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Politics and transit!

[Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain]

Opinions of AI are much more positive in Asian countries where the technology is being described as a public utility made available open-source.

In the U.S. views are dismal as also seen in data center backlash and its no wonder as the main message is that AI will be used as a tool to eliminate jobs and consolidate power within a small circle of oligarch-run companies whose leaders seem to hate and fear the general public.

[Kevin Amézaga @kevinamezaga]

I stand behind the belief that personal automobiles make people more conservative because you both A) don’t get exposed enough to your fellow citizens and learn to live in a society and B) learn to hate other people because they only act as congestion that slows you down

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Major study reveals the richest Americans live about as long as the poorest people in Western Europe.

[jeffrey lee funk @jeffreyleefunk]

Slok warns money from AI boom is not coming from natural demand for AI applications, but rather shareholders looking to profit in next technological revolution. AI boom's profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers. https://t.co/1BPyZ4PGWT

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

David Sacks calls Anthropic and OpenAI a duopoly, and says they want to use the government to eliminate their open source competition.

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

from "it's too dangerous, we need to regulate it" to "50% discount"

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

China is now leading the AI arms race after spending a tenth what the US did

[Alec MacGillis @AlecMacGillis]

"Convenience has saved us time. The hidden price is that it has also saved us from one another." Good column:

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

I wonder how quickly his feeling of satisfaction faded back into the dissociated numbness of addiction and alienation

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

burning sage around my bank account bc that comeback was unreal

[speedy @tweet_deleter]

I will die for my country new york city

[Noel El Magnifico @NoelElMagnifico]

This is how serious NY is taking this Finals. Elmo had to retract his statement cause the city was like you a New Yorker this ain't the time for neutral shit

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

College students have been trained to look toward “the next step in their lives, the next aspiration, the next accomplishment, and they don’t even know how to stop doing that,” Ian Bogost tells Adam Harris of the professionalization of U.S. higher education: https://t.co/l1Y83xsu1g

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

I've spent years interviewing data workers who are the lifeblood of the AI industry in countries like Kenya, Colombia, and the Philippines.

Now it's the #4 fastest growing job in the U.S.

AI is coming for your job, and it's not in the way that you think.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Meritocracy has made life an endless, terrible competition—and the system is no longer serving anyone well, Daniel Markovits wrote in 2019. https://t.co/xOUu40jGiZ

🎨: Edmon de Haro

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Study of 1,500 women who left tech finds 55% left within 5 yrs; 87% within 10 yrs. These women didn't lack ambition, talent or resilience. They hit a wall: a culture that didn't see them, a career path that narrowed or a working pattern that couldn't flex.https://t.co/Hx5DPzp27r

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

🚨 New findings published today! 🚨

Graduates who grew up in deep poverty still earn £2,800 less than their peers 10 years on, even if they earn the same degree, and do the same job in the same firm.

Read 'The long shadow' here 👉 https://t.co/bLA14OQrkO

[M @mxrza189]

and for the lady, perhaps a calm & regulated nervous system?