Skip to main content

Friday Nite Videos | June 26, 2026

Portside Portside
"How to Think About AI" | Cory Doctorow. Do You Ever Get the Feeling You're Being Watched? Jon Batiste | Gospel Andante. Tesla Launches New Model of Explosions. How Are Memories Stored Inside Your Brain?

"How to Think About AI" | Cory Doctorow

"When labor drives automation, it's usually in service to making the product better, and when capital drives automation, it's usually in service to making more of the product,"

How (and Why) AI Is Eroding Democracy in the US

Tom Valovic Common Dreams
Big Tech elitists have their hooks into everything—from what happens in the privacy of our homes to the rampant AI-driven militarism we see unfolding on the global stage. Luckily, people are fighting back.

Friday Nite Videos, June 19, 2026

Portside Portside
DOGE’d Workers Seek Revenge | The Daily Show. Trump Prosecutors Facing Criminal Contempt. Mamdani's Knicks Championship Parade Speech. I Was Right About AI. DC Democratic Socialists Follow Mamdani's Lead.

I Was Right About AI

In this episode, I follow up on a few of my predictions about AI from my recent video: "How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry"

Tax AI To Create Jobs

Greg Casar The American Prospect
We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. An AI tax should target the companies that stand to make billions of dollars by laying people off.

Tidbits-Jun 4-Reader Comments: Close Delaney Hall, Release Detainees; Pope’s Encyclical; Future of Democratic Party; 60 Minutes Blowup; Data Centers Suck Water, Electricity; Submit Public Comment To Save Science; Israeli War Criminals at Israel Day Parade

Portside
Reader Comments: Close Delaney Hall, Release Detainees; Pope's Encyclical; Future and Soul of Democratic Party; 60 Minutes Blowup; Data Centers Suck Water, Electricity; Submit Public Comment To Save Science; Israeli War Criminals at Israel Day Parade
Subscribe to artificial intelligence