Charlotte Jee
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News editor at MIT Technology Review, Londoner and all-round good time gal
Read Perfection. Honestly cannot recommend. It would've made a good New Yorker essay poking fun at millennials, but as a novel it's a slog. The writer can write well but seems to have spent far too much time around boring rich people, and doesn't have enough to say.
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e.w. niedermeyer
3 months ago
It's so cool that when the right person lands a direct hit on ol' Elon he can't stop from lighting up and spinning his bowtie like a carnival game clown
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The first instalment of our subscriber-only collaboration with the FT is live today. Our
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www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/03/1...
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The State of AI: Is China about to win the race?
In this conversation, the FT’s John Thornhill and MIT Technology Review’s Caiwei Chen consider the battle between Silicon Valley and Beijing for technological supremacy.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/03/1126780/the-state-of-ai-is-china-about-to-win-the-race/
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simli
3 months ago
are we seriously securitizing ai data centres. are we deadass.
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Anoosh Chakelian
3 months ago
Brilliant cover story this week on the "senile belief system" of "Windsorism" by
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Abolish the monarchy
It’s more than Prince Andrew – the whole House of Windsor is rotten to the core
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/10/abolish-the-monarchy
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Claire Wilmot
4 months ago
I’ve been struck by how the British far right is using deepfake technology — less to deceive about specific events, more to tap into fascistic affects & desires. This is really frightening. My dispatch from grim corners of the Internet, for
@lrb.co.uk
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www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
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Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines
Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/september/fascistic-dream-machines
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Mat Honan ✅
6 months ago
I wrote about tech CEOs and lobtailing
www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1...
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Sam Altman and the whale
The most interesting things happening right now in AI aren’t happening in chatbots.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/1121402/sam-altman-and-the-whale/
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Brian Merchant
6 months ago
Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?
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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-so-big-its-propping
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Tim Onion
6 months ago
Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.
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This is, regrettably, a pretty persuasive take on where we're headed
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse
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MIT Technology Review
6 months ago
“There will be fewer, if any, enforcement actions about how companies are deploying AI,” says former FTC attorney Leah Frazier.
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America’s AI watchdog is losing its bite
“There will be fewer, if any, enforcement actions about how companies are deploying AI,” says former FTC attorney Leah Frazier.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/24/1120645/americas-ai-watchdog-is-losing-its-bite/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
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Jason Koebler
6 months ago
The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive"
www.404media.co/the-astronom...
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The Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Is Emblematic of Our Social Media Surveillance Dystopia
Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.
https://www.404media.co/the-astronomer-ceos-coldplay-concert-fiasco-is-emblematic-of-our-social-media-surveillance-dystopia/
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Generative AI is impressive and great at a small proportion of the tasks we're currently trying to use it for. I can't believe how much fixing/editing we're putting up with for the remaining (majority) of use cases. It does feel a bit like we've collectively lost our minds sometimes.
6 months ago
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jenny tightpants
7 months ago
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MIT Technology Review
7 months ago
The AI model is still slapping garbled, nonsensical captions on videos more than a month after launch, even when users explicitly ask for no captions at all.
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Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem
The AI model is still slapping garbled, nonsensical captions on videos more than a month after launch, even when users explicitly ask for no captions at all.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/15/1120156/googles-generative-video-model-veo-3-has-a-subtitles-problem/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
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Kinell
7 months ago
This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far
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Everything about this story is *fantastic* but I particularly enjoyed the bonus fun sidebar: astronomers absolutely hate the moon
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Marie Le Conte
7 months ago
obviously this is mental in and of itself but man alive it really does suck extra hard when you think about all the ACTUAL CRIMES the police just isn't investigating, because of "lack of resources"
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MIT Technology Review
7 months ago
Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.
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People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics
Some people believe chatbots like ChatGPT can provide an affordable alternative to in-person psychedelic-assisted therapy. Many experts say it’s a bad idea.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1119513/ai-sit-trip-psychedelics/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=bsky&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement
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Ellis Rosen
7 months ago
My cartoon in this weeks
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This has to be one of the bleakest stories from the AI relationships subgenre yet. I genuinely admire the writer's attempt to not portray these people as troubled freaks but I'm afraid it spectacularly failed. Real nails on a blackboard stuff.
www.wired.com/story/couple...
