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Nicole Noren: I'm not going to have blood on my hands.

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype Describing them as “superintelligence” or “rogue models” ascribes agency to products rather than to the companies building them.

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communications Workers of America.

1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe Apparently DHH’s support for ethnic cleansing is not disqualifying to 1Password.

The Supreme Court Thinks You Are Stupid “The President is only conceivably harmed by an injunction barring executive action if that court order is preventing him from doing something the law permits him to do,” she wrote.

How a road could change West Africa’s urban future Kasoa is a snapshot of how unplanned urbanization is unfolding in the region.

Just weeks before devastating wildfires hit, Spokane practiced a mass evacuation – the drill paid off Residents must decide when to leave, what to take, which route to follow and where to go, often while under intense stress.

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Executives that tell the press that their company has gone insane will quickly find themselves removed from their positions.

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man As in his previous films, Nolan is interested in the discontinuities of space and time, in magic, tricks, craft, technology, rivalry, substitution, masks, miscommunication, what we remember and what we choose to forget.

The Party That Screams About The Evils Of Socialism Wants To Nationalize AI Companies Literally a couple months ago Marc Andreessen was on Joe Rogan talking about how these dumb young progressive kids support “socialism” even though “it never works.”

How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization These are words that cast systems as doing the same work as people in various roles, and serve to hide all of the ways in which such automation falls short of what is needed all the while d…

Ford hired AI and sacked humans.

Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’ "I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind of politics, one th…

Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy.