This one is too good at them

I just wasted an hour of writing and research by hitting the wrong chord on my keyboard here, after neglecting to save my work in progress. You can't teach an old dog old mistakes.

Uh oh

Some bad shit is going down in Garden Grove.

The other two don't

There is no contrast between the US, China, and the EU more stark than AI regulation. Here in the US there is effectively none (especially after yesterday's news). In China there is the usual state control, but with a strong AI development imperative. The EU has the AI Act, which I was briefed on yesterday during an online session with the Berkman Klein Center (which is covering the AI thing well). What I see with the AI Act is very little drag on innovation and implementation of AI, but the simple fact that AI regulation exists in the EU has the AI giants (all based in the US) pumping the brakes there. To me the main difference between the three regions is that only one of them cares about personal (or any kind of) privacy, and backs that care with policy.

Does that mean it's dead… or just a zombie?

The Democratic party has conducted an autopsy on itself.

Wisest words ever sung

Uncle Josh is my favorite Mike Cross song, especially now that I have the life expectancy of a puppy. Alas, the lyrics are nowhere on the Web. Should I put them there? They matter. Mike will be 80 this year and hasn't been active for a long time. His agency still has a page for him, if you run a search. His old URL, mikecross.com, redirects to the agency, but you can find what it used to be at archive.org. Here's one snapshot, with a popover explaining his absence. But listen to the song. 

More here if you care to dig

Says here that Sports Illustrated deleted the entire archive of a writer accused of using AI as a co-author, or something like that. 

A hole new approach

Hackrnoon: We Treated Potholes Like Software Bugs and Accidentally Built a Civic Hacking Playbook 

Since what followed from the above got too long, I made a separate post of it: Getting Real.