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  • Paula Vennells: Ex-Post Office boss handing back CBE over IT scandal

    Class + IT == Toxic. The UK are about to unleash Palantir on their public health system… I predict that in 4 years we’ll see an event that makes the Post Office affair look just and kind. Former Post Office boss Paula Vennells is handing back her CBE with immediate effect after facing mounting pressure…

  • Pluralistic: Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s “A City On Mars” (09 Jan 2024)

    the Weinersmiths aren’t anti-space. They aren’t even anti-space-settlement. Rather, they argue that the path to space-based scientific breakthroughs, exploration of our solar system, and a deeper understanding of our moral standing in a vast universe cannot start with space settlements. Landing people on the Moon or Mars any time soon is a stunt – a…

  • How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom

    In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders. … So what are a viewer’s options when a studio or streamer abruptly yanks a film or series from distribution or,…

  • Beware Lifestyle Fascism

    Unlike influencers in the so-called “wellness-to-fascism” pipeline, the Johnsons do not exploit skepticism toward mainstream health expertise to prime their audiences for right-wing talking points. Instead, they start with a fascist aesthetic tradition that prizes hard young bodies and fuse it with the language of self-help culture, promising potential followers eternal life among a cadre…

  • AI Image Generators Are Spitting Out Copyrighted Characters, Raising Possibility of Catastrophic Lawsuit

    As professor and author Gary Marcus and film industry concept artist Reid Southen, who has worked on several major films for the likes of Marvel and Warner Brothers, argue in a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, tools like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney could land both companies in a “copyright minefield.” https://futurism.com/ai-image-generators-copyrighted-characters

  • It’s Humans All the Way Down

    If you could sum up what we learned in 2023, and I think what tech has learned, too, is that people matter. Even in the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and human relationships still matter, and you can’t shortcut it. – Rich Ziade, Aboard Podcast https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/humans-all-the-way-down/

  • WHAT SELF-DRIVING CARS TELL US ABOUT AI RISKS

    If you’re an adenoidal keyboard warrior from IT who still buys Musk BS on this topic, you’re fucking dumb or actively misanthropic. No amount of wishful thinking is going to magic this fairy tale into existence with the current approach. IN 2016, JUST WEEKS before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, I pleaded with…

  • Avoiding technology

    We are entering into the next phase of the digital technology revolution. Passive consumption is no longer cutting it. We need to be active and critical users. [Amish communities] designate a few community members as nerds who can try out a technology and report back on how it changed their families and their focus. The…

  • As AI Rises, Is Web3 Dead in the Water?

    VCs poured money into virtual worlds, crypto startups, and NFT firms in 2021. They now have their sights set elsewhere. https://www.inc-aus.com/sam-blum/as-ai-rises-is-web3-dead-in-the-water.html

  • ROBOTICS EXPERT SAYS AI HYPE IS DUE FOR A BRUTAL REALITY CHECK

    Brooks isn’t saying the AI industry is doomed, mind you, but that such ambitious technological advancements take time — and a lot of it. Whether the industry’s financial backers are ready to hunk down and play the long game, though, is more dubious. https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotics-expert-ai-hype-reality-check