Tom Stackpole

Senior Editor @HarvardBiz covering technology and innovation. The future is soon, probably.
he/him

[Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston]

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:
https://t.co/h0M1de5Y9i

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

@MilesPerHoward On that note …

https://t.co/ky79DEH1s8

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

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

https://t.co/wnTeTgff06

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

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 https://t.co/hc6CohQlxn

[Siddhartha Mahanta @sidhubaba]

tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy .@tom_stackpole https://t.co/zkNNpYy1EN

very much haunted by this graf:

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

@kpat72 @DanielSchulman @DavidCornDC 😬

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

@loretta_sanborn @DanielSchulman @MotherJones I feel like it’s the same story in little beach towns all over. The local organizing always seems to be a sticking point, too.

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

@ack_uber @DanielSchulman Oh yeah, Nantucket is also part of this coalition. I’ve got family there, too, fwiw. The housing situation is really out of control. What’s your take on it?

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

The point is, to address the housing crisis, we need to look at places where things are bad, see what they're doing, and, if it works, organize and try to replicate it. (E.g., Montgomery County, Maryland!) Because it's not going to get better on it's own. 5/5

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

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

[Daniel Schulman @DanielSchulman]

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 https://t.co/e5jZQA44Rn

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

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

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

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.

[Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @CLJEHarvard]

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. https://t.co/5BoRnlVueS

[Scott Kominers @skominers]

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: https://t.co/yPSY8SyJAi

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

A can’t-miss episode if you’re trying to make sense of this AI hype cycle

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

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. https://t.co/3l9OzV3yjl

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

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. https://t.co/AUEhPhqx7N

[Tom Stackpole @tom_stackpole]

@sidhubaba My most important work

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

we still don't have a home for our paper and if any journals are interested in working with us to get it published, reach out to me

here's the current abstract: