For anyone curious about what's going on with the world's first AI government official in Albania, this is a fantastic rundown from Erjon Curraj: balkaninsight.com/2025/09/16/a...

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What can you even say. Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal gave their lives documenting one of the most brutal military regimes of the 21st century, second only to the one that subsidized their murder. Heroes in an age of monsters.

After months of warnings from researchers and journalists about the danger its software posed, OpenAI announced vague "optimizations" for GPT-4o meant to address user safety. They didn't change much. futurism.com/openai-chatg...

In the new TMK, Ed chats with @parismarx.com and @bcmerchant.bsky.social to chat about the vast proliferation of AI bubbles across the US, Europe, and China—and their competing visions of the ideal global value chain for AI. soundcloud.com/thismachinek...

In which we look at how tech industry figures are reacting to OpenAI investor Geoff Lewis' apparent ChatGPT-fueled mental health crisis: futurism.com/tech-industr...

"The voice of an aspiring journalist, 11-year-old Lama Nasser Al-Badrasawi, was tragically silenced when an #Israeli airstrike targeted her home near #Gaza City, killing her entire family. Lama was a contributor to the Palestine Chronicle..." www.palestinechronicle.com/the-voice-of... #Israel

Cancer of the markets metastasizing into cancer of the mind

I don't even know what to make of this. It's upsetting and horrible. This man is horribly mentally ill and these systems do something to people by agreeing with everything they say. They are only made possible through unrestrained growth taking over every lever of tech

"SCPs that got hoovered up and regurgitated by chatbots end up giving tech executives schizophrenia" is perhaps fittingly a very SCP thing to happen

NEW: A prominent investor in OpenAI has been making strange posts that sound as though he may be going through what's being called "ChatGPT psychosis," in which AI affirms users' unbalanced thinking and leads them down a dark mental health rabbit hole futurism.com/openai-inves...

I wrote about how Geoff Lewis, one of OpenAI’s long running investors, has sparked concern among peers who believe he may be facing a public mental health episode brought on by ChatGPT. futurism.com/openai-inves...

TIL there's a budding industry emerging around for-profit wildfire detection

I often think about the essay from Sam Harnett about how tech media sold the gig economy to the public and overlooked the problems with the model it was rolling out, especially seeing what they’ve done with generative AI and chatbots.

All US media will describe Israel's declaration of war as "preemptive" and Iran's response as "unprovoked."

If we could summarize Dan Marcus' criticism of Altman, it might be said that one can either be a rigorous AI scholar, or a billionaire tech emperor — but not both. futurism.com/sam-altman-a...

I love reading serious stories about guys who believe AGI is real, it feels like a bunch of millionaires plotting to find and capture Santa Claus

Since October 2023, at least 181 journalists have been killed in Gaza, many in clearly targeted assassinations. From Los Angeles to Palestine, it takes real work to not see the connections. #EndTheRaids and #FreePalestine.

This is a fantastic article from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social that lays out the core issues with ChatGPT and psychosis. I really appreciate the point that the industry’s own claims about AI technology are not rooted in reality and reinforce delusional thinking. futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

In five days Vox Union's contract expires. If Vox can't get this done we need to boycott every single Vox property - The Verge, New York Mag, Vox dot com, Thrillist, Curbed, Grub Street, etc. Unsubscribe from pods too. Support their strike.

Seems like a strange question to ask a guy running for Mayor of New York, but I guess that's why I'm not making that Free Press money!

Hug your white south african friends.

it is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day

getting some bad FOMO for welcome fest

Tech massively overhired in 2021 and 2022, cut a lot in 2023 and 2024, and still needs to cut more because revenue growth is NOT coming from AI. Nevertheless they can conveniently say "oh boy, AI is automating stuff" knowing the tech/biz media won't argue lol www.techtarget.com/whatis/featu...

some thoughts on the Grant Achatz Slop Trough Experience sponsored by Pete Wells futurism.com/achatz-ai-re...

Today, as part of the @techpolicypress.bsky.social and @datasociety.bsky.social "Ideologies of Control: A Series on Tech Power and Democratic Crisis" series, @emilymbender.bsky.social and I write about the myth of AGI. www.techpolicy.press/the-myth-of-...

Wall Street would rather read the most absurd headlines devised by man than accept that Tesla has been running a self-driving scam for eight years www.barrons.com/articles/tes...

🚨🚨🚨Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion apple.news/AtyY6Tzv9Szm...

EARLY COMPUTER DORKS: it's so fun to explore the possibilities of computers! you're going to love computer, for doing fun stuff COMPUTER DORKS TODAY: i'm so Fucking scared. computers are going to destroy us. but only if we can source another $40B. ouggh i'm so scared about what i told computer to do

There's reason to believe these buzzy tales of AI "innovation" and "workplace paradigm shifts" are really just cover for broader — and more perfidious — trends in the labor market, like the "gigification" of work. futurism.com/ai-gen-z-car...

Check out this great @oregonian.com piece by @matthewkish.bsky.social and @bethnakamura.bsky.social on Leni, Dedeh and Dinar's trip to Oregon to bring Nike garment workers' demands for higher pay and human rights to the company's doorstep. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

I’m a little disappointed this doesn’t have a shock collar

Rave reviews for my latest startup report

Calling all @itch.io creators! Do you hate Gen AI? So do we at stopgenai.com! Submit your game, digital art, book, etc. for the fundraising bundle for our #MutualAid. 👇 #itchio #gamedev Please share! itch.io/jam/stop-gen...

The GOP’s big bill—under consideration this week—would be an accelerator of inequality: It would reduce after-tax income for the poorest 20% of households by 10%, increase incomes for the wealthiest, and impose senseless work requirements for Medicaid, all while increasing the debt by $3 trillion.

red.media, a contemporary source for documentaries, interviews, and polemics on imperialism – especially on Palestine – has chosen to close admist a legal crackdown by the German government. Another critical light snuffed out in the free and liberal West. thered.stream/red-media-is...

In the course of an answer to a question about state budgets for disaster response and recovery, FEMA Acting Director Richardson said he just learned from his girlfriend (who has “huge red hair”) that Texas is bigger than Spain. He consulted a map to be sure.

Trump becomes aggravated about stealth(?) two weeks after Chinese engineers announced they can detect our $2bn stealth planes with common electrical tools

Finally, I listened to this. After so many years in tech universities and companies I am not surprised by the very shallow intellectual level such people possess and apply to interpret reality, but I am surprised that it became so pervasive to affect our reality.

Does anyone know if we can vote our way out of this?

This @joeonhere.bsky.social blog is how I found out I share a birthday with MrBeast futurism.com/mrbeast-birt...

It can't be overstated how far Italy has fallen. At the PCI's peak in 1976 nearly 35% of Italy voted red, making it the largest communist party in Europe. Western foreign policy bugmen squirmed as the PCI looked to become a core element of Italian politics. Feels like another world now

Happy Birthday MrBeast

ditching the old twitter profile pic for this swaggy one courtesy of the goat @avantgardegoth.bsky.social