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It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word

theatlantic.com · Oct 04

Understand AI for what it is, not what it might become.

Shared by @pythonbynight and 20 others.
Tucker's Balz 4 Harris/Walz (@jstatepost) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

hypebot (@hypebot) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Bianca Kastl (@bkastl) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Lisa Melton (@lisamelton) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Sarah Grisham (@xerophile) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Felix A. Epp 🇺🇦💜🇪 (he/him) (@eppfel) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Ben Evans (@kittylyst) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

thepoliticalcat (@thepoliticalcat) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Aslak Raanes (@aslakr) · Oct 04
🔁 @davekarpf:

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

theatlantic.com/technology/arc

Neighbors as Lifelines: The Power of Mutual Aid in Asheville

organizingmythoughts.org · Oct 04

"Get that ready because it could save your life or your community's lives," says Asheville organizer Sarah Nuñez.

Shared by @Lazarou and 22 others.
Trans Gruber (@bright_helpings) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

It's Going Down (@igd_news) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson (@SrRochardBunson) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

jack(y) or treat! (@jalcine) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

Dinah 🕊🇺🇦 (@metagrrrl) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

Jessamyn (@jessamyn) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

Geoff Berner (@Geoffberner) · Oct 04
🔁 @MsKellyMHayes:

I spoke with activists and mutual aid organizers in flood-ravaged Asheville, North Carolina, about what they are up against and how mutual aid is keeping their communities alive. organizingmythoughts.org/neigh

Shared by @boud and 14 others.
Boud (@boud) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

jailandrade 🍉 (@jailandrade) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

vruz (@vruz) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

almondtree (@almondtree) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

PFloyd 🇵🇸 (@LiefhebberV) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

Lisa Melton (@lisamelton) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

hypebot (@hypebot) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

Charlie Stross (@cstross) · Oct 04
🔁 @LauraKT:

Facebook is automatically removing this article. Clearly they don't want the world to read my outstanding journalism ♥️

normalisland.co.uk/p/israel-sa

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund carbon capture and storage projects

theguardian.com · Oct 03

Investment will fund two CCS clusters – but environmental campaigners have criticised plans

Shared by @alfredo and 11 others.
Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · Oct 04
🔁 @pvonhellermannn:

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

theguardian.com/environment/20

pettter (@pettter) · Oct 04
🔁 @glynmoody:

Labour to commit almost £22bn to fund #carboncapture and storage projects - theguardian.com/environment/20 such a waste of money: it won't work at scale, and it gives #fossilfuel companies cover to pollute further

Alfredo (@alfredo) · Oct 04
🔁 @pvonhellermannn:

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

theguardian.com/environment/20

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (@dgoldsmith) · Oct 04
🔁 @CarbonBubble:

Rachel Reeves is paving the way for a multibillion-pound increase in public-sector investment at the budget after UK govt announced plans to commit almost £22bn over 25 years to fund #CCS projects buff.ly/4dzt1v6

Aral Balkan (@aral) · Oct 04
🔁 @nickpeers:

If ever there was evidence to support the idea this government is as wedded to neoliberalism as its predecessor, this is it.

I wonder how much carbon these expensive technologies will capture compared to giving nature the tools to recapture carbon itself while focusing on reducing emissions in the first place?

Cakeism won't cut it any more, I'm afraid.

theguardian.com/environment/20

Pauline von Hellermann (@pvonhellermannn) · Oct 04

#ClimateDiary £22 billion on bloody carbon capture - that’s not what we need.

“environmental campaigners have warned big energy firms could use it to extend the life of their fossil fuel assets”, and indeed, there is “an expected £8bn of private investment by some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including BP and Norwegian energy company Equinor.”

theguardian.com/environment/20

The profit-obsessed monster destroying American emergency rooms

vox.com · Oct 02

Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing.

