Brian SlettenAccurate definition of AI initiatives expressed as a chiasmus:
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Molly WhiteMy beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained.
Micah Lee"In a world where Elon Musk seems to have proven that practically no privately owned communication forum is immune from a single rich person’s whims, Signal stands as a counterfactual: evidence that venture capitalism and surveillance capitalism—hell, capitalism, period—are not the only paths forward for the future of technology." https://www.wired.com/story/meredith-whittaker-signal/
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
Kara Swisher
mekka okereke 
🤔Anti-woke guy starts a crusade against plagiarism, not realizing that this would destroy his wife's academic reputation.
🤔Anti-woke guy starts an inquiry into Walz not going on deployment, not anticipating that this re-opens the conversation on his running mate's draft dodging and insulting gold star families and POWs.
🤔 Anti-woke guy starts an investigation into crowd sizes, not anticipating that people will point to his many empty stands.
They're genuinely surprised by equal treatment.🤷🏿♂️
Seb SchmollerOn "circular battery self-sufficiency". Encouraging and optimistic essay, with extensive links to supporting references, by Cory Doctorow about the path to fully renewable electricity generation: @pluralistic:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/06/with-great-power/
Jonno 🏴Great article from @mmasnick on Elon's dumb lawsuit against ExTwitter's advertisers: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/07/it-always-gets-dumber-elon-sues-the-ad-coalition-he-just-rejoined-because-he-thinks-its-illegal-to-not-advertise-on-extwitter/
It Always Gets Dumber: Elon Sues The Ad Coalition He Just Rejoined Because He Thinks It’s Illegal To Not Advertise On ExTwitter
Remember when Elon told advertisers not to advertise on ExTwitter? Remember how he told them to “go fuck” themselves? Well, now he’s suing those companies for the serious crime (he claims it might …
MicheleV_AKI came across this cartoon/meme this morning and literally spit out my coffee. 😂 #AlienHumor
Dan@carnage4life
@pluralistic has written about this several times and has provided ideas for remediation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
@pluralistic has written about this several times and has provided ideas for remediation: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/saving-news-big-tech
Saving the News From Big Tech
Download this whole series as a single PDF.Media is in crisis: newsrooms all over the world are shuttering and the very profession of journalism is under sustained ideological and physical assault. Freedom of the press is a hollow doctrine if the only news media is written or published by...
John Carlos BaezTo a mathematician, the funniest line in this article is this:
"Getting to the singularity, though, will require a significant leap from the current point of AI development."
Kind of like
"To reach infinity we'll need significantly larger numbers."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a45780855/when-will-the-singularity-happen/