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My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb. We barely survived.
https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbots-and-humans-who-love-them-replika-nomi-chatgpt/
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Anyway the heat is making my floppy cat, Ernie, even floppier, so I'm just going to focus on that for a bit now
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So this where we're at, then. There's no plan, no moral compass, no one has learned anything from history, and no one involved has the slightest clue what they are doing. Great!
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Iyad El-Baghdadi
7 months ago
Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.
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Tits McGee
7 months ago
Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice
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☁️ retornam ☁️
7 months ago
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So happy Heston made this. Every time someone speaks up about their experiences of bipolar, it gets easier for those of us living with it. Poor guy though - I can't imagine living with it all the way to 57 (I was diagnosed a full 30 years younger than that!)
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0029k2h
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Heston: My Life with Bipolar
Chef Heston Blumenthal explores the impact bipolar disorder has had on his life, his creativity and the people he loves, as well as the state of bipolar care in the UK.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0029k2h
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Alex von Tunzelmann
7 months ago
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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Fun story from
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here, about AI models and how easy (or not) it is to get them to talk filth. Claude is a boring prude. DeepSeek is kinda slutty 😏
www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/19/1...
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It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty
Most mainstream AI chatbots can be convinced to engage in sexually explicit exchanges, even if they initially refuse.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/19/1119066/ai-chatbot-dirty-talk-deepseek-replika/
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Trish Greenhalgh
7 months ago
Thanks for the reminder
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. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Mark Brown
7 months ago
Cutting benefits for people with disabilities makes people more Disabled.
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Stephen Collins
7 months ago
I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk
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Blue sky nice ghost
8 months ago
They say the Beach Boys survived the British invasion because of their unique sound. But I think it was that, as a California band, they were 5200 miles away. The British simply didn't have long-range weapons that effectively covered that distance
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What is it about being a woman in your thirties that makes you become absolutely FASCINATED by whatever the moon's up to
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawbe...
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Why tonight's Strawberry Moon is a record-breaking, low-lying phenomenon we won't see again until 2043 | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
This Strawberry Moon of 10-11 June 2025 is the lowest full Moon for nearly two decades: a phenomenon that won’t occur again until 2043.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/strawberry-moon-2025-lowest
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Mar is spot on here. Big Tech bamboozles us and claims its (let's be honest, increasingly crappy) products are inevitable. It tells us we'll be left behind and DIE if we don't all adopt them! They aren't, and we won't. We deserve better.
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Ed Zitron
8 months ago
Something I’m enjoying is watching the right try and make this situation “masculine” when it is two extremely catty and weak-seeming people having a petty, messy and passive aggressive argument in public, refusing to talk to each other at all
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onion person
8 months ago
it’s time to replace all doctors with ai
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Larry the Cat
9 months ago
"Do you even own a black suit?"
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Common People was such a depressing opening to new Black Mirror that I'm not sure I can face watching any more of it. It's irritating too - they could have totally written a hopeful, optimistic version of the EXACT same story, with just a fraction more effort and lateral thinking.
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Getting so tired of this narrative, which is not remotely backed up by evidence. Either Streeting doesn't know that, in which case he's an idiot, or he does and he's saying it anyway, in which case he's a terrible person
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Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions
Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/mar/16/wes-streeting-there-is-overdiagnosis-of-mental-health-conditions
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Rebecca Solnit
11 months ago
These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."
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The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
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Shayne Longpre
12 months ago
I wrote a spicy piece on "AI crawler wars"🐞 in
@technologyreview.com
(my first op-ed)! While we’re busy watching copyright lawsuits & the EU AI Act, there’s a quieter battle over data access that affects websites, everyday users, and the open web. 🔗
www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1...
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AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone
There’s an accelerating cat-and-mouse game between web publishers and AI crawlers, and we all stand to lose.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1111518/ai-crawler-wars-closed-web/
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Karen Hao
11 months ago
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/
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The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/
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In 2021 I called the internet a 'self-reinforcing misogyny machine'. With AI and X and Suck-up Zuck, the problem is only getting worse. So... what are we going to about it? If you're thinking about this or even better actively working on it, I'd love to chat.
www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/01/1...
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A feminist internet would be better for everyone
Life online for women is toxic and filled with hate and sexism. Some activists say it’s time to reimagine how the whole thing works.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/01/1020478/feminist-internet-culture-activist-harassment-herd-signal/
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