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Economic termites are instances of monopolization big enough to make investors a huge amount of money, but not noticeable enough for most of us... Economic termites describes where these same forces get into the mostly unseen business foundations of our society and profiteer. - everywhere.

• People: Alive or dead time (and life pursuits). Neurodivergent teams as assets. The sandwich squeeze. Tiktok and elections misinformation, so surprising. Holographic learning. Against optimization. Aging: the case of longevity? Borges and Chaos Theory.

• Business: The three languages of customer, product, business. McKinsey is working on its own org. Russia stops trading eur and usd.

• Tech: A robotic third thumb. Regrowing teeth. Testing military AI drones.

• Random: NATO’s take (EN PDF) on cognitive warfare (FR). Lego interpretation of Paris’ Notre Dame. 21% of global conflicts due to El Nino?
  The rabbit hole: when crosswords were a threat to society.

• AI: Love and AI is what we need? LLM kryptonite. AI to talk with dogs. Tools for roleplay scenarii (in class). Does AI remain a ‘promise’ ? Measuring LLM environmental impacts. OpenAI used by Russia and China for covert campaigns. Netflix influence on public AI stance.

• Bonus: awesome work of code/poetry =) And another super text-mode resource. And a bonus visual below.

  

  Samurai on the Toilet by Takeshi Kitano, 1970.

  More seriously.

  

  Underrated information hazard from AI at work: when employees learn that they can automate their own work & no one cares (or worse, their managers just use AI to reply to them) I think a lot about this study, when managers doing processes design learned how screwed up their firm was, they gave up trying for leadership roles and took up less meaningful positions in the organization out of existential despair. — Ethan Mollick