It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

It’s so cool to have hitched your wagon 20 years ago to an industry that was booming beyond anyone’s expectations and have it turn out to be stripmined and utterly hollowed out by Shareholder Value, and every other industry you could slot into has been, surprise, hollowed out by Shareholder Value

I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes

Just a gentle reminder to save PDFs of the work you published this year especially in digital publications because you could look up one day and find that that pub doesn’t exist anymore and isn’t archived anywhere and is just gone Ask me how I know!

In the age of AI, it's easy to make deepfake porn. But victims find it hard to undo the damage www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...

When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy! #LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography

Just fascinated at what point the “replacement for the real thing” pipeline stops. Why wouldn’t users just use an llm and instruct it to pretend to be one of those stars? Why wouldn’t users just create their own OnlyFans star that’s fully generated? What are they paying for exactly?

Is this why OpenAI is calling for a pre-bubble bust bailout

If you were an early customer in those 100 calls you probably have grounds for a lawsuit There’s no way the contract doesn’t include privacy clauses for the meeting data

Wage growth among all workers is declining significantly, with low-wage workers hit especially hard. www.ft.com/content/cfa6...

NEW: My Udemy course 'Propaganda & Disinformation for Beginners' has helped students in 26 countries worldwide strengthen their armour against disinformation since it launched 2 years ago. Techniques Cambridge Analytica used to secretly profile millions have become a vastly profitable industry.. /1

Като Българка, радвам се невероятно много че хомофобите губят, даже и при нас

Recently made a joke about the UK not being part of Europe on here and the amount of aggrieved pedantism was wild Everyone knows how bad Brexit it. Regular people feel the pain of that self own day to day. And it won’t change anything -there’s been no meaningful movement in the UK to reverse course

‘This comes down to power.’ Why the clash between frustrated renters and the Ford government feels different this time

Really struggling to think of practical gifts an uncle should buy his niece for her first Christmas to help give her the best possible start in life. So far all I've come up with is a Bloomberg Terminal

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Reith Lecture of Rutger Bregman www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... includes realist utopias, UBI and tech regulation

90% of deep fake images online are non-consensual pornographic images of women and girls. And yet, these images are not yet illegal in Canada.

You can understand better why it‘s so hard to get Toronto‘s political class to care about public space when you see the arguments neighbours make *against* a local park Someone is literally worried about the possibility that teenagers might hang out there www.thestar.com/news/crime/d...

Starting January 1st, California will mandate that any use of AI-altered real estate photos in listings be disclosed, and that a link to the unaltered image be included. It will be a criminal offense to fail to make this disclosure.

Deloitte used AI without doing any fact checking on the information it provided, making “recommendations” on Newfoundland & Labrador’s healthcare system using made up sources and papers I hope this constitutes contractual beach and the province can claw back the $1.6M for the “analysis” they got

James is chin-stroking about the end of democracy here, and I’d point out that the key issue for almost two decades has been a political/media class increasingly making it very clear they will choose actual Norsefire fascism over any kind of backsliding on Thatcherism, if pushed archive.ph/qBzgr

Why is the largest company on the stock market arguing with random points in this memo? why is it written in the most defensive tone possible? This feels like 3 accountants and 4 lawyers tried to stop Jensen Huang from posting it and got overruled

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents alike https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1764037440

The funniest part is that the “gender neutral corporate speech” crowd was into EVs first and admitting that the tail wagged the dog would make that man big mad so instead he’s invented an alternate reality

White girl placebo effect is the raison d’être for 80% of the wellness market

Former CEO of his dad's company has job search tips for the general public.

The problem facing men is that, like femininity, masculinity is defined by backward stereotypes about what men should be. These stereotypes – signs of financial success, respect & seniority at work & in public – have always been out of reach for many men. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At this point X is like 1950s Vienna, a whole place made up entirely of spies, running ops against other spies, with no non-spy people. Or maybe like a 1971 Black Panthers convention where 3/4 of the attendees are conintelrpo.

I am not going to dive into the back and forth on piracy. I have a side, you can guess what it is. But I will say one thing: if you get the books from your library, you're still not paying for it and the author does get compensated.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before

Here is my peace plan for Ukraine/Russia. 1. Russia gets the fuck out of Ukraine. 2. Putin goes on trial in the Hague. 3. Russia pays everyone for everything. 4. Trump gets impeached, convicted, and sent to jail. Thanks for your attention to this matter.

Absolutely fascinating thread on the history of how medicine raised bar for qualifications for doctors when chiropractors became recognized and licensed

Ford just forced his anti tenant Bill 60 through the legislature

The implication that exercising civil right to protest isn’t in the interest of people with jobs is absolutely ludicrous coming from the premier

maybe i am going insane

Not the “let it rip” they thought they’d get, but entirely predictable

There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE

bro you're such a chad. you know wanna know what's some sigma mindset shit though? setting up an SPV to hold all of this private equity backed debt off your company's books. enron printed so much paper with this move. ken lay was a fucking legend

my "Not Enron" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

At this point online advertising is basically a direct subsidy program of the platforms but it’s an entire industry with thousand and thousands of people employed so there’s little incentive to push platforms very hard either We’re in mutually assured destruction territory

People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old