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3 Amazon software engineers advocated that the city of Seattle pause data center buildouts leading to a unanimous vote for a 1-year moratorium on new data centers in the area.
Amazon initiated disciplinary action and now the workers are suing for retaliation.
Did they cross the line or did Amazon?
"royalty-free knowledge" repackaged as "intelligence"
aka plagiarism.
my keyboard burning because I'm sending this to so many people
napinillos.substack.com/p/the-honest...
A friend texted to let me know his library just got my book in, after he made a purchase request. If you can, please ask your university or local library to also purchase the book!
dukeupress.edu/the-business...
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*Amazon investigating engineers who criticized AI data center expansion*
www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/a...
Excited(?) to relay that this is a degree offered at all institutions of higher learning in the US as well
AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.
@timnitgebru.blacksky.app was really generous with her time when i asked her for this interview for @sciam.bsky.social #sciamyoungscientists. she has a lot of prescient things to say here. take a look. www.scientificamerican.com/article/timn...
The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...
1/ Large language models are "dead cognitive labor" ⦠reanimated. These models are built from years of collective thought; a stockpile of uncredited and uncompensated work. And then the output of this reanimated labor is sold back to us. 𧡠@scottsantens.com #UBI #agenticAI
