Are public opinion polls social proof or peer pressure?

There is an argument to be made that the development of the “winner takes most” commercial Web was a prelude to smaller competitors using that now mature market infrastructure to build a more decentralized next phase.

But it can run a marathon WHILE making things up and surveilling spectators and serving as a propaganda tool.

Latest: Iran is now helping us by blockading the strait that we were blockading to break their original blockade.

Someone is getting Huck Finn-ed here and I am not sure it is not us.

Last two times I have watched Liverpool from the Qantas lounge at LHR, van Dijk has scored the last-minute winner. Just sayin.

Lot of capital investment there and pretty steep depreciation after one cycle.

Humanoid robots show rapid advances as they race past humans in Beijing half-marathon Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism as they whizzed past human runners in Beijing

Not the point of the story, but since sports are becoming little more than a carrier signal for prediction markets why not just put robots and AI avatars with random number generators on the field.

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This can’t be real. I mean none of it is true but also no business not planning to overthrow the global order would be caught dead saying it.

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“This is not who we are.” is a normative argument that fails upon descriptive examination.

Except now it knows where you live…

This would never pass actual accreditation which is why they have created an alt-right accreditation body.

No particular kind of surveillance? Police, workplace, education?

How Jordan LaFlure of The Onion thinks about AI: “I run a newsroom of comedians not journalists. Comedy is art and we should all be reluctant about art made by machines.”

One disconnect between execs and staff is that change is a process of the five stages of grief. Leadership gets a head start and communicates the plan to staff only after reaching personal acceptance (and agency) and then are surprised when the team starts in denial.

Lucy Kueng says the bigger the structural gaps in the organization the harder the invisible work required to stitch processes and functions together for a successful project.

@felicarrique.bsky.social of @newsproduct.org #ijf26 argues that AI is not creating strategic/tactical misalignment in newsrooms as much as moving so quickly as to reveal historically embedded misgovernance

I just love the phrase “nobility particles” which are two things the US demurs from: royalty and formal speech

A good rule for many contexts:

Maybe zines not broadsheets - there are no presses left.

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Perhaps we should tax billionaires slightly more so other people may live.

The trick is: a platform that tests your boundaries today is one that will try to hollow your conscience tomorrow.

Chicago.

The sunk cost fallacy of broken platforms is that the “compounding inertia cost” means switching is always less expensive the earlier you do it.

I am in the air after we beat the UA to the runway.

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An American and United jet at gates 2 and 4 at COU taken from an American flight at gate 1.

Proof. Two AA and one United.

Gonna be awkward when two flights line up at the one baggage claim.

There are THREE jets parked at gates at COU at the SAME time. And all are departing in the next 45 minutes. Record-breaking traffic.

There is a significant Reddit trend which looks like:

OP: Here is a hilarious stupid people video I just took.
First reply: That is AI
Second reply: No, it is five years old.