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David Meyer
🧵A quick note to translate what's really happening in this NYT op-ed: Eric Schmidt has always had contempt for non-tech people, reflective of a deeper orientation in the industry. This is more of that.
Short 🧵🧵🧵
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What the hell?
The Associated Press @apnews.com
South Africa midfielder Jayden Adams, who played at the World Cup, has died. He was 25.
It's Saturday! 📺
Post a cartoon TV series you love.
Post a cartoon TV series you love.
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The Powerpuff Girls Pillow Fight
Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me
It's Saturday! 📺
Post a cartoon TV series you love.
Post a cartoon TV series you love.
This was a great gig and I bought the T-shirt with this design, and I’m desperately trying to figure out the meaning of the numbers (apart from 1979 which was when their debut album dropped)
The Cure @thecure.com
BERLIN. NIGHT ONE OF THREE.
ON STAGE: 20:30
THE TWILIGHT SAD: 19:15
JUST MUSTARD: 18:15
📷 MILES TSANG
ON STAGE: 20:30
THE TWILIGHT SAD: 19:15
JUST MUSTARD: 18:15
📷 MILES TSANG
Surely, surely this is the year when the politics around the climate crisis change
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
This isn't a "US throwing its weight around" sort of thing, heavy-handed hegemon influence. This is just straight-up having a formalized de jure colony.
Simon Lester @simonlester.com
"The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks, a relationship akin to parents handing out allowances to children."
This is a crazy arrangement. We should stop doing this immediately.
This is a crazy arrangement. We should stop doing this immediately.
“The companies selling us new technology often assume that people most familiar with it will like it most. Our findings [about AI] show that this isn’t true." ⬇️
Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social
The UK AI pushback: 42% of people are deliberately limiting their AI use and 70% of people think it would be difficult or impossible to avoid being exposed to AI even if they wanted to. New report from us at @kings-dfi.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...
![[Scene is a kitchen, a person is boiling some peas on the hob]
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PERSON 1:
Oh dear!
PERSON 2:
What is it babe?
2
PERSON 1:
I am so overwhelmed with cooking these peas...
PERSON 2:
You mean you’re not using AI peas?
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PERSON 1:
AI peas?
PERSON 2:
They’re peas with AI!
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PERSON 2:
AI powered peas harness the potential of your peas
PERSON 1:
What
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PERSON 2 [Now in voice-over as hi tech meaningless graphics play]:
Taking your peas to the next level with new AI features powering your peas
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PERSON 2 [V/O over increasingly ridiculous graphics]:
Each pea has AI in a way we haven’t quite worked out yet but it’s fine
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PERSON 2:
Putting AI to work for your peas and connecting every corner of your peas
PERSON 1:
Peas don’t have corners
PERSON 2:
It does not matter!
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PERSON 2:
Our game-changing PEA-AI gives you the freedom to get the peas done
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PERSON 2:
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
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PERSON 2:
to spending millions on adding AI to the peas and then having to work out what that means
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PERSON 1:
Is it necessary to -
PERSON 2 [grabbing her buy the cardigan]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
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[Advert ending image showing the product, a bag of peas, with its slogan]
PEA-I AI PEAS WITH AI
Just ‘peas’ for God’s sake buy the AI peas
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Older article, but still right: "Finding ourselves on this lush, beautiful, abundant planet [Earth] is not some testament to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of life. Nor is it a coincidence. This is where life could happen; we are here because this is where we could be."
My Op-ed: The public is in all but name a shareholder of AI companies. It is time that the public receives socially beneficial technology in return for its investment. @computerweekly.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/3r4cckmv
Paper: Optimising for Happiness in EU Tech Policy tinyurl.com/44cv5kd8
tinyurl.com/3r4cckmv
Paper: Optimising for Happiness in EU Tech Policy tinyurl.com/44cv5kd8
The danger of using voxpops in place of real analysis. Cameras are a magnet for motivated activists. These two made it into four different reels + a dozen print pieces. The illusion is that we're getting an insight into "Clacton voters". In truth, we just know what Farage Megastans Jim & June think.
I think it makes perfect sense to bring absurdity to an absurdity fight
John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social
Catch-up: Martin Bell, the anti-corruption candidate in Tatton, 1997, on Clacton www.independent.co.uk/voices/nigel...
want to email me? that will be david at dmeyer dot eu
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