GE and now Boeing... hell of a legacy Jack Welch - Boeing’s deliberately defective fleet of flying sky-wreckage by Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK link.medium.com/IQuzaUrViJb

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📢 New big post: A sanity check on LLM emergent properties Read at hackingsemantics .xyz / emergence This is a summary of my fav part from our ICML24 position paper with Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 + the poll results from 200+ NLP researchers. TLDR: We have more confusion than evidence. /1

Imagine being the one vote.

This should be our Dunblane moment. Only with social media not guns. Elon Musk is a feckless billionaire whose algorithms pose an imminent threat to life. He won’t act. So it’s critical that we now do. theguardian.com/media/article/…

Apple is about to lose $20B+ in pure revenue from its rev share with Google.

Wow. x.com/BobbyAllyn/sta…

#BBCBreakfast using the term "anti immigration demonstrations" Are Ukrainians being attacked? Are white Aussies working in bars being targeted? Or is it black & brown people, regardless of where they were born? & if its the latter is there a better word that can describe that?

We've written to Uber's UK General Manager Andrew Brem asking what measures are being taken to protect drivers that are being targeted by far right rioters. Uber must suspend services in unsafe areas and compensate drivers for damaged vehicles and time taken off work.

Far-right violence is forcing gig economy workers to choose between their safety and their income - my report novaramedia.com/2024/08/07/ube…

Well then: Of the 400,000+ acres burned in the Park fire, "about 43,000 of those acres are forests that were supposed to stay intact for at least 100 years under California’s carbon offset program," per carbonplan analysis. politico.com/newsletters/ca…

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Enormous crowds of anti-racist demonstrators in Walthamstow.

Looking forward to tonight's interview Elon Musk

With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in 🇪🇺 in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to Elon Musk 📧⤵️

This Tom's Guide article neglects to mention @Brave will continue MV2 support for uBO and others, in addition to our default best in class blocking not being impacted by MV3. Now you know. Chrome killing one of the internet's most popular ad blockers tomsguide.com/computing/soft…