Just how bad is the crypto collapse? My landlord friend in Dallas just asked me if I know anything about bitcoin miners: “This bitcoin mining company defaulted, moved out, and left all their equipment behind.” 200 Antminers 🏃🏽‍♂️💨

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Don't worry! I'm sure this will never, ever happen to any of Elon Musk's brain implants! Orphaned neurological implants by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK link.medium.com/LKpQXMn8Uvb

Last month, BBC reported that GOSH, a research hospital in the UK, base edited the genome of a 12-year-old girl, Alyssa, suffering from leukemia. She had failed dozens of therapies and had no more options. Seven months later, she is cancer- free. Not many investors know about it.

You know it’s true. I certainly do. mctd.ac.uk/crypto-and-oth…

Same, same. time.com/6247678/openai…

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"Modern AI research resembles a digital 'enclosure of the commons,' whereby the informational heritage of humanity—a collective treasure that cannot really be owned by anyone—is seen by corporations primarily as a source of potential profit." Wendy Liu theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

There’s a new twist: Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service. newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/feedly-launc…

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This is only one of many reasons why human intervention is critical in "scrubbing" AI output. decrypt.co/125712/chatgpt…

Well said: "Technologies cannot democratize finance without being part of a larger politics... The fantasies of crypto escapism are an American vision of territorial conquest that reinscribes the old colonialism upon Web3 frontiers." botpopuli.net/techno-imperia…

Teresita Fernández's installation "highlights the complex realities and stories we hold in our minds about our own relationship to the land where humans are both a force of destruction and stewards of the future." #teresitafz berkshireeagle.com/arts_and_cultu…

Via @timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social): Implicit Value Judgments in the Measurement of Health Inequalities ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

I have mixed feelings about this piece. The reporting seems fair but the framing is problematic: using "AI apocalypse" as the framing elevates fever dreams of those who are most insulated from the real harms as worthy of discussion. #AIhype spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-gen…

Accelerating the application of ethics, empathy, and equity in geographic information science has the potential to lead us towards new ways of thinking about data, economics and human agency. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…