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https://arstechnica.com/?p=2045167 They still called out “arrest”. The older members of the team – the human ones at least – spoke like that. It gave their ephemeral work some solid base. They remembered old passives with cops and bad guys, chases with the final capture. It wasn’t like that now of… Read the rest

https://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2024/08/23/understand-cultural-nuance-great-global-youth-strategy The headteacher had set an afternoon aside. The school’s sponsors had wanted a full day but she had held her ground. The vocation department had organized everything and she’d talked to the last remaining humanities teacher about ways of making the best of the visit. On the day the… Read the rest

https://www.ft.com/content/7c5e1017-500c-4602-a248-c092d8fe8d35 I swapped the prescription app for a better one pretty soon to be honest. The Partner is so much better. You have a bigger choice of voices but it’s the tone control I like. It’s not easier being told it’s time to head out of the door if it… Read the rest

https://arstechnica.com/?p=2044379 He had a recorder obviously but sometimes he liked to just have a pad of paper and a pencil. Obviously this made him more noticeable but sometimes that was useful. When someone asked him about his notebook, he’d end up in a conversation. He took his usual route: walked… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/20/is-your-company-ai-washing-rippling-founder-parker-conrad-thinks-it-might-be/ He wasn’t scared of it. If not excited, he was at least intrigued. He watched his colleagues panic over the “integrity of education”… and their jobs. They were desperate to stop their students using AI. He wasn’t. He knew they should know how to have an artificial partner, how… Read the rest

https://digiday.com/marketing/manchester-uniteds-back-of-shirt-sponsor-points-to-future-of-sports-jersey-placements The team lined up in the tunnel. They touched the crest for luck as they filled out into the pitch. As they ran towards the goal, their shirts lit up to the roar of the crowd whose headsets zoomed into their favourite star. The few refusers blinked as their… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/18/south-koreas-ai-textbook-program-faces-skepticism-from-parents/ We hoped we could just pass the Primer down to her. We’d kept the various school uniforms as her elder sister grew and she was used to getting hand-me-down gadgets. So we assumed she could just take over the Primer. Her elder sister obviously has a work one now.… Read the rest

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/13/gemini-live-first-look-better-than-talking-to-siri-but-worse-than-id-like/ Of course I was nervous beforehand. The whole launch depended on me. The spotlight would be on me. The fanboys and the critics would be watching my presentation. It had to go right. And it wasn’t just the crowd in the venue, the analysts would be watching for any… Read the rest

https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/08/10/the-unsettling-nearly-normalized-surveillance-tech-monitoring-the-u-s-mexico-border He lied of course. They expected him to. He lied about the price. He lied about the number of families who would be crossing. He lied about the boat. After the journey they’d already had, the dangers they were escaping, they just had to go with it. He gave… Read the rest

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/thousands-of-anti-racism-protesters-take-to-streets-to-counter-far-right-rallies I’m intelligent so I do get why they do it. I’ve read my Gramsci. I know my history, the long story of fascism. I know my Althusser and the power of ideology. I can see where they come from. But understanding only takes us so far. We have to… Read the rest