The basic idea is this. So much becomes clear when you actually label the relationships between things. It’s something I do every day, and I do it very naturally. But it is not something everyone does naturally. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-393-wh...

Holy smokes! If you acted like Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a corporate meeting, they would report you to HR. Just saying.

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"In the era of AI, whoever controls the context holds the power." Controlling infrastructure gives power. Has little to do with AI and is not a new thing.

"the future of computing will be hyper-personalized" We've been sold this bill of goods for decades now. But "everyone gets ChatGPT to lie to them in slightly different ways" is not it chief.

"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit." Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

So a big part of the Project 2025 goals hinges on forcing women out of the workforce. The Heritage Foundation knows that women voters hold the most power in terms of sheer numbers. If they can push you out of the workforce, they can push you out of your voting rights.

“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI” Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”

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The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

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Key findings; Brexit has imposed a large and persistent cost on the UK economy. By 2025, they estimate that UK GDP per capita was 6–8% lower than it would have been without Brexit. Investment was 12–18% lower, employment 3–4% lower, and productivity 3–4% lower. /2

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

I totally confused the Spotify algorithm 🤣 My 2025 top music listening genres were: 1. Afro House 2. Electronica 3. Mediaeval Folk (!) 4. Jazz 5. Classical 🎧🎶🤘

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Because frightened politicians and a compromised media dare not say that crime is falling, Nigel Farage and his demagogic allies are getting away with the most extraordinary lies

Late stage capitalism is finding New ways to turn every aspect of human life/expression into a casino and have all the shareholders clap at this "innovation".

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

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a load-bearing component of “the magic of Christmas” is the invisible domestic labor of moms you are now realizing how much she was doing for you and instead of just thanking her you’ve decided it’s about the decline of civilization

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Another photo as she raced past me. #beltedkingfisher #birds #photography

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"UK ministers aim to ban cryptocurrency political donations over anonymity risks" buff.ly/EyJNM2E

I asked the machine if you had joy 💀

One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain. "The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

Oh shit waddup

I’m glad they told us how far away the dimension line is from the house

Inspired choice to satisfy mixed-use zoning requirements

A reminder that London is far safer than many major cities, that crime is falling and that racists hate both these truths because they undermine their vicious little divisive narrative. Multiculturalism works. London works. And those who hate both things hate themselves most of all.

As nominally left parties enact transphobia please remember that the German "National Socialists" worked on eliminating trans people¹ before they eliminated the Socialists from their own party². ¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institu... ² en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_o...

What's the accepted emoji to represent AI Slop? 💩? 🤮? 🍲? Something else?

Factor Fexcectorn was my fav Star Wars figure.

I'm sure the text makes everything clear...oh.

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

That scene with the Death Star rising over Scarif in Rogue One, except this time it's Saturn's icy moon Mimas

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

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I think where I’m starting to land, with my experienced pre and post coding agents: 1. This is true, coding agents make you more productive if you know how to use them. 2. MBAs hoping coding agents will replace coders wholesale are going to be very disappointed with the results if they try.

Demolishing the East Wing of the White House before finalizing plans for what will be built above its ruins is a near-perfect metaphor for Trump's approach to economic policy. The only difference is the wrecking crew doesn’t claim the rubble is evidence of unprecedented growth.

I also am reasonably convinced that certain aspects of what we call "AI" - a horribly imprecise term that covers LLMs but also all machine learning algos - are going to be essential for energy system management if we want grids with renewables, to take just one example.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.