In which I talk about strawberries, parking lots, AI doomerism, and Elon Musk : oreilly.com/radar/strawber…

In which I talk about strawberries, parking lots, AI doomerism, and Elon Musk : oreilly.com/radar/strawber…

Twitter/X wants to collect biometric data and employment history? Right now, there's no company I'd trust less with that data. Take that, Elon Musk

Man, the new Xed TweetDeck design is awful. Elon Musk must have fired all the designers. And why repeat that awful GMAIL 'pop up an ID card when the mouse is over a handle' botch? That card always obscures exactly what you want to read.

Free speech! Free speech! Free spe— oh. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Screw record labels. They have been an anchor on the market for decades now, worsening conditions for artists and the public

Let’s admit that every reporter in DC knows but most won’t say for fear of falling out of favor with the bothsides rules of official DC: there is a two-tiered Justice System. One for Democrats, in which the most exacting focus on conflicts of interest are followed, often going …

Knowledge. The weight of knowledge.

Stephen O'Grady's essay on why open source matters is a must-read: redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/0…

Our high school interns are changing the world of Bioengineering and we want you to see a glimpse of their accomplishments! Check out our new blog post on this wonderful students; biobuilder.org/biobuilder-hig…

Philip Guo's post on doing a non-trivial programming project with ChatGPT is a must-read. oreilly.com/radar/real-rea…

Reup: Trump's Attack on Black Votes Was There the Whole Time, We Just Didn't Call It a Crime

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lololol I have never experienced more harassment on this platform than I do now. People now pay to give their harassment more visibility.

The de-verification of journalists, civic orgs, and figures has made it impossible to follow conversations. I wish it could be usable again

Racism. Isn't. An. Accident.

These cops were like 'hey, we know we're racist. We can either:
A) stop being racist
B) do an immense amount of extra work and break laws so that we can continue being racist.'

And they chose B.

Just read that Tweetdeck will only be available to verified users. If so, it's been good to know you. (Frankly, I'm surprised it has taken this long.)

And the choice Blum made was specifically to divide and conquer. Elite rich white men keep creating the conditions for division because they understand that a coalition between Black, Native, Asian, poor white, and/or Latiné people would change the balance of power in America.

“My pitch for this episode is simple: Jennifer Pahlka has written one of the best policy books I have ever read.” - Ezra Klein
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The Headline isn't 'AI may kill us all someday.'

The Headline is 'people & institutions use AI to cause a wide range of harm TODAY and we have to stop them.'

Bonus: fixing REAL HARMS right now happens to ALSO be the best approach to mitigating long term risk of more harm.

I am so, so delighted to share that my book, HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD, will be published by Riverhead Books on October 17th, 2023 and is now available for pre-order.

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