WIRED: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, in an internal memo to staff, admitted the company did an “atrocious” job rolling out its new artificial-intelligence division — after WIRED revealed widespread discontent inside the roughly 6,500-strong “Applied AI” unit (one worker called it “a gulag”). Bosworth promised more stability, […]
links: 14.06.2026
LSM: President Čakste’s daughter who feigned insanity in Siberia for her children’s sake. The story of Maiga Šīrone’s self-sacrifice Pianist Maiga Šīrone, a daughter of Latvia’s first president Jānis Čakste, was deported to Siberia with her two children in 1941. Realising that her children could only be sent home if she herself were declared legally incapacitated, she deliberately […]
links: 13.06.2026
TechCrunch: Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it Meta’s newly formed Applied AI unit — roughly 6,500 employees “drafted” with no real choice — generates puzzles and coding problems to train models, and many call the work a “gulag” and soul-crushing. Wired reports simmering rage, including a livestreamed meltdown at a […]
links: 11.06.2026
Le Monde: ‘The egalitarianism of hunter-gatherer societies has often been exaggerated’ An opinion piece on new anthropology research suggesting the egalitarianism of hunter-gatherer societies has often been exaggerated: resource sharing in them is driven not by innate altruism but by social pressure and the preservation of status, and human nature aspires more to autonomy and respect than to […]
links 5: 10.02.2024
Meduza: Roskomnadzor has begun investigating Duolingo for “LGBT propaganda” The Kyiv Independent: Russian military increasingly using Starlink terminals on battlefield LSM: “The corncrake has no tractor to drive to the Saeima.” An interview with ornithologist Ķerus @vkerus@mastodon.online NPR: Cheap, plentiful and devastating: The synthetic drug kush is walloping Sierra Leone The Verge: Apple argues against right-to-repair bill that […]
links 4: 08.02.2024
The Verge: Google’s use of student data could effectively ban Chromebooks from Denmark schools Meduza: Valery Zaluzhny dismissed. Oleksandr Syrsky becomes the new commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s Armed Forces LRT: More oil spilled from Orlen’s terminal than first reported, some reached Latvia’s waters PBS: PHOTOS: Icelandic volcano begins erupting again, spewing lava and cutting off heat and hot water […]