Fraudsters steal more than $25 million in “AI-powered” crypto ponzi Web3 is Going Just Great

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

— Saki, born in 1870

Opinion | Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting to merge

The merger will combine Mother Jones’ 50,000 donors and CIR’s support from foundations. The newsroom will include 73 journalists.

Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates ‘lords and peasants’. What? Steven Greenhouse

Opinion | It’s the end of an era for sports journalism

After 29 superb seasons, HBO’s ‘Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel’ will run its final episode this 

Homelessness Now at Highest Level in U.S. History

WHY THEY’RE EXTINCT: Neanderthals may have been early risers: Genetic material left behind from extinct hominins could play a role in modern sleep patterns.

In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War The Honest Broker

US Congress pushes warrantless wiretapping decision off until April next year The Verge

The Spy Who Dumped the CIA, Went to Therapy, and Now Makes Incredible TelevisionWired. “One-time CIA agent [guffaw].”

Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads 404 Media

Follow the monarch on its dangerous 3,000-mile journey across the continent National Geographic

Red wine headaches could be caused by this intriguing culprit, study finds Fox 🦊 

 Jeffrey Epstein associates in for New Year shock as judge orders release of sealed documents naming 177 people involved in pedophile’s sordid case.

MIT Washington Office are leading an effort to produce policy briefs with recommendations on the governance of AI. The goal of these briefs is to help shape a technically informed discussion of how to govern AI in a way that will make it safe while enabling AI to thrive.We have produced a brief describing an overall governance framework for the U.S. and then more topical briefs that elaborate on specifics aspects of AI governance and impacts.”

• Policy Brief – A Framework for U.S. AI Governance: Creating a Safe and Thriving AI Sector – Dan Huttenlocher, Asu Ozdaglar, David Goldston In consultation with the ad hoc committee on AI regulation
• Topical Policy Briefs – Large Language Models – Yoon Kim, Jacob Andreas, Dylan Hadfield-Menell
• Can We Have Pro-Worker AI? Choosing a Path of Machines in Service of Minds, Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, Simon Johnson
• Labeling AI-Generated Content: Promises, Perils, and Future Direct, Chloe Wittenberg, Ziv Epstein, Adam J. Berinsky, David G. Rand
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Politics and the Future Andreesen Horowitz. “If a candidate supports an optimistic technology-enabled future, we are for them. If they want to choke off important technologies, we are against them.” What’s “important”? Shorter: We did not misallocate capital to broken tech (robot cars, Web3, crypto). We merely need to optimize the political economy so our tech doesn’t break (or is not seen to).

Science fiction writers imagine a future in which AI doesn’t abuse copyright, or their generosityThe Register. Science fiction stuff!

Fraudsters steal more than $25 million in “AI-powered” crypto ponzi Web3 is Going Just Great

1. 52 snippets from finance.

2. Paramilitary risk in the Balkans?

3. Why birds are smart.  And avian lookism, from humans.

4. The British Library, minus its digital infrastructure.

5. More chatting with whales.