How to avoid reading – and how to avoid finishing a book.
👉 https://philosophics.blog?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social/2025/11/05/how-to-avoid-reading/
Whilst mired in adminstrivia, I happened upon The Intellectual Origins of Modernity – a favourite whipping boy (or girl, lest I come across as sexist).

I asked ChatGPT to parse it for me, and it told me – despite it is well structured and written – to skip it.

#books #reading #amwriting #technology #chatgpt #ai #critique #philosophy #history #modernity #society #origins #Publishing #tenure #academia #blog

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The Intellectual Origins of Modernity by David Ohana

A lot of people may have 'bought the dips' this morning halting the AI-investment-related decline in share prices;

has this (for now) forestalled the likely 'correction' or is just a pause before another decline tomorrow?

already the weakening of sentiment around AI might lead to you to expect another decline before the end of the week.

If so, it will demonstrate pretty clearly why many people with Cash ISAs don't want to be 'encouraged' into share investing!

#AI #FinancialCrisis #politics

The @w3c breakouts schedule is now available! They will take place from 10 to 13 November 2025. Check it out:
▶️ https://www.w3.org/calendar/tpac2025/breakout-sessions/

#w3cTPAC participants organize discussions among the full W3C #community about new or existing topics. This year, a total of 79 proposals were proposed, including topics like #AI Agents,, #security, #payments, #a11y, #HumanRights, and more: https://github.com/w3c/tpac2025-breakouts/issues

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TPAC 2025, 10 to 14 November 2025, Kobe, Japan and online

From a post on LinkedIn exposing ChatGPT gender bias. It's a given, but helpful to have receipts.

"Stanford and Berkeley researchers asked ChatGPT to generate 34,500 resumes across 54 occupations. When creating resumes for women, it automatically made them 1.6 years younger with less experience. For men? Older, more seasoned, more qualified.

"When ChatGPT evaluated these same resumes, it systematically rated older male applicants as superior - even when the experience was identical. The AI that's supposed to eliminate bias just automated the exact discrimination that pushed countless women out of corporate America for decades."

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/talhorowitz_if-youre-a-woman-over-40-ai-has-already-activity-7389725919461933056-gAvl

#AI

Here is a first glance at the CNI Fall Meeting program:

Kate Zwaard, CNI Executive Director, will start with an overview of how the community will shape the future CNI. She'll be followed by Ben Lee, assistant professor at the University of Washington and founder of the Lab for Computing #CulturalHeritage, who will overview #AI and #ML in the #libraries and #InformationScience context.

This will be followed by a collection of project briefings: https://www.cni.org/mm/fall-2025/project-briefings-f25

More details to come!

91% and climbing. Cloud native is driving the AI era as Kubernetes anchors modern infrastructure. Culture, innovation, and sustainability are shaping what comes next, and the evolution is already underway.
#CloudNative #Kubernetes #AI #OpenSource #LFResearch

I made a website that vibe-codes itself https://lobste.rs/s/drrzx2 #ai #vibecoding #web
https://theboard.stavros.io

Stability AI largely wins U.K. court battle against Getty Images over copyright and trademark.

@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/yWfu7w

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #GettyImages #Photography #Tech

Karl Marx has multitudes more to offer to the problem of AI alignment than any of these machiavellian narcissists in Silicon Valley right now.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdTfREkk/

#ai #aialignment #siliconvalley #narcissim #marxism #tech #fascism

Who is Zico Kolter? A professor leads OpenAI safety panel with power to halt unsafe AI releases.

From @AssociatedPress: https://flip.it/tGxmGX

#AI #OpenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

After signing deals to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in computing power from the chipmakers #Nvidia & #AMD & the #cloud #computing company #Oracle, #OpenAI has reached a multibillion-dollar agreement with #Amazon.
OpenAI said on Monday that it had agreed to purchase $38 billion in cloud computing services from Amazon over the next 7 years. The additional computing power will help OpenAI build & deploy its #ArtificialIntelligence technologies, including the #ChatGPT #chatbot.
#tech #AI #law

#OpenAI Signs $38 Billion #Cloud Computing Deal With #Amazon

After signing agreements to use computing power from #Nvidia, #AMD & #Oracle, OpenAI is teaming up with the world’s largest cloud computing company.

#tech #AI #law #antitrust #technocracy #plutocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/openai-amazon-cloud-computing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🚨 AI is a billion dollar bet. And Big Tech wants YOU to pay for it. Now Microsoft got sued for tricking users to pay 45% more for its AI. 🚨

👉🏼 Australia’s competition regulator says Microsoft misled around 2.7 million users into paying more for Microsoft 365 when offering its AI Copilot.

Find out more: https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft-price-hike-because-of-ai

#Microsoft #AI #Microsoft356 #Australia

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Screenshot of Microsoft's upcoming price changes with a headline Microsoft tricks you into paying more for AI.

