erica xo. @EricaThompson

Consulting in Music, Technology, DEI. Featured in NY Mag and Business Insider. Formerly with Warner Music Group and NARAS substack.com/@ericathompson Atlanta, GA / Greensboro, NC Joined January 2009

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

16 hours ago

@rihntv There’s no technological advancement that allowed people to work less —

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I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize. No President in History has ended the same war so many times. Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count. No President has ever done this before. And he is nowhere near finished ending it. It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 days ago

They fired people for the experiment, and if they’re truly data driven, they’ll be rehiring in mass, soon

ℏεsam @Hesamation

2 days ago

Meta burns $2.65B a year on AI tokens. at $300K for a Meta engineer, that's enough to pay ~9,000 engineers for a full year. now ask yourself: since the layoffs, has Meta shipped anything that feels like 9,000 engineers’ worth of output?

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Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07

4 days ago

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught. After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet. She didn’t laugh at the idea. They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon. In the beginning, there was no global empire. There was a garage. MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done. As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing. Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career. Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told. Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs. MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative. She never seemed interested in changing that. What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship. Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot. In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares. Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world. She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime. Then she did something even more unusual. Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants. Universities. Food banks. Housing organizations. Rural communities. Women’s health initiatives. Tribal colleges. Climate organizations. Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size. Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams. They weren’t. Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era. Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth. The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet. She never asked for buildings in her name. She never demanded headlines. Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build. It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

@Le_Verbe_Errant @Pontifex Those hallucinations point in a direction of bias based on harmful bias in humans, that means harmful things have and are currently happening to people from AI urging people to harm themselves because of the dataset showing them that. GPS doesn’t encourage harm.

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

@Le_Verbe_Errant @Pontifex What are the dangers of GPS? Going in the wrong direction? That can be life threatening but as soon as that is found, it’s corrected. AI cannot think or reason and scientists actually don’t understand how it “thinks”, some say that it’s always hallucinating.

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

I feel this specifically was part of Vance getting the job

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

a week ago

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus

a week ago

Rep Summer Lee is going to primary John Fetterman. Can’t wait

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

@Le_Verbe_Errant @Pontifex Technology isn’t neutral by definition, it’s made by humans and mirrors our condition which isn’t neutral

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

@Emma_UD_Adams @Pontifex He said it, we need more people in the room who care about the output and how it affects society

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

The pope is nearly calling for DEI in Tech, I never imagined this day.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

a week ago

For AI to respect human dignity and truly serve the common good, responsibility must be clearly defined at every stage: from those who design and develop these systems to those who use them and rely on them for concrete decisions. It must be possibile to identify who must

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

a week ago

My goodness.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex

a week ago

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a

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a week ago

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

@omgsidewalks As an engineer, engineering and science isn’t about intelligence, it’s about memory and recall Intelligence is found in others who are are less valued by society and capitalism

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

@MrsButters I feel like women don’t care for men to go over the top because we want to stop going over the top, too

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

@jubileemedia @itsdeaann If women are innately better for child rearing because of their ability to birth children, the biggest leadership needed in humanity is raising humanity so wouldn’t women be the best leaders based on her logic

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

I hope Christians understand that homelessness is something that can happen to those who are the most blessed .. if you’re a Christian, God himself was homeless and was perfect Conditions created by hatred doesn’t mean there isn’t the miracle of God in the story

kat @yslnadi

2 weeks ago

when you realize everything is so expensive and still God hasn’t let you you go hungry, homeless or empty handed.

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

Even science says it does

Tori_ @Toribabieegirl

2 weeks ago

Be honest. Has prayer ever truly worked in your life?

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erica xo. @EricaThompson

2 weeks ago

*Black Americans enter the chat*

Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14

2 weeks ago

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free. AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told