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As pioneers of the back-to-print movement, we want to welcome Life Magazine back to the world of ink on paper. For the better part of the 20th century, Life provided a home for some of America’s best photographers and essayists to go anywhere and everywhere across the country — at pay scales that were the envy of the entire industry. Lets hope the new Life stays true to its roots.
LIFE returns to print 11.23.26.
Read our Editors’ Letter and learn more about the new LIFE here: new.life.com
John Twain retweeted
Filmmaking can never be ethical. You are stealing light and sound and putting it inside a little box. That is not nice
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Serve Robotics, which runs most of LA’s sidewalk delivery robots, lost $101.4 million in 2025,
($371,286 annual net loss for every robot it had out making deliveries.)
The first advantage its investor deck lists for the robots is “No driver wages.”
This is a slide from that presentation
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I was wrong. Netflix did make a reference to video games today: It said a trailer for someone else's game was a hit.
Other than that, nothing to say about games or podcasts - two categories it used to tell investors were promising.
businessinsider.com/netflix-…
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Brilliantly explains the awful process by which social media tricks the worried well into believing they're mentally ill.
Should be read by everyone tempted to self diagnose psych disorders.
Here’s how TikTok convinces people they have mental illness without any prompting from the user:
psych-partners.com/how-dr-ti…
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Meta’s Muse is blocked at Schwab. Its CEO asks who’s liable if an agent moves money. When an AI agent makes a mistake, causes financial harm, exposes private information or breaks the law, who's responsible?
The answer isn't complicated. AI agents aren't legal persons. They're software created, configured, authorised and deployed by people and companies.
US law has recognised autonomous software since 2000. The federal E-SIGN Act explicitly defines an "electronic agent" as software capable of acting without human approval at the time of each action. The law recognises transactions conducted through automated systems.
If a company gives an AI agent access to confidential information, financial accounts or computer systems, that company remains responsible for the decisions it made about access, permissions, security controls and supervision. Whether it must compensate someone depends on the applicable law, contracts and circumstances.
If an agent transfers money without authorisation, accesses confidential records or attacks another company's infrastructure, investigators should examine who configured it, what instructions it received, what permissions it had, who authorised those permissions and what its activity logs show.
Schwab can't blame an agent for acting independently, any more than they can blame an Excel macro.
The difference between an AI agent making a mistake and a company being legally liable for that mistake is important. But neither changes who's responsible for deploying the software.
Even Meta’s Muse gets blocked at Schwab. Its CEO asks who’s liable if an agent moves money. JPMorgan is drawing the same line. thenextweb.com/news/schwab-b…
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Chris Rock just nailed one of the biggest problems with wokeness.
Helping people who feel marginalized is good. He says so himself. The trouble starts when a good cause becomes an institution.
The first few witches were real. Then you open a witch office. Now there are salaries, budgets and pensions to justify, and the office needs a steady supply of witches to keep existing.
That’s the trap. Once a cause becomes a career, solving the problem means losing your job. So the problem never gets solved. It just keeps getting redefined.
A system built to find wrongdoing will keep finding it, whether it’s there or not.
John Twain retweeted
it does make you a bit of a wet blanket to be always right about apostrophes when no one else much cares or figures that such "rules" are not decrees of a deity but just arbitrary notions that someone came up with in the way that a gathering of lions is a "pride" instead of just a "bunch of lions" or that the plural of deer is "deer" but also the singular of deer is--"deer."
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Really hope that @PalantirTech CTO @ssankar was just being dramatic when he said "So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI."
I am also optimistic about promise of AI - but I respect complexity of biology.
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You must watch this brilliant video essay by @JoomiKim1 about the state of modern fiction. Her commentary could easily be applied to current movies and TV. youtu.be/9h1wnATNXJY?is=1vOp…
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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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I find it odd you didn’t thank all the humans who created the data and IP you trained your AI on. Kinda weird.
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I'll be happy to pay his fine for him
The judge is clearly an idiot, as he does not understand the difference between being solemn, and being serious
One can be perfectly serious while making a point with humour
And a joke like this is offensive only to someone without a sense of humour.
Pompous people abhor humour as their sense of self-importance cannot survive in a humorus atmosphere
I thought that must be bogus - but it is true. What is this world coming to? Bacon eaters are also less likely to rape children. They commit fewer acts of terrorism. Eating bacon should be compulsory.
Stephen Gray, 65, a retired Cleveland Police officer with about 30 years’ service, was convicted in April 2026 at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates’ Court of sending a “grossly offensive” message under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003. District Judge Steven Hood found him guilty for resharing a Facebook post that showed a rasher of bacon and a man in a turban with the caption: “Fun facts about bacon! People who eat bacon have a lower chance of marrying a 9-year-old!”
Gray said the post was satire referring to traditional Islamic accounts of Muhammad’s marriage to Aisha (married at six, consummated at nine in those accounts) and was meant to raise the issue of child marriage. The judge ruled it was designed to be offensive and could not count as a serious point because it was framed jokily, and ordered him to pay more than £1,000 in fines and costs. He now has a criminal record and is appealing, with the Free Speech Union instructing counsel.
