All of which leads, unsurprisingly, to the manipulation of Grok to parrot the political views of its owner. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Keep an eye on the right-wing uptake of Gramsci. They are poor readers and interpreters, natch, but this is their version of trying to reconfigure/"secure" hegemony. They're going to try to do it by force, of course...

should have campaigned on it.

Well the irony in that now, is Humanities will be the only programs universities will be able to afford to fund 🥴

Listening to these billionaire jokers treat the future of our information environment like it's their own personal monopoly game is really a "let them eat cake" moment.

US response to robodebt: "hold my beer..."

Yup -- platforms make money from these ads, and as long as there is no liability on their part for failing to detect them and enforce their own terms of service, they will continue to multiply and prey on people.

wow -- if any of these cases had gone to trial, Trump never would have prevailed. This is a pure shakedown.
News organizations that capitulate are poisoning their own future. They have made themselves Trump mouthpieces without him having to install his own people. How readily they surrender.