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I’m still afraid
of butterflies
how they move so much
like a heart
on fire
Ocean Vuong • Time Is a Mother
The deal we struck with Google for all that nice free stuff, the affordable mobile phone ecosystem, the entertaining videos etc. has proved a deal with the devil
Rupert Goodwins • Google's 'Be Evil' business transformation is complete: Time for the end game
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
some of the very people who are developing search algorithms and architecture are willing to promote sexist and racist attitudes openly at work and beyond, while we are supposed to believe that these same employees are developing “neutral” or “objective” decision-making tools.
Safiya Umoja Noble • Algorithms of Oppression
Don’t just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
He felt oddly empty now that he no longer had the key to work on—purposeless and directionless.
Stephen King • The Waste Lands
I am attending to the crises of my time with my best self,
I am of communities that are doing our collective best
to honor our ancestors and all humans to come
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
“So, you want me to worship a white god?”