"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."
Great piece 👇
Some things that struck me, listening to R4 Today this morning, which I really try hard not to do.
1. Presenters describe Russia's invasion of Ukraine and then in the adjacent sentence "the war in Iran" as if it was something that randomly broke out and isn't, also, a war of aggression. Daft.
Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
Keir Starmer famously said there was "no such thing" as Starmerism. He was half-right: there is no such ideology. There is however an approach to managing and running the country that is core to so many of the government's difficulties that we probably should call 'Starmerism'. In tomorrow's paper:
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
Wow you created an entire Claude “skill sheet” of your “voice”? Why not use the free one that lives inside your brain
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?
ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]
If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.
1) Remind yourself that - as the reposts/replies are showing! - this feeling is completely and utterly normal. It’s part of the process.
2) Pin a note up in your writing space that says ‘It doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be done’.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙
Reese gets read.
She was an NFT fan too (nftnow.com/podcasts/ree...) - and didn't that work out well.
Nicely done @parkroseperma.bsky.social
As @goodlawproject.org have pointed out, among many others, Palantir is a company inextricably linked to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Labour government as a whole. When they come out with scary shit like this it is time to cut ties, fast.
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Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland
I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
This. Also LLMs don't understand that they are dealing with words, with meaning. All the shite they swallowed is chopped down into "tokens". They don't see words or phrases. They see just shapes, in a pattern. They feed us what usually comes next, in that pattern.
There is no understanding.
Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.
I think about this anecdote from Maggie Kang on why she made KPop Demon Hunters the way it is pretty frequently:
www.polygon.com/kpop-demon-h...
AI is the "3D film is inevitable" of the 2020s
Any excuse to revisit this gem 😊 youtu.be/fTzXJMU1sLc
“Writing is fundamentally thinking… All the thinking that happens before you begin writing a draft — organizing your thoughts into coherent themes and ideas — is, in fact, writing.”
All of this, and everything else Metz says here 👇 #scriptsky
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
Lovely @iandunt.bsky.social —you’ve been a brilliant ally to the trans+ community over the last few years.
The @nionwomen.bsky.social open letter is now just a few hundred signatures away from a MASSIVE milestone.
Would you re-share to help us get there? 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you!
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notinourname.org.uk
Journalist friends/followers. How do you feel about portrayals of journalists in tv and film?
What do you want to see portrayed that you normally don’t and what do you hate?
Nothing about this is in the public interest. If the BBC was genuinely flagging the issue of dodgy immigration advisers then fine. Instead they are feeding the idea everyone is gaming the asylum system. That is liable to see more people targeted by far right, including domestic abuse survivors. 5/
Good for you Nat! I was a councillor in Westminster for a while. It’s intense but fulfilling. Good luck!
The Bishop
A papal representative on his way to meet the US president
