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It’s hard to disagree with Jason Hickel here: Jason Hickel on X: “It’s not ”artificial“ intelligence, it’s human intelligence.

As AI generated content gets ‘better’ — in the sense of feeling, appearing realistic — does that mean we will more readily accept it?

It’s been a long time since I did Directories of apps here.

DEVONthink, my favourite database since the demise of Evernote, as added some features to version 4 that may not appear that significant, but which I believe offer a real boost to those of us trying to stay organised.

tl;dr: How to control your Substack overload and reclaim your inbox These are difficult times, and staying up to speed is a full-time endeavour.

This is the first of a series of pieces based on Mary Meeker’s recent deck about AI.

(No AI was used in the writing or illustrating of this post.

I’m changing my mind about generative AI.

Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash I assumed that by now we’d be using something better than email.

Drones are changing the way wars are fought, but they’re also changing the way we experience those wars.

Accusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questions.

If your revenue model relies on misleading, impoverishing and gaslighting your customers, then you probably should rethink your model.

This is the second in a series of pieces I am writing on dystopian movies — — broadly defined — and what they tell us, or could tell us, about our own condition and what prescriptions they might offer for a way forward.

I finally braced myself to see Alex Garland’s Civil War earlier this month, unable to watch in more than 10 minute chunks, and so found myself flipping between fictional scenes of American carnage and real-world assaults on the Holiday Inn in Rotherham.

Sir Clive Sinclair mosaic, made with original keys from Sinclair computers, Charis Tsevis, 2011 (Flickr) Technology-wise, we’re presently in what might be called an interregnum.

We’ve been poor about trying to predict the real, lasting impact of generative AI.

Artificial intelligence puts us in a bind that in some ways is quite new.

Still from Annotated short version, Collateral Murder, WikiLeaks It’s easy for most people — journalists included — to look the other way as Julian Assange’s case grinds to its (likely) grim end.