Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men
Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?
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Women in heterosexual marriages continue to do most of the caregiving. Now some are offering guides to AI-fying parenting In honour of Pride I’d like to share some important news: Being Straight is Great, Actually! This public service announcement is brought to you by the New York Times which, in an offering to the Ragebait Gods, published an op-ed with that headline on the eve of Pride month. It then changed the headline of the piece, which was written by a Playboy editor, to There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men. “I’m going to go out on a limb and say it,” author Magdalene J Taylor bravely wrote. “There has still never been a better time in human history to happily and successfully pursue heterosexuality.” A sincere congratulations to Ms Taylor for her successful pursuit of heterosexuality, and her brave dismantling of straw men. But, look, while I don’t like to rain on anyone’s (straight) parade, I do have a few little quibbles with her argument. Namely, I keep seeing data which so
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While we do not outright oppose the taking of AI company stock, or of a US a sovereign wealth fund, there are better ways to achieve the senator’s goals Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?” We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent questions facing global democracy today. Our book, Rewiring Democracy, surveys the emerging uses for and impacts of AI in democracy around the world and reaches the same conclusion: that the most urgent risk posed by AI is the concentration of power, wealth and control among tech oligarchs. Continue reading...
Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity Do you remember the early 2000s, when Silicon Valley buzzed with idealism and tech bros told us they were going to save the world? “Don’t be evil” was Google’s unofficial motto; it’s 2004 IPO prospectus declared that doing “good things for the world” was more important than “short term gains”. Mark Zuckerberg similarly wrote in Facebook’s 2012 IPO letter that the social network was “built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected”. As was obvious to anyone paying attention, this was all performative bullshit. Nevertheless, it’s hard not to feel nostalgic about that period of time – which came to a definitive end in 2018, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal. By and large, billionaires and CEOs still cared what the hoi polloi thought of them. They were self-aware enough to realize that, even with all their billions, there’s a lot more of us than th
Constant validation and flattery from AI chatbots poses a serious risk to society and our shared grasp of reality Do you ever get the feeling that the people running the world are delulu? That the 1% are living in a completely different universe from the rest of us? You’re not the only one. Even some tech elites are starting to worry about their peers’ grasp on reality. “CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis,” Aaron Levie, a co-founder of the enterprise cloud company Box, declared on X last month. His reasoning for this? “They’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI. So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.” In other words: CEOs are so high up the food chain that they don’t understand the human labour that goes into turning an error-riddled AI creation into something that functions properly in
The post NYT Strands Answers Today: Hints & Clues For Monday, June 1 (Shall We Gather For Lunch?) appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for help uncovering words in today’s NYT Strands puzzle? Look no further! Below, you’ll find some extra clues and other help to get you started in your quest. It’s the very first day of June, and summer (while not officially in effect for about three more weeks) is here at last. Let’s uncover some words! Looking for Sunday’s Strands? Check out our guide right here. How To Play Strands Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the
The post Todd, Back, Sassaman, and Finney Named Satoshi in 3 Investigations That Found No Proof appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Takeaways Peter Todd, Adam Back, and the Hal Finney-Len Sassaman duo each faced Satoshi claims in 2024-2026, with all three denying it. Polymarket gives Adam Back only a 6% chance of confirmed Satoshi identity by Dec. 31, 2026. The “Finding Satoshi” documentary, released April 22, 2026, argues Bitcoin had 2 co-creators, not one. The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto Heats up Again as 3 New Investigations Name Suspects Over the years, prior to a hiatus, a string of self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamotos and outside accusations have kept Bitcoin’s origin story permanently unsettled. From Craig Wright’s long-running legal campaign to a parade of cypherpunk candidates, the search has become a recurring fixture in crypto media, and interestingly, the trend is really picking up steam again. Between October 2024 and April 2026, three high-profile investigations, includin
The post NYT Strands Answers Today: Hints & Clues For Sunday, May 31 (Places To Go) appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Today’s NYT Strands hints and answers Credit: New York Times Looking for help uncovering words in today’s NYT Strands puzzle? Look no further! Below, you’ll find some extra clues and other help to get you started in your quest. Let’s knock this out so we can all go enjoy our lazy Sundays! Looking for Saturday’s Strands? Check out our guide right here. How To Play Strands Strands is the newest game in the New York Times’ stable of puzzle games. It’s a fun twist on classic word search games. Every day we’re given a new theme and then tasked with uncovering all the words on the grid that fit that theme, including a spangram that spans two sides of the board. One of these words is the spangram which crosses from one side of the grid to another and reveals even more about the day’s theme. Spoilers ahead. Today’s Strands Hints Read on for today’s theme and some hints to he
Three investigations. Four suspects. Zero proof. Between October 2024 and April 2026, an HBO documentary, a New York Times investigation, and a feature-length film each named a different person as Satoshi Nakamoto and all three came up short. The Hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto Heats up Again as 3 New Investigations Name Suspects Over the years, […]