Courtesy the anarchist underground, Indianapolis.
19 May 2024 @ 8:25 pm
Make me a sandwich
I've taken the time to summarize Butker's beautiful commencement speech. Enjoy! https://substack.com/home/post/p-144763760
19 May 2024 @ 8:08 pm
For tech CEOs, the dystopia is the pointWe mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/for-tech-ceos-the-dystopia-is-the
19 May 2024 @ 7:58 pm
The "Manson Girls" held vigil outside Charles' 1971 trial, just like Mike "Squeaky" Johnson & his GOP friends are doing now for their cult leader... https://hartmannreport.com/p/saturday-report-the-manson-girls
19 May 2024 @ 7:57 pm
The Last Time Oligarchs Tried to Take Over America It Led to Civil WarIs America in the final stage of the 40-year transition from a forward-looking & still-evolving democratic republic into a white supremacist ethnostate ruled by a small group of fascist oligarchs? https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-last-time-oligarchs-tried-to-f57Back in the day, the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis warned us:“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.”
17 May 2024 @ 9:07 pm
The reality is that no matter how much OpenAI, Google, and the rest of the heavy hitters in Silicon Valley might want to continue the illusion that generative AI represents a transformative moment in the history of digital technology, the truth is that their fantasy is getting increasingly difficult to maintain. That’s in part because the chatbots are still making a ton of mistakes in the answers they give to users, including during Google’s I/O keynote. https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/
17 May 2024 @ 6:49 pm
AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in.Google and OpenAI’s latest showcases suggest the AI bubble’s days are numbered https://disconnect.blog/ai-hype-is-over-ai-exhaustion-is-setting-in/ Beyond the massively oversold new features that might not even need an LLM in the first place, the leaders of this AI push are getting lost in their own fantasies.
17 May 2024 @ 6:42 pm