Matthew Cowen

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Matthew CowenJan 9

This is the kind of place I could spend hours in.

https://www.ft.com/content/2b65a0a3-a1a2-4a5d-9ac2-a240dff50939?emailId=bcbaae8b-8581-4298-964f-e8f089e3c0ab&segmentId=d0069109-fe73-02fc-e80f-58cb757f29ec

#stationary #writing

Client Challenge

Matthew CowenJan 2
tanteJan 2
Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.
Matthew CowenOct 7
“you should not rely on …”: https://blog.virek.net/2025/10/07/you-should-not-rely-on.html
“you should not rely on …”

Services like ChatGPT generate responses by reading a user’s …

Matthew CowenSep 23
Let’s just call this what it is …: https://blog.virek.net/2025/09/23/lets-just-call-this-what.html
Let’s just call this what it is …

From RestOfWorld, The hidden labor that makes AI work: This …

Matthew CowenSep 9, 2025
James ThomsonSep 9, 2025
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
Matthew CowenAug 23, 2025

You too can read the sycophantic babbling of a rotten politician (nor a good one), as he brown-noses Zuckerberg the Immoral.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/aug/23/nick-clegg-at-meta-wrestling-deputy-culture-shock-silicon-valley

Why live in reality when you can convince yourself the world out there (the one you don’t live in) is not real?

Makes me sick.

‘At Meta I found myself wrestling my deputy in an MMA gym’: Nick Clegg on the culture shock of Silicon Valley

In an exclusive extract from his new book, the former Meta number two recalls the mindset, the mantras and the man at the top

The Guardian
Matthew CowenAug 12, 2025
BorupAug 12, 2025
Periodic reminder that EU did not mandate cookie popups.
Cookie popups are yet another example of malicious complience by an industry that wants to use and abuse data about us all.
Matthew CowenAug 1, 2025

You can tell a lie a thousand times, but that does not mean it is true.

You can tell it a million times, with the same result.

You may convince all the people around you that the lie is a truth, but still, it is only a lie.

You can dress it up in half-truths, cherry-picked evidence, anything. But still. It. Is. A. Lie.

This immutability will be revealed.

The truth will out.

Matthew CowenJun 12, 2025
Dr PenJun 12, 2025

BBC Radio4 "The Food Chain" just featured a slot on AI changing the work world. A statement from one of the featured experts said humans don't yet trust robots and that 'premium services' would offer human support. This is the first time I've heard blatant unashamed analogue privilege as a selling point of AI automation services. This will be the same for education.

Great paper on this
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4528278

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#ai #chatbots #academia #academicchatter #education #bbc

Analog Privilege

This Article introduces "analog privilege" to describe how elites avoid artificial intelligence (AI) systems and benefit from special personalized tre

Matthew CowenJun 8, 2025

Let’s see what the Empire announces tomorrow.

8 June 2025 — French West Indies