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China's latest AI chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping's political ideology (apnews.com)
Academic workers call “standup strike” across UC system (www.californiadsa.org)
Why Is There an AI Hype? (theluddite.org)
Lots of skeptics are writing lots of good things about the AI hype, but so far, I’ve encountered relatively few attempts to explain why it’s happening at all. Here’s my contribution, mostly based Philp Agre’s work on the (so-called) internet revolution, which focuses less on the capabilities of the tech itself, as most...
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook (www.wheresyoured.at)
What vegetables and fruits do you wish were commonly available in the US?
What are your favourite lesser known websites?
I want to see if I can get a spark of the “old internet” back by making a starting page for myself with all kinds of cool websites. But not sure where to start because Google obviously will not work for this....
IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for world's jobs (www.theregister.com)
TW: Undergraduate Essay on Edgy Topic
Hi all, I wrote this a few days ago for , and had my initial line of argument rejected by the professor, so this is the second attempt. I struggled to write it, because if I don’t really believe something it is extremely difficult to write convincingly about it. After a long afternoon of revising though, my feelings are mixed....
Bumble Founder Shares Odd Future of Dating: Your AI Dates My AI (gizmodo.com)
Who Are Todays Heroes?
Who are the heroes of our time? Who is driving us to a better future? And who is inspiring and guiding us?...
Transform Home Energy with a System that Powers Through Outages and Enhances Sustainable Living - Yanko Design (www.yankodesign.com)
A wild Anker enters the home battery market.
Mass Protests and the Danger of Social Media (theluddite.org)
Crossposted because I think it’s an interesting take, but I don’t fully agree with the part about protests having no quantifiable goal....
Google fires more workers after CEO says workplace isn’t for politics (wapo.st)
A Response to Mark Rober's Apologia for the Military-Industrial Complex in "Vortex Cannon vs Drone" (theluddite.org)
The video opens with Rober standing in front of a fancy-looking box, saying:...