2025-11-18
More than a trillion dollars has been wiped off global crypto markets in the past six weeks www.ft.com/content/6b17...
Financial Times
CoinGecko: the total market value of 18K+ crypto coins is down 25% since October 6, wiping out ~$1.2T; bitcoin fell 28% to $89.5K, its lowest level since April
Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks as worries over AI stocks spill into digital assets and high-octane bets backfire
2025-05-28
Australian universities massively dodged a bullet this election. Sarah Henderson would have loved this sort of thing www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Politico
Memo: the Trump admin pauses new student visa interviews as it mulls requiring all foreign students applying to study in the US to undergo social media vetting
Social Media Posts Could Block Your Entry Jennifer Hansler / CNN : State Department orders embassies to pause new student visa appointments as it moves to expand social media vetti...
2024-04-22
Interesting piece by the WaPo on declining user engagement on politics on key social platforms https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... [image]
Washington Post
Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook user engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024
Washington Post :
2023-06-21
AI is just a big factory of low-paid humans with a shiny API on top https://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge
The Verge
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere. Bluesky: @sarahjeong.bsky.social , @knguyen.bsky.social , and @yoyoel.com Masto...