WaPo can be criticized for many things, but this is both great journalistic work and the kind of format where a legacy media brand can compete with YouTube. Going as far as licensing and including the stems of 'Take on Me' is brilliant. (I have thoughts on music demuxing...for another day)

London has had a Muslim-raised mayor for 9 years, Sir Sadiq Khan. He is the first mayor of London to be elected for three terms and the first to be knighted, so he's not unpopular. So yes, that's probably what "they" want. Travel more, you absolute waste of space, water and oxygen!

THIS!!! (Still remember seeing footage on MTV News of Judas Priest's Rob Halford in a respectable suit screaming his lungs out in court when the prosecutor asked him to demonstrate his singing.)

The great Fred Turner strikes again. I've always found that Barbrook and Cameron's "California Ideology" should have been named "Santa Clara County Ideology', as it fails to consider the diversity of the state. But Fred, as you would expect, gets it right with this one.

So now, Meta will obviously reverse all the content moderation changes they made because of the "cultural tipping point" the 2024 election represented according to Zuck...right? Right? Right? Right?

Something about the little guy on the leave button in zoom is ominous. where is he going

I think Evgeny Morozov's arguments against the notion that we live in a techno-feudal society are convincing. No Kings very literally demonstrates that. But perhaps we now live in what we could call cultural techno-feudality, in which we accept feudalism-adjacent conditions under techno-hegemons?

The comments on the sandwich guy being found not guilty are hilarious.

yeah man nothing says "principled engineering" like giving a trillion dollars to a sociopathic white supremacist cosplaying as an engineer who tries to silence his sexual harassment victims by buying them a pony

And I study what people like Matthew and Amy do, how it plays into the larger socio-technical ecosystem and how it impacts democracy and humanity. Matthew and Amy are both right. Follow their advice. Any "public interest" that this story might have is outweighed by the damage it WILL do.

Stories like these build momentum. Let's surface them.

Had to share this from twitter just because

Any historians on here who can point me to a past incident of mass exodus of wealthy people from a global metropolis because of tax increases on top income? I can't think of any. People live in places for many reasons other than money, like schools, prestige, and being with your community.

a lot of people are quoting this and saying things like “standing up for trans rights is a winning political strategy” and while I agree with this, win or lose standing up for trans rights is important - no, vital - because it’s the right thing to do.

NBC CALLS THAT PROP 50 PASSES WITH...checks notes...ZERO PERCENT OF THE VOTE IN

Okay, NYP, you people are STUPID and UNEDUCATED. The DSA are essentially European-style Social Democrats. The hammer and sickle is a Communist symbol adopted during the Russian Revolution. One advocates reform, the other revolution. One is democratic, the other is not. FOOKIN IJITS!

Appointment television.

Phew. Just a few mins ago, if you added up the Cuomo and Sliwa vote, it was exactly the same as Mamdani's. It matters for the mandate, it matters for what it says about the direction we are going in that he broke 50%. Now we know that he would have won even if Sliwa had dropped out.

And history is made.

I don't really believe in evil. I think most "evil" people act out of fear from behind a hard face. The doc "The World According to Dick Cheney" (2013) reveals a very scared man who thought he had to act or things would implode. And who had too much power to do so. It doesn't excuse his actions.

For those of you interested in polcomm and who aren't in CA, here's what I got over the past few weeks to try and sway me in tomorrow's vote. Direct mail is dead. Thank goodness.

The Platform Economy strikes again. OpenAI is now dependent on Amazon, who is already heavily invested in one of OpenAIs greatest competitors, Anthropic. In terms of power, Amazon just became the biggest AI player, simply by controlling dominant platforms and infrastructure. Platforms über alles!

Fellow American Academics: It worked! Our secret plan to indoctrinate students into marxist-stalinist-commie-wokeist-pedophiles is a success! With counterrevolutionary pressure applied to our curricula form above, we managed this with pure telepathy and subliminal messages. Great job, comrades!

