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just 10 people accumulated $700 billion dollars in the last year. that's over $5k per household in the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app

We do have an extra hour to work with

You have to be a real trashcan to use “AI” tools to make videos of cute babies and animals. If you can’t come up with an adequate supply of cute babies and animals using reality, you are, I repeat, a trashcan.

People are saying that AI will transform the way we teach and learn. It has already transformed the way students cheat and, to my surprise, how they apologize for cheating.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

"Cal State’s A.I. initiative was driven in part by state officials who had heard concern from leading tech companies that local students lacked the A.I. skills the companies needed." 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝟙𝟝 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕘𝕠 𝕕𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕨𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕙𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤.

"...the university is paying OpenAI $16.9 million to provide ChatGPT Edu to more than half a million students and staff." CSU is paying a private company so that company can access the captive market of students and faculty. Meanwhile CSU faces funding shortfalls.

"In the end, generative AI might be a blip in tech history, over-promising and under-delivering until finally the cash runs out. But it seems it’s arrived just in time to shove universities over a cliff edge..." defector.com/higher-eds-r...

One of the better photographs depicting modernity, I'd say:

The Trump administration announced yesterday that the $100k H1B fee would only apply to workers who are not already in the US on another visa. This preserves the path to employment for people currently attending American universities.

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Whole websites and online businesses suddenly realizing what the Washington Post and the city of Venice already know: Never let Jeff Bezos be in charge of your day.

Great moments in redaction history.

Wonder if it will take three years?

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

TT position in East Asian Media, Visual & Popular Cultures at UT-Austin, deadline 10/24. faculty.utexas.edu/career/168988

Well, hey, how cool is this? 👏👏👏

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of a new report, “Roadmap to the Texas Media Industries: The Passage of the 2025 Film Incentive and Beyond.” This report includes more than a dozen articles produced by a team of researchers from UT-Austin and beyond. moody.utexas.edu/media/roadma...

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

This AI remake of SWINGERS sucks

Left: In a desperate effort to find reasonable use case, OpenAI is running ads during the baseball playoffs about how you can use ChatGPT to plan a road trip. www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4o... Right: What happens if you actually do that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Netflix has 12 pre-1980 films in October. They had as many as 21 in July. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) is now their oldest American film. List in alt text. #FilmSky #Streaming

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

We're hiring at USC Cinematic Arts! Non-tt, teaching faculty. Focused on teaching our famed Intro to Cinema class. Phd Req This is a cool role w/a lot of influence for the whole cinema program at USC. I'd be applying if I weren't in a gig Be my colleague! usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Let’s go

Moving into your house. If you want me gone you must fax me this notarized form in triplicate on the last thursday of a leap year; bsky.app/profile/abeb...

Age yourself with a film you saw in a theater as a kid

City of Austin adding an additional incentive boost on top of the increased state film incentives. Exciting news! www.kvue.com/article/news...

I love him so much

Shocking!

So. Again: There's no such thing as a "Generative AI" system that doesn't generate bullshit, because the processes whereby bullshit is generated are the exact same processes via which "Gen AI" do anything at all. And this was obvious from even a broadly theoretical understanding of their operations

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Oh this is BAD. The new TOC from academia dot edu. You grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness…

so glad we're spending trillions on this technology!

I have just done a quick analysis of what the US media landscape would look like should Paramount SD's bid to takeover Warner Bros. Discovery go ahead. Paramount SD's market share would sore from ~10% of the $223B market to 26%. 1/

No seriously media outlets: Get gaming desks, your internet culture desks, & your extremism desks linked up YESTERDAY or you're going to find yourselves missing so much context it'll be fundamentally embarrassing. Already seen things from NYT, BBC, & AP all failing to elucidate CRUCIAL information.

"universal health care means studios wouldn’t have to subsidize workers’ medical expenses" -- hmmm interesting

I can’t believe we’re having the kind of day where congress releases a video of a UFO flying off after being hit by a hellfire missile and it’s not even one of the top three news stories of the day

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