PJ Manney

AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

I'm going to share this story one more time, because I think the problem it describes -- being unable to determine what is true online or in the news, and just giving up entirely on trying -- is going to get more and more common. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Expert Review Selected experts Steven Rich Database Editor at The Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize-winning data journalist

absolutely do not trust this expert on grammarly. he is bad and should feel bad.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Early advice from the Minister for COVID-19 Response to Cabinet was that a strong health response was the best economic response. This was repeated in the Cabinet papers of 20, 23, 27 and 30 August, and 6 September. The 20 August 2021 paper set out the evidence officials considered supported that advice. ° New Zealand’s infection and death rates were among the lowest in the world. ° New Zealand’s unemployment rate was at the pre-COVID level of 4 percent, because jobs and businesses had been protected with the wage subsidy. Unemployment in New Zealand peaked at 5.3 percent (whereas in the United States and Canada it rose above 10 percent). ° Economic activity in the March 2021 quarter was 2.4 percent above the previous year. ° The Government was in a ‘strong financial position’ – net core Crown debt stood at 31.2 percent of GDP at the end of May 2021, 8.8 percent lower than the forecast 44 percent (a difference of approximately $40 billion). ‘This gives us options to keep investing to protect New Zealanders and accelerate our recovery’

So Chris Hipkins not only took advice & kept the economy afloat and jobs and businesses alive through #Covid-19, he pushed to keep Kiwis healthy and alive at a time when corpses were piled up across Italy, UK, US, and India.

Kudos @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol #newzealand

Time to pass a law that any party spokesperson of media outlet that opines with hindsight reckons on pandemic management has to show this chart in the background at all times #nzpol

Oh my dears. I’m so sorry. Sending you all strength.

Healing History's Wounds at Writing the Other. Highly recommend anything @nisishawl.bsky.social teaches.

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Sorry, forgot to tag my incredible cohost, @laurafayeten.bsky.social ! 😍

Exploring the Noosphere A New Mythos for Humanity with Brian Swimme and Monica DeRaspe-Bolles

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Brian Swimme & Monica DeRaspe Bolles join us for "Exploring the Noosphere: a New Mythos for Humanity" on the Love Letters to the Future podcast. You will feel better about yourself and the world after listening to this one. Join us below.

Given genAI, it seems that fa$c!$t$ do both.

I will remind you again and again the words of Terry Pratchett delivered by Granny Weatherwax

Evil begins when you treat people like things

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do Hospitalisations and deaths from the virus are climbing as the ninth wave of Covid-19 surges across Aotearoa.

Each Covid-19 wave wrecks your health. Here's what you can do.
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Love Letters To The Future | Substack Love Letters to the Future is a podcast where hosts PJ Manney and Laura Faye Tenenbaum discuss worn out myths and better stories to replace them. We use the the term "New Mythos" to describe the commo...

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Want to know what's coming? Ask the right people.

Join @laurafayeten.bsky.social and me on Love Letters to the Future, along with experts like @cascio.bsky.social where we discuss increasing our circles of empathy to find the best way forward. On your favorite podcast platforms.

Terry Tempest Williams shared at Upaya last November, we must understand that narratives of isolation and disconnection instill fear and justify power and control. Terry made the point that now is a time to return to narratives that restore the vision

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Jamais Cascio shares fresh and new thinking. And what is it?

Be kind. Be willing to be wrong. Be willing to improvise. But most of all, be kind.

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Sun still rising, but pinks have faded to yellow white under clouds through the window.

Minutes later…

Early morning clouds through window with solar powered prayer wheel in lower foreground.

Happy Monday.

The panopticon, The Disability Diversion, and a Disability Dongle all in one.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I think the bigger issue is that we’re living through the illiteracy and psychological damage of some of SF’s biggest fans as they wrongly bring dystopia futures to life. And it sucks. We’re living the suck, so who needs more of it?

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

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AI is already creeping into election campaigns. NZ’s rules aren’t ready Months out from the next general election, political “AI slop” is spilling over social media feeds. Lessons from overseas could help electoral laws catch up.

#nzpol Heads up and pay attention Aotearoa NZ. There's going to be a deluge of dirty politics and lies thrown at us on social media this year. Please remember to go to party websites to read published policies. Do due diligence and watch out for each other. 💪

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Jamais Cascio discusses the alternative narrative and framing we need to succeed in our new, complex Brittle-Anxious-Nonlinear-Incomprehensible future.

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Liam Dann: Iran conflict could sink economic recovery ... and Luxon A badly timed supply shock threatens to spike inflation and sink our fragile recovery.

Imagine Liam, if this govt had accelerated, even just continued, energy transition, getting NZ off the oil&gas addiction, liberating our economy from this vulnerability they would have something real to offer. But no, they chose the exact opposite, for reasons.
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Me, too!

If this is true…This should be raised to the level of a social sacrament!