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James Temple

@jtemple
23 posts
2025-06-12
Don't miss @eileenguo.bsky.social's examination of Amsterdam's attempt (and failure) to create fair AI.
2025-06-12 View on X
MIT Technology Review

How Amsterdam's experiment to create a fair welfare AI model, which considered 15 characteristics to evaluate welfare applicants for potential fraud, failed

This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

2025-03-11
Meanwhile, I think so far we're overly impressed by the confidence, rather than competence, of generative AI.  Yet we're rushing ahead to rewire the web, and the ways we find and consume information, well before these tools have proven to be reliable and safe.  —  bsky.app/profile/tech... …
2025-03-11 View on X
Columbia Journalism Review

A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines.  They're All Bad at Citing News.  —  AI search tools are rapidly gaining in popularity …

2022-10-31
Nahh, I won't be paying for the privilege of generating free content and driving engagement on a website that, by accounts, is about to become a less secure, less safe haven for rightwing disinformation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue

Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification  —  Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …

Nope, nope, nope. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
Platformer

Sources: Twitter is strongly considering taking away its verified users' badges if they don't subscribe to Twitter Blue

Under pressure to generate revenue quickly, Twitter's new CEO considers ending free verification  —  Twitter is strongly considering making its users pay to remain verified …

Nope, nope, nope. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

Herein we confront the problem in asserting that “widely diverse viewpoints” is the goal, when one side's view is we should lie about, minimize & applaud violent attacks on political rivals: https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
The Independent

In a now-deleted tweet replying to Hillary Clinton, Elon Musk shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory about the hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul

Billionaire peddled the conspiracy theory on Twitter just days after he completed his takeover of the social media platform

Nahh, I won't be paying for the privilege of generating free content and driving engagement on a website that, by accounts, is about to become a less secure, less safe haven for rightwing disinformation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-31 View on X
The Verge

Sources: Twitter could make Twitter Blue a $20/month subscription that verifies users; staff have until November 7 to build the feature or face being fired

Now that he owns Twitter, Elon Musk has given employees their first ultimatum: Meet his deadline to introduce paid verification on Twitter or pack up and leave.

2022-10-05
Is it a “proposal” if he entered into a binding commitment at that price months ago? Or is the proper verb choice “concedes defeat & implicitly admits he had no legal leg to stand on, in what amounts to a humbling blow to his deal-making credibility.” https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2022-10-05 View on X
Bloomberg

SEC filing: in a letter to Twitter, Elon Musk revives his original bid for $54.20 per share, aiming to avoid a courtroom fight

Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter Inc. for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, Bloomberg News reports.Musk made the proposal in a letter to Twitter …

2022-05-25
Putting carbon credits certified by registries with well-documented underlying issues ... on the blockchain ... does nothing to address those well-documented underlying issues. https://twitter.com/...
2022-05-25 View on X
Reuters

Flowcarbon, a blockchain-based carbon credit trading service backed by WeWork's Neumann, raises $32M led by a16z and $38M from selling its Goddess Nature Token

When I was 22, I spent several months working in the field in South Africa. Jamie Redman / Bitcoin News : Wework Co-Founder Adam Neumann's Crypto Project Secures $70M, Funding Roun...

2022-04-22
If any of this is real (credibility is a fragile thing), could borrowing against his shares put Musk at risk of losing control of Tesla (when, say, his high school freshman grasp of free speech issues undermines the attraction & value of Twitter)? https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-22 View on X
CNBC

Filing: Elon Musk has secured $46.5B to acquire Twitter, including $25.5B in debt financing via Morgan Stanley and other firms, and is exploring a tender offer

now what? Matt Levine / Bloomberg : Elon Got His Money Kyle Chayka / New Yorker : Why Would Elon Musk Want to Buy Twitter? New York Post : Elon Musk in talks to partner on Twitter ...

2022-04-16
It's especially impressive that his most concrete proposal (beyond a misogynistic name change) is a product already in the works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
New York Post

Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.

Just a gem-filled take on Musk and Twitter from @CaseyNewton, including: https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
New York Post

Sources: Elon Musk is speaking to investors, including Silver Lake, to partner with him on a Twitter bid; a plan with partners could be announced within days

Elon Musk is speaking to investors who could partner with him on a bid for Twitter, sources close to the matter told The Post.

It's especially impressive that his most concrete proposal (beyond a misogynistic name change) is a product already in the works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference

Just a gem-filled take on Musk and Twitter from @CaseyNewton, including: https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-16 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

The billionaire made his first public comments about his Twitter takeover efforts at the TED 2022 conference

2022-04-15
It's especially impressive that his most concrete proposal (beyond a misogynistic name change) is a product already in the works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-15 View on X
The Verge

Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B

Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://tw...

It's especially impressive that his most concrete proposal (beyond a misogynistic name change) is a product already in the works. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-15 View on X
The Information

Source says Twitter's board of directors views Elon Musk's takeover offer as unwelcome, suggesting the company will fight the bid

Amir Efrati / The Information :

2022-03-01
I resist ever saying anything nice about @CaseyNewton, but this is a very smart, honest and nicely written piece https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2022-03-01 View on X
Platformer

Social networks and the internet have been a valuable force multiplier for Ukraine and the allies of democracy during the early days of Russia's invasion

How much will it matter?  Notes on the platforms in wartime  —  Over the past decade, the biggest tech companies came to feel less …

I resist ever saying anything nice about @CaseyNewton, but this is a very smart, honest and nicely written piece https://www.platformer.news/ ...
2022-03-01 View on X
Washington Post

TikTok confirms it has shut down access to Russian sites RT and Sputnik in Europe following requests from individual governments and the European Union

Facebook and TikTok said Monday that the companies would shut down access to Kremlin-controlled media sites RT and Sputnik in Europe, setting the stage for retaliation from Russia.

2021-03-13
Facebook: We're not driving polarization. Also, if we are, just consider what good could come from the societal backlash! Via @CraigSilverman @RMac18 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-13 View on X
BuzzFeed News

An internal doc at Facebook, co-written by Chris Cox, aims to equip employees with rebuttals to the perception that the company's products fuel polarization

In a Thursday presentation, Facebook executives told employees the company isn't to blame for social division in the country. Tweets: @rmac18 , @jtemple , @rmac18 , @buzzfeednews ,...

2020-09-29
You can't care about global warming and also be undecided in this election. So at least we can all drop the climate hero nonsense now. https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-29 View on X
New York Times

Wide-ranging interview with Elon Musk on Neuralink and the future of brain chip implants, his thoughts on AI being an existential threat to humanity, and more

(SINGING) When you walk in the room, do you have sway?  —  [MUSIC PLAYING]  —  I'm Kara Swisher and this is Sway.  [MUSIC PLAYING]