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Musk v. Altman: Microsoft executive Michael Wetter testifies that Microsoft has spent $100B on its partnership with OpenAI, including its original investments (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-13/mic…

It's that time of year when @… Executive Board, Officers, Committees and Journal Editors submit their reports ahead of the AGM at #DH2026. Reading the reports is a reminder of the constant, invisible work that so many good people to do support Digital Humanities interna…

We live in a world in which we face several separate genuinely existential problems, at least one of which, the #ClimateEmergency, is so critical that unless we make radical change this decade there is no future for life on this planet. And our media have spent the week discussing gossip about a useless crew of politicians not one of whom has the courage even to discuss possible ways to a…

Ever wondered how we plan and implement an intercontinental connectivity investment programme here at GÉANT?
The project team from GN5-IC1 have spent years doing exactly that, and they've now shared their lessons learned, recommendations, and insights from a comprehensive analysis in a new summary document.
🔗 Read more here:

"It is the triumph of the speculative sci-fi scenario over human solidarity: why fix the world we inhabit when we can spend billions preventing a robot uprising that exists only in the imagination? By trying to steer policy debates toward distant catastrophic scenarios [...] the industry diverts attention from regulating the systems already causing harm: algorithmic bias in hiring, facial recognition’s racial disparities, platform amplification of extremism."

In recent weeks, big tech companies have been forced to admit that spending on tokens
—the basic unit of measurement for AI usage
—has gotten out of control.
Amazon had to shut down an in-house competition to use as many tokens as possible at work, telling employees,
“Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” according to Business Insider;
Uber has reportedly capped employee spending on tokens to $1,500 per month after the company exhausted its annual AI…

Big Tech Is Quietly Admitting That If It Wants to Sell People on AI, It Better Be Cheap
“Tokenmaxxing” is out. The Great Token Panic is setting in.

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation | David Boles, Blogs
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers …

Memo: Xbox CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the group's leadership, including bringing over executives from Microsoft's CoreAI engineering unit where she worked before (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/microsoft-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-e…

Microsoft Xbox CEO overhauls leadership amid sinking sales: 'We need to evolve how we work'
Asha Sharma, the former Instacart and Meta executive who took over Xbox at Microsoft, said the unit doesn't spend enough time with developers and players.

Taken far enough,
societal destabilization into extremism transforms racist riots into national policy:
In the US, as we exhaustively catalogued at Unbreaking,
hastily recruited ICE and CBP officers have spent much of the past year and a half
beating, tear-gassing, detaining, harassing, starving, sexually assaulting, shooting, and killing people who looked like Black and brown immigrants or allies of immigrants
—all against a background of fake videos, xenophob…

Immigration — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

"I’ve spent twenty-four years working in this landscape professionally as well as politically, in mental health services in Scotland. Every shift brings me into contact with the people this piece is talking about — not as abstractions, not as a class analysis, but as voices on a line at three in the morning. The lumpen, the underclass, the broken and the breaking" -- @…

I Am Exhausted. And I’m Not Looking Away.
On working class exhaustion, solidarity, and the choice we cannot avoid