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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
How do data center builders see the politics?
This session takes place live from the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara, Calif.
➡️ Ed Nelson, Strategy Director & C0-Founder, AI Infra Summit
➡️ Joseph Wells, Founder and Chief Growth Officer, Data Center Signals
#tech #technology #politics #law #policy #techpolicy #technews #datacenter #ai #artificialintelligence #business #live #livestream #broadcast
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
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
We want YOUR input on who's on stage.
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Sponsors:
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#AI #broadband #DC #congress #politics #law #live #ArtificialIntelligence #event #irl #telecom #tech #technology #infrastructure #FutureOfWork #Future #economics #economy #EconomicDevelopment #business
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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
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
My new book HYPERSCALE is finally out this week!
Yesterday I went on MS NOW’s The Beat with Ari Melber to talk about data centers, AI, and the threats that come of how tech billionaires have shaped the technology to benefit themselves at everyone else’s expense.
Get your copy today: https://hyperscalebook.com
#tech #artificialintelligence #generativeai #datacenters #books #elonmusk #reading
This week's #NewBooks at the library: some books I hope to review soon!
- I received a review copy of Jessica Riskin's The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste #Lamarck, published by Riverhead Books. This will be the finale of an upcoming Lamarck-review-extravaganza.
- I received my preorder of Cody Dahler's The State of This! A Thicky Thicky Dumb Dumb's Guide to #BritishPolitics, published by Bonnier Books. This was supposed to be, but through some miscommunications ended up not being, a signed copy. Cody, let us know if you're ever in Devon on a speaking engagement, and I'll make an effort to come out and remedy that! :)
- Lastly, happy publication day to @parismarx Hyperscale: Ambition, Power and the Relentless Rise of Data Empires, published by Profile Books!
#Books #Bookstodon #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #EvolutionaryBiology #Evolution #Lamarckism #Politics #AI #NoToAi #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #Scicomm @bookstodon
Texas unveiled a new AI data analytics initiative, Bevo Lab, which the university said will "serve as higher education's premier sports intelligence platform and living laboratory.
On a fourth-down decision in the Longhorns’ Week 7 loss to Florida the AI-driven data analytics platform advised to go for it. The Texas QB was dropped for a 3-yard loss.
#Texas #BevoLab #collegefootball #football #sports #artificialintelligence #AI #technology #tech
Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought.
Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter
Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown.
https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #artificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #midterms
There’s no question Donald Trump took a hit in the US midterms. But the tech industry may prove to be an even bigger loser.
Across the country, electoral races were won and lost based on where candidates stood on data centers. The public was clear: they want moratoriums and for AI ambitions to be reined in.
https://disconnect.blog/us-midterms-delivered-a-blow-to-techs-ai-ambitions/
#tech #datacenters #midterms #elections #artificialintelligence #ai
NEW: The Interior Department may open tens of millions of acres of public lands for AI data centers.
ProPublica found Trump officials who oversee these lands stand to profit from the growth of the industry.
https://www.propublica.org/article/burgum-public-land-data-centers-investments?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #PublicLands #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Government #Ethics #Utah #Nevada
AI 'art'. Today's cartoon by Aadvik Singh. More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/
This is farked.
Voice actors now have to compete against AI reproductions of their own voices.
And because they often don't hold the copyright to the ads of TV shows they work on, there's basically no recourse:
"Jacqui Duncan has voiced more than 5000 commercials for Australian radio and television. And, as she told [a NSW stare government committee on AI], she owns none of them.
"Last financial year, Duncan earned about 30 per cent of what she had consistently made in the three years before. She now works a second job.
"'AI voices and performances have definitely played a big part,' she told this masthead. Clients have also used them to push down the rates the union spent years fighting for, she said. 'It’s faster and cheaper, so therefore we should be as well.'
"Duncan, the NSW president of Equity, the performers’ division of the media union, gave evidence to the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. 'I never gave consent for my work to be taken,' she said. 'Our members are already 62 per cent down on their work in the last 12 months,' Simon Kennedy, president of the Australian Association of Voice Actors, told the same hearing.
...
"OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google all put Canberra on notice – Australia’s copyright rules will dictate whether they train their flagship models on local soil. But copyright usually belongs to a studio, label, publisher or advertiser, not to the performer or writer who made the work. Under the deals and funds on the table, the alliance warned, the money flows to whoever holds the copyright.
"Duncan has never held the copyright to her own commercials. 'But if it’s my biometric data and 20 years of industry skills that go into those performances, I should have a say,' she said. Clients, she said, should not get a performance at all if it 'only exists because mine and thousands of others’ training, performance skills, experience and creative consciousness have all been whittled down to ones and zeros, fed into an LLM (for free) and then exported'.
...
"She knows voice artists and actors who have been replaced by AI copies of themselves, their voices or faces used in new campaigns without consent or payment.
"When one colleague asked a producer why he had not even been consulted, Duncan said, the producer replied that he 'assumed consent was given'."
https://www.smh.com.au/technology/i-never-gave-consent-the-australians-being-replaced-with-copies-of-themselves-20261010-p613x1.html
#AI #VoiceActor #VoiceActing #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #auspol #NSWpol #Gemini #Claude #Anthropic #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Google #AIBubble #capitalism #business #politics #nsw #nswpol
