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10.03.2026 17:10
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The poll showed that people living in news desert counties, defined as those with no professional news outlet based in their county, generally consume news at nearly the same rate as people living in areas served by local newspapers. Moreover, they don’t think of themselves as being deprived of local news sources. They appear satisfied to have social media, TV news and other options to fill the gap.
Have we been thinking about news deserts all wrong?
@medillschool.bsky.social shares how people living in news deserts *really* feel about their access to local news and info.
www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/many...
Tag yourself! (From Dholakia and Turcan, Toward a Metatheory of Economic Bubbles.)
Frag mich auch echt wie man das für eine gute Idee halten kann und nicht für einen Klage-Generator…
“Block is also monitoring employees’ use of AI, down to their use of specific tools and tokens, according to several employees. Evaluations about employee performance […] now include questions about AI usage and proficiency.”
Taylorism is dead, long live Taylorism
“There’s a distinction between what’s technically possible and just – pardon my French – whatever CEO bullshit will happen based on their own interpretation of how AI works”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This whole thing is such a baffling product decision www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...
The average punter does not want to build software.
They don't want to prompt software.
They don’t even want to describe software.
www.joanwestenberg.com/ai-twitters...
Always fun when a very local issue makes international waves (hah) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/w...
Sigh… this is not how guided missiles work, folks. They do not use ML image recognition systems on approach or to find their targets.
“What makes Clinejection distinct is the outcome: one AI tool silently bootstrapping a second AI agent on developer machines.”
Cool. Cool. Cool.
grith.ai/blog/clineje...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
bsky.app/profile/mims...
… adding that “Univac now automatically produces complex coded routines when given a simple instruction”.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Computer manufacturers eagerly promised customers that they would soon be able to remove their programming staff from the payroll. A Remington Rand ad from 1955 crowed, “Now . . . Univac Tells Itself What to Do!” …
From Abbate (2012)
Stephanie Shirley, who started a contract programming company in the early 1960s, later recalled, "When COBOL was introduced, we thought that would be the end of the company, that nobody would be buying software anymore—programming—because it was just so easy."
“The power loom, as we know, is inevitable, preordained by God, who works His miracles through the hands of rich and wise inventors. It’s foolish to resist it. We can’t possibly imagine a different social order—we just can’t!” ❤️ www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/bei...
Tbf, being more ethical then Altman has always been a very low bar to clear…
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
This is a nice microcosm of how the futurity people often have to signal and project to get into innovation positions is a really really bad way of approaching the rest of the organisation, imo.
Yeah… this is to long for the character limit here but I am not surprised after doing some fieldwork at “AI in journalism” events. A lot of the more forward peeps are working on hollowing out journalistic labor and from the quotes, I’d read her as among these people.
A close-up of a person wearing teal gloves holding a small metal type punch engraved with an ampersand symbol. In the background, part of the person’s face is softly out of focus.
A bearded man wearing teal gloves uses a green rubber air blower to clean a small metal type punch. He sits at a desk with an open wooden case filled with neatly arranged metal punches, while a computer monitor displaying a magnified image is visible in the background.
🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online.
Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography.
🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI
Hadn't realised that Djikstra was apparently a proto-chud ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/698...
If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) you’re probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, y’know?
Für meine deutsche Timeline: Ich habe mal versucht zusammenzuschreiben wie ich ‘KI’ verstehe, bzw. Vorhersagen und Analysen rund um den Begriff einordne. klingebeil.substack.com/p/drei-tipps...
Für meine deutsche Timeline: Ich habe mal versucht zusammenzuschreiben wie ich ‘KI’ verstehe, bzw. Vorhersagen und Analysen rund um den Begriff einordne. klingebeil.substack.com/p/drei-tipps...
In fact, Amodei already answered the question: if nuclear weapons were developed by a private company, and that private company sought to dictate terms to the U.S. military, the U.S. would absolutely be incentivized to destroy that company. The reason goes back to the question of international law, North Korea, and the rest: International law is ultimately a function of power; might makes right. There are some categories of capabilities — like nuclear weapons — that are sufficiently powerful to fundamentally affect the U.S.’s freedom of action; we can bomb Iran, but we can’t North Korea. To the extent that AI is on the level of nuclear weapons — or beyond — is the extent that Amodei and Anthropic are building a power base that potentially rivals the U.S. military. Anthropic talks a lot about alignment; this insistence on controlling the U.S. military, however, is fundamentally misaligned with reality. Current AI models are obviously not yet so powerful that they rival the U.S. military; if that is the trajectory, however — and no one has been more vocal in arguing for that trajectory than Amodei — then it seems to me the choice facing the U.S. is actually quite binary: Option 1 is that Anthropic accepts a subservient position relative to the U.S. government, and does not seek to retain ultimate decision-making power about how its models are used, instead leaving that to Congress and the President. Option 2 is that the U.S. government either destroys Anthropic or removes Amodei.
Ben Thompson making a full-throated case for fascism here stratechery.com/2026/anthrop...
I feel like I am repeating myself but the discussed etnhgraphies of software work (despite their limitations) are a good counterweight to the “saas is dead”-hype. This is especially true when it comes to maintenance and legacy code.
“We are so often confronted with stories from the Silicon Valley Big Tech that we forget that most of our digital infrastructure isn’t actually made by these companies.” journals.openedition.org/rac/41398
The law of unintended consequences. We will see how long this policy lasts after Wall Street starts calling Trump.