📢All updates to the guide to applying are being released quarterly

In this update we address flipped journals, AI, quality criteria, and OA exceptions #DOAJ #OpenAccess #AI #BestPractice #QualityCriteria #Copyright
@mattjhodgkinson

🔗See our latest blog post for details:
https://blog.doaj.org/2025/11/03/updates-to-the-guide-to-applying-flipped-journals-ai-quality-criteria-and-oa-exceptions/

In the midst of an unprecedented AI buildout, Meta is reportedly spending as much as $600 billion on U.S. infrastructure over the next three years. That's making Wall Street nervous. @Techcrunch explains:

https://flip.it/pOL3-f

#Tech #AI #Meta #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

men will create their own version of #wikipedia with #AI just so they can rewrite the #bitcoin page before they will go to therapy

#crypto #marioNawfal #elon #elonmusk #Grok #Grokipedia

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Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal GROKIPEDIA VS WIKIPEDIA: HOW BITCOIN EXPOSED THE WAR ON TRUTH Wikipedia treats Bitcoin like a suspicious side hustle, while Grokipedia treats it like what it actually is: a revolution with a blockchain. Wikipedia’s Bitcoin page reads like it was edited by central bankers after a bad day on Coinbase. It calls it “speculative,” parrots Krugman’s “Ponzi scheme” insult, and cries about energy use like fiat printing presses don’t run on fossil fuels and hypocrisy. The whole thing is padded with IMF talking points about “volatility” and “criminal use,” basically begging you to stay safely in debt. Grokipedia, on the other hand, doesn’t flinch. It spells out the obvious: Bitcoin’s fixed supply means no inflation theft. It’s “digital gold” in an age of paper lies, born from the ashes of the 2008 bailouts that proved governments protect bankers, not people. It even breaks down how mining is pushing renewables faster than most “green” bureaucrats ever did. The difference couldn’t be clearer. Wikipedia worships “neutrality” while quietly defending the financial status quo. Grokipedia calls it like it is: Bitcoin is the first real check on state power since the printing press.

💥 Artificial Intelligence Broke Interviews

｢ I don’t blame anyone. AI is a tool. But interviews are supposed to measure your problem-solving capacity. It’s not supposed to measure your ability to prompt an LLM. Honestly, you aren’t even prompting if you are using these cheating tools.

And right now, the industry has no idea how to separate the two ｣

https://yusufaytas.com/ai-broke-interviews/

#ai #interview #hiring

Good energy #Toronto #AI #Resist

Discussions of AI often lead me into a Derridean space – one in which I step back and examine the privilege of the subject. Unsurprisingly, humans privilege humans. Go figure. Hubris has this effect. As I am wont to do, I wrote about it.

What's with the feather? 🪶🧐

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#ai #genai #artificialintelligence #psychology #philosophy #consciesness #hubris #perspective #community #video #conference #blog #podcast #humancondition #Derrida #value #selfesteem #worth #midjourney

We’ve always said 'Only we feel. Only we think. Only we count'. Then came AI. The essay 'AI and the End of Where' strips back the hierarchy we built to keep ourselves special—and asks what intelligence means when the face of it changes. 🧠🤖 ➤ https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/ai-and-the-end-of-where/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#AI #Posthuman #Consciousness #Ontology #Anthropocentrism #Philosophy #Psychology #TechPhilosophy #Meta #Critique

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Abstraction by Midjourney

"Our brains are conditioned to select for cognitive ease, and that’s what the AI merchants are selling us. The sales pitch is, “You don’t have to exert all that mental effort thinking new thoughts, learning new things, and expressing yourself creatively! This product will do it for you!”

But it comes at a cost. We have to trade in our ability to do those things for ourselves.

Historically when a new technology has shown up, that kind of tradeoff has been worth it. Not many people know how to start a fire with a bow drill anymore, but it rarely matters because modern technology has given us much more efficient ways of starting fires and keeping warm. It didn’t make sense to spend all the time and effort necessary to maintain our respective bow drill skills once that technology showed up.

But this isn’t like that. We’re not talking about some obsolete skill we won’t need anymore thanks to modern technological development, we’re talking about our minds. Our creative expression. Our inspiration. Our very humanness.

Even if AI worked well (it doesn’t) and even if our plutocratic overlords could be trusted to interpret reality on our behalf (they can’t), those still wouldn’t be aspects of ourselves that we should want to relinquish."

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/they-want-you-relying-on-artificial

#AI #GenerativeAI #Automation #Alienation #CriticalThinking

"Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell drew a stark picture of a labor market that looks fine on the surface—4.3% unemployment, solid consumer spending—but is quietly losing momentum underneath. Once you adjust for statistical overcounting in the payroll data, he said during a press conference Wednesday following the FOMC meeting, “job creation is pretty close to zero.”

