After two months as Twitter/X CEO, the only thing that stands out about Linda Yaccarino is how little power Elon Musk ceded to her. After he called CEO a “fake title,” more people are wondering why she took the job and what she hoped to get out of it. I don’t think ideology or money were central to her decision. She was denied the CEO job at NBCUniversal, so sought it out elsewhere — and Musk was happy to have her advertising experience. https://www.disconnect.blog/p/why-did-linda-yaccarino-join-twitter #tech #twitter #x #elonmusk

Microsoft is really hitting it out of the park with its AI-generated travel stories! If you visit Ottawa, it highly recommends the Ottawa Food Bank and provides a tip for tourists: “Consider going into it on an empty stomach.”

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#tech #ai #travel

Sam Altman wants to scan all of our irises with his Worldcoin Orbs, and promises we’ll get a ton of benefits beyond a few crypto tokens if we let him. On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to @npub1xkgs...gph9 about the real ambitions of the Worldcoin project, and we briefly discussed why Sam Bankman-Fried was just sent to prison. It might have crashed, but crypto isn’t dead yet. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13416560-pondering-the-orb-w-molly-white #tech #crypto #worldcoin #sbf

People spend a lot of time on their phones, and many feel it’s too much. But companies and governments are building them into the infrastructure of everyday life, compounding existing inequities and making it hard to opt out. My latest for Insider:

Business Insider

Want to break your addiction to your phone? It's too late.

From concert tickets to hotel reservations, everything requires an app download, making it nearly impossible to get rid of your smartphone.

#tech #iphone #android

even zuckerberg is calling musk out on his bullshit now

I agree with most of this, but it’s too little, too late in 2023. Musk has been lying through his teeth for years, the entire tech press has known it, and they kept incessantly covering him—usually uncritically. He wouldn’t have his mystique without them.

The Verge

It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk

Musk keeps making things up — and the press keeps covering it credibly.

#techindustry #media #elonmusk

Venture capitalist are parasites that deploy harmful technologies in the name of profit and control. Now they’re fueling AI hype not to improve the world, but to make a quick buck. On #TechWontSaveUs, Edward Ongweso Jr. outlines why we need to abolish venture capital if we have any hope of creating better technology and actually improving people’s lives. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/13377584-abolish-venture-capital-w-edward-ongweso-jr #tech #ai #vc #finance

Worldcoin wants to scan the irises of every person on the planet to build a global ID network to bring crypto to the masses and ensure we’re not AI — or that’s what it claims. Behind the grand vision, there’s a history of exploiting people in the Global South for biometric data and tech that doesn’t actually work very well. Maybe it’s just a means to pump a crypto token, but there’s good reason for regulators to shut it down now. https://www.disconnect.blog/p/dont-look-into-the-orb #tech #ai #crypto #worldcoin

it’s reached the point where i have people who aren’t on twitter asking me if it’s really called X now and laughing when i tell them it is. elon’s rebrand is slowly seeping into the public consciousness and most people think he’s a fool.

The Meta PR team is doing a great job with Zuck’s posts.