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Michael Davidson

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Monetary Policy Nerd living in Bermuda
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...
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The renewables boom, especially #solar, is continuing. New figures say German installation grow at a clip of 35% compared to 2023! The problem? Free energy during sunny hours. Yes, I said problem. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energywww.economist.com The continent is failing to adapt to a renewables boom
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Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment
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"People stare and cross the road from me"
good morning, Duran Duran was cyberbullied into deleting this Cybertruck post from Threads
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boy I sure am excited to have layer upon layer of sloppily automated, error prone, poorly regulated surveillance simulacrum insulating me from all real world human connection
Bumble founder says your dating 'AI concierge' will soon date hundreds of other people's 'concierges' for youfortune.com Whitney Wolfe Herd predicts the end of mindless, 'getting-to-know-you' chatter.
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"People were enjoying hanging out with each other rather than engaging with the true power of social media, which is to endlessly proclaim the awesomeness of crypto" www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-...
Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitterwww.businessinsider.com The real new Twitter, Jack Dorsey argues, should be something called Nostr.
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Double bow ties on BBG TV. rare.
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Still worth more than an NFT
A Copenhagen court ordered the artist Jens Haaning, who incorporates physical currency in his work, to give back about $70,000 after he sent the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art two blank canvases titled “Take the Money and Run.”
‘Take the Money and Run’ Artist Must Repay Danish Museumwww.nytimes.com A court ordered Jens Haaning, who incorporates physical currency in his work, to give back about $70,000 after he sent the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art two blank canvases.
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A Danish artist who pocketed large sums of money lent to him by a museum – and submitted empty frames as his artwork – has been ordered by a court to repay the funds. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...
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Ok let’s try this again! And this time I mean it..
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