i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlyomhqfcc2uare other provincial governments getting caught with ai-generated citations in reports and ai-generated marketing as the government of NL? would love to hear from people in other provinces https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/wakeham-government-ai-use-9.718843716 May 2026 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyomhqfcc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlt3lwnvis23Few governments are more pro-AI than the one in the UK, and that’s causing them to ignore a load of risks that come with being dependent on the technology. It was great to chat with @willdunn.bsky.social to learn all about it! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt3lwnvis23https://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlv7zywnkc2nUS and Canada are going to be left in the dust if they don’t get serious about EVs — both encouraging adoption but also adapting to Chinese competition instead of trying to exclude it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]15 May 2026 11:27 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlv7zywnkc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mltqkkoi3s2yincredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 21:17 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltqkkoi3s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mltfsa5ij22zpart of the reason lord of the rings is as good as it is is because jackson had to deal with a more limited budget and cg wasn’t advanced enough to go all in with it. you can basically guarantee that if he was making them today they’d be more like the hobbit and not nearly as good. https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/peter-jackson-dont-dislike-ai-hunt-for-gollum-cannes-1236747009/14 May 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltfsa5ij22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlt3lwnvis23Few governments are more pro-AI than the one in the UK, and that’s causing them to ignore a load of risks that come with being dependent on the technology. It was great to chat with @willdunn.bsky.social to learn all about it! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 May 2026 15:02 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlt3lwnvis23https://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlsq6hlvec2l“Developers talk not just about how the AI output is often flawed, but that using AI to get the job done is often a more time consuming, harder, and more frustrating experience … More concerning, developers who use AI at work report that they feel like they are de-skilling themselves.” https://www.404media.co/software-developers-say-ai-is-rotting-their-brains/14 May 2026 11:38 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlsq6hlvec2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlskgn2cvc2o“Anyone who can afford to leave is hoping to be laid off and receive the 16 weeks minimum of severance and 18 months of paid health care that come with it, several people say. As the Instagram employee put it, ‘Everyone is just like, do it now, jesus fucking christ.’” https://www.wired.com/story/meta-layoffs-bad-vibes-mark-zuckerberg-ai/14 May 2026 09:55 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlskgn2cvc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlqhp26uns2ugasp, you don’t say! the most obviously predictable thing happened when the lying machine was rolled out in healthcare? [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlqhp26uns2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlptwgt5ms22I can see the reasoning here, but I think the people who stayed on X were going to be dragged to the right regardless because Elon Musk purposely redesigned the platform and rejigged the algorithm to do just that. I think the journos and pols who stayed deserve more pushback though. [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 May 2026 08:07 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlptwgt5ms22https://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlo73v23qk2iKenya says it couldn’t get behind the Microsoft data center because it would literally require a third of the country’s power supply. “To switch on that one data centre, we would need to shut off power for half the country,” said the president. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo73v23qk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlo6nz2pys2i [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo6nz2pys2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlo6giim5s2ispacex and google decide to message some bullshit to excite stupid shareholders [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlo6giim5s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlne5vg7ss23“There is just so much pressure to use these tools,” one Amazon employee told the FT. “Some people are just using MeshClaw to maximise their token usage.” https://www.ft.com/content/8ee0d3ef-9548-422d-8ff1-ebd48ad4b2ca12 May 2026 08:20 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlne5vg7ss23https://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlndr3zswc23one nice thing about being on europe/africa time zones is having a good chunk of the early day where there aren’t many americans posting. instead i start my day seeing a bunch of europeans, aussies, and kiwis before the posting about trump and everything happening in the US picks up again.12 May 2026 08:12 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlndr3zswc23https://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mln4znw3q22bMark Carney quoting Marc Andreessen to push data centre projects. This country is in for a rough few years. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 06:12 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mln4znw3q22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlldnb66622hcbc’s frontburner podcast has tristan harris on to talk about ai regulation 🫠11 May 2026 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlldnb66622hhttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlkx7lynyk2o“The world that we live in now has not equipped most people for a return to the small & repeated nuisances of past technologies. Yet, at the same time, relentless convenience (or being sold the idea of relentless convenience) warps the brain in ways that make nostalgic cravings somewhat inevitable.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/our-longing-for-inconvenience11 May 2026 09:23 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkx7lynyk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlkvxtdwlk2oMore big publishers are leaving Substack, less for moral reasons and more for business reasons. Happy to see Zeteo cited as a publication “quietly” considering a move. https://www.theverge.com/tech/927294/substack-tax-ghost-beehiiv11 May 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkvxtdwlk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3mlkvkixbok2oMicrosoft and G42 were planning to build a data center in Kenya, but it wanted the Kenyan government to guarantee it would pay for a certain amount of cloud capacity annually. When the Kenyan government refused, Microsoft pulled the project. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-10/microsoft-s-african-data-center-falters-on-payment-demands11 May 2026 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:5rxcpjus3ple6jpbuafvm4og/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlkvkixbok2o