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OpenAI, Google and Microsoft are all laying claims to expertise in educational research. They're appealing to their own AI, data, and scale capacities to do this, and wrapping it in the language of learning and cognitive sciences. It's a big tech takeover of educational research imo 🥶
Under no circumstances should we allow OpenAI to become the self-authorized educational research evidenve source that it is trying to be. Vendors must not be research authorities. openai.com/index/unders...
Anthropic:
"Look, we need the contracts, but we cannot allow our service to be used to violate the US Constitution or power automated weapons that could kill millions.
When it comes down to it, we love this country too much to be involved in its downfall."
OpenAI:
"We'll do it!"
So, let's review: • Oracle has already fucked with the TikTok algorithm, the main reason people use the app, and people using the app is how the app makes money (by serving them ads). • TikTok was already losing billions of dollars. • Larry Ellison's wealth is almost entirely tied to his shares of Oracle. • Oracle's shares are tied to the health of the company, and said shares are already losing value because of Oracle's egregious debt. • This situation will only improve if Oracle is able to build data centers that are behind schedule and it does not yet have the capital to build, requiring debt that bankers are hesitant to provide. • Even if successful, if OpenAl cannot pay for the compute, Oracle's shares will slide into oblivion. • All the while, Oracle just bought into one of its largest cloud customers, and is currently in the process of making its business less-valuable. Great stuff.
Sidebar, and a note about bailouts: I'm sure some of you are worried about a government bailout of Oracle, and I hate to say that I think one would be likely with the Trump administration. To be clear, the bailout would be for the distressed debts associated with Oracle's data center projects - so $38 billion, $18 billion, whatever remains of Stargate Abilene's debt, and $14 billion if Stargate New Mexico goes ahead. This would be very unlikely to hold off the collapse of Oracle's stock price, and also be very unpopular with just about everybody. I honestly have no idea what form it might take, but there's little hope that Ellison would leave such a situation with much of his net worth in tact (though I doubt he'd ever be truly penniless, as he receives billions in dividends a year from Oracle, and Oracle would likely either have to sell to another company or sell bits of itself. Perhaps there's a way some form of the company comes out the other end, but it won't be the same Oracle. Honestly, I think that's for the best. This company has worthwhile tech, it's just sold and serviced by the armies of Hell.
No, really! Oracle could collapse
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I'm supporting my friend Alecia Carter to complete the 26-mile Warrior Women Walkers 2026 to fundraise for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social – it is a worthy cause. www.justgiving.com/page/honouri...
Discernible among my friends and colleagues who remain heavy X users: affects both their sense of issue salience and the intellectual framework (i.e., usually race and migration) through which to understand them. Many think themselves exempt through critical thinking skills. You are what you eat!
Love that people are finally waking up en masse to the fact that they don’t need or want a lot of the stuff that’s been marketed for the past 25 years as “the future” and “making all our lives better”
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
AI researcher says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pressure building on govt to come clean about Mandelson's role in bringing US spy-tech firm Palantir into the heart of our NHS.
The fingerprints of Mandelson and his lobbying firm are all over these deals.
The rot goes to the heart of this Labour govt
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Screenshot of text reading: Osborne, now Head of OpenAI for Countries, reflected on the discussions in a LinkedIn post following the event, where he wrote that governments were “actively looking for ways to partner with us so its benefits reach more of their people.” He added that while enthusiasm for AI was high, Davos also surfaced “the emergence of a new challenge: a growing capability overhang between how some countries are making great use this new technology and how others are not.”
Sorry but *what*? How did I not know that George Osborne - the architect of British public sector austerity - was now OpenAI's head of "OpenAI for Countries" pushing AI for the public sector, education and skills, and doing so at Davos and on LinkedIn? www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/george-...
Zack Polanski challenges Nigel Farage to show down debate.
Let's talk about who funds Reform.
Let's talk about how disastrous Brexit has been.
Let's talk about why Gorton & Denton must vote Green & stop Reform.
Why so quiet, Nigel Farage?
As these teens describe, AI can diminish human relationships; devalue art; threaten the environment; lead to laziness; give unreliable results; pose privacy concerns; and be misused.
So, please, stop with the narratives of inevitability and let's embrace a pedagogy and politics of refusal.
“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”
"Education can be a major tool for anti-technofascist resistance and democracy building."
CONTRIBUTOR GREG BROCKMAN AMOUNT ELECTION TO DAT $25,000,000 $25,000,000
The largest Trump superPAC donor so far this cycle is the president of OpenAI
Fog filling the view
The window framing the world
Buried ‘neath a cloud
#DailyHaiku #haiku #Sunday
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
Hundreds and hundreds of people have joined the Green Party since this was broadcast.
Together - we are growing this movement.
Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
If Starmer wants us to be strong he'd stop making deals with Peter Thiel (Palantir).
For anyone who doesn't know who is, he's a major part of why America is now an authoritarian country.
He's friends with Musk & funded Vance.
1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10
@milesgrindey.bsky.social 👇read this but the whole thread is worth reviewing 💥
This week, we discuss stances on AI, a conference about money laundering, and signs about slavery coming down.
This is a really useful tool with which you can research the horrors of X without an account sending data. xcancel.com/nickschifrin...
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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‘Kicking out immigrants is no way to build a better Canada’ well said @milesgrindey.bsky.social calgaryherald.com/opinion/opin...
Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Case closed.
Spot on ⬇️
"Leaving the EU was a disaster a decade ago."
"And it's even more of a disaster given the international situation now."
