Sunday Morning Reading
The rapid decay of all things continues. Iâm not even sure if âdecayâ is the right word. âCollapseâ might be a better choice. Regardless, thereâs no âdecayâ or âcollapseâ in my sharing articles and writing every week in Sunday Morning Reading. Enjoy.
Russell Shorto tells us that the fracture weâre facing shouldnât surprise in Americaâs Fatal Division Is Nothing New: It Was Baked In From The Beginning. Heâs right and thatâs also nothing new. We just have a propensity for ignoring what we shouldnât.
Marc Elias says We Canât Give In To Fear. Heâs right. But with those we mistakenly counted on having already done so, it makes it tougher for the rest of us.
Brian Barrett of Wired (which continues to do excellent reporting) gives us a rundown on The United States of Elon Musk. Good piece with good context. I donât disagree with his premise that itâs unsustainable. The larger concern is whatâs left in its wake.
NatashaMH opens up a personal tale of exploring justice, relationships, and personal power in The Price of Guns And Butter.
Things arenât just decaying on political and social fronts, technology is marching right alongside, if not leading the charge. John Gruber lays out a mea culpa of sorts in discussing Appleâs less than intelligent move into Artificial Intelligence in Something Is Rotten In The State of Cupertino. Om Malik also weighs in with Apple Intelligence, Fud, Dud or Both. Iâll have more to say on this later this week. I wrote a bit about it last week also.
Will Knight, (again in Wired) tells us that Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told To Remove âIdeological Biasâ From Powerful Models. Tell me. Who didnât see this kind of thing happening?
Cory Doctorow in Pluralistic lays out how Amazon Annihilates Alexa Privacy Settings, Turns On Continuous Nonconsensual Audio Uploading. One way user agreements flow only one way. Again, who didnât see this coming?
In times of uncertain futures itâs always somewhat uncomfortably comforting to reminisce about simpler times. When it comes to technology there was perhaps no simpler or more innocent time than during the age of the Commodore 64, which was my first home computer. Weâve come a long way. Gareth Edwards takes a look at Jack Tramielâs success in How Commodore Invented The Mass Market Computer.
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