More like Air Can’tada, amirite?

This seems generally right to me.

Q: Are there any downsides to this new technology? A: Let’s recall that the printing press had its naysayers, and yet global history since 1500 has been characterized by uninterrupted progress and universal human betterment.

My paper about algorithmic fairness is officially out today in Ergo. I argue that statistical fairness criteria might not give us all the things we hoped they would, but they can still be useful as evidence regarding whether and algorithmic system is fair or biased.

!!!!!! Socialism in the district.

Perfect theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Great article by my colleague Cal Newport in the Times today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

Well, this is a very trustworthy take. It’s not like they have any big financial incentives to talk about how cool and sci fi their technology is. Or a big IPO coming up. Besides, look at their data transparency here: their own internal institute says “trust us bro”. What more could you want?

NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.

"yeah our platforms destroyed journalism and give teen girls body dysmorphia at an industrial scale. no we're not going to do anything about that. instead we're going to spend trillions on AI stuff that, according to us, will take your job and double your power bill"

I know we've all seen it, but this is still the most important analysis of capitalism. www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

This is a great piece. One of the best things on the topic. That’s both a testament to Chiang and the result of how bad work on the topic of LLM consciousness and welfare has been recently.

“The hiring frenzy shows how A.I. can also help create some jobs, even amid dire warnings that the technology could replace vast parts of the work force.” The hiring frenzy for firefighters shows that my new Arsonbot can also help create jobs for firefighters.

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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

I really miss Sakai right now. Open source, decentralized, not owned by private equity, free. Not a target for worldwide shutdown as a ransomware attack.

Low key the best take on chatbots so far (particularly if you take the last line unironically).

May Day on the mall

Sadly evergreen

Another really important piece by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

I love the people in this city. Check out how quickly this sign was vandalized. Also, this article title sounds like it’s an Onion headline, but isn’t.

I would like to issue a formal apology to cartoons for lampooning your villains' level of pointless evil all these years

Important reporting here. We can’t trust emissions numbers offered by tech companies (let alone back of napkin calculations on some dude’s substack), so looking at their infrastructure build-out is one of the few ways we have of estimating the effects of AI on emissions.

The NYT coverage of Mamdani is breathtaking in its complete lack of shame. “But many New Yorkers worried the new moves against the rich could upend livelihoods. Agents working in real estate, a major driver of the city’s economy, were eager to hear more details about plans for a second-home tax.”

This is the way we should talk about immigration.

Roberts has a lot to answer for. If I were him, I would hope there is no hell.

This is great. h/t @neuroyogacara.bsky.social

The Times’ attacks on Mamdani are as absurd as they are shameless. “Muslim socialist Mamdani murders jobs with his hammer and scimitar”

I'm opposed to the President of the United States threatening to commit genocide. Also to him committing genocide, and to all the other crimes against humanity he has already committed. I'm going to take part in the May 1st demonstrations. I hope you will, too. And any that come up before then.

This weekend we had another great edition of the Penn-Georgetown Digital Ethics Workshop. We had eight excellent talks, along with comments from eight great commentators. I really enjoyed the conversations. This year, we were hosted again by Penn.

The NYT page today is really a bizarre thing to see. Trump threatening genocide, accompanied by an article about his wife’s “unexpected Easter look”.

Don’t these foolish progressives know that the only way to build real political power is to toady up to wealthy donors while projecting an air of smug superiority?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In a short span of time, we transformed the way we thought about health,” Cal Newport writes. “I’ve come to believe that a similarly rapid revolution is possible in how we respond to our diminishing ability to think.”

"Sora is dead. May the memory of its four-month existence as a copyright infringement machine that was also used to make videos of men strangling women and ICE arresting undocumented immigrants be a blessing. " www.404media.co/disneys-open...

Can't wait for this! Incredible line-up.

A few things on the end of Horizon Worlds, the metaverse that Mark Zuckerberg believed in so much that he renamed his company: 1) It’s very sad that many of the people who worked on it have been unceremoniously laid off because their leaders appear to have no idea what they’re doing 2) lol

Philpeople needs a dislike button.

On the topic of current events.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