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Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine.
Source: www.nature.com
She parked where the chatbot instructed and walked to the spot it described, by the lifeguard stand. As sunset neared, the temperature dropped. She kept checking in with the chatbot, and it told her to be patient, she said.
Source: www.npr.org
Perhaps most striking, a Jan. 24 YouGov poll — conducted after the Pretti shooting on Saturday — found that 46 percent of Americans now support abolishing ICE, compared with 41 percent who oppose it. The partisan breakdown reveals how significantly the ground has shifted; 76 percent of Democrats support abolition, but so do 47 percent of independents.
Source: www.nytimes.com
One person familiar with the production estimated that some two-thirds of the crew members who worked on the film in New York had requested not to have their names formally credited on the documentary.
Source: www.rollingstone.com
Illich uses the example of the automobile, which at its "optimal" scale simply gave people the ability to travel farther, in less time. But as infrastructure was built up around the car, we arrived at the "tolerable" scale - a point at which people came to be obligated to travel in order to reach the same kind of destination they once could achieve on foot or at home.
As society crystallized around this scale, people ended up spending more time spent traveling, at a greater cost. Worst of all, we cannot now return to localism
The Department of Homeland Security also suspended Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Source: www.cnn.com
This White House has a playbook for scandal: Always double down, never apologize, and above all attack, attack, attack. So it was nothing less than shocking yesterday when the administration—after two days of utterly shameless lies about the killing of Alex Pretti—slammed on the brakes in an attempt to pivot to a more normie-palatable narrative.
Source: www.thebulwark.com
But tools are not simply a blank canvas for human intention; rather, tools are designed for a particular purpose, and do not exist in isolation. When a new tool is created, certain values are embedded into its shape, which in turn interact with the pre-existing technological millieu. This complex combination of different tools and the people using them creates an environment in which the use of a given tool is mediated by another.
Source: coracle.social
I also want to give a brief summary of Marshall McLuhan's "media ecology" to frame my argument. It's common to think of tools as moral to the extent that they are used for a particular purpose. But tools are not simply a blank canvas for human intention; rather, tools are designed for a particular purpose, and do not exist in isolation. When a new tool is created, certain values are embedded into its shape, which in turn interact with the pre-existing technological millieu. This complex combination of different tools and the people using them creates an environment in which the use of a given tool is mediated by another.
Right now the United States is facing two major foreign-policy crises:1. Greenland.2. Where King Charles III will go to the bathroom.I will take these crises one at a time.
Source: davebarry.substack.com
Take a close look at the post, though. Trump never specifies who should go to jail. He never articulates the supposed crime that was committed. He’s just shouting into the void known as Truth Social. He’s pitiful. A dangerous man, for sure, but each new post seems like an admission of inadequacy.
Source: gizmodo.com
A chatbot can produce software routines that perform some well-scoped task, but one thing they can't do is maintain the wide, deep "context window" at the heart of software engineering – a linear increase in a chatbot's context window results in a geometric increase in the amount of computation the chatbot has to perform:
Source: pluralistic.net
Adversarial interoperability converts market dominance from an unassailable asset to a liability. Once Facebook could give new users the ability to stay in touch with MySpace friends, then every message those Facebook users sent back to MySpace—with a footer advertising Facebook's superiority—became a recruiting tool for more Facebook users. MySpace served Facebook as a reservoir of conveniently organized potential users that could be easily reached with a compelling pitch about why they should switch.
Source: www.eff.org
We, the American people, LOVE this raccoon. And I think I know why: After the year we’ve been through, we can relate to it. We have had way too much of 2025; it has left us, as a nation, lying face-down on the floor of despair, between the wastebasket of stupidity and the commode of broken dreams.
Source: davebarry.substack.com
For a really competitive, innovative, dynamic marketplace, you need adversarial interoperability: that’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them.
Source: www.eff.org
But anticircumvention law is something that every government has total, absolutely control over. Maybe Canada can't order Apple, Google and Facebook to pay their taxes, but it can absolutely decide to stop giving these American companies access to Canada's courts to shut down Canadian competitors
Source: pluralistic.net
When Trump and Microsoft colluded to shut down the International Criminal Court by killing its access to Outlook and Office365 (in retaliation for the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for the génocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu), the world took notice. Trump and Microsoft bricked the ICC, effectively shuttering its operations. If they could do that to the ICC, they could do it to any government agency, any nationally important corporation, any leader – anyone.
Source: pluralistic.net
The company said the cause was a file that set off “a crash in the software system that handles traffic for a number of Cloudflare’s services.”
Source: www.nytimes.com
Imagine, if you will, writing yourself a few-thousand-step list for creating world-eating, paperclip-maximizing nanites, then trying to execute that list. In my experience, you'd get stuck on step two because grey goo is out of stock on McMaster-Carr.
Source: maximumeffort.substack.com
Huel is an example of "autopilot" mindless consumption that is nonetheless healthy, at least in the nutritional sense. We can pose the question, what is the "Huel" of social media? Can we design algorithmic choice to provide a sort of "balanced diet" of a feed, with just enough of both the "vegetables" we need, the "yum" that our limbic brain craves, and the "spice" to make it all exciting?
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“The minute Jeff Bezos can put a piss jar next to your workstation, he will,” Doctorow said.
Source: gizmodo.com
“AI can write sub-routines, it can’t do software architecture. Can’t do engineering, because engineering is about having a long, broad context window to understand all the pieces that came before, all the pieces that are coming in the future, and the pieces that sit adjacent to code, and if you know anything about AI, the one thing that is most expensive to do with AI is expanding the context window,” Doctorow said.
Source: gizmodo.com
In American cities, there is an issue with value capture. One party creates the value (in this case retailers), another party (landowners or homeowners) captures it. Of course retailers would love to capture more value. But homeowners would likely be willing to share value too: the homeowners like having the retailers there, yet those retailers often go out of business, making the homeowners worse off. They’d be better off if there was an institution to support them, but it doesn’t exist.
Source: substack.com
“No - have you heard of curtfishing? It’s the new male dating trend. You say in your Bumble profile that you’re a member of the Dissident Right who often attends parties with Curtis Yarvin. Then female journos ask you out in the hopes that you’ll bring them along and they can turn it into an article.”“What happens when they realize Curtis Yarvin isn’t at the party?”“Oh, everyone pools their money and hires someone to pretend to be Curtis. You can just do things. Today it’s Ramchandra.”
Source: www.astralcodexten.com
For years, the New Right, by its own admission, has rejected the tenets of classical liberalism, including individual liberty, mutual toleration, and limited government. But, following the recent assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, the New Right has doubled down on its authoritarian tendencies by reviving the cultural teachings of Carl Schmitt, one of Nazi Germany's chief legal minds.
Source: reason.com
Bitcoins will have to reach certain threshold of liquidity, indicated by a solid exchange in every financial center and a real money supply – i.e. market cap – of at least $50 billion, before they can be used as an instrument in a speculative attack. This will either coincide with or cause a currency crisis.
Source: nakamotoinstitute.org
let me dismiss the naive conservative argument that, since we have the right to exclude strangers from our homes and property, we have the right to exclude foreigners from our "country".
Source: www.ancapfaq.com