| Think about it: | "If the purpose of a system is what it does, and we don’t like what it does, then we have to change the system." - Anil Dash |
Excellent investigation by the New York Times into all the ways major AI companies are frantically grabbing, copying, and stealing text to feed their AI models: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU0.xcEk.CIQuR1C9u9N1&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
(Gift link there)
apparently Meta considered buying Simon & Schuster
Trump's team weirdly keeps asking: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
March 2024: 303,000 new jobs added
March 2020: 701,000 jobs lost
Remember, Trump's mishandling of the pandemic made both the number of lives lost and the economic toll far worse.
Not a particular fan of Chuck Todd, but at least he called out NBC's hiring of Ronna McDaniel on the air ...
"Mr. Todd said that Ms. McDaniel 'has credibility issues' and went on, 'There’s a reason why there are a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this, because many of our professional dealings with the R.N.C. over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination.' "
Trump's Lost Cause Myths
"But Lost Cause narratives aren’t about truth. They’re about negating the truth. Which is what happened when the Lost Cause mythology was constructed after the Civil War."
Donald Trump is at it again with his “Vote for Trump, what the hell do you have to lose?” argument. (Truth Social, 3/18/24)
The answer? Everything
Ices
Jack Allison
“New York, New York. Street vendor of ‘ices’ with girl.” Summer 1938.
#jackallison
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #americanhistory #greatdepression #farmsecurityadministration #histodons
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017769405/
Wagon by the road
Jack Delano
"Along a road near Greensboro, Alabama." May 1941.
#jackdelano
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #americanhistory #greatdepression #farmsecurityadministration #histodons
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017749574/
Clive Thompson
Robert Reich
