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
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
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
@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?
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
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 https://t.co/e5jZQA44Rn
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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: