@tante@tldr.nettime.org2024-02-27 23:01:55
The Automattic “AI” thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.
https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energy2024-03-26 18:48:16
Provocative data and great charts from Kingsmill Bond & colleagues in their new report out today: "X-Change: The Race to the Top
Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States" https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/<…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2024-03-27 15:16:06
The Milwaukee Film Festival Lineup...
➡️ https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/heres-the-cinema-hooligante-lineup-and-everything-else-for-the-2024-milwaukee-film-festival/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-26 18:30:40
Source: G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller told staff The A.V. Club and The Takeout have been sold; Paste bought The A.V. Club and Static Media bought The Takeout (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/media/fo
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-01-28 05:16:08
The Biden admin plans to use the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-tech-giants-us-government-ai-projects/
@brian_gettler@mas.to2024-03-26 14:36:50
I should've known about this already. I dig how the author's clearly having fun: the medieval ass "didn’t have a single or simple meaning: the ass was paradoxical. It was remarkable but unremarkable... It was profane and holy... Its potent sexual reputation... was simultaneously linked to sterility and, to this day, ‘ass’ and ‘arse’ remain culturally-connected homophones."
Kathryn Smithies, Introducing the Medieval Ass (2020)
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-27 16:50:59
"Mandate for Leadership," a totalitarian tome produced by the Heritage Foundation and its partners, is a how-to guide for ending the United States as we know it.
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/project-2025-the-cowboy-catholic
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2024-02-28 05:48:11
Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic by AlvinHermans, Avi Romanoff, carolerman
https://alvinhermans.itch.io/rearranging-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic
@benb@osintua.eu2024-02-26 22:46:58
The Counteroffensive: Russia’s failure to take Kyiv was pure luck: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/the-counteroffensive-russias.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2024-03-26 18:30:40
Source: G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller told staff The A.V. Club and The Takeout have been sold; Paste bought The A.V. Club and Static Media bought The Takeout (Alexandra Steigrad/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/03/26/media/fo