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AI isn’t coming for your current job. It’s coming for your inext/i one — and has already wrecked it

Riot Platform's Rockdale, Texas facility, North America’s largest Bitcoin mining farm by developed capacity [ source ] Can a network that ha...

“Move fast and break things,” a high-tech mantra popularized 20 years ago by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was supposed to be a rallying cry for game-changing innovation.

Musings of a Crowdstrike Variety

Posted on Tuesday 23 Jul 2024. 739 words, 7 links. By Matt Webb.

Today Justin Glawe reports from Springfield, Illinois after the release of bodycam footage showing police murdering a woman named Sonya Massey in cold blood in her own home. It is one of the worst such killings we have seen in a long time. So bad in fact that the cop

Scratch the surface and they look more like a sales pitch – or a soft power play

In venture capital, you are what you fund.

It would seem fair to say that the second half of last century up till the present day has been firmly shaped by our relation with technology and that of computers in particular. From the bulking b…

Some were "incensed" over the message.

Lately it’s big thing in rpg discussion to bemoan tribalism and cliquishness in the varying scenes on line. This recent exchange between Rob Kuntz and Dungeon Delver is representative: These …

What is culture, and how would you describe it? Sociologists have the answer. Find out more, including why culture matters to sociologists.

Here are the details about what went wrong on Friday.

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by fleas and through the air. One of the most significant events in European history, the Black Death had far-reaching population, economic, and cultural impacts. It was the beginning of the second plague pandemic. The plague created religious, social and economic upheavals, with profound effects on the course of European history.

Precarious immigration status creates an exploitable labor force, allowing bosses to drive down wages for everyone. Inside the labor case for open borders:

The Republican VP nominee's Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist's close ties to the very elites he rails against.

Just a year ago, I was living the American Dream. Today, I’m fighting for survival. This isn’t just my story — it’s a wake-up call for an…

Persistent political and public health failures expose us to pandemics, while vastly underestimating their long-term health effects.

Manufacturers that strong-arm reviewers who don’t say nice things about products cannot become the norm. Which is why it’s good to see reviewers pushing back.