Congrats to all who enabled this result; if the verdict stands, the floodgates are thrown open for more. Remember, these companies deliberately gambled that they could afford to keep harming their users, and society. So let’s put that belief to the test.
I think unfettered modern advertising, in retrospect, has been enormously damaging for the development of liberal societies, and i think it remains a challenge for liberalism in the modern context and moment.
Mustafa Bani Odeh during his parents funeral, yesterday. Photo: Reuters, from Haaretz.
Eight year old Mustafa Bani Odeh. His parents and two siblings murdered in front of him by plainclothed Israeli soldiers, while he was beaten up by them. West Bank.
The same unit executed two Palestinians three months ago after they surrendered.
Every. Day.
Every day. Deliberate massacres of unarmed, starving civilians. The world does nothing. A shame on all of us.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We are human rights lawyers. Our new report is clear: Israel perpetrates apartheid www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The little boy in Gaza lost his entire family. He does not cry; he just sits there, staring at the wall
‘The Great Blasket, as it stands now, is a kind of anti-museum. The less that is added, the better it will be.’
Colm Tóibín on the transformation of Irish island life as its people depart: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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/
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
“It’s easy to buy into the idea that A.I. will take away jobs.”
Indeed, because that is literally the entire value proposition!
Nothing new, but: writing something of my own, I’m struck anew by how coming up with the words teaches me what I want to say, and what a loss that so many schools are abetting their students’ outsourcing of this work to an AI by never having taken writing instruction seriously in the first place.
This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏
This is very good. Kudos @profafinlayson.bsky.social & @ppfideas.bsky.social 👏
Another important reflection on our techno-human becoming from @lmsacasas.bsky.social
theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-enclos...
Neil Postman — 5 Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cs492/paper...
1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing:
A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for.
I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵
BlueSky growing in popularity with people who now hate Twitter but still hate productivity
