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i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

"Why do programmers not like AI contributions on open source softw-"

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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Das Heimatschutzministerium will, dass Social-Media-Seiten Anti-ICE-Konten offenlegen
Das Ministerium hat Google, Meta und anderen Unternehmen Hunderte von Vorladungen geschickt, um Informationen über Konten zu erhalten, die die Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde (ICE) verfolgen oder kommentieren

Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.

Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

Ubisoft workers are on strike: 'We are treated like children' The strike comes after the publisher revealed plans to cut up to 200 jobs and ordered remote workers back into the office

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job.

In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike.

The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

YouTube video by Critical Role: Between D&D Gale Force 5... the ANIME Remake! Starring Ashley Johnson (Critical Role)

Oh NO, don't give Sam Riegel so much power to actually make a version of Gayle Force 😂 (the totally legally distinct version of Gale Force)

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Damn, I was hoping it would not become a time sink but it's just SO GOOD 🐈🐈‍⬛
I can see #mewgenics become the first rogue-lite that I actually stick with and that's the biggest surprise 😂

Epstein Akten sind ein Beweis dafür, dass selbst 3,5 Millionen Dokumente nicht ausreichen, um Täter zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. Und das ist der Grund, warum Frauen Vergewaltigungen oft nicht anzeigen. Weil die Erfolgsquote verschwindend gering ist

I may delete this because it’s a bit spicy but it shouldn’t be lost on us that games being turned into TV is essentially harvesting the stories written by those who don’t have union representation or healthcare with WGA by those that do. Our stories are good enough for TV but the writers aren’t?

This is a pretty good example why, even outside of creative, if I find out your business uses AI at any point in your workflow, I lose 90% confidence.

It’s not an ethical concern, it’s a competency one. I assume you’re an idiot if you think these things can work reliably in any critical role.

Just straight up gold, can't wait!

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"

I know this is a profoundly unoriginal take, but this is why Shakespeare is still awesome: the times change, but people don’t. When performed, rather than read, his work is a portal demonstrating the unity of humanity across time and space. There is comfort and tragedy in that reality.

As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America.

I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.

Recently I wrote a TV comedy pilot that has very little chance of getting made so I decided to publish it just for fun. You can read the script in its bare-bones form, or annotated with my notes. Maybe someone will find it interesting.

I hope you enjoy THE HARPER IDENTITY. If you do, let me know :)

Die CDU und ihre Umfeldorganisationen haben eine Variation des "Flood the zone with shit" für sich entdeckt: Jeden Tag eine neue Zumutung gegen Arme, Kranke und Arbeitslose fordern. Das Prinzip heißt Erschöpfung: Fordere so viel Sozialabbau, dass die Hälfte davon am Ende vernünftig klingt.

In the 1930s Hitler's Gestapo arrested, intimidated and simply disappeared countless journalists who questioned the regime under the guise of "undermining national morale". And that's where we are again now.

Wonder Man is too good. By which I mean the quality feels like it might have happened by accident. Someone wasn’t paying attention and a group of creative people made something awesome. You love to see it.

Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI data-center expansion as US banks retreat Oracle is considering workforce cuts and selling Cerner to alleviate financial pressure, warns investment bank TD Cowen.

Microsoft stock tanked -12% after revealing 45% of Azure’s backlog is OpenAI. Meanwhile, Oracle is struggling to secure loans for its $300M AI deal, risking layoffs to pay for it.

The theme is clear that bankers don’t trust OpenAI’s solvency, and it’s dragging down every partner attached to it.

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Advancing Windows security: Disabling NTLM by default - Windows IT Pro Blog Learn how Windows is moving toward an NTLM-independent future with enhanced auditing, Kerberos enhancements, and a phased roadmap.

Oh hey. We announced *when* we're disabling NTLM by default.

Hint: soon.

Vielleicht müssen Medien das Framing "Ultras wollen Macht im Verein übernehmen" nicht, well, übernehmen, wenn letztlich Menschen, denen ihr Verein sehr am Herzen liegt, versuchen, Einfluss zu nehmen, damit Clubs sich nicht ausschließlich dem profitorientierten, kapitalistischen System verschreiben.

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.

Must read by Ta-Nehisi Coates on what happened on Minnesota.

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Paywall bypass here.

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There's a predictable approach to denial that we're already seeing, which I call the Four Pillars of Disordered Doubt, which allows actors to constantly question evidence that don't fit their preferred narratives.

in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Microsoft is handing over Bitlocker keys to law enforcement. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

“This is un-American“ is anti-Indigenous, anti-Black gaslighting and if you find that inconvenient imagine how our colonized and enslaved ancestors felt and grow the fuck up

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story. How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

A new survey shows 40%+ of execs say AI saves them 8+ hrs/week while ~2/3 of non-managers say it saves <2 hrs or nothing.

This is the second time I’ve seen this split, and it explains the CEO hype vs rank-and-file worker ambivalence.

LLMs excel at summaries and email drafts, aka exec busywork.