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Last Notes npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Eric Schmidt took a break from selling AI to the military to tell a bunch of Stanford students to become entrepreneurs and if that required stealing a ton of content, they shouldn’t worry about it. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx I spoke with German public broadcaster DLF about the Google monopoly ruling in the United States and what it might mean for the company’s future! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1uas…jdn0 That exact article is linked in the piece. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1tnz…m752 It’s in the section for paid subscribers. Cyberlibertarianism by David Golumbia. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1aj3…4209 it’s clear he’ll spend whatever it takes to control whatever the next platform is because he’s furious his social media apps depend on apple, whether it’s VR or AI or whatever comes next npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx i’ve been looking forward to this book for so long, and now that i have the galley i can’t help feel a little sad i won’t get to discuss it with david. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx the AI industry is reaching new levels of evil npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx The courts are clear: Google is a monopolist. But will that monopoly be effectively curtailed? npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Google being found guilty of monopoly practices is a landmark finding that will affect the coming tech antitrust cases, but now the question is about consequences. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “One of the reasons so many people are angry about things like hotels housing asylum seekers is because they’re seeing this really provocative content being pumped into their timelines on a daily basis.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Tech donors are getting behind Kamala Harris as she gains momentum in the presidential race, but there are some big concerns. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In Silicon Valley, there are a bunch of companies named after places and things from The Lord of the Rings. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx debating whether to reach out to the photographer who took this pic in 2006 to see what else she has of peter thiel playing with lord of the rings toys npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1map…urqh i’ll let you know! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx OpenAI is regularly citing a content mill that plagiarizes articles to make money running ads next to them instead of linking users to the originals published by the New York Times. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1map…urqh I'm starting to try to collect a bunch of them now! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Even in Fortnite, Cybertruck owners can’t escape the ridicule they so clearly deserve. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub164k…tjqn X is the child. I tend to use Twitter/X for the platform. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx After this week, it can no longer be denied that Elon Musk is a terrible person. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx i do think it’s a bit rich when people on genocide zuckerberg’s platform act like they’re morally superior than people posting on elon’s platform npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1zuy…emqc good catch. i missed that error! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx what will it take for media to seriously change how they cover elon musk? the abuse of workers wasn’t enough. the embrace of fascism started to move the needle. will his trans daughter describing how cruel he was to her finally do it? npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Elon Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian says her father was rarely present when she was growing up. When he was around, he was cruel to her and would pressure her to deepen her voice and appear more masculine. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx How does Threads federation interact with Mastodon? If I turn on fediverse integration over there, do I now have two accounts? Can I merge them? Should I? npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx The Metals Company is desperate to start mining the deep ocean, so it funded research to prove its plans would have a low environmental impact. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Data centers now consume 21% of all the electricity in Ireland, more than all its urban homes. Cloud providers still want more. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Elon Musk said the woke mind virus “killed” his trans daughter, while misgendering and deadnaming her in an interview with Jordan Peterson. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Trump isn’t changing his tune on electric cars because he’s “grown more friendly” with Elon Musk. It’s because he read Musk is funneling $45 million a month into a PAC to get him back in the White House. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Elon Musk is doubling down on his Mars colonization vision. Instead of questioning its viability, the NYT engaged in some more SpaceX stenography. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Silicon Valley is done with regulators and critics. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen are lining up behind Donald Trump and his Thiel-funded running mate J.D. Vance. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Microsoft and Google have admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out new data centers to power generative AI. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1sp7…vnwc here are a few quickly summarized reasons from his wikipedia page npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx JD Vance’s VC firm is Narya Capital. Thiel is behind Palantir, Valar Ventures, and Mithril Capital. Palmer Luckey’s Andruil is a tech weapons company. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx After Donald Trump survived a shooting, Elon Musk publicly declared he was backing him as president. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx You can now read my piece about the flaws in Amazon’s plan to take on Shein and Temu in Italian thanks to Internazionale! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx they’re even paying off gen z tiktokers to push NATO now 🫠 npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1jm3…frm9 don’t worry, they don’t believe the climate crisis is a real threat (to them) npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx oh no someone let egg head near a keyboard again. i guess i’m going to have to tear this bullshit apart in a newsletter soon. they’re so desperate to pretend they’re still david, not goliath. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Since 2007, Google has been buying cheap carbon offsets to say it’s carbon neutral. Now, as generative AI has cause its emissions to soar, it’s stopped buying those offsets and no longer claims carbon neutrality. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx reading through some old issues of processed world from the 1980s and enjoyed this dig at steve jobs’ personal computer revolution npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “The extraordinary pace of China’s green energy investment in recent years may trigger defensive reactions in the west. But it is our best hope of actually achieving climate stabilisation in time to stave off planetary disaster. Faced with the urgency of this task, to think in terms of balance of equilibrium is tantamount to a soft form of climate denial.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, a new project gives voice to the data workers behind AI you’ll never hear the tech CEOs talk about. Plus, recommended reads, labor updates, and other tech news you might have missed. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx The United States won’t allow a global tax treaty to move forward and now it’s threatening countries that tax multinational tech companies anyway. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx A total ban is the only sane policy for Airbnb. There obviously needs to be accommodation in cities for visitors, but that shouldn’t be at the expense of housing units for people who actually live there. More governments should follow Barcelona’s lead. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “Acquisitions are not the only way for large tech companies to access start-ups’ intangibles and talent while keeping potential rivals at bay. A more hidden yet prevalent form of domination involves the use of corporate venture capital to get preferential access to capabilities, knowledge and information and a chance to steer start-ups’ research and development.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx When I was in Copenhagen last month, I spoke with Information editor Rune Lukkeberg about why AI is overrated, the geopolitics of the tech industry, and what that means as the US tries to assert the dominance of Silicon Valley. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Uber is racking up victories against drivers fighting for their rights and even opposing things like wheelchair accessibility in Ireland. It’s still a horrible company. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “If these groups [like EFF] had focused more on protecting communities and their needs from the beginning, would they have been more likely to notice that people are not only harmed by government data collection but by corporate data collection, as well?” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Shein and Temu are cutting into Amazon’s business, so now the ecommerce giant is planning to respond with a discount section of its own. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx the race to the bottom continues npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1498…qwhk i’ve also been reminded that david golumbia’s forthcoming book will go into it too npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1498…qwhk been a while since i read it, but this is probably a good read on it https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx i’m still waiting for the moment we have a reckoning with the role EFF played in helping lay the legal and conceptual framework for the digital dystopia we’re now living in. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx i’d be happy to help with the fundraising campaign for Thought Leader Jail npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says some creative jobs shouldn’t exist if their “content” is “not very high quality.” Who’s judging that? The tech people or artists? npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “Pronatalist messages have made their way from the outer fringe into mainstream circles with the help of uncharacteristically quiet funding from the Musk Foundation,” including $10 million to set up the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the UT Austin. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1yhj…3h3t i was thrilled to finally have you on the show! :D npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Another example of Tesla not being the green company it once pretended to be: shareholders voted down a proposal not to use minerals retrieved through deep-sea mining. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Kia’s EV3 could cost as little as $22,500 to $27,500 after US EV tax credits because it will be built in Mexico. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Elon Musk got shareholder backing to loot Tesla of more than $50 billion. It’s a scary signal about his power and fan adoration. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx This is cool: Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand are building out a distributed storage network with eight sites built on Māori land to give “iwi and hapū the power to control and make decisions over their own data.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Donald Trump knows exactly how to play a fellow narcissist like Elon Musk: just tell him the Cybertruck is great. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx If the US wants the world to think it’s the good guy, maybe it shouldn’t be running anti-vax campaigns in the middle of global pandemic that put its geopolitical standing above people’s lives. This is evil behavior. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In the 2000s, anti-copyright activists were punching up by taking on the record and film industries. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Farmers in Bastrup, TX were hopeful when Elon Musk bought land nearby, but now he’s turning the area into “an environmentally hazardous industrial park.” Authorities won’t do anything because they’re understaffed and “intimidated by their powerful new neighbor.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx After months of media anticipation, Apple finally showed off its generative AI features yesterday. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx The photo of Nvidia CEO Jansen Huang signing a woman’s chest in Taiwan will be the image of peak AI hype. More on that in the Disconnect Roundup, along with recommended reads, labor updates, and other news you might have missed! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx dreading the media cycle that will accompany a bill gates memoir, but fascinated to see how he twists his history npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx you’d almost say meta wants to kill instagram npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx UFO enthusiasts are getting scammed by fake book listings on Amazon making it seem like they can buy a highly anticipated book before its release date, but the pages are really just filled with AI-generated slop. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1z47…qqse wait, you mean to tell me wsj wasn’t really calling for some CEOs’ heads? i’m shocked! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, Elon Musk has a grand (techno)fix for water shortages that includes desalination plants powered by solar with battery storage. But he forgot poor countries can’t afford it. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In 1922, Thomas Edison predicted motion pictures would “revolutionize our educational system.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx never thought i’d find so much agreement with the wsj editorial board npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “When I say ‘I am hungry’, I am reporting on my sensed physiological states. When an LLM generates the sequence ‘I am hungry’, it is simply generating the most probable completion of the sequence of words in its current prompt.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx When Sam Altman was ousted as CEO, Kara Swisher pushed a story that framed him as the victim of a board captured by AI doomers. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx I was happy to speak about AI and European regulation with Astrid Berg for Deadline on Denmark’s public broadcaster when I was in Copenhagen last week! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In this week’s roundup, the couple who’ve made themselves the face of pronatalism keep their kids in a freezing home (they say by choice) and slap them to teach them right from wrong because they saw tigers paw their cubs in the wild. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Final reminder I’m doing a discussion with @npub1yhj…3h3t and Sarah Grant in Berlin this evening! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Great to speak with On the Media about AI hype and Sam Altman! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx African AI workers, mostly from Kenya, released an open letter to Joe Biden this week asking him stop US tech companies from “systemically abusing and exploiting African workers” and to end the “modern day slavery” they’re subjected to. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx They missed the most important part: And neither of them should be believed because AGI is just another tech fantasy. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1p86…6rgk Not for the moment! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Scarlett Johansson has dealt with deepfakes, robots in her likeness, and now OpenAI mimicking her voice because she wouldn’t license it. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx I’m doing a series of events in Copenhagen and Berlin over the next week. If you’re around, make sure to come to one! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “I have seen the extremely restrictive off-boarding agreement that contains nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions former OpenAI employees are subject to. It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx In this week’s Disconnect Roundup: Apple’s new products are flops, so it’s going back to what Tim Cook knows best: raising prices to get more out of existing customers. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx “The certain knowledge that Kevin Roose is a credulous dumbass who makes a jingle-bell sound if he nods his head real fast only does so much to moderate the obscenity and offensiveness of his ascribing ‘playful intelligence’ and ‘emotional intuition’ to a predictive text generator.” npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Kevin Roose so desperately wants to live in the futures tech companies are selling that he’ll eagerly do their PR for them and buy into whatever illusions of intelligence they put in front of him so he can trick himself into believing they’ll actually be realized this time. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1c69…l6ss fixed! npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx lmao yes, the webbies really did get maggie haberman to present an award to kara swisher npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Remember when tech CEOs whipped us into a frenzy about generative AI changing everything? Those days are long gone. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Tesla will face a class-action lawsuit alleging it misled consumers over the self-driving capabilities of its cars after claiming its vehicles would be able to autonomously drive from New York to Los Angeles by the end of 2017. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx I remember the days when people were furious Google was scanning their emails to serve ads. Now we’ve reached the point that everything you send and receive is being filtered through its AI model and you’re expected to love it. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Tesla charging chief Rebecca Tinucci cut 15-20% of her team after Musk demanded it. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx Amazon workers in Laval, Quebec have been granted union accreditation after a majority signed cards to form a union. npub1vdktkw0qzdd8hwvtedvg8ttzvymtasrua7eh82c4ehzy4s2aryvs9rsqd5 Paris Marx @npub1aj3…4209 AI, of course!
