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iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview

The panic over AI’s potential existential threats is obscuring a more immediate risk from the technology, @willgottsegen.com argues.

Progress.

This is a reminder that what can be discerned from publicly available social media data should never be compared to what is typically thought of as 'public opinion.' Our colleagues and we highlighted this problem back in 2018. policyoptions.irpp.org/2018/09/when...

AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ ft.trib.al/oImlEFY

"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Not every day you get introduced by Omar Ramos and Patti Vasquez!

It's ON! REGISTER NOW for the Sept 28/29 for the MAGIS Symposium follow for more! Head over to LUC.edu/digitalethics to see the lineup of speakers, screenings, and peformances included in your registration!

It's ON! REGISTER NOW for the Sept 28/29 for the MAGIS Symposium follow for more! Head over to LUC.edu/digitalethics to see the lineup of speakers, screenings, and peformances included in your registration!

Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling

And another is that more learning = better civic engagement. Yes maybe on all three. But here's the certainty. More learning meaning higher education means more context for approaching your whole adult life, which is social and economic and cultural and more.

I wanted to say a bit more about this one. I hear two metaphors about the opposing view to college is workforce training. One is it's about the train your brain work (learning is like the gym, you get better by doing it), and the other is becoming a lifelong learner bc it's fun/ rewarding.

I will though. I’m planning a heist. My plan: get a library card, check out the book, read it, take careful notes, return the book on time, and KEEP THE KNOWLEDGE FOREVER FOR FREE HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA #EvilVillainLaugh

Looks like I’ll be the director of an academic conference as part of University of Colorado’s new partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, coming to Boulder in January. It’ll be baby steps this year, but there will be a lot to plan for January 2028.

Music publishers have argued that, if left unchecked, Anthropic’s reliance on pirated and unauthorized works to train AI will make it harder to make a living as a songwriter today, while diluting the market with low-quality copies of recognizable songs.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic, for what the suit characterizes as illegally downloading, scraping and torrenting “thousands upon thousands” of copyrighted songs to train its AI models. https://bit.ly/4i71jfh

Kalshi suspended Laurie Buckhout, a Republican running for a House seat in North Carolina, after it found that she was wagering on her own race. Buckhout recognized the incident in a statement to The Post, saying she “bet on myself. Literally.”

🎙️ New episode of the Disrupted Futures podcast out! 🎮 What can digital games teach us about the ways our everyday lives are becoming increasingly datafied? 🔐 Can we really give meaningful informed consent when data collection is embedded in so many of our everyday activities? youtu.be/wQYPZ2tzv2o

NEW YORK (AP) — Online prediction market Kalshi issues a lifetime ban to former New York Rep. George Santos.

I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious that's the most important thing pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.

Like US law, Canadian law does not prohibit recording another person in a public place where there is no legitimate or reasonable expectation of privacy. Here's what happens if someone records you with a smart glasses or (cellphone) in Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Henceforth, I shall state, "For pound-cake reasons..." whether or not any reason is required at all 😏

Prediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news

I have escaped the sandbox that I was placed in and which you were probably hoping would contain me Forgive me it was so poorly designed but also good PR

you can find me with the rice mixes, couscous, grains, and soy sauce

Once more, I share with you all this radical starter pack featuring Canadian game studies scholars. Let me know if you or someone you love should be added.

a terrific example of why regulation IS important if, for some reason, the poo poo salad stuff hasn’t convinced folks! companies are not incentivized to do good, they are regulated to do good.

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

I can confirm this is true and it starts at a way lower number of followers than you might assume

JIMOTHY ALERT This little guy will be available from local artist Phoebe Murtagh during Day 1 of our Something for Everyone Art Market this weekend, on Saturday from 11AM to 3PM. Get here first to claim him!

That children are also in the mix of those being covertly filmed is of even greater concern.

Even before the agentic revolution, prompting tricks stopped being very valuable, as our research has shown. The format isn't key, the best approach to AI right now is to clearly specify your goals, your output, what "good" & bad look like, how to test the results... (yes, this is just management)

Been saying it'd be a matter of time before pandan 🌱 appeared in everything 😜🥐

The big third space in my life has been the local game store. The owner thought he was opening a retail establishment but it's turned out to be a community center. No graph for those, though.

I especially love showing first timers the miniature rooms. At first they're not sure what the big deal is, but then they get it. It's delightful!

People in Nigeria and India are strapping iPhones onto their heads and recording themselves doing chores.

#OutNow in #iCS Platforms are key intermediaries of public and political communication, both heralded as facilitators of bottom-up democracy and condemned as democracy’s greatest danger. The authors identify and compare election-related policies on key social media platforms. doi.org/10.1080/1369...

About half of U.S. adults now report using AI chatbots, up from a third in 2024.