Mike Loukides
@mikeloukides
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I rarely use this account now. Find me on Mastodon (hachyderm): @[email protected] VP Content Strategy, O'Reilly Media, pianist, ham radio op
usually in Connecticut
Joined February 2008
In which I talk about strawberries, parking lots, AI doomerism, and @elonmusk :
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We don’t need AI to destroy the world.
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In which I talk about strawberries, parking lots, AI doomerism, and @elonmusk :
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We don’t need AI to destroy the world.
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Twitter/X wants to collect biometric data and employment history? Right now, there's no company I'd trust less with that data. Take that, @elonmusk
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Man, the new Xed TweetDeck design is awful. @elonmusk must have fired all the designers. And why repeat that awful GMAIL "pop up an ID card when the mouse is over a handle" botch? That card always obscures exactly what you want to read.
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Screw record labels. They have been an anchor on the market for decades now, worsening conditions for artists and the public
Record labels sue Internet Archive for digitizing obsolete vintage records https://t.co/F9zlsMokpY
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Let’s admit that every reporter in DC knows but most won’t say for fear of falling out of favor with the bothsides rules of official DC: there is a two-tiered Justice System. One for Democrats, in which the most exacting focus on conflicts of interest are followed, often going …
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Knowledge. The weight of knowledge.
Me carrying this box up 5 flights of stairs: “what on earth could possibly be so f**ing heavy”
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Stephen O'Grady's essay on why open source matters is a must-read:
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Is it “open source”? The question doesn’t really matter. – Matt Asay When we as an industry talk about whether the term open source matters, we need to talk about that question on more than one...
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Our high school interns are changing the world of Bioengineering and we want you to see a glimpse of their accomplishments! Check out our new blog post on this wonderful students; https://t.co/sbShEkv9gC
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Philip Guo's post on doing a non-trivial programming project with ChatGPT is a must-read.
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Taking AI Far Beyond Small Self-Contained Coding Tasks
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lololol I have never experienced more harassment on this platform than I do now. People now pay to give their harassment more visibility. The de-verification of journalists, civic orgs, and figures has made it impossible to follow conversations. I wish it could be usable again
More than 99% of content users and advertisers see on Twitter is healthy. And the reach of hate speech on Twitter continues to represent an extremely small fraction of the overall conversation. This past March, Twitter partnered with Sprinklr to understand, measure and reduce
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Just read that Tweetdeck will only be available to verified users. If so, it's been good to know you. (Frankly, I'm surprised it has taken this long.)
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And the choice Blum made was specifically to divide and conquer. Elite rich white men keep creating the conditions for division because they understand that a coalition between Black, Native, Asian, poor white, and/or Latiné people would change the balance of power in America.
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“My pitch for this episode is simple: Jennifer Pahlka has written one of the best policy books I have ever read.” - Ezra Klein https://t.co/ovq93yHgJQ
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In “Recoding America,” Jennifer Pahlka offers a deeper theory for why the U.S. government struggles to provide services to its people.
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The Headline isn't "AI may kill us all someday." The Headline is "people & institutions use AI to cause a wide range of harm TODAY and we have to stop them." Bonus: fixing REAL HARMS right now happens to ALSO be the best approach to mitigating long term risk of more harm.
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I am so, so delighted to share that my book, HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD, will be published by Riverhead Books on October 17th, 2023 and is now available for pre-order. https://t.co/8DIj6D1kzT
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#TheDataExchangePod: @jpatrickhall @bnh_ai @gwbusiness and Agus Sudjianto @WellsFargo dive into the world of #ResponsibleAI and into practical techniques for developing secure, unbiased, explainable, and reliable #MachineLearning #AI models. https://t.co/v7unnWCtRM
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Patrick Hall and Agus Sudjianto on tools, techniques, best practices for Responsible AI.
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