DOGEbag Roundup: Horrid Website, This Week’s Agency Targets, Sociology of DOGE
Like Trump, DOGE is very good at sensing weakness.
Read more...Like Trump, DOGE is very good at sensing weakness.
Read more...A bug or a feature? The Trump plan to cap NIH/NSF grant indirect overheads is a gut punch to the economics of top universities.
Read more...The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
Read more...There is both less and more in the Trump offer to arm Ukraine in return for rare earths than meets the eye.
Read more...On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
Read more...On the high odds of winding up with the Peter Principle of AI implementation in financial institutions, and what to do to prevent that.
Read more...AI coverage whistles past the graveyard of its lack of enough content to generate good output, assuring garbage in, garbage out.
Read more...AI, in a significant majority of cases, reduces productivity. And there’s not much reason to expect better any time soon.
Read more...Europe is now largely an American colony where the tech, energy, weapons, and financial industries are making a killing, so it’s no wonder Trump isn’t going to substantially shift US policy.
Read more...Rob Urie provides damning details about the extent and nature of the censorship he has suffered. Please read and circulate widely.
Read more...A study on receptivity to AI use sadly skips over some fundamental questions.
Read more...Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.
Read more...Artificial intelligence systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and to keep them working well. In essence: You need people, and more machines, to make sure the new tools don’t mess up.
Read more...With AI threatening to crapify online life and even generate geopolitical chaos, Congress needs to reinstate the Office of Technology Policy
Read more...Lambert annotates a Grok transcript.
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