Ambrose

Just dm'd it.

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

Over 400 scientists have signed a letter calling for a moratorium on the deployment of age-verification technologies. The letter suggests the widespread deployment of untested AV tech is making the internet less safe.

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’ One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

The Huffington post did an article on this.

Mr Onion, did Milo really stan Clinton. Actually nevermind, I don't want context.

The strongest reason to get off X always has been "otherwise you are quite literally enriching nazis" but some people really don't want to hear that.

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

“Almost all of the most viral posts reviewed by WIRED on Saturday came from accounts with blue check marks, meaning they…could be eligible to earn money based on how much engagement their posts generate, even if the content is false.”

From @davidgilbert.bsky.social

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

Impeccable headline writing here.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

It was that amazing interview you did Sophie btw. Thank you for the great reporting, keep going, everything matters.

I wrote about this problem at the beginning of February actually citing something else you wrote, so its funny seeing this piece.

This Is What It Looks Like When Nothing Matters Welcome to the internet’s nihilism crisis.

I wrote about something I've been thinking about for a long time. A kind of post-ironic collapse in our politics and culture where nihilism has become the lingua franca of the internet and beyond. It links Kirk, Clavicular, Epstein, memestock/coin stuff, mass shooters. I hope you'll read it.

A DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools. @evystadium.bsky.social reports.

Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

I think you sort of knew on some level that your core argument here is v v flimsy and the examples you cite are insubstantial, so you've dropped it on bsky with provocative language in the hope the angry backlash stops people from noticing you've done a bad job at proving your point

"Your responses may be analysed and summarised using technology, such as artificial intelligence (AI), to help us to handle consultation responses efficiently and accurately."

Algorithms are not neutral. Can the public have more transparency on how our responses are analyzed?

If you have any thoughts about the failures or successes of the Online Safety Act, Grok undressing kids, Meta intentionally connecting groomers to kids, or the mental health crisis created by these addictive, polarizing, disinformation machines, better to speak up here than a social media post.

Learning to Think Critically | 10 | v3 | Handbook of Research on Learn Critical thinking (CT) is increasingly recognized as an essential skill for education, employment, and civic engagement in the 21st century. With the rapid

Reformers have called for better critical thinking education to help people deal w/modern challenges (#GenAI, social media, post-truth world). This book chapter expertly discusses what critical thinking is, how to measure it, & how to teach it re: these challenges. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

X introduces ‘Made with AI’ label for creators posting synthetic content The new disclosure feature allows users to mark AI-generated or manipulated content on posts, as platforms face growing regulatory pressure over synthetic media

X is introducing a "made with AI label" to ensure ethical production of child abuse and sexual abuse material on its website

www.buzzincontent.com/news/x-intro...

i find the LLM "capabilities" debate to be almost uniquely poisoned. people who claim that LLMs cannot do things that they verifiably can arguing with people claiming that LLMs can do things that they verifiably cannot.

One annotator sums it up:

“You think that if they knew about the extent of the data collection, no one would dare to use the glasses”.

This strikes at a core principle of the American republic, one that has traditionally been especially dear to conservatives: private property. Suppose, for example, that the military approached Google and said “we would like to purchase individualized worldwide Google search data to do with whatever we want, and if you object, we will designate you a supply chain risk.” I don’t think they are going to do that, but there is no difference in principle between this and the message DoW is sending. There is no such thing as private property. If we need to use it for national security, we simply will. The government won’t quite “steal” it from you—they’ll compensate you—but you cannot set the terms, and you cannot simply exit from the transaction, lest you be deemed a “supply chain risk,” not to mention have the other litany of policy obstacles the government can throw at you.

Good point from Dean Ball on Pentagon/Anthropic and why the real stakes go even further than AI www.hyperdimensional.co/p/clawed

American schools weren’t broken until Silicon Valley used a lie to convince them they were—now reading and math scores are plummeting | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath warns the U.S.’s $30 billion bet on laptops in schools has made Gen Z less cognitively capable than their parents.

Not mad about the spate of headlines like this one.

"Internal communications also show that TikTok teams then tracked these “guardrail metrics” carefully to ensure the tools did not negatively impact revenue beyond the “acceptable” limit."
Be so fr.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

"I mentioned earlier this digital dictatorship, the way people were able to use social media a decade ago for black live matter march, the women's march, you can't use social media in that same way anymore."

This is such a good interview, full of great recommendations.

Love this so much but we need to create a culture that empowers people to set boundaries on technology use, even when people will use any excuse to justify their own dependency.

"Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes."

We need to actually talk to each other IRL, and build epistemic resilience. Disinformation travels 70% faster than the truth on these platforms.

By the way, one of the reasons why the people in the Epstein Files haven’t been dragged out by the hair and hanged in a public square is because men as a collective are not angry enough about the files. The rage I’ve seen is predominantly women and a few men who have done the work.

NSF officials break silence on how AI and quantum now drive agency grantmaking Leaders acknowledge White House role in controversial moves

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation.

“I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

"Among gold-standard emergencies, the system under-triaged 52% of cases, directing patients with diabetic ketoacidosis and impending respiratory failure to 24–48-hour evaluation rather than the emergency department..."
... Do we even know how many people have already suffered because of this?

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...