You know AI has jumped the shark and the bubble is about to burst when Tony Robbins is doing AI events. Avoid at all costs.

I live down the street. I can confirm this to be true.

I make no assumptions, but if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wins handily, it’s gonna be a fascinating week for punditry cope, likely distilled to: “OK, But Not Every Single Person Voted For Him” “A Lot of People Voting for a Leftist Doesn’t Prove that a Lot of People Would Vote for a Leftist”

Maybe I'm just of a generation that grew up with him. But Jon Stewart continues to articulate how I feel about the world with astonishing clarity. "Social Media is ultra-processed speech"? I'll take it.

If you see this quote with a robot that is not from star wars, star trek, doctor who, or transformers

How did this nutcase ever become CEO of Intel? (That's a rhetorical question, I'm sure he took Failupwards Blvd.)

One of the Louvre thieves was caught trying to board a flight at CDG with some of the stolen items. Wow, that's dumb. You don't flee through Paris' main airport. You take trains Paris->Marseille ->Girona, Spain, rent a car, drive it to Algeciras, walk onto the ferry to Morocco and disappear.

996 can go to hell. I prefer my work hours to be like my folder permissions: 755.

I love Eddie Olmos, who I got to meet and hang out with a couple of times because he was a fan of a band I was in. But he's wrong here. He forgot about Holden, who Voight-Kampffs Leon in the very first scene in the film.

I just think we should start referring to China's leader as 11.

chat is this good

They should just call it the Tech Brollroom. A new low for the industry.

@davie504.bsky.social's deadpan humor is one of my favorite online things. But he has a very serious point here: While YouTube auto-threatens him for copyright violations, his music is being uploaded to AI platforms and used without consequence. It's not the tech, it's the platforms, folks.

"Brown liquid"? It's clearly not hot cocoa he's pouring on the protesters. If anything, it could be unbaked brownie dough, but come on, use the word "feces" if you need to. Trump took a dump on the people in the most disrespectful public comment he's made. It's not going to help him in the polls.

Amost spot on. There are expected/unexpected aggregate effects when you pile together human knowledge. But other than that, @vortexegg.com is right. The key point, I think, is the last one. I really should write that book on how convenience drives tech adoption I've been planning for 15 years.

Yup, he's lost it. Or at least, he's lost any feeling for the public sentiment toward AI.

In case it isn't obvious, this is not just an appeal for self-forgiveness but also a statement that there is strength in numbers. There's very little you can control on your own. But in combination with others, very little turns into a lot. #NoKings

Whatever you're facing, remember: A deck of cards has more combination possibilities than seconds the universe has existed. That's just 52 objects. Now consider the millions of objects and beings that combine to shape your life. You have very little control on your own. Just do the best you can.

How can I tell you how old I am without stating my age? I didn't know CNN's readers were so young that they needed an explanation of what 'The X-files' was.

Phew.

While we in the U.S. fight to keep religion out of government, they fight to keep the government out of religion in China. The irony is palpable. Also, never forget that Confucianist nationalism and virtue tyranny is what keeps China undemocratic - not necessarily their state capitalism.

World mood. Ye ken?

Literally all the new music I'm discovering right now and really like is from Ireland. The indie scene over there right now is on fire. Here's another one.

Peter Thiel is truly losing it. With his old pal Elon's brain also being on the fritz, it makes you wonder what the hell they were sniffing in the early PayPal days or when they grew up in South Africa. Gift article. wapo.st/4q5wR6S

PC Gamer just used this promo image from Blade Runner 2049 to illustrate the coming AI crash. Can we please standardize it as our AI crash symbol?* Thanks. *not to be confused with an AI crash cymbal.

Ever since the late 1980s, I have always found VERYANGRYMETAL with silly/humorous lyrics incredibly funny. There's something about the contrast between the enormous anger and the unserious message that's just hilarious. Now there's an AI version of that. With corresponding video. And I'm crying 😂