“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
—Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013
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This is one of many reasons why designing societies around cars was a mistake. It's not a path to follow, it's something that good civic leaders are now trying to undo. These guys don't understand *anything* about society, yet governments are allowing them to shape our futures with their ignorance.
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Don't wait until it's too late for Epstein-like files to drop when you have the chance to expose networks while they're active.
Well, at least he still has the Taco Bell Arena (Boise State).
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Seems to be in the air. Friday I wrote Sunday's Sentiers and mentioned the Axial Age—which I first learned about in a talk by @jonathanrowson.bsky.social a couple of years ago.
Saturday @noemamag.com's newsletter lead with this.
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Court rules
🔨Google's AI Overviews are NOT search results
🔨search engine liability rules DON'T apply
🔨"users can check for themselves"defense is🐄💩
"Google built the AI[..]so Google owns what it produces, "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering &the algorithms w which the AI operates"
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
No.406 — Sensing the third horizon ⊗ The public should own half of the big AI companies ⊗ Cities that lost the economic development plot ⊗ The illuminated windows of NYC
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The Kennedy Center has removed Donald Trump’s name from its building, its executive director said Saturday, erasing a symbolic fixture of the president’s remaking of Washington, DC.
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Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
Comme l'impression que @mathiasbrunet.bsky.social et autres, dont moi, vont avoir l'opportunité de rire de ce contrat pour plusieurs années. Genre pendant sept ans et demi.
