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I asked people on Threads and Mastodon what they think will happen if AI delivers on the hype with two positive and two negative outcomes.
The negative outcomes won by a huge margin. Unsure if this is due to reader base I’ve attracted or reflects a broader sense that AI will be a net negative to society
One of the things I’m most thankful for is that I didn’t push my kid to get into tech. The entry level job market is non-existent and the entire industry is spending trillions of dollars to replace their experienced workers with chatbots.
Hard to imagine anything more on brand than Elon Musk creating a racist Wikipedia clone.
xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.
The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Zohran Mamdani is so scary because he is planting the idea that you can tax billionaires and use the money to help people instead of debating what services to cut to pay for tax cuts. Which is literally why the US government is currently shut down.
He is destroying decades of messaging by billionaire sponsored think tanks and politicians.
A December update of Microsoft Teams will now track and report your location using the local Wi-Fi network. This is a less intrusive way of tracking time spent in the office than asking people to badge in and out.
It’s off by default but IT admins can make its usage required.
Microsoft Teams is getting a new update in December that will track whether a worker is in the office or not using Wi-Fi networks.
Tom's Guide (www.tomsguide.com)
People thought the killer app of crypto was money laundering but it turns out it was actually bribery.
The Economist argues that a lack of robots is in major European cities will be a wake up call that they’ve fallen behind the rest of the world.
Ignoring that this is a strange take — if limited mass transit, no universal healthcare and widespread gun violence hasn’t convinced Americans they’ve fallen behind, why would lack of Waymos make Europeans feel similarly?
Please, we’re so close.
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
The male loneliness epidemic is essentially that women now earn as much or more than men and are often better educated. Men have not adapted and feel entitled to women despite not being able to be the primary provider.
Young men are now resentful and the misogyny of incel culture is now mainstream. Which leads them to vote for people like Trump.
There is no easy solution as men refuse to adapt yet feel entitled to the 1950s-era male/female dynamic.
A loneliness epidemic that doesn’t just affect the infected, it affects all of us
(adamkinzinger.substack.com)
In theory Bluesky is decentralized but in practice it isn’t. The AT Protocol supports decentralization but in practice, the network that most users participate in is run by a single company.
So unlike Mastodon, if that one company’s servers go down, the entire BlueSky service is down for all users.
It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant
TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)