Cori Crider

After a year+ of debate about fixing our own dependencies (a la Newman and Farrell), quite striking to see the admin get a taste of its own medicine.

*pellier

Two large format photographs of petroleum pumps and a small yellow cafe in a Texas town

Always surprises me to see the badlands where I grew up through a photojournalist’s eyes. Here Raymond Depardon (showing in Montpelier) makes small town Texas look almost beautiful. And sometimes maybe it was. Plus, what an eye for colour 👌

in-ter-o-per-a-bi-li-ty

It may be an unseemly long word, but it's beautiful to watch at work.

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

"you're currently living through one of the largest positive technological revolutions in modern history - solar and batteries replacing fossil fuels - and you're hearing more about chatbots because the people who run our country make money selling oil" --‪@mtsw.bsky.social
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I was a little sad he didn't come, but @marcusbaw.com and I had a good day out with the cutout anyway :)

Happy to ship you the cutout anytime! Lots of my family have cute selfies with him 🥰

TBH Carole, Spectator aside, it's likely Mosley chickens out anyway.

We were slated to debate Palantir x NHS in '23 - he bailed. I brought a cardboard cutout instead. Pretty sure I still have it if you want a prop 😅
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"I want new surface areas of expression" is such a beautiful way of putting the hunger we all have for something different out of the social (hell, the web) experience

OPINION: Killing in the name of algorithms How Big Data enables the Obama administration’s drone war

(I'm so crusty I wrote about this issue 12 years ago - so long ago the link is now kaput!) web.archive.org/web/20200317...

I'm almost certainly wrong - I have not followed the Anthropic saga closely enough - but my working assumption was that this would be an iteration of the mass-surveillance crunching / target acquisition processes we have run since the Obama era, back when the Term of Hype was 'big data'

Very here for this!!

I guess the question there is whether a VC (or society) has the appetite to risk capital that way, if it is not predicated on a subset of what you back becoming a monopoly. If not, and if we want tech that doesn't coerce us, we may have to look at other funding structures.

What I find particularly striking about this piece is its frank admission of the extent to which contemporary tech business models are predicated on lock-in and coercion.

This is worth your time.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

I have just held a call with President Pedro Sánchez to express the EU’s full solidarity with Spain.

The EU will always ensure that the interests of its Member States are fully protected.

Bravo from the EU council president.

Chair of the CMA's cloud competition inquiry quits The chair of the CMA's cloud inquiry quits.

Chair of UK’s cloud inquiry has quit, prob over foot-dragging.

A crying shame. The CMA has the best-staffed antitrust team this side of the Atlantic. But Labour + Amazon’s Gurr nerfed it - it’s now like a think tank with compulsory information powers. www.themorningintelligence.uk/cma-cloud-in...

The arts are Britain’s pride and joy. TV, film, books, music. Gutting copyright just lets Sam Altman (and Musk and Google and the rest of big tech) pillage the family silver. I’d say ‘sell,’ but what will Britain receive in return? 0

Interview - Deregulation could spell the end of the EU, Ribera warns - Contexte In a sit-down interview with Contexte, Ursula von der Leyen’s top deputy defended the EU rulebook, pushing back against calls —including from German Chancellor Friedrich Merz — to ‘deregulate every se...

[INTERVIEW] Deregulation could spell the end of the EU, Ribera warns

In a sit-down interview with @contexte.com, Ursula von der Leyen’s top deputy defended the EU rulebook, pushing back against calls —including from German Chancellor — to ‘deregulate every sector’

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Raw milk version. Creamier and even more umami, slightly less sweet.

Grim Reaper with the 1920s Warner Bros logo (looking suspiciously like Michigan J Frog) knocks on the door of Oracle, while doors labeled with the previous Warner acquisitions have bloody trails leading from them

small brain: free markets produce free press

normal brain: consolidation of media into monopolies makes the press unfree

large brain: despite media consolidation, media consumption is more diverse than ever

galaxy brain: media fucked because of phone

The world’s best individual cheese is actually British*

(It’s Stichelton. They don’t win as an overall national cheese league, I accept)

Polling actually slightly under-estimated the total left bloc vote, in the end.

There's a massive and highly motivated anti-Reform vote in this country.

Huge question for the next election about who has the authority to lead it and where.

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

Bring The Executive Order Is Immoral [and God will smite you if you let it stand] energy to your work every day, friends

Omg Rory I didn’t realise you had worked the queues. My Information Collapse T-shirt hits differently now I know!