Poems Human or bot? Readers guess wrongly now AI writes with grace and rhythm Perfect
I love Law & Order and I heard Noam Chomsky is a fan too. I tried to find a source - according to this 2003 profile, he is:
When Chomsky and Carol are in Cambridge, they usually watch an hour of television at night—“Law & Order” or some other cop show. Carol makes sure that they go to bed right afterward, and they wake up around eight.
I dunno about this. Clapback read-a-book energy.
“Australian authors group give every federal politician five books to encourage nuance in Middle East debate” via hamonryen
Interesting open access article from Abby Smith, Seema Mihrshahi, and Becky Freeman on Exploring small retailers’ perspectives on selling tobacco after the tripling of Tasmania’s tobacco licence fee.
It retrospect I should have recognised this as a warning about the quality of the takeaway pizza I’d just ordered.
Interesting and unusual to see the South China Morning Post discussing legalised vaping’s cost to the Malaysian health system.
If no control measures are taken against the use of electronic cigarettes or vapes, this treatment cost is projected to rise to US$82 million annually by 2030.
Malaysia’s healthcare system faces US$82 million vaping bill - SCMP
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I worked with “informed optimism,” which means you are basically working with many of the same institutions, systems, and tendencies that exist today, and understanding how there could be the best possible scenario. When I interviewed people for New York 2044, I asked them if they could use the lens of informed optimism to imagine their scenarios.
News from Home - Urban Omnibus
The use of AI to create novel text, images, and video will likely exacerbate the challenge of cognitive warfare. This form of non-lethal warfare explains the social engineering of adversaries’ beliefs, with the overall intent to affect their defense priorities, military readiness, and operations. In this way, countries will attempt to harness AI to produce misinformation and disinformation, which are designed to mislead and deceive opponents, and across the competition continuum ranging from peace to war.
A new military-industrial complex: How tech bros are hyping AI’s role in war - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Musk must be one of the biggest winners of the election. He took a relatively popular social media app and turned it into a tool for the Trump campaign and nativist authoritarians everywhere in just two years.
Some reasonable points here, and a challenge for us is to be open to the message!
Mastodon’s structure and culture of openness present opportunities to avoid many of the epistemic perils of biased and untrustworthy large corporate platforms. However, Mastodon’s risks include techno-elitism, white ignorance, and isolated, epistemically toxic communities.
Beyond Corporate Social Media Platforms: The Epistemic Promises and Perils of Alternative Social Media - @Lakephil@mastodon.social
Antiwar counter protesters
I really enjoyed this list of The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
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“Malaria is as old as Egyptian civilization itself, but the disease that plagued pharaohs now belongs to its history and not its future” - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.
The Verge 2004 - a fun selection of articles reflecting on why this year was a turning point for our online existence.
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