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I write about technology at theluddite.org
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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:...
Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ (www.bostonherald.com)
Plastic Waste May FINALLY Have a Solution! - YouTube (youtube.com)
Mass Protests and the Danger of Social Media (theluddite.org)
In “If We Burn,” Vincent Bevins recaps the mass protests of the 2010s. He argues that they’re communicative acts, but power has no way of negotiating with or interpreting them. They’re “illegible.”...
GPT-4 performance comparable with physicians on official medical board residency examinations. Model performance near or above official passing rate in all medical specialties tested (ai.nejm.org)
Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers (www.bbc.com)
‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets (www.theguardian.com)
How to Communicate Left Ideas to Gen Z (www.currentaffairs.org)
Jessica Burbank on how she makes TikTok and YouTube videos that effectively communicate left ideas in a short span of time.
The TikTok "Ban" and the Missing Leftist Response (theluddite.org)
Why do they say "there's no true Left in the US"?
How the coming flood of AI-generated content might actually free the soul of Internet (www.staygrounded.online)
Not paywalled, you can just click "No thanks" on the popup.
Internet providers have left rural Americans behind. One county is fighting back (www.theguardian.com)
[UPDATE] Nature's Folly: A Response to Nature's "Loneliness and suicide mitigation for students using GPT3-enabled chatbots" (theluddite.org)
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation (www.wired.com)
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....