Senior Editor @HarvardBiz covering technology and innovation. The future is soon, probably. he/him
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This was a cool one!
Got to sit down with @HarvardBiz for a lengthy Q&A on the Iran War and the ongoing, historic energy supply crisis: how it works, how bad it could get, and how decision makers should think about the risk.
Check it out:
hbr.org/2026/03/the-oil-shoc…
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every company training artificial intelligence models realizes their problem is finding enough data across the internet to make their products live up to their sky-high future expectations
By @CadeMetz @ceciliakang @sheeraf @stuartathompson @nicoagrant
nytimes.com/2024/04/06/techn…
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Read @tom_stackpole on housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard, the onetime regular place turned celebrity rich people playground where he grew up. Lessons for everywhere, particularly places where second homes/short-term rentals push out year-round residents motherjones.com/politics/202…
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tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy .@tom_stackpole motherjones.com/politics/202…
very much haunted by this graf:
I got to write about the housing crisis in my home town. Like a lot of places, it's almost impossible for normal people to find affordable rent or buy a house. So, folks are organizing to find ways to build, buy, and hold on to year-round housing. 1/x
Martha's Vineyard has a rep as the summer playground of the liberal elite. But it's home yearround to working- and middle-class families increasingly squeezed out by housing costs. MV native @tom_stackpole reports on the fight to save the island community motherjones.com/politics/202…
And like a lot of places, success or failure here is a question of whether people in the community can organize. There's a committed core who has managed to navigate small town politics and unite people, lobby for policy at the state level, and try to find solutions. 4/x
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As a linguist, I'm really curious to watch how a better understanding of history might change the modern use of the word Luddite. As someone concerned about how tech is being used to concentrate power, I want everyone to learn from this, stat.
This week @bcmerchant is back to talk with @parismarx about the real history of the Luddites and why we should be inspired by them.
In this clip, Brian explains how the divide on the “machine question” is as relevant today as it was in 1811.
Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/t…
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CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich's new book takes a deeper look into the history and dynamics of the building trades, and offers solutions for the future of the industry. "The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work" is out now. press.uillinois.edu/books/?i…
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Joining Threads from Instagram is easy, but migrating from Twitter is a headache!
This shows why we need social media based on open protocols – as @WhatTheLJW and I explain today in @HarvardBiz: hbr.org/2023/07/threads-fore…
A can’t-miss episode if you’re trying to make sense of this AI hype cycle
The new Dig ep w/ @mer__edith, @bigblackjacobin, @sarahbmyers cracks open AI hype machine that simultaneously promises salvation and warns of apocalypse, concealing a more mundane dystopia of labor domination, surveillance, and military-industrial profits. thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-h…
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Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do - so it's a big throw-down. fastcompany.com/90906560/ado…
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My first quote in the @FT
For context: Alarmist statements on the part of mining industry that Chile’s move to increase state role in lithium sector are *tactical.* Raising the specter of capital flight is one way to induce gov to water down their plans on.ft.com/3Ny3TvC
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No, it could not. Full stop.
If any Hollywood exec claims they're replacing workers with AI, know that people are working as scabs behind the scenes. Because, I repeat, AI cannot replace human workers. Writers, editors, and otherwise.
“I’ve had a couple of higher-level people ask, if a strike does happen, how quickly could they spin up an AI system to just write the scripts? And they’re serious.” @AshleyCullins & I looked into the A.I. question during the writers strike: hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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This is such a powerful example. And TBH one of the best ways to "regulate" AI: organized workers demanding dignified and safe working conditions, rejecting the idea that AI-enabled degradation of work is inevitable!
I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the @WGAWest's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.
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I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern
This is not new or novel. It was women - @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.
nytimes.com/2023/05/01/techn…
