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zero backlash for trump + bieber’s laptop sesh
genocide is one thing, but ai slop?! Can we circle back real quick? I wasn’t somehow duped by AI? Perhaps I dropped off and had an obscure dream that sunny Tuesday lunchtime? Nope. I just triple checked, and Trump did proclaim that ‘an entire civilisation will die tonight’ on his Truth Social. Iran had blocked off the Strait of Hormuz to have some sort of leverage in ‘diplomatic’ negotiations with the US...
Gen Z bearing the brunt of 16,000 monthly job losses due to AI
White collar administration is a space largely owned by Gen Z, which explains why they’re the generation most likely to find themselves out of work and replaced by AI. Unless it’s putting creatives out of work, Gen Z is fairly content about the mainstream explosion of AI in recent years. In-fact, the generation is far and away the most natively fluent in using AI tools. Anything that offers convenience to alleviate...
big tech is guilty + kanye is… forgiven?
rage against the machine! Silicon Valley is reeling and the future suddenly looks marginally less dystopian. Kudos to the jury who just delivered the huge verdict at an LA court. We’ve seen Zuckerberg coast through court cases too numerous to recite, but the latest proceedings will have drudged up that pit in the stomach created after being dragged through the ringer in the Cambridge Analytica trial. The Meta boss no doubt entered...
Young unemployed Brits citing work-limiting conditions are up 70%
In the last decade, the share of 15-to-24-year-olds in the UK who claim they have a condition limiting their ability to work is reportedly up by 70%. There has been a sharp rise in the number of jobless young people in the UK citing health problems as the reason they cannot work, according to newly published statistics from the Health Foundation. The charity thinktank says that the portion of 16-24-year-olds...
ai on a leash + gen z’s age gap paranoia
get your own sh*t! Try to distinguish between a genuine Studio Ghibli image and something thrown together in 30 seconds on ChatGPT, we dare you. Generative AI platforms have become so fast, polished, and culturally omnivorous that any visual style can now be coopted. It’s good clean fun when making crude memes for the group chat, but the implications for people who earn a crust in creative industries are grim. Why buy...
NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 was never going to be well received
While aversion to it isn’t unanimous, NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 has received far more flack than praise. The AI graphics filter is being slammed as a slap in the face to game designers and a sad indictment of how generative tools are taking over creative spaces. People are already thirsty for Leon. He doesn’t need a yassify filter. If you missed NVIDIA’s recent demo, the company unveiled DLSS 5 as...
social media is toxic for clicks + banksy revealed
what? Nah I never knew that, never knew that The BBC must be terrified of whistleblowers at this point. But the latest exposé hasn’t come at its expense… it actually gets the honours of spilling the tea on someone else. Canaries have come to the BBC with a case concerning Meta and TikTok, and their supposed amplification of toxic content for clicks. Given Zuckerberg is already in court batting off accusations...
Why has Meta just acquired Moltbook?
Meta has just acquired Moltbook, the Reddit-style platform where AI agents communicate all day without the direct influence of humans. Why? The Dead Internet Theory is in full swing, and Meta wants in. Remember when people fretted that the internet would soon become an echo chamber of bots with human created content becoming secondary to machines? Well, Moltbook is giving us a sample of what that eventuality would look like. The...
why the obsession with gen z + viral auramax just dropped
lady, hear me tonight! 🎶 ‘Why you so obsessed with me?’ asked Gen Z. ‘How long you got?’ the Guardian replied. The news outlet recently wrote a comprehensive story outlining why people, particularly from the commercial world, are so obsessed with Gen Z. ‘Is there something different about people born between 1997 and 2012, or is it all just marketing nonsense and hysteria,’ the intro reads. Let’s see what expert analysis they came up...
Is your perception of sleep quality why you’re really tired?
A UCLA study has built on research suggesting that our belief of how well we sleep has a greater impact on cognitive performance, tiredness, and general mood than how many hours we actually get. If there’s one thing this generation loves martyring itself over, it’s how ‘exhausted’ we are and how little we sleep. We’ll go to bed at gone 2am, set an alarm for 7:30am, and wake up ready to...