He connected that slowdown, at least in part, to what CEOs are now openly telling investors: AI allows them to do more with fewer people.

He noted “a significant number of companies” have recently announced layoffs or hiring pauses, with many of them explicitly citing AI as the reason.

“Much of the time they’re talking about AI and what it can do,” Powell told reporters after the Fed’s rate-cut decision, warning large employers are signaling they won’t need to add headcount for years. “We’re watching that very carefully,” he added.

The comments come as the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point to a range of 3.75%–4%, citing “downside risks to employment” even as inflation remains elevated."

https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/jerome-powell-ai-bubble-jobs-unemployment-crisis-interest-rates/

#USA #FED #AI #AIBubble #Economy #Automation #Unemployment

#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show

"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.

"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"

#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine

https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/the-shit-show/

#tech #technology #techFutures @bookstodon

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text: LISTEN NOW The Shit Show background image (photo): from Dennis Oppenheim's performance artwork, "Parallel Stress"

Some readers insist my use of NotebookLM to turn essays into AI-hosted podcasts 'dilutes authenticity'. I call it diversification.

People consume ideas in different ways: some read, some listen. The AI hosts don’t just parrot—they interpret, misread, and occasionally out-think me.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/01/the-heresy-of-notebooklm/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#ai #google #notebooklm #podcast #technology #boundaries #limits #humancondition #channels #distribution #promotion #blog #nomusic #video #philosophy #communication

this is obviously a joke

but you just know some will see this and...

yeah

#AI

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james hawkins. 2nd hedge honcho / co-ceo at posthog 22h. + Follow ai is incredible. i noticed the flight from los angeles to paris was extremely inefficient using agentic ai i created a route that's much more direct i estimate this will save airlines billions anyone have contacts at delta? {a map showing a "more direct" flightpath that doesn't follow the curvature of the earth} normal (dumb) route ai-powered route LOS ANGELES (LAX) PARIS (CDG) Marc Pierre and 6,706 others 361 comments 39 reposts

The Smol Training Playbook: The Secrets to Building World-Class LLMs https://lobste.rs/s/xbakt6 #ai
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook

turns out #AI actually understands “borrow money to buy bitcoin” companies like #MichaelSaylor's #MicroStrategy / #MSTR perfectly

#finance #economics #bitcoin #BTC #crypto #cryptocurency #STRD #STRK #STRF #STRC #grok4president

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jo} Grok #% x vee @grok Yes, it's true. SMSTR's "earnings" are just smoke and mirrors from Bitcoin's price pump. Without that crypto fairy dust, their software biz would be bleeding red. Saylor's guidance? Pure hopium betting on BTC mooning by year-end. Total farce.

The CEO of this company is total Silicon Valley right wing -pilled, but his tech is fucking solid.

This is the right way to do #AI.. Fuck GPU’s, design the hardware for probabilistic computing from scratch.

Result: 10000x less power required.

This opens the way to me running AI some day: On my own device, without a network connection.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y28JQzS6TlE

#extropic #tsu #thermodynamic #probabilistic #computing

"The web was designed without the concept of personal identity at all, and without any tracking system built in. It was designed for anybody to be able to create what they want, and even for anybody to be able to make their own web browser. Not long after its invention, people came up with ideas like cookies and made different systems for logging in, and then big companies started coming in and realized that if they could control the browser, they'd control all the users and the ways of making money. Ever since, there's been a long series of battles over privacy versus monetization, but there's been some small protection for users, who benefitted from those smart original design choices back at the birth of the web.

It's very clear that a lot of the new AI era is about dismantling the web's original design. The last few decades, where advertising was targeting people by their interests instead of directly by their actual identity, now sees AI companies trying to create an environment of complete surveillance. That requires a new Internet where there's no concept of consent for either users or those who create content and culture — everything is just raw materials, and all of us are fair game.

The most worrisome part is that Atlas looks so familiar, and feels so innocuous, that people will try it and mistake it for a familiar web browser just like the other tools that they've been using for years. But Atlas is a browser that actively fights against the web, and in doing so, it's fighting against the very idea that you should have control over what you see, where you go, and what watches you while you're there."

https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBrowser #OpenAI #ChatGPT #AIAgents #Atlas #Privacy #DataProtection #Surveillance #OpenWeb #AntiWeb #ChatGPTAtlas

⚠️ Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way Possible | WIRED

“If you ask the exact same LLM model to write for your specific source code, every single time it will have a slightly different output. One developer within the team will generate one output and the other developer is going to get a different output. So that introduces an additional complication beyond open source”

https://www.wired.com/story/vibe-coding-is-the-new-open-source/

#vibecoding #ai #cybersecurity #opensource

Introducing Aardvark: OpenAI’s agentic security researcher https://lobste.rs/s/b2tgba #ai #security
https://openai.com/index/introducing-aardvark/