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Trying to export all my data from GOOG to migrate to a better service requires signing up for Google Cloud, accept new terms, wait 24 hours to get an export and then not be able to download the export without installing and using a command line tool. That's gotta violate a whole bunch of laws. 🫠
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
I read it. The judge vacated department policies which had no legal justification. Hopefully, this dies before it creates problems.
Trans Mountain Pipeline is my new drag queen wrestling moniker.
(📢) Please RT this 200-post thread on the eve of Elon Musk becoming humanity’s first trillionaire.
I’m a Musk biographer, and my opinion—based on my research—is that he’s one of the most dangerous men alive.
I urge folks to consider this before aiding in enriching him further.
GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.
"If you’re not able to draw a direct line to [how many] useful features and functionality you’re shipping to your users, that tradeoff [on AI spend] becomes harder to justify because AI is not free."
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Kees van der Leun
www.mcsweeneys.net
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
@SethAbramson: (🧵) THREAD: I'm an Elon Musk biographer. Musk and/or his agents have programmed his AI to make false statements about me that the AI makes no effort to substantiate or correct. So here'...
"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."
HODGES: Ukrainians don’t need to attempt a large-scale amphibious landing to capture Crimea right now. They’ve taken a two-step approach. First, isolating Crimea by steadily eroding its mainland connectivity. Second, making Crimea untenable for Russians. There's nowhere to hide.
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The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
Kate from Kharkiv
Seth Abramson
www.chronicle.com
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
