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After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire?

As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musks-tired-schtick/

#tech #elonmusk #artificialintelligence #politics #media #journalism

I'm thrilled to share that my new book #HYPERSCALE is hitting bookstores on October 20. You can preorder it now!

It's an account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point, and of the incredible efforts of people and movements pushing back against the profit-driven interests of Big Tech.

Get your copy and learn more: https://hyperscalebook.com/

#techindustry #techbook #newbook #reading #datacenter #datacenters #generativeai #politics #artificialintelligence

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This New York Times article is necessary reading, discussing what #students lose #intellectually when they let #ArtificialIntelligence write for them. #AI #writing https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/us/student-writing-essays-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6FA.lWO2.fMbKl9a-Hl1N&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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META’S REAL AI WAS HIDING
IN PLAIN SIGHT. 💎

I watched a video this morning called 'The (Overdue) Collapse of Meta,' expecting another story about a giant technology company finally coming unstuck.

BUT THAT REALLY WASN'T THE STORY.

Meta is still making extraordinary amounts of money.

The metaverse was a spectacular failure. Zuckerberg renamed the company around it, talked about a billion people eventually inhabiting virtual worlds, and poured tens of billions of dollars into trying to make it happen.

PEOPLE MOSTLY DIDN'T COME.

But while everyone was laughing at cartoon legs and expensive headsets, something else inside Meta was working extraordinarily well.

THE ADVERTISING MACHINE

For more than a decade, Meta has been using AI to learn from the tiny signals produced by billions of human brains. What we stop to look at. What we click. What we ignore. What keeps us scrolling?

WHAT WE ARE ABOUT TO BUY

And increasingly, what we might be about to do. That system became astonishingly good at turning human behaviour into advertising revenue. Which changes the story rather dramatically.

META DIDN'T FAIL TO BUILD POWERFUL AI.

It was built years ago. It just wasn't sitting there chatting pleasantly to us. It was behind Facebook and Instagram, watching behaviour and learning how to predict it.

And the enormous advertising business generated by that machinery is now helping to finance Meta's next gigantic gamble: superintelligence, data centres, researchers, and infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.

There is something almost perfect about that. The metaverse failed because people didn't particularly want what Meta was selling. The advertising machine succeeded because we WERE what Meta was selling. And perhaps that is the part worth paying attention to.

Because sometimes the most important question about technology isn't:

DID IT WORK?

It is:

WHAT DID IT LEARN TO DO TO US?

@3goodthings
@DigitalCoup
@meditation
@economics_that_works

#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SurveillanceCapitalism #SocialMedia #BigTech #Privacy #Technology #DigitalRights #people #humans #brain

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https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-middle-school-year/19778716/

"Mayor Zohran #Mamdani and other city officials announced a sweeping new policy Wednesday imposing a one-year ban on student use of generative #artificialIntelligence in #NewYorkCity #publicSchools from 2-K through 8th grade"

How did we get Mamdani?

People ignored the #DNC, didn't whine #cynicism and #perfectionism and not #vote, and put him there

We can have 100 Mamdanis across the #USA if more Americans follow this lead

#NYC #AI #Education

I just published "Generative AI – The new pandemic".👇
https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/03/generative-ai-the-new-pandemic/
#noAI #slop #FreeSoftware #ClimateEmergency #PublicHealth #HumanRights #genAI #ArtificialIntelligence

The Reality of an AI Tomorrow
Rafael Salazar · 2026

We speak constantly about the future AI will create.

But sometimes the more important question is already in front of us:
What happens to the human being in the tomorrow we are building?

This photograph was not staged. It records a real moment encountered during Labor Day weekend.

The photograph is reality. AI is the question.

Find me https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-reality-of-an-ai-tomorrow-rafael-salazar.html

#Photography #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #HumanDignity #Motionalism

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