I wish I had seen this thread before Turkey Day so I could send it to EVERYONE.
https://bsky.app/profile/jenmsft.bsky.social/post/3m6hwnxq5lk2f
So yeah, use it for the next holiday / long weekend.
(How to schedule teams and outlook messages so that they …
‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/03/just-an-unbelievable-amount-of-pollution-how-big…
I may have to pick this up in ebook when it comes out. 🤔 https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o226ujhlcj6anuqigwao4hhi/post/3mdw6ufx2yk2b
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay,
who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead,
sang back-up on several classic Sixties hits,
and fronted her own bands,
has died. -- She was 78
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Why not join me for A Month of Dick?
Moby Dick, that is! We’re reading the book together this January. Details: https://bsky.app/profile/jacobharr.is/post/3magtsxttus2m
Via John Baker on the #FF2025 channel on the AI4LAM Slack: 'Cataloging books with LLMs: using out of copyright books as training data' https://medium.com/digirati-ch/catalog
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney
— a former editor at The New York Times
— details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred,
why this was directed from the very top,
how some staff pushed back
and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
https://
There's a Mail piece with a headline that seems like people are angry at the development work on Jony Ive's home, as though he's about to drop a giant translucent Bondi Blue structure in the neighbourhood.
But the quotes are like:
> 'Initially people were worried because it is a big project and they thought it was bound to disrupt the community but they have been perfect.'
For those who know the stakes,
James Talarico is Dems best chance to flip the TX Senate seat.
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