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Zen fascists will control you...
ianbetteridge.com · 38 people Worth reading
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.
Zen fascists will control you:
In 1979, a punk band from San Francisco recorded a song about the Governor of California. It was a joke, mostly. Jerry Brown was a Democrat, a Buddhist, a man who dated Linda Ronstadt and discussed limits and simplicity at a moment when America was in no mood for either.
— @ianbetteridge · Mar 10
How Standards Are Made
writings.thisismissem.social · 17 people
Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percentage of people in my mentions on the fediverse right now that are accusing me of horrible things
I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks:
— @thisismissem.social · Mar 10
Paul Waldman writes:
"In his 2nd term, Trump knew exactly what he wanted and who could give it to him. In many cases, that meant not just a weak choice but literally the worst possible choice, the person guaranteed to do maximal harm to the interests of the country and the purposes for which their department exists. In short, we have never seen quite the collection of clowns, cranks, and crooks that Trump has assembled."
#UsPol
1/n
— @AkaSci · Mar 10
Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies | George Monbiot
theguardian.com · 13 people
If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
🔁 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social:From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%. Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today.
— @dgoldsmith · Mar 10
The laid-off lawyers and PhDs training AI to steal their careers
theverge.com · 8 people
Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.
How AI training company Mercor, valued at $10B in 2025, uses AI interviewer Melvin and invasive monitoring software Insightful to manage its 30K+ workforce (Josh Dzieza/The Verge)
— @Techmeme · Mar 10
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
wired.com · 13 people
Meta’s former chief AI scientist has long argued that human-level AI will come from mastering the physical world, not language. His new startup, AMI, aims to prove it.
Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
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— @hn50 · Mar 10
Microsoft Broke the Only Thing That Actually Mattered - Yanko Design
yankodesign.com · 9 people Worth reading
Any tech nerd knows the unspoken contract that comes with being the only tech-literate person in the family. You get texts when someone's laptop is slow, called over during the holidays to fix the router, and consulted every eighteen months when someone needs a new phone or computer. For years, t...
How and why Windows lost user trust.
'Nadella did not invent this behavioral tendency; it recurs reliably enough across modern tech to qualify as its own CEO archetype ... The pattern is consistent enough to have a shape: a CEO builds something genuinely dominant, gets pulled toward the next big technological narrative, and hands the original product to the maintenance crew while energy and capital chase the new story. The difference with Nadella is the scale of what he handed off.'
— @leighelse · Mar 10
Schrödinger's War
readtpa.com · 13 people
They can’t agree on whether it’s a war, a mission, regime change, or self-defense. They don’t need to. They just need Congress to stay out.
"They’re not confused. The administration and its allies are running multiple arguments at the same time, and the arguments don’t need to be consistent with each other. They just need to do the same job: keeping Congress out of the decision-making process and letting Trump do whatever the hell he wants."
~ Parker Molloy
— @wdlindsy · Mar 10
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raises $1.03 billion to build world models | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com · 7 people
AMI Labs, the new venture cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation.
Yann LeCun raises a $1B seed round to fund the creation of world models, an approach to AI where models understand the real world as an alternative to hallucination prone LLMs. He had originally planned to raise under $600M but got so much interest he got $1B in funding.
I'm excited to see alternate approaches to AI being explored.
— @carnage4life · Mar 10
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
simonwillison.net · 4 people Worth reading
AI should help us produce better code - Agentic Engineering Patterns
AI should help us produce better code
— @simon · Mar 10
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