Zuckerberg’s boring, bleak AI bet | Vox

The promise of AI, to Zuckerberg, is that it can help him sell you more ads and convince you to spend more time watching Instagram brainrot. My reaction to that pitch was the same as AI writer Zvi Mowshowitz's: "It was like if you took a left wing caricature of why Zuckerberg is evil, combined it with a left wing caricature about why AI is evil, and then fused them into their final form. Except it's coming directly from Zuckerberg, as explicit text, on purpose." …

https://www.vox.com/technology/438384/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-hiring-vision-personal-superintelligence 

 

Over 24 hours, Trump makes his authoritarian-style vision plain

Every once in a while, the president has a day — a single, 24-hour period — in which his authoritarian vision comes into sharp relief…

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/24-hours-trump-makes-authoritarian-style-vision-plain-rcna201288

Why Trump & Musk’s Future Is a Bad Deal

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PdHTlwN5gAc

Vision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlYMmyEuhI

Opinion | Republicans can't run on a recession or any coherent economic vision - The Washington Post

Gone is the battle of Republicans' free-market capitalism vs. tax-and-spend liberalism. A Republican Party devoted to cronyism and insistent on increasing economic inequality now faces a Democratic Party that modestly controls debt, spurs work (see the exceptionally high job participation among working-age people) and encourages private investment in forward-looking industries. So far, that has been a remarkably successful formula. 

No wonder Republicans want to hyperventilate about Hunter Biden. They no longer have a recession — or an economic rationale...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/01/republicans-recession-economy-plans/

Why you don't need blue light lenses: Hidden camera investigation (Marke...

Many of us are feeling the strain on our eyes from staring at our smartphones and computer screens all day. But some of Canada's largest optical chains are selling you a solution experts say you don't need: lenses that protect our eyes from the blue light emitted from our devices. Leading experts tell Marketplace some of Canada's top chains seem to be using "misleading" claims to sell the lenses. And an opthalmologist reveals some easy and free tips that will ease digital eye strain.....
https://youtu.be/NkJY9bgLyBE