Rachel Gray
@endaze.bsky.social
Fiction author ❤️⛵🧟 ⏸️ AI Educational consultant Meme aficionado 🪑🐕🔥
The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas
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Microsoft’s move reflects a wider trend among major technology companies as they double down on artificial intelligence. The company has invested billions in #AI infrastructure. Up to 30% of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI tools. #econsky #jobs fortune.com/2025/07/02/m...
Microsoft lays off 9,000 in AI drive, bringing total job cuts to 15,000 this year
“I think that AI and generative AI specifically is the most transformative technology of our lifetime, which is saying a lot, given that we have had the internet,” he told CNBC.
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" #AI has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words ... ideally suited to replace the very person who built it. A recent study found that Americans think software engineers will be most affected by AI" #econsky www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Artificial intelligence is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it.
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Gifted link They were undertaken by a White House national security team staffed by unqualified appointees, some of whom Trump has reportedly frozen out of his inner circle. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?
President Trump is taking an enormous risk.
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"Whether bombing Iran was a good idea or a bad idea—and it could turn out to be either, or both—it is war by any definition of the term, and something Trump vowed he would avoid," writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social:
WSJ: For American companies, adding headcount — “once a sign of surging sales and confidence in the future — now means leaders must be doing something wrong.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/the...
"We would like (AI) to be just tools, but how many examples are there of more intelligent things being controlled by much less intelligent things? With big differences in intelligence, there are none." #Hinton #econsky #AI #Anthropic #OpenAI #artificialintelligence www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkB...
‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will take over the world | LBC
YouTube video by LBC
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Dario Amodei says we need to be raising the alarm about the impact of #AI on #labor #anthropic #econsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=zju5...
AI company's CEO issues warning about mass unemployment
YouTube video by CNN
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NEW: Gov. Hochul announces that the state is dedicating $50 million for legal assistance for immigrants like those who may be targeted by ICE when leaving the federal courthouse
The New York Times asked me for a new job that AI will create. I suggested "sin eater." (lots of good discussion of many other jobs in the article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/m...)
This book will restore your faith in humanity. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.amazon.com/Free-Ride-He... #FreeRide #ItchyBoots #Travel #motorcyclejourney www.amazon.com/Free-Ride-He...
Free Ride: Heartbreak, Courage, and the 20,000-Mile Motorcycle Journey That Changed My Life
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Google has a new button. It might destroy the web as you know it. Experts say the new “AI Mode” is an asteroid aimed at the heart of the internet, one that could decimate millions of websites. It seems this chapter of online history is over. Here’s what comes next: www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Is Google about to destroy the web?
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.
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A company called "Frontier Valley" has declared it will build a new Network State zone on federal land in Alameda, California. Below: A "draft" presidential executive order that would have Trump declare a "national security emergency" to permit the project. PR stunt, or aggressive new phase?
"The real mistake isn't in the idea that something wasn't classed, we didn't follow a set of regulations. It's (corporate) culture that caused this to happen. It's (corporate) culture that killed those people." #econsky #corporateculture www.netflix.com/watch/817121...
Watch Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster | Netflix Official Site
OceanGate's Titan tourist submersible imploded in 2023 on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic. This documentary details how a bold vision ended in tragedy.
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Scott Galloway has some choice metaphors to describe AI's impact on workers: 'I think of it as corporate Ozempic'
Scott Galloway has some choice metaphors to describe AI's impact on workers: 'I think of it as corporate Ozempic'
NYU's Scott Galloway has a few metaphors to help workers make sense of the sweeping changes AI is bringing to the workplace.
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“Size is persuasion. It creates bandwagon effects…If 100,000 people show up in Washington to celebrate Trump’s military parade, but 5,000,000 people turn out across the country for No Kings rallies, who looks strong and who looks weak?” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-n...
No Kings. No Surrender.
Shows of force can work both ways.
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Can’t believe we’ve lost Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. She was a consummate Speaker who led her caucus brilliantly and achieved so much for Minnesota. I’ve campaigned with Melissa throughout the state and was forever impressed by her levelheaded, yet passionate, leadership. (1/2)
Over the past 48 hours, TikTokers — and BlueSkiers, Threaders, and even Twitterers — took a cue from 2020 K-Pop stans and reserved tickets to a trump rally they weren't gonna use. www.forbes.com/sites/emilyb...
TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use
TikTokers Say They Trolled Trump’s Birthday Parade By Reserving Tickets They Didn’t Use
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New York Requires Employers to Disclose When Layoffs of 50 or More Are Due to AI
New York Becomes First State to Require Employers Disclose When Layoffs Are Due to AI
A new law in New York state that requires employers to disclose if mass layoffs — which is defined as 50 or more workers — were due to AI.
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One block over from the White House: the aspirational security line setup
Google and DeepMind’s new hurricane model can forecast emergence 15 days in advance, beating existing models.
Google develops AI model for forecasting tropical cyclones - SiliconANGLE
Google develops AI model for forecasting tropical cyclones - SiliconANGLE
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Tech billionaires like Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk are making a risky bet on a human future of superintelligent AI, space colonization, and transcending human biological limits, which journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker describes as the "ideology of technological salvation."
Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future
Altman, Bezos, and Musk say they want to save humanity by creating superintelligent AI. Journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker reveals how these fantastical visions conceal a darker agenda.
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"AI isn't coming for your job. It already came, said "nice resume," and then built your replacement. While you're waiting for ChatGPT to finish loading, it's automating another slice of your workflow in the background." #econsky hackernoon.com/what-to-do-w...
What to Do While I Wait for ChatGPT | HackerNoon
Laid-off teams, AI ops, and slow GPT replies—one exec vents about replacing staff with ChatGPT while waiting painfully for it to load.
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"Users are throwing all sorts of prompts into Meta AI without knowing that they’re being displayed publicly, including sensitive medical & tax documents, addresses, and deeply personal information including—confessions of affairs, crimes, and court cases.." gizmodo.com/psa-get-your...
PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now
This is bad, folks. Very bad.
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