good thing nobody looks at their phone otherwise i'd be concerned that this sounds like always on surveillance

What could possibly go wrong? 🙄

Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

"Locking billions of U.S. dollars in into AI-focused data centers without a clear exit strategy for these investments in case the AI craze ends, only means that systemic risk in finance and the economy is building." www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Welcome to the age of AI. "Deloitte will partially refund payment for an Australian government report that contained multiple errors after admitting it was partly produced by artificial intelligence."

phil penman #railwaystation #hamburg #b&wphoto

"The main reason AI is regarded as a magic fix for so many different threats is that it is expected to deliver a significant boost to productivity growth, especially in the US." There is no productivity boost. This whole thing is one big shell game.

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There seems to be a demand for violence as a form of entertainment.

“The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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I know this might sound old-fashioned, but all I really want from a car is to get me from point A to point B safely and comfortably. Nothing else.

At our Climate Week NYC event, @iipp-ucl.bsky.social's @mazzucatom.bsky.social warned that placing artificial constraints on climate investment today will lead to far higher costs in the future. Watch the full event at the link: bit.ly/4p94eoV #PSEvents @open-society.bsky.social

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w eugene smith #pride #streetphoto #monochrome

Politics has become nothing more than a spectacle.

DEUTSCHE: NVIDIA "is currently carrying the weight of US economic growth. The bad news is that in order for the tech cycle to continue contributing to GDP growth, capital investment needs to remain parabolic. This is highly unlikely.” @fortune.com fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...

Going to make a 'capital doesn't only thrive under liberal economic institutions but fascist ones too' card to put up every time we wonder how easy they give in

“The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.” ― Hannah Arendt, On Violence

Viktor Orban has made Hungary one of the poorest countries in the EU www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Tell them what they need to hear, or tell them what they want to hear?

"The present frenzy surrounding artificial intelligence will not last forever. As the limitations of generative AI become clearer, and as the economic returns on massive corporate investments fail to materialize at the expected scale, the speculative bubble will inevitably burst."

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"In this context, the way technology changes work is neither automatic nor inevitable. It is shaped by collective choices about what kinds of work, and what kinds of working lives, society is willing to sustain." www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

“To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.” ― Hannah Arendt, On Violence

Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor with bonus Mira Murati from Thinking Machines and OpenAI! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKBv... - video pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250920-alb... - podcast time: 4 min 04 sec

One photograph. A honeymoon in 1941. And a firestorm that tore through Albanian social media. @leaypi.bsky.social tells Pete Hoskin why she spent years hunting for the truth about her grandmother:

Given that cloud computing has become such a central part of our lives — and the serious harms already caused by concentration in this sector — it should be regulated as a public utility, Michelle Nie, Theodora Skeadas, Nick Garcia, and Elise Phillips write. buff.ly/ohdJrBM

This is an excellent read. 👇

This is an excellent read. 👇

It's just the beginning.

The art of being present and not being present at the same time.

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

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Perception matters, but it needs to be created.

SOV matters...

Do we have to accept that we will never have a shared reality again?

There are times in life I am jealous I didn't think to create something, and then there are times when I realize I could never create a work of satire this perfect. This new project of his is amazing.

...loudest voices still echo the same old male-dominated, market-centered dogma. Without structural changes and real efforts to open the field to new ideas, the issues women tend to bring to the table, like labor protections, inequality and a more hands-on role for government, keep getting sidelined

Not being a sociopath seems to be a massive disadvantage these days.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

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If it can't be put in an Excel spreadsheet, it doesn't exist. 🤷‍♀️

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.” ― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Whelp, never again seeing what was on this 🤣