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"Every year I invite people who are celebrating the colonial holiday to do something in support of Native people. Amid an overdose crisis and high rates of poverty, illness, and unemployment, Indigenous organizers are doing incredible work to reduce harm and help our peoples thrive. Through mutual aid, cultural
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"“We know it is still possible to make the 1.5 degree limit a reality. It requires tearing out the poisoned root of the climate crisis: fossil fuels. And it demands a just, equitable renewables transition,” said Antònio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations." How realistic is that
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"The more access dads have to paternity leave, [...] the better able they are to adjust to parenthood, helping also make them more effective co-parents as their children get older." All the more reason to ensure that everywhere has fantastic parental leave for all parents. The US is one
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Written before the news broke about Sam Altman moving to Microsoft, this remains a nuanced, intelligent take. "My understanding is that some members of the board genuinely felt Altman was dishonest and unreliable in his communications with them, sources tell me. Some members of the board believe that they
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A beautifully written and executed visual essay about AI, parenting, what it means to be intelligent, and the fundamental essence of being human. #AI [Link]
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This is a good critique of some of the less analytical AI criticism, some of which I've undoubtedly been guilty of myself. "The fork in the road is this: we can dismiss “AI.” We can call it useless, we can dismiss its output as nonsense, we can
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"The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the concerns of the emerging industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy and capitalism as incompatible." "Babbage documented his ideas on labor discipline in his famous volume On the
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I'm pretty shocked that people are sharing Osama bin Laden's letter because they agree with it. Mostly because it is absolutely rife with antisemitic tropes. This is one of the most dangerous aspects of the place we're in: the conflict in Gaza is leading
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This feels like a good use for AI: taking in more data points, understanding their interactions, and producing far more accurate weather forecasts. We're already used to some amount of unreliability in weather forecasts, so when the model gets it wrong - as this did with the intensification
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"Coal must be phased out seven times faster than is now happening, deforestation must be reduced four times faster, and public transport around the world built out six times faster than at present, if the world is to avoid the worst impacts of climate breakdown, new research has found.
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I feel this myself, but I don't think it means that coding is going away, exactly. Some kinds of coding are less manual, in the same way we don't write in assembler anymore. But there will always be a place for code. Lately I've
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I read this the other day and haven't stopped thinking about it. Mostly I worry about the children who have to grow up in this kind of environment. To my mind it's tantamount to child abuse. What happens to them later? Do they stay inside this