Noted – China’s AI platforms race to replace Hugging Face [Rest of World] jc.fyi/x117
For me, this is a reminder that AI isn’t (totally) an American innovation but needs to be observed through a global lens.
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Noted – Growing Majority of Americans Convinced That AI Is Bad for Society [Futurism] jc.fyi/x116
Listened
Started listening to The Value Crisis - a series of episodes currently dropping weekly on BBC’s Understand podcast https://jc.fyi/x114
Found via Brian Merchant’s (@bcmerchant.bsky.social) post today https://jc.fyi/x114a
Finished Reading
Finished reading I Eat the Stars by Sarah Wilson. What I got from it could best visualized by imagining somebody standing on a busy street corner holding up a sign with THE END IS NEAR but below that SO LET’S GET STARTED ON WHAT’S NEXT …
Started Reading
Started reading Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford – found via Jared Hendersen’s Philosophical Book Club https://jc.fyi/x113
Bookshop.org https://jc.fyi/x113a WorldCat.org https://jc.fyi/x113b
Planned Reading
Planned to read Against Convenience by Gabe Bullard - found via his article on Literary Hub jc.fyi/x112
Bookstore.org jc.fyi/x112a WorldCat jc.fyi/x112b
Noted
Noted: XR Association jc.fyi/x111
“Immersive technology (XR) is the umbrella term used to encompass Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Mixed Reality (MR) and other forms of alternate, expanded, or immersive reality applications, …
Started Reading
Started reading I Eat the Stars by Sarah Wilson – I’m finding myself going through most of the references and reading further, then getting lost in rabbit holes of climate science, philosophy, religion, and political science. Bookstore.org: …
Watched
Watched: Reflecting on Star Trek’s 60th anniversary from the International Space Station [Ars Technica] jc.fyi/x109
Planned Reading
Planned to Read: Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection jc.fyi/x108
Found via: Imagining New Ways to Live [Los Angeles Review of Books] jc.fyi/x88
Noted
Noted: The $50 Trillion Robot Boom Starts at $10 an Hour [InvestorPlace] Projections / predictions for an automated workforce that’s roughly half the cost of a human workforce
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Noted: Overshoot explained: 5 things to understand about a world beyond 1.5°C [UNEP.org] jc.fyi/x106
Noted
Noted: Arguments in Favor of AI Fair Use [Kevin Kelly]
Still crunching on some of the points and particulars. One thing I’m pondering is how our current terms and concepts for intellectual property seem “square peg / round hole” …
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Noted: An Early History Of Space Stations: Where’s My Wheel? [Hackaday] We were working on artificial gravity for our orbital stations decades ago, but found perpetual near-weightlessness acceptable compared to the effort. jc.fyi/x10
Noted
Noted: We may now know which neurons dictate when it is time to go to sleep [New Scientist] jc.fyi/x7
Opined
Opined: The leaps and bounds to cross the technological gaps to achieve their manifesto’s objectives are small compared to reaching the prerequisite level of altruism. jc.fyi/x6
Visited
Visited: Zion National Park. Afternoon storm kept my group from traversing up the narrows.
Noted
Noted: These Cookies Are 3D-Printed and Made of Recycled Plastic [CNET]
A good example of food of the future coming from sources never before conceived. Would a new layer of food quality be added into the public mindset? Junk food, health food, …
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Noted: Modern cowboys are saddling up in the US West. And they’re on a whole new mission [The Guardian].
Found this interesting because the nuance in what they do may make robotic or automation replacement impractical or even impossible. jc.fyi/x1