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A wonderful essay on Ai by Stephen Fry. stephenfry.substack.com/p/ai-a-means-t…

@paulbz @hkanji @soundboy @HarryStebbings @taavet @jacobdrozario

UK founders - I've been called to provide evidence to the House of Lords tomorrow on ways the government can remove the barriers to scaling in the UK. I have mine but would like more input..! @hkanji @soundboy @HarryStebbings @taavet

@RichDecibels youtu.be/TIke1cUydAM?si…

please share one song that makes you feel something

Pointless new hobby: collecting pics of fashion models looking sad / dead inside.

Ronald meets Donald.

100 year-old Transhumanism. This is "Mechanical Head (The Spirit of Our Time)" by Dada artist Raoul Hausmann, 1920. An early vision of a materialist machine-human & a prediction of the systemic dehumanisation to come in the 20th Century.

Today I was crossing Hollywood and Highland, where peds & tourists cheered a just-married couple celebrating in the middle of the intersection while a fire ravaged a strip mall down the street. I've lived in LA my whole life, and this is the most LA candid I've ever snapped.

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems.” — Donald Kingsbury

“The trivial is as deep as the profound because there is nothing in creation that does not go to the profound.” 
— Robert Duncan

lol nothing to see here

"Voting is more about *expression* than about consequences." — Eyal Winter

“Our world is beautiful and kind, and it is also indifferent and cruel.” — @annehelen

tbh this uninspired newsletter shows everything we need to know about why Gucci is struggling.

New edition of Weirdness Wins just dropped.

This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala. Clearly, he is afraid of antagonizing Trump and losing Amazon’s federal contracts. Pathetic.

Hmm.

I wrote about how Peep Show paved the way for Succession, and Jesse Armstrong's searing insights into corporate bullshit, moral depravity and petty ambition. Feat Consultio/Consultius, Jaws the shark and the wanton discarding of iPads inews.co.uk/culture/succes…

@kimmonismus The floor literally changes colour

I had to watch this video umpteen times to find out whether it was real or AI. For me, it was a wake-up call: we've reached the point where even people who have a lot to do with AI and work with it no longer know what is real and what is fiction.