Jaemark Tordecilla (@jaemark.co on Blue Sky)

DBM just uploaded the 2025 approved national budget online, and I've updated the budget bot with the data. You can now check budget details by asking the chatbot. I'm working on a separate bot that would allow people to compare the 2025 approved and the 2025 proposed budget.

If a fact or chart is surprising, it might be because it’s new information, or it might be something deeper — a sign that our mental model is wrong. Anthropic’s economic gap chart is the latter. anthropic.com/research/labor… A big source of confusion in AI discourse is not recognizing that the speed of adoption follows its own logic that’s far slower than the speed of capability progress. I’m biased but I think AI as Normal Technology is still the best exposition of the many different speed limits to diffusion. Once we internalize this, the gap shown in the chart is what we should expect. How does this square with the “AI is the most rapidly adopted technology” narrative and all the graphs that are frequently shared to push that view? Unfortunately they lump together too many kinds of “AI use” to really tell us anything meaningful. On the one hand there are many marginal uses of AI (such as using chatbots instead of traditional search) that are being quickly adopted. But what will make a true economic impact are deeper changes to workflows that incorporate verification and accountability, manage the risk of deskilling, and are accompanied by organizational changes that take advantage of productivity improvements. Those changes happen at human timescales and are barely getting started. And that’s not even accounting for regulatory barriers. Finally, I’m also not sure how credible the “theoretical capability” estimates are. In particular, I don’t think they account for the capability-reliability gap, for which the AI community didn’t even have measurements until our work two weeks ago normaltech.ai/p/new-paper-to…

Rare story about that event grantland.com/features/kobe-…

"[AI] technology is not magic. ... Once you get around to using it for real-life work, we realize its limitations. Start with what problem you are trying to solve before using it as a solution," @jaemark for the @niemanfdn and @NiemanReports. niemanreports.org/ai-research-ri…

How will AI reshape the future of news in 2026? We asked 17 media managers working in this field, including @rubinafillion @OlleZ @ezraeeman @sannuta @jaemark and others Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-will-…

🧐Perspectivas expertas ¿Qué impacto tendrá la IA en el ecosistema periodístico durante 2026? Conseguimos los pronósticos de 17 especialistas, entre ellos @StructStories, @GinaSKChua, @OlleZ, @sannuta, @rubinafillion, @Sebauyanet y @jaemark 👇 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-will-…

How will AI reshape the future of news in 2026? We asked 17 media managers working in this field, including @rubinafillion @OlleZ @ezraeeman @sannuta @jaemark and others Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-will-…

🧐Perspectivas expertas ¿Qué impacto tendrá la IA en el ecosistema periodístico durante 2026? Conseguimos los pronósticos de 17 especialistas, entre ellos @StructStories, @GinaSKChua, @OlleZ, @sannuta, @rubinafillion, @Sebauyanet y @jaemark 👇 reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-will-…

How will AI reshape the future of news in 2026? We asked 17 media managers working in this field, including @rubinafillion @OlleZ @ezraeeman @sannuta @jaemark and others Click to read reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-will-…

Father and son are the median Bay Area resident. Everyone thinks it’s all rationalist tech dudes here but really the whole region is Filipino dudes in giants, warriors and Niners gear. Also why it’s the best place in the country.

"What do you do in a world where the technology never centers you, the platforms never pay you, and there is no guarantee of visibility? ... Global Majority [newsrooms] have been living in this world for years" @jaemark writes, others could learn from them niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-ai-…

"Value extraction from existing content and data, not expensive AI infrastructure, is where the most practical opportunity lies for most newsrooms." niemanlab.org/2025/12/as-ai-… by @jaemark

Overrated coach.

Tennis stars & chess prodigies can go pro young, but basketball players can’t. Rafe Bartholomew (@Rafeboogs) & Jaemark Tordecilla (@jaemark) talk about the different standards applied to athletes when it comes to getting paid. 🎧tinyurl.com/2fhktscs | apple.co/3J4K1jG

Should foreign student-athletes be banned from playing in Philippine collegiate leagues? Rafe Bartholomew @Rafeboogs tells Jaemark Tordecilla @jaemark there’s no rational basis to bar them, if they’re enrolled & eligible. 🎧 tinyurl.com/2fhktscs | apple.co/3J4K1jG

🎙️ New Episode Alert! Pacific Rims author Rafe Bartholomew @Rafeboogs joins Jaemark Tordecilla @jaemark to talk about how Philippine basketball, and the culture around it, has evolved over the years. 🎧Stream now. Spotify: tinyurl.com/2fhktscs Apple: apple.co/3J4K1jG

AI is reshaping the media battlefield. Generations hosts Angel Martinez (@romcomsqueen & Jaemark Tordecilla (@jaemark) sit down with @jacquemanabat to talk about fact-checking in the age of deepfakes. 📺 youtu.be/vFjaSzowuE4 🎧 tinyurl.com/r3suzxa5

Social media lets everyone speak, but when noise drowns out truth, @jacquemanabat says journalists can’t stay quiet. Catch Jacque as she joins @romcomsqueen & @jaemark to talk fact-checking, trust & content creation. 📺youtu.be/vFjaSzowuE4 🎧tinyurl.com/r3suzxa5

When anyone with a phone + Wi-Fi can be a “news source,” what happens to journalism? 📰📱 @jacquemanabat sits down with @romcomsqueen & @jaemark to talk trust, disinformation & the new media landscape. Stream now! 📺 youtu.be/vFjaSzowuE4 | 🎧 tinyurl.com/r3suzxa5

🎙️ New Episode Alert! Award-winning journalist Jacque Manabat @jacquemanabat joins Angel Martinez @romcomsqueen & Jaemark Tordecilla @jaemark to talk about journalism & content creation in the age of TikTok & disinformation. 📺youtu.be/vFjaSzowuE4 |🎧 tinyurl.com/r3suzxa5

Outrage fades fast, but organizing lasts. Atom Araullo @atomaraullo talks activism, media, and justice with Angel Martinez @romcomsqueen and Jaemark Tordecilla @jaemark on Generations. ICYMI: 📺 youtu.be/K6vlpwLGQjM | 🎧 tinyurl.com/2shk9en3