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