This is the key thing that so many debates about AI replacing jobs miss. Whether AI can do your job is not relevant. What's relevant is whether your boss believes (almost certainly incorrectly) that AI can do your job, or whether your boss wants to use AI as an excuse to let you go to 'cut costs'.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2d ago

Finally, there's an *economic* coin-trick: "AI will destroy jobs." Sure, yes, AI is destroying jobs. But there's a vast difference between "You got fired because an AI can do your job" and "You got fired because your boss was convinced that the AI can do your job, even though it *cannot*." 45/

As Europe burns, Shell has banked £7.4 billion in just three months. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Author @doctorow.pluralistic.net on @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social breaks down how surveillance pricing and algorithmic wage discrimination are affecting working families right now. Some companies are running experiments to see what the highest price or the lowest wage you'll accept. Watch now 👇

Not to be another one of those people in your timeline but holy crap it's actually raining.

Just re-watched Big Trouble in Little China and man, I think maybe I didn't get it the first time around. I remember it as a dumb, fun action film, but it's actually just flat out hilarious. What a great movie.

Climate change keeps adding to the list of uninsurable assets, Allianz executive says - “Certain locations and perils cannot be covered as we would wish them to be covered" #climatecrisis www.latimes.com/environment/...

Climate change keeps adding to the list of uninsurable assets, Allianz executive says

One major bank now sets loan rates for companies based on their exposure to global warming. BBVA said sectors being targeted are agriculture, real estate and leisure, as well as utilities and infrastr...

latimes.com

It's a bloodbath.

OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

The company behind ChatGPT is on track to undershoot its five-year revenue projection by upward of 90 percent.

trib.al

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

From new hope to no hope before you can blink www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling

Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licenses.

bbc.co.uk

JFC.

FX Coudert@nanoporous.net · 3w ago

Ironically, as @mart1oeil.eu showed, there are telltale signs that the piece was edited with ChatGPT: many links include "?utm_source=chatgpt.com" If even Science editorial team cannot afford good human editing, that's worrying

Tell me Clarkson , is it really all happy smiley down on the farm ?

'...the most effective AI champions "are definitely not the most technical people."' Absolutely my experience. If you understand how AI works and object, you're an incompetent Luddite to be ignored. If you don't know anything about it you're a 'champion' and a 'disruptor'. Knowledge is ignorance.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · 4w ago

Cultist shit. A desperate last gasp operation to try and keep people believing, to bully them into acquiescing, to use social pressure to force a technology that will either continue to increase in cost and eventually will simply run out of cash to continue, truly corrosive to company culture.

Cultist shit. A desperate last gasp operation to try and keep people believing, to bully them into acquiescing, to use social pressure to force a technology that will either continue to increase in cost and eventually will simply run out of cash to continue, truly corrosive to company culture.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4w ago

Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I don’t really understand UK politics but I can’t wait for this race in Clacton between the joke candidate and @countbinface.bsky.social.

Whereas the truth is that use of AI is a sign of incompetence regardless of gender.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last mo.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

We limit the speed of ebikes "for public safety", yet this study shows we'd need to limit SUVs to 5.7 km/h for them to pose the same risk to other people #motonormativity findingspress.org/article/1587...

Shouldn’t we stop using the term ‘heatwave’, which culturally has pleasant connotations of lovely warm summer days? Let’s say ‘extreme heat’ instead

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Racist rioters defended. Peaceful protesters arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-belfas...

The Belfast Riots Have Exposed the Real ‘Two Tier’ Britain

Racist rioters are defended and peaceful protesters are arrested. This week has exposed better than any other how our “two tier” political system really works

adambienkov.co.uk

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

theguardian.com

Currently listening to The Bee Sting by Paul Murray and rather enjoying it, but the new narrator for part 4 pronounces 'mischievous' as 'mis-cheevie-uss' and 'grievous' as 'greevie-uss'. I don't like to be a pedant (this is a lie) but pronouncing things is kind of this guy's job.

Akru@akru.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I really enjoy listening to audiobooks but it's constantly surprising to me when the actors mispronounce things or just plain say the wrong word. In 'Ministry for the Future' there are so many errors that leave me thinking about production values instead of, you know, the book.

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

Sounds like more of the same. Join.greenparty.org.uk

"Terrorism" on the left. "Protest" on the right.

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2mo ago

If using AI for writing means you never have to stop, backtrack, or start over, you’re missing the most important part of the process, writes Eve Fairbanks:

QUESTION Time called out for “dangerous” lack of balance on panel – Zack Polanski says BBC allowed billionaire to buy “entire episode”. Carole Cadwalladr said panel “equivalent of pitting Nigel Farage against Rupert Lowe with a bit of Tommy Robinson thrown in”. www.thenational.scot/news/2614585...

Zack Polanksi says BBC 'letting billionaire buy Question Time' over imbalanced panel

QUESTION Time has been called out for a “dangerous” lack of balance on its panel – with Zack Polanski suggesting the BBC had allowed a…

thenational.scot

I wonder whether, in BBC News editorial meetings, anyone suggests things like the leader of Raise the Colours - something that initiated a major national conversation - being charged with murder? Or Farage not reporting his Russian hack claim? And if they do, who shuts them down?

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)