Mark Pesce

Futurist, VRML co-inventor, author, educator & speaker. Multi-award-winning columnist for The Register, columnist Cosmos Magazine, award-winning podcaster of both The Next Billion Seconds and This Week in Startups Australia. 🏳️‍🌈 Gadigal Land. (he/him)

Website: https://new.markpesce.com
Bio: https://new.markpesce.com/bio
The Next Billion Seconds: https://nextbillionseconds.com
Getting Started with ChatGPT and AI Chatbots: http://new.markpesce.com/book

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2025-01-15 06:26:49 UTC

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On a related note: wage increases less than the rate of inflation must _always_ produce greater poverty.

2025-01-11 00:21:35 UTC

you’d all be shocked at how conversant I’ve become at sterilising jars and making preserves 🤣

2025-01-04 08:24:09 UTC

The high-intensity training was the only form of exercise that led to retained cognitive improvement five years later.
“After five years, you couldn’t see a difference between their cognition at six months and five years, and we think the reason for that is that there is a change in the volume of the hippocampus …
“Six months of high-intensity exercise has … rewired or reconnected a lot of the pathways associated with the hippocampus & that appears to be long-lasting.
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/health-and-wellness/scientists-identify-the-best-type-of-exercise-for-mental-sharpness-20240711-p5jsxz

2024-12-17 22:45:03 UTC

Proton Mail web is back!!!
CHRISTMAS IS SAVED!

2024-12-13 00:31:20 UTC

At the start of this year it appeared unmistakably clear that Microsoft was going to be cock of the walk in the dawning age of generative artificial intelligence.
At the end of this year it’s clear how wrong that was.
http://windowscopilot.news/2024/12/13/has-microsoft-lost-the-ai-wars/

2024-12-12 22:15:33 UTC

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To recap: At the start of 2024, Microsoft had an apparently insurmountable lead in AI.
Microsoft had every conceivable advantage.
At the end of 2024: Microsoft blew both its lead and advantage comprehensively.
Impressive.
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What's your experience? Is it similar to @npub1sjh…ht6y's and mine at Wisely AI? Or do you reckon Microsoft will pull another AI rabbit out of its hat in 2025? Share your thoughts in the replies - and thanks!

2024-12-12 22:10:24 UTC

Has Microsoft Lost the AI Wars? - a 🧵
First mover advantage is overrated.
Anyone working in startupland long enough knows that the first out of the gate is all too frequently an also-ran.
Facebook was not the first social networking company.
Last year it appeared unmistakably clear that Microsoft was going to be cock of the walk in the dawning age of generative artificial intelligence.
A year later it’s clear how wrong that was.

2024-12-10 20:32:48 UTC

NEW Next Billion Seconds episode 'v2food, v2.0' - Six years on from founding v2Food, it's getting difficult to find their product on supermarket shelves - and there's been a broader roll-back from plant-based alternatives. What's happened? Former CEO Nick Hazell gives his read of this unexpected outcome.
https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/12/04/series-2024-episode-7-the-war-over-plant-based-foods-with-nick-hazell/

2024-12-01 07:56:00 UTC

"Women, senior employees and highly skilled workers were the most likely to quit in protest, the researchers found."
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/brain-drain-when-return-to-office-mandates-backfire-20241127-p5ktuh

2024-11-30 22:03:47 UTC

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just add "You call that a knife?" into it somewhere 🤣

2024-11-29 07:23:08 UTC

"Hey Siri, what is regulatory capture...?"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/27/plastic-lobbyists-biggest-group-un-treaty-talks-busan-korea

2024-11-28 20:58:41 UTC

“ The new rules won't come into force for another year to allow social media companies time to comply.” - per ABC

2024-11-27 23:50:46 UTC

After today's 50% price rise in my M365 subscription ($121 -> $192 annually) I can see why
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-27/us-antitrust-watchdog-launches-broad-microsoft-investigation

2024-11-26 02:57:33 UTC

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😎

2024-11-26 02:47:29 UTC

Remember when 3DTV was the Next Big Thing?
https://cache.arvr.social/media_attachments/files/113/546/965/083/185/476/original/9f084dce4ffd8539.mp4

2024-11-25 21:00:19 UTC

Time to draw all the year's threads together: Are we pulling back from EVs? Will China dominate manufacturing? And what about all that data vehicles are collecting? It's been full on - enough to require a bit of a 'group hug'. Part one of two.
https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/11/26/the-next-billion-cars-2024-in-review-part-1/

2024-11-22 21:57:12 UTC

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Edge? 😂

2024-11-22 03:14:39 UTC

OMG THE LLMS HAS TEH REVERSE DISGRIMINASHUNS
(from @npub10cz…4lpy )
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/?td=rt-3a

2024-11-22 02:29:30 UTC

You know that time Elon Musk got Tesla engineers to 'hard code' the very first demo of full self driving - a sleight-of-hand convincing everyone else Tesla were years ahead of everyone else on autonomy, thereby driving incumbent automakers into a panic, forcing them to blow an industry-wide $100B investment with nearly nothing to show for it?
I did a podcast about it.
https://nextbillionseconds.com/2024/11/21/the-next-billion-cars-the-100000000000-lie/

2024-11-21 21:36:22 UTC

"...We don't know what a "data Chernobyl" might look like. With luck, we'll never see it. But playing with fire while relying on luck to keep us safe seems a guarantee for disaster. In order to keep data at arm's length, we've got to find our equivalent of the 'glove box' – managed carefully, and with a full awareness of the risks and costs of an accidental spill."
Latest for @npub10cz…4lpy "Data is the new uranium" https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/20/data_is_the_new_uranium/

2024-11-18 21:03:26 UTC

"The 2024 overall social cohesion index score was 78 – the same as in 2023 but still at its lowest since the survey began in 2007. The score has been steadily declining since 2008."
2008, to jog your memory, was the year that social media went big.
Correlation is not causation, I know. But this does reinforce a lot of other data around that point in time and changes in social awareness.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/nov/19/australia-social-cohesion-at-record-low-but-70-believe-migrants-make-country-stronger

2024-11-18 08:23:20 UTC

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there was a time in my life when i would roll out of bed and go get on a stationary bike for an hour at the gym to exhaust myself out of my anxiety 😬

2024-11-16 23:42:53 UTC

I know a lot of people have feels about centralised, corporate instances. I share those feels and am always delighted that @npub1uu0…6t2w has taken the hard work on to run this lovely little instance. But I am also really happy to federate with lovely folks on BlueSky because lovely connections are really what I'm here for. And yes, I'll try to keep to my anarcho-syndicalist ways, but if you want to be centralist/corporatist, that's your right too...

2024-11-13 03:32:30 UTC

*glances at radar*
INCOMING!!!

2024-09-30 00:26:08 UTC

These were just shared with me from The Bad Site
Given how bad things are in western NC, this is could possibly have a global impact, as it becomes difficult to manufacture semiconductors and PV panels...
https://cache.arvr.social/media_attachments/files/113/223/649/924/537/664/original/3e08c2ea27e6d66d.png
https://cache.arvr.social/media_attachments/files/113/223/651/519/342/821/original/da3b11a0409ee8e8.png

2024-08-28 02:55:11 UTC

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i have a good friend who thrives on building flatpack so there's that

2024-08-18 08:22:36 UTC

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oh and try being a vegetarian