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  • 2 weeks ago | msn.com | Steven Poole

    Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

  • 2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Steven Poole

    Identity is something socially negotiated, both claimed and given. I cannot be French if that nation does not exist; I can’t be a doctor if no one will grant me a medical degree. Social media, however, promises that we can don or doff identities like so many digital masks. We may become persuaded that identities are private goods over which we have rights of ownership and choice, that we can freely select what we “identify as”.

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Steven Poole

    At the beginning of this year, Keir Starmer announced an “AI opportunities action plan”, which promises to mainline AI “into the veins of this enterprising nation”. The implication that AI is a class-A injectable substance, liable to render the user stupefied and addicted, was presumably unintentional. But then what on earth did they mean about AI’s potential, and did they have any good reason to believe it?

  • 1 month ago | theguardian.com | Steven Poole

    One of the best series of the golden age of TV drama, The Americans (2013-2018), centred on a pair of Russian sleeper agents operating in suburban Washington DC during the height of the cold war. By day they seemed to be a boring married American couple; by night they set honey traps, sabotaged facilities, recruited traitors and assassinated enemies.

  • Mar 15, 2025 | independent.ie | Steven Poole

    Some scientists would tell you there’s no difference, because “a calorie is a calorie”, and you will get fatter if you consume too many calories from any type of food. What won’t necessarily be made clear is that some of those scientists were given money by the very same Coca-Cola Company.

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Steven Poole
Steven Poole @stevenpoole
6 Jun 25

here i am in @WSJBooks on ideas of proof: https://t.co/qPd6RkJ1EH

Steven Poole
Steven Poole @stevenpoole
5 Jun 25

RT @AntonJaegermm: Once again: the only interesting thing about AI is our contemporary receptivity to slop, not the supposed capacities of…

Steven Poole
Steven Poole @stevenpoole
4 Jun 25

RT @NC_Renic: "AI is coming for your job" ya i'd like to see AI drink 11 coffees then have a panic attack