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  • Footguns Ahoy: AI Dynamic Pricing

    …this kind of short-sighted innovation, just the kind Silicon Valley adores, is untested and untrustworthy and will cause a societal meltdown that will make the results of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans look like Sunday school, possibly ending in a near-famine if adopted. 

  • When Star Wars just fesses up to being a kids story…

    … it looks really cool and fun. It’s the same with Andor… when it creates something unashamedly adult, it’s really engaging. When Star Wars falls into the gap in between adult and kids – it flounders. Maybe they should produce stuff that sits at either end of the age spectrum and not muddy the creative…

  • Roundup: Don’t buy the “Zuckessance”

    We’ve gone from the days of #DeleteFacebook campaigns to people seriously making the argument that leaving Twitter/X because of Elon Musk’s ongoing promotion of right-wing political movements to instead post on Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads makes you morally superior. It’s a perverse state of affairs that shows too many people need to remember that Zuckerberg is still a…

  • Between Optimism and Despair: The Messy Middle Paths Through Climate Breakdown

    The complex crises we face demand that we move beyond totalising attitudes to optimism and realism. We must embrace a more nuanced understanding that incorporates a range of adaptive strategies and actions. This model is intended not as a new, fixed framework for the way things are, but a device with which to loosen up…

  • RPi Pico… now with RISC-V cores!

    The Pico 2 board retails for $5 and, according to the Pi team, retains backwards hardware and software compatibility with previous versions. While the on-chip memory has been upped to 520KB – there is also 4 MB of on-board QSPI flash – the two RISC-V Hazard3 CPU cores included in the microcontroller may well interest…

  • A Joule Thief in a Fuse…

    I totally love this! A joule thief is a sort of minimum-component voltage booster that can suck nearly every last drop of energy from even seemingly-drained batteries, and is probably most famously used to light LEDs from cells that are considered “dead”.

  • Tim Walz Pick ENDS Obama Era?

    … just maybe Hey there neo-liberalism. Careful the door doesn’t hit you on the ass on the way out.

  • It was only ever spicy auto-complete

    It was never civilization destroying… and they knew it. They pumped that angle because regulatory capture was the only moat they could really create. When asked if generative AI would usher in revolutionary economic changes, Acemoglu had a straightforward answer. “No. No. Definitely not,” Acemoglu told NPR. “I mean, unless you count a lot of companies…

  • More than half of all cars sold in China in July were electric

    While sales of petrol- and diesel-powered cars slumped in July, sales of fully electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids were up 37% compared to a year before. As a result, new-energy vehicles comprised 51% of total sales, according to the CPCA. For context, the International Energy Agency projects that electric models will account for one in…

  • Anand Giridharadas on Morning Joe: “[Walz] is a PSA for white folks, older folks, men, rural dwellers, and others: You don’t need to be afraid of the future.”

    Permission structures and vibes… Some super insightful comments here.