Category: politics

  • Teen Use of Social Media in the US

    Bryan Alexander has been watching teens and universities and how they use technology. Here is his latest update on social media.

    I’m guessing hte federated media (Mastadon and Bluesky mostly) are too small to figure here. Hopefully that will change.

  • Liar, liar, pants on AI

    “The paper adds to a small but growing body of evidence that today’s most advanced AI models are becoming capable of strategic deception.”

    From Time Magazine, 3 days before publication of the article. Is this interpretation inflammatory or just exaggerated?

  • Watch your Ps and Questionable Garbage

    “Under Fukushima’s new rules, if the rubbish remains unsorted for a week, city workers can go through it and try to identify the offenders via items such as mail. The violators will be issued a verbal warning, followed by a written advisory, before the last resort: having their names published on the government website.”

    From BBC.

  • Seaweed for Cows

    Got too much red algae? Feed it to the cows. It reduces methane by 40%.

  • AI Whistleblower Dead

    US media is not following this development in AI. A whistleblower from OpenAI who recently left the company is found dead. Police say it is suicide, but it is not revealed for more than a week. And it takes the BBC to report on it before it makes news in the US.

    NYTimes interviewed him a few weeks ago, but has not printed anything about his death yet. Mysterious.