If I am reading a news article and I see a headline that says, “Why It Matters”, I close it immediately.

This kind of infantilising garbage started in the 2010s, I think, probably with Vox.

I am so tired of the present-day media that tries so hard to “reach” me “where I’m at”. I like reading newspaper articles from 40 years ago, not because their editorial positions were necessarily right and defensible, but because they were written under a shared expectation of sufficient culture and assumed intrinsic will-to-knowledge — the virtues of a ‘Citizen’.

So the Epstein Regime is going to lift oil sanctions on Iran and manipulate oil futures markets?

"The Trump administration is considering lifting sanctions on around 140 million barrels of Iranian oil currently stranded on tankers..."

Scott Bessent said, “So, to be clear, we’re not intervening in the financial markets."

"He also stressed that the Treasury would 'absolutely not' intervene in oil futures markets..."

So... intervening.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/international-business/us-may-unsanction-140-million-barrels-of-iranian-oil-to-cool-prices-as-gulf-war-shakes-energy-markets/articleshow/129682500.cms

As I see it there are 3 broad possibilities for the future of AI.

1) it works, knowledge workers are replaced wholesale, no one is earning enough to buy anything anymore, the economy collapses.

2) it doesn't work, the investors start to demand results that cannot be delivered, the speculative bubble bursts, the economy collapses.

3) it doesn't work, but it's sold to incredulous buyers as if it does, this looks like option 1, but so much worse because there's nothing of value to buy anyway.

We've published a new legal opinion, raising questions over the legality of the use of AI tools in the UK asylum system.

Applicants aren't being informed of their use by decision-makers, nor being given the opportunity to correct errors that might be made in AI generated summaries.

Find out more ⬇️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/home-office-use-of-ai-in-asylum-cases-likely-to-be-unlawful-legal-opinion-finds/

#asylum #ai #migrants #homeoffice #ukpolitics #ukpol

“Karp’s message is loud and clear: My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.”

These fucking women-hating weirdo assholes.

I used to think my nemesis was the finance bro. My mistake. It's the Tech Bro. Specifically, this kind.

https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power