Brad King

thebradking@writing.exchange

Managing Editor, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries | Host: The Downtown Writers Jam | alum: Wired, Wired.com, & Technology Review from way back in the early days (1998-2006). | Author: Dungeons & Dreamers: a story of how computer games created a global community (2014) | <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#editor</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/publisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#publisher</a> | (he/him)

Posts

Post #2905367
Lightspeed’s $2 Billion Anthropic Megadeal Cements VC Firm’s AI Ambitions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-24/vc-lightspeed-bets-big-on-ai-megadeals-backing-anthropic-xai-mistral #technology #AI
Post #2905366
How Silk Road Founder Ross Ulbricht Got a Pardon From Trump https://buff.ly/4aBgEPC #technology #crime #media
Post #2905365
The long, dumb, dangerous 4-year decline of America has begun. I truly worry abt our international standing at the end of this. --- ‘Safe to be a white male again’: how conservative media covered Trump’s first week https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/25/revolution-trump-conservative-media
Post #2905364
Jackson Hole has long been on my places to visit. My bff lived there for several years. This sounds like another good reason to go: The Jackson Hole History Museum’s Western Essence https://buff.ly/4jtjrhJ
Post #2905363
Anne Frank the Exhibition: Commemorating the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, an installation in New York tells the tragic story of the teenage girl and diarist, featuring a precisely scaled re-creation of the Amsterdam annex. https://buff.ly/40vrjXe
Post #2905362
Now, do the jump from no life to life! (The day we see that happen will shake up the world.) Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life https://buff.ly/40JEpS1 #science #technology
Post #2905361
The Rainbow Youth Project received over 6,000 calls in just the first couple of days after Trump’s November election win. That’s up from the usual 3,600 calls a month. It didn’t stop: The hotline received over 8,000 calls in December. https://buff.ly/3Cidtzv
Post #2905360
3 Chilling Horror Books to Read This Month, Including a Reissued Classic https://buff.ly/4jqqV57 #amreaing #horror #books #read
Post #2905359
I’m Doing an Audiobook, and You Should Too https://buff.ly/3Wzc52c #amreading #books
Post #2905358
I&#39;ll bet the US public is about to be forced into beta testing for all sorts of public assistance #AI shenanigans AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’ https://buff.ly/40OAzqY #technology
Post #2905357
LITERALLY, nobody in the US government seems to have watched one sci-fi movie in the last 40 years. Opinion | Our Military Is Adopting A.I. Way Too Fast https://buff.ly/4hyLKJB #technology #AI
Post #2905356
Here&#39;s what the US oligarchs are buying from Trump https://buff.ly/42w3pxE #politics #technology
Post #2905355
DeepSeek and Masa Son Have Lessons for Stargate https://buff.ly/3EdMplC #technology #AI
Post #2905354
The DeepFake blackmail is here #technology #AI The fake presenter says that a “young lady” has come forward to allege that they were sexually assaulted by an older man. In the video, the man, who is the target of the scam, is named and a photograph of him appears onscreen. https://buff.ly/4aBbDWU
Post #2905353
I wish I could say that I thought this would solve things. But too many folks get their news from social media navel gazing. #media #journalism ‘Our job is to be truthful not neutral’: Christiane Amanpour on Trump, tech and fighting for the truth https://buff.ly/40ttdHX
Post #2905352
I&#39;ve been talking about quantum computing since my days at MIT&#39;s Technology Review. When we crack that code, all bets are off. It&#39;s the engine that will trigger...everything. #technology #AI The Race to Lead the Quantum Future https://buff.ly/3W9A6Nm
Post #2905351
The Tech Arsenal That Could Power Trump’s Immigration Crackdown. Border enforcement agencies have spent billions assembling surveillance tools to track and find people. These could be critical in President Trump’s immigration agenda. https://buff.ly/3Ed9PaD #technology #AI #politics
Post #2905350
America, in a nutshell 👇 Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It The #tech exists, and vehicles on the road already have it, yet a consortium of carmakers doesn’t want to make this lifesaving equipment standard. https://buff.ly/40uGK1P #technology