OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's company for $6.5B to design them a furby www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Patrick Tanguay
@inevernu.bsky.social
Autodidact. Generalist. Synthesist. I write Sentiers, a carefully curated weekly newsletter on the futures of technology, society, and culture. @inevernu@social.coop 📧 https://sentiers.media
“men, have been using the glasses to inconspicuously — and non-consensually — capture footage of themselves approaching women and attempting to hit on them, interactions they’ve then posted online for content” #menarenotok
Peter Clines@peterclines.com · 3w agoNice work, everyone! Keep it up!
My piece for @dezeen.com: FIFA’s mandate that World Cup host cities provide game-day public transit is a unique opportunity for American cities. It’s a chance to experiment and to learn from other places addressing the same challenges at the same time. www.dezeen.com/2026/06/30/w...
"The World Cup is a unique opportunity for different transit approaches"
The World Cup has highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of public transportation in North America, providing cities with the opportunity to test and implement novel approaches.
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Reminder: “energy is too cheap and abundant” is only a problem for investors, not for people. Renewable energy is a public good.
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · last mo.Too cheap to meter. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I'm endlessly surprised to realise that medium.com still exists.
This is one of many reasons why designing societies around cars was a mistake. It's not a path to follow, it's something that good civic leaders are now trying to undo. These guys don't understand *anything* about society, yet governments are allowing them to shape our futures with their ignorance.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2mo ago“.. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks .. “When I was growing up, I used to play in the streets,” Huang said. “When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now.” apnews.com/article/nvid...
Don't wait until it's too late for Epstein-like files to drop when you have the chance to expose networks while they're active.
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo agoNEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.
Well, at least he still has the Taco Bell Arena (Boise State). www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/p...
Kennedy Center says it has fully removed Trump’s name from its building | CNN Politics
The Kennedy Center has removed Donald Trump’s name from its building, its executive director said Saturday, erasing a symbolic fixture of the president’s remaking of Washington, DC.
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Court rules 🔨Google's AI Overviews are NOT search results 🔨search engine liability rules DON'T apply 🔨"users can check for themselves"defense is🐄💩 "Google built the AI[..]so Google owns what it produces, "because it alone has influence over the AI's offering &the algorithms w which the AI operates"
Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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“I mean, your society’s broken… Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks died #OTD, 9 June, 2013 www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...
Iain Banks: the final interview
Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .
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Seems to be in the air. Friday I wrote Sunday's Sentiers and mentioned the Axial Age—which I first learned about in a talk by @jonathanrowson.bsky.social a couple of years ago. Saturday @noemamag.com's newsletter lead with this. www.noemamag.com/what-might-t...
What Might The Next Axial Age Look Like? | NOEMA
Awareness of the relationality of all being is a response to the planet in crisis.
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In case people have not got it yet...this is not faulty tech but the point of the AI Industry: "Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history."
Thiago Carvalho@cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 2mo ago'In the Oumi analysis, Gemini 2 provided answers that were “ungrounded” 37 percent of the time, meaning the AI Overviews cited websites that didn’t support the information they provided. But with Gemini 3, this jumped to 56 percent.' futurism.com/artificial-i...
Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.
Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3mo agoSpaceX Taps Crypto Billionaire to Lead First Crewed Mission to Mars https://gizmodo.com/spacex-taps-crypto-billionaire-to-lead-first-crewed-mission-to-mars-2000762451
never forget: despite being the most successful of the billionaire wannabe rocket barons Musk is the only one that has never been into space himself afaik no fawning journalist or fan has ever asked him why? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mars colony and Grok warnings: five strange details in SpaceX’s pitch to investors
IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals look at finances, cosmic ambitions and insight into tech empire’s quirks
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The great thing is the more attention these incidents get the more likely they are to spread and be mimicked, commencement/graduation speeches this year have the potential to do the funniest thing
404 Media@404media.co · 3mo agoFormer Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
Hey Siri, show me an example of someone going way, way, way, way (I mean wayyyyyy) over the head of their interlocutor.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3mo agoXi told Trump that a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” according to an official English translation of his remarks broadcast by CCTV. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/05/14/t...
Oh god the discussion in Vancouver is going to be so stupid from all sides. “11 AI agents” is meaningless as a phrase. If I said “I have 11 spreadsheets” or “I have 11 browser tabs” to do my work, it means about the same thing.
Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you thought "I bet Ken Sim is all in on AI", you would be correct
I swear I haven't laughed out loud so much at a standup comedian in two years, never mind an "AI realist." youtu.be/JgVBqcqUGE0?...
The Unethical Guide to Surviving AI Layoffs
YouTube video by Mo Bitar
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Now that AI can figure captchas out, the real test of humanity is not whether you can solve it, but whether you are annoyed af each time.
These dudes think they are casting spells. @wolvendamien.bsky.social called it a long time ago.
Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works
Marc Andreessen seemingly tried to show off his AI prompt engineering skills — only for the internet to mercilessly mock him.
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In the "I should re-read @rezendi.com's Swarm from... going on 15 years ago" department. spectrum.ieee.org/autonomous-d...
Why Autonomous Drones Are Key to Ukraine's Defense
Autonomous drones are redefining the battlefield, but are we ready for the challenges they bring?
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Last time I linked to Zitron was September 2024 and I unsubbed a good while ago, so this doesn't come as a surprise, but it needed to be said.
Jon Evans@rezendi.com · 3mo agoI do wish everyone who cites Ed Zitron would read this piece. I like Ed! But he is no longer a serious person on the subject. As Kelsey says, we desperately need better skepticism. www.theargumentmag.com/p/ais-bigges...
The single most important thing to understand about tech futurism is that, when Anthropic’s predictions turn out to be wrong, they don’t have to give the money back.
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · last yr.I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...