The Weekly Whatever: "Hi, everybody!" "Hi, Doctor ChatGPT!"
Quote of the week
I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that “the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they] stand in the moments of comfort and convenience, but where [they] stand in times of challenge and controversy.”
— Pagerduty CEO in a letter laying off 7% of the company’s staff
Technology
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ChatGPT can pass the exams required for a business degree and a US medical license.
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A fleet of AI-powered spambots — but not in the way you think.
The dead gray island
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After a Metropolitan Police officer admitted to 24 counts of rape, the London force is investigating 800 other officers. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggests that the Metropolitan Police might need to change its name. Yeah, that’ll help.
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How bad is the UK economy thanks to Brexit and a decade of Conservative austerity? Well, by the end of next year, the average British family will be worse off than the average Slovenian family.
This is fine
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Facebook says yeah, they’re going to restore Donald Trump’s account ready for the next elections.
$8chan
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Self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” Elon Musk has Twitter censor a BBC documentary about India’s right wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his alleged links to a genocidal massacre in 2002. Sidenote: The group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are proud participants in anti-Muslim massacres, and have apparently shared a stage with Tulsi Gabbard…
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Elon also personally ordered the suspension of the account belonging to left-wing activist Chad Loder.
Crapto
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX maxed out their donations to the George Santos campaign.
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Bitcoin enthusiast Roger Ver says he totally has the money that he would need to pay the $21m he owes to (bankrupt) crapto broker Genesis, but that he doesn’t have to, because reasons.
Let’s try something different
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Marie Kondo has “kind of given up” trying to keep things tidy after having kids.
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It’s time we revised the vocabulary we use to talk about climate change.