Sidney (Leon Talley)
@sidneyfussell
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sci-fi capricorn + doc filmmaker | 2022 @FordFoundation, @CatapultFilmFnd grantee | alum @WIRED @TheAtlantic
OAK | NYC
Joined January 2009
A WaPo endorsement for president had been written and was ready to publish before Jeff Bezos decided the paper would not endorse.
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More than 10,500 creatives, including Thom Yorke from Radiohead, Julianne Moore, novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, have signed an open letter on AI's data grab: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people
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@awoodustin So the lesson here is : you need a traumatizing event in your life to be a great director.
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Friends, I'm happy to announce that my paper with Dr. Émile P. Torres (@xriskology), The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, is finally out on this issue of First Monday. https://t.co/wgZZGqXcyi
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Incredibly alarming for anyone invested in free expression and the right to dissent.
The Supreme Court effectively abolishes the right to mass protest in three US states
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we must address the curiosity crisis everybody thinks they already know everything and it's untenable
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Holy shit, this story about how Boeing's stock-price obsessed CEO and manager class hollowed out the hard-won and rigorous expertise the company was known for. They just took it apart. Plane safety was something we could take for granted, for a long time.
prospect.org
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane
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who are all of these click farms and YouTubers gonna plagiarize if all the journalists are laid off
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OpenAI’s custom GPT Store is now open for business
theverge.com
Get ready for the GPT Store.
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Biden's Executive Order on AI is out. Privacy takes (nearly) centre stage. But it's all quite speculative. The emphasis is on finding new privacy-enhancing technologies and examining how government agencies collect data. There doesn't appear to be much about changing practices.
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It's interesting growing up and learning that most adults are not smart. I had my suspicions as a kid but I didn't think the situation was this dire.
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How is New York City’s arts scene faring in the wake of the pandemic? Read more: https://t.co/jvwyH3N6Gy
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🚨 With the 'click of one button' the passport database becomes a criminal database 🚨 This brazen abuse of power will destroy privacy safeguards and the presumption of innocence, with everyone fair game in a vast, unfettered police surveillance network. https://t.co/ewh6SYYFHF
theguardian.com
Civil liberty campaigners warn Chris Philp’s plans to integrate databases are an ‘Orwellian nightmare’
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