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Tom Stackpole retweeted
Mar 19
This was a cool one!
Got to sit down with @HarvardBiz for a lengthy Q&A on the Iran War and the ongoing, historic energy supply crisis: how it works, how bad it could get, and how decision makers should think about the risk.
Check it out:
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
6 Apr 2024
every company training artificial intelligence models realizes their problem is finding enough data across the internet to make their products live up to their sky-high future expectations
By @CadeMetz @ceciliakang @sheeraf @stuartathompson @nicoagrant
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
18 Mar 2024
Read @tom_stackpole on housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard, the onetime regular place turned celebrity rich people playground where he grew up. Lessons for everywhere, particularly places where second homes/short-term rentals push out year-round residents motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
2 Feb 2024
tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy .@tom_stackpole motherjones.com/politics/202…
very much haunted by this graf:
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30 Jan 2024
I got to write about the housing crisis in my home town. Like a lot of places, it's almost impossible for normal people to find affordable rent or buy a house. So, folks are organizing to find ways to build, buy, and hold on to year-round housing. 1/x
30 Jan 2024
Martha's Vineyard has a rep as the summer playground of the liberal elite. But it's home yearround to working- and middle-class families increasingly squeezed out by housing costs. MV native @tom_stackpole reports on the fight to save the island community motherjones.com/politics/202…
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30 Jan 2024
And like a lot of places, success or failure here is a question of whether people in the community can organize. There's a committed core who has managed to navigate small town politics and unite people, lobby for policy at the state level, and try to find solutions. 4/x
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30 Jan 2024
The point is, to address the housing crisis, we need to look at places where things are bad, see what they're doing, and, if it works, organize and try to replicate it. (E.g., Montgomery County, Maryland!) Because it's not going to get better on it's own. 5/5
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
29 Sep 2023
As a linguist, I'm really curious to watch how a better understanding of history might change the modern use of the word Luddite. As someone concerned about how tech is being used to concentrate power, I want everyone to learn from this, stat.
28 Sep 2023
This week @bcmerchant is back to talk with @parismarx about the real history of the Luddites and why we should be inspired by them.
In this clip, Brian explains how the divide on the “machine question” is as relevant today as it was in 1811.
Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/t…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich's new book takes a deeper look into the history and dynamics of the building trades, and offers solutions for the future of the industry. "The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work" is out now. press.uillinois.edu/books/?i…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
13 Jul 2023
Joining Threads from Instagram is easy, but migrating from Twitter is a headache!
This shows why we need social media based on open protocols – as @WhatTheLJW and I explain today in @HarvardBiz: hbr.org/2023/07/threads-fore…
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27 Jun 2023
A can’t-miss episode if you’re trying to make sense of this AI hype cycle
25 Jun 2023
The new Dig ep w/ @mer__edith, @bigblackjacobin, @sarahbmyers cracks open AI hype machine that simultaneously promises salvation and warns of apocalypse, concealing a more mundane dystopia of labor domination, surveillance, and military-industrial profits. thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-h…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
8 Jun 2023
Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do - so it's a big throw-down. fastcompany.com/90906560/ado…
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5 May 2023
RT @Abebab: we still don't have a home for our paper and if any journals are interested in working with us to get it published, reach out t…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
3 May 2023
My first quote in the @FT
For context: Alarmist statements on the part of mining industry that Chile’s move to increase state role in lithium sector are *tactical.* Raising the specter of capital flight is one way to induce gov to water down their plans on.ft.com/3Ny3TvC
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
3 May 2023
No, it could not. Full stop.
If any Hollywood exec claims they're replacing workers with AI, know that people are working as scabs behind the scenes. Because, I repeat, AI cannot replace human workers. Writers, editors, and otherwise.
3 May 2023
“I’ve had a couple of higher-level people ask, if a strike does happen, how quickly could they spin up an AI system to just write the scripts? And they’re serious.” @AshleyCullins & I looked into the A.I. question during the writers strike: hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
2 May 2023
This is such a powerful example. And TBH one of the best ways to "regulate" AI: organized workers demanding dignified and safe working conditions, rejecting the idea that AI-enabled degradation of work is inevitable!
2 May 2023
I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the @WGAWest's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
2 May 2023
Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI.
ALT Union proposal: regulate use of AI - can't write or rewrite literary material, can't be used as source material, MBA covered material can't be used to train AI. Proposal rejected. Countered by offering 'annual meetings to discuss advancements in technology'
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Tom Stackpole retweeted
1 May 2023
I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern
This is not new or novel. It was women - @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so.
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