Shared by @xerophile and 15 others.
wet forest moon folklorist (@seachanger) · Oct 03
🔁 @bermaninstitute:

How private equity chewed through America’s emergency rooms: Private equity decimated emergency care in the United States — without you even noticing. By Keren Landman, MD | Vox vox.com/health-care/374820/eme

Paul McLanahan :firefox: (@pmac) · Oct 04
🔁 @acdha:

“The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system — and how powerless they leave individual consumers. Today, private equity continues to operate a shocking quarter of ERs nationwide, as of March 2024.”
vox.com/health-care/374820/eme

Elyse M Grasso (@elysegrasso) · Oct 04
🔁 @mloxton:

"The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system"

vox.com/health-care/374820/eme

Jeff Forcier (@bitprophet) · Oct 04
🔁 @acdha:

“The story of how private equity has been able to so thoroughly debilitate emergency care is one of the more dramatic examples of how corporate interests are corrosive to America’s health care system — and how powerless they leave individual consumers. Today, private equity continues to operate a shocking quarter of ERs nationwide, as of March 2024.”
vox.com/health-care/374820/eme

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Shared by @yildo and 5 others.
Jonathan Glick (@Jonathanglick) · Oct 04
🔁 @reckless1280:

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

Summetime Leo 🇺🇦 (@yildo) · Oct 04
🔁 @reckless1280:

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Oct 04
🔁 @reckless1280:

LOOK AT THIS TELECOM MERGER TIMELINE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF ALL THIS AND WHY DID @richardlawler AND I HAVE TO COVER IT ALL https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/4/24259360/directv-dish-merger-timeline-aol-timewarner

Student Loan Debt | The Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

dfpi.ca.gov · Oct 04

Celina Damian, California Student Loan Ombudsperson, on the disproportionate student debt burden and how she helps borrowers navigate long-term debt.

Shared by @democracy and 14 others.
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: (@catsalad) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Tyler Cohen (@tylerzonia) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Boo Ramsey 🧛🏻‍♂️🧟‍♂️👻🎃 (@ramsey) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Kevin R Jones (@kevinrj) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Kyle Montanio (@FantasticalEconomics) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Iris Young (he/they/she) (PhD) (@iris) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

Aleen (@aleen) · Oct 04
🔁 @mekkaokereke:

20 years after the first year of college, the typical white student has paid down 94% of their borrowed amount.👍🏻

20 years after the first year of college, the typical Black student still owes 95% of their initial borrowed amount.😮

So US college education and loans *increase* the racial wealth gap, not reduce it🙂🙃

dfpi.ca.gov/2023/02/13/student

Which is the real reason that some US folk are so against student loan forgiveness: much of that *$2 trillion* in debt, is held by educated Black women.

2/N

I stayed.

zeldman.com · Oct 04

My insight into corporate legal disputes is as meaningful as my opinion on Quantum Mechanics. What I do know is that, when given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic.

Shared by @otto42 and 14 others.
Royce Williams (@tychotithonus) · Oct 04
🔁 @zeldman:

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-staye

George Hotelling (@george) · Oct 04
🔁 @zeldman:

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-staye

Claudio Rimann (@crimann) · Oct 04

@florianziegler @dvk Here's what Jeffrey Zeldman had to say, who puts it exactly in the opposite way and said the severance would have allowed him to pay off debts and "wiped the slate clean" for him, financially, but he decided to stay for various other reasons.

Guess things are rarely as black and white as they look from afar... 🤷‍♂️

zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-staye

Jon Henshaw :coywolf: (@jon) · Oct 04
🔁 @zeldman:

Given the chance this week to leave my job with half a year’s salary paid in advance, I chose to stay at Automattic. Here’s why.

zeldman.com/2024/10/04/i-staye

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Mark Zuckerberg’s rebrand is a master class in distraction

disconnect.blog · Oct 04

Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present

Shared by @parismarx and 8 others.
Jan :rust: :ferris: (@janriemer) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Paris Marx (@parismarx) · Oct 05
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Tucker's Balz 4 Harris/Walz (@jstatepost) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Sarah Grisham (@xerophile) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Amy Dentata (@amydentata) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

Prof. Catherine Fright 👻 (@CatherineFlick) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

yosh (@yosh) · Oct 04
🔁 @parismarx:

Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think he’s a new man because he wears baggy clothes and gold chains.

But the reality is that he’s embracing right-wing politics and spurning critics while presenting himself as a great future builder to distract from the ongoing harms of his platforms. Don’t fall for the deception.

disconnect.blog/mark-zuckerber

#tech #meta #markzuckerberg #ai #orion #smartglasses

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