Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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Mar Hicks
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Sorry but hate presenting this as “ooh this is the scary future under reform” like this isn’t the Scary Present under Labour. This is not Reform’s Britain, this is Labour’s Britain. Its here its now and laying responsibility explicitly outside of the Actual Current Gov is a major mistake
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Once again, everyone is now worried there's an AI bubble. It is, and it will deflate. But deflating doesn't undo the harmful effects, as @histoftech.bsky.social and I wrote back in 2024…
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"AI will solve Canada's productivity crisis"
"AI will solve the climate crisis"
"AI will prevent the next pandemic"
"AI will strengthen democracy"
"AI will expand access to education"
idk seems like it's usually doing the opposite so far?
Every Reuters US market story is like "stocks plunged sharply downward on news that Trump has started four more wars, the plague of the living dead claimed another three cities, and Death himself has been spotted walking the land to reap our souls, before rallying to close up 0.2% for the day."
