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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 5h

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Resembling a robot recession - did 'AI' crash the markets? | The Freelance

Suspicious stupid scale of tariffs spurs scorn

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 5h

"A photorealistic image of an artificial intelligence giving advice in the Oval Office to a US President who has orange skin with his White House deputy chief of staff for policy, who is bald, standing by" as supplied by ChatGPT's DALL-E feature.The rendering of Stephen Miller seems... sanitised.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 7d

Stephen Miller looks like the villain in a movie about tax audits.

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

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Freelance Jul15: The robots' long march - through jobs

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

“...the problem must be comparatively such a simple one. Only to throw in a given number of old books and have them reduced, blended, modernised into a single one for today's consumption."

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

"Alas! The machine was only for holding volumes conveniently, that the work of literary manufacture might be physically lightened. But surely before long some Edison would make the true automaton...

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

From George Gissing's New Grub Street (1891):

"A few days ago her startled eye had caught an advertisement in the newspaper, headed 'Literary Machine'; had it then been invented at last, some automaton to supply the place of such poor creatures as herself, to turn out books and articles?...

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

An extract:

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

Now I have to get this:

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Miracles and Machines: A Sixteenth-Century Automaton and Its Legend

Expansively illustrated, this book tells the singular story of “the monk”: a 450-year-old walking, gesticulating robot that prays.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

The least surprising news ever. But also thank you to @robevansgdn.bsky.social & @direthoughts.com for shining a light on how two Silicon Valley lobbyists have joined forces to advance their billionaire-funded techno-accelerationist agenda into the heart of UK govt.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 6h

You should find as many (purported) clockwork automata as you can find.

CHESS: AUTOMATON, 1845.

Wolfgang von Kempelen's 'The Turk,' a chess ...

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 7h

You could start pre-history of AI with the golem (though I recall reading that the legend is more recent than one might hope). Or:

“Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?”

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Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?

The mythical sentry was depicted as thinking like a human and showing some human-like tendencies

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine that

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Kevin Cooper @kevinc55.bsky.social · 18h

How could the PSNI be allowed to put the (independent oversight bodies) Police Ombudsman's Office and the Policing Board under surveillance. What has the Department of Justice, NIO, and the British and Irish governments as co guarantors of the Good Friday/Belfast agreement got to say about this?

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 12h

Another one for the list

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 10h

Arc de pas grand-chose

Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 10h

Arc de pas grand-chose

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Give up satirists.

Move to Saudi or something.

You're not needed any more.

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The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social · 1d

"Cultural vandalism."

Nick McGowan-Lowe, NUJ Scotland national organiser, has slammed STV cuts that would result in 60 redundancies, and leave a licence area of 1.3 million people without local news.

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STV accused of financial mismanagement over plan to cut news show

The broadcaster is planning to axe its Aberdeen news programme as part of proposals to save £2.5m.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 2d

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

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Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 1d

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Mike Holderness @holdernesseu.bsky.social · 1d

Is it even legal to export Lutefisk from Norway to the US?

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 1d

The thing about AI is that although it looks like a bubble and is obviously a bubble and anyone who thinks about it for a moment knows it’s a bubble, unlike all other bubbles in the past I’m sure it will just be fine. I’m investing in tulips.

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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