"Nobody's talking to engineers anymore. They're asking agents for problems, and it just keeps the conversation very isolated." Never mind all the talk about saving x number of hours a week in productivity - and I hate to be *that* person - but decent leaders have got to look at the pain points.

A must-read piece from our summer issue

Prospect Magazine@prospectmagazine.co.uk · last mo.

Perrault’s Bluebeard warned young women: don’t look too closely. Gisèle Pelicot, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Sarah Wynn-Williams looked anyway. Dr Kate Maltby on three memoirs that refused silence:

my god we don't deserve this but so lucky he's here carving a new path

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.

The beautiful game. The people’s game. Throughout this World Cup, we have been reminded of a simple truth: football belongs to everyone. So does the joy and community it creates. Yesterday, I joined New Yorkers on Rikers Island to watch England take on Argentina.

Waking up to good news is a … new feeling.

Today’s free newsletter has a very simple message: The AI industry can not (and will not) be bailed out - AI is not too big to fail, OpenAI is not AIG, this is not 2008, and all of this is nothing like the Dot Com Bubble. And when it fails, we must let AI burn. www.wheresyoured.at/let-ai-burn/

Let AI Burn

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When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

leftist populist men 29 days later: why did those terrible women fail to get us to listen

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 3mo ago

leftist populist men: I know how we win, we tell women they ruin our politics

So @espn.com we don’t get to see women playing even when Wimbledon has them on centre court? The women’s 2 seed is playing centre court, but that’s not worthy of coverage? WTH

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

Jaysus. Hard to get my head around Hakeem being this thick. Wrong side of history, man.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

jeffries is not seeking a literal apology, he's asserting he has currency now in an institution mamdani doesn't control. the democrats will first try to domesticate the dsa.

Damn this is lovely

Sean Jones KC@seanjones.org · 2mo ago

Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1

The home bathroom is the one place of quiet where no one gives a woman tasks or advice or instructions and if you take that away from us we will burn it all down with cleansing fire I promise you

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

This, from Pelley's interview today, is such a good articulation of a problem I've had with so many of these MAGA people. The insulting hubris to take a job with no qualifications or experience. It sticks in my craw.

UK transplant here. In London on a Tech Innovator Visa I love the NHS but one way they could materially cut costs: in the US, a 90 day prescription for ongoing meds is the norm In the UK, it's treated as a bizarre request The unnecessary system work for 1/month instead of once/3 months! whyyy

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Tonight…

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

How it’s going How it’s going to go

He cut your funding, you don’t need to keep doing this

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4mo ago

President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he was reviewing a new Iranian proposal to end the war. “I’ll let you know about it later," he said before boarding Air Force One, adding that “they’re going to give me the exact wording now.” https://to.pbs.org/4tNmXZ1

to think I've lived my entire life hearing the word ballroom perhaps a total of 3 times until recently

A great read on AI in schools, including this powerful analogy for allowing AI to automate vital steps in a child’s learning progression and cognitive development: “We don’t say to the parents of an eight-month-old, ‘Don’t encourage your child to crawl—that’s a useless skill.’ ”

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don't miss this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/culture/prog... /1

The more I think about the techno-fascist tech nerds the more I wonder if the Nazis were just a bunch of angry nerds.

This is as good as everyone's saying it is. The anti-corruption message is a good one, imo

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

is that a lot of days to detain a widow what should we compare ourselves to

French Widow Detained by ICE in Alabama Is Released After 16 Days

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Emily is on the frontline, fighting the good fight. I signed - you should too.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Appreciate the inimitable @realmegbear.bsky.social including our research on the Actual State of Enterprise Data health in her newsletter. Meg is a must read in every channel The excellent @diginomica.com research in the thread below cc @alyx.diginomica.com www.linkedin.com/pulse/meg-am...

The Meg & Amy Show Newsletter - Issue 18

Spark of the Week This week I had two big meta themes in focus -- Emerging organization models and AI Security reality. Emerging org models - Founder Mode (sub-plot Dorsey Mode) vs.

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Loss upon loss upon loss for MAGA. And when you’re losing so much you lose one other thing- the fear you had instilled in other politicians, the media, universities and business.

JD Vance, are you free in October

giving big "my weakness is I care too much"

The Economist@economist.com · 4mo ago

Dario Amodei has warned that his company’s latest AI model is too powerful to be made widely just yet. He might be right

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right. It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

The silent coup

How AI captured Westminster

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