lively platform that’s all the rage for elder Gen Z.
American voters make up crazy stories in their heads at election time to justify their emotional reaction to prices, labor market, access to cash, taxes or crime.
What they won't forgive, regardless of their particular emotional state about XYZ issue, is when they sense a rug pull by a politician.
Tamagotchi were the gateway drug to diminished attention spans and growing social acceptance of device notifications/interruptions
One of my beats as a journalist was reproductive health. Wasn't the creepy/weird/carry around a swaddled sack of sugar/abstinence-only high school sex education courses popularized by the "Moral Majority" supposed to lower teen birth rates because ... SIN?
Good grief these hypocrites.
I filed my federal taxes last night. The 🤡 regime refunded me the princely sum of a whole $6.
What should I do with it?
I momentarily questioned my decision to cancel my subscription while I was reading their decent Hungary election coverage but this slopilific dreck reminds me that I was right about nuking my Guardian account. #FollowTheMoney
Hell, even humans struggle with communicating about time.
Norris, Voida & Voida (2022) "People talk in stories. Responders talk in data: A framework for temporal sensemaking in time-and safety-critical work"
Norris, Voida, Palen & Voida (2019) "'Is the Time Right Now?' Reconciling Sociotemporal Disorder in Distributed Team Work"
People still don't get how badly technical systems handle time vs human "time" until it's too late (pun intended).
Congrats to @cathwieczorek.bsky.social and her coauthors.
Sociotemporality nerds activate!
I used to work in humanitarian crisis response. Much admiration to my friends at the Red Cross/Red Crescent but I don't ever recall seeing them holding the light of God in their hands.
Burn gen AI companies to the ground and salt the Earth.
A handful of politicians are righteously pushing the Epstein investigation into public view. Others are taking on the corrupt moves of the Trump White House. There's lots more in Congress still sitting on their hands. Get on this now!
I say again that every ceo of a company with a chatbot should be personally, individually liable for every piece of text it produces, as though it is something they themselves said
i’d say apple is more bothered that they don’t have any ideas any more. they really haven’t been bad actors for privacy. but they literally have no clue what people want or what matters any more, so they just copy with no strategy. and it’s offensive on multiple (but different) levels
"this thing might cure cancer someday" is so disingenuous & scummy. as if vacant-eyed losers deploying tools to make deepfakes of children and immiserate workers give any shits at all about helping people live longer or more rewarding lives. up there with "don't let perfect be the enemy of good"
The only thing Cleveland extracts is generational depression.
Incel grapes
I'm revisiting essays I've written to see how my ideas have evolved over time. When it comes to the tech industry, not much. Indeed, I am on even more of an intellectual war footing. For example, the only 'ethical' position is ruthlessness: monroelab.com/2022/05/06/a...
If there's any bright spot in this atrocity of hideously bad taste and monument to narcissism: If we all have to pay to take a whack at it with a sledgehammer, we might be able to retire the national debt.
If you've been hearing something about Anthropic's Mythos model, and wondering why, my new post at Techdirt explains the cybersecurity implications it, and eventually all AI, will have and how we need to reorient our public policy to address those implications (looking at you, copyright law...)
Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes.
it was, as you can imagine, not clean.
I'm just a boy, standing in front of the foreign policy community, asking them to stop describing Trump avoiding the single-dumbest policy option in favor of a still-very-stupid policy option as an example of the Madman Theory yielding results. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-beclow...
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
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“Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.”
Microsoft Says You’re Not Supposed to Take Copilot’s Advice Seriously gizmodo.com/microsoft-sa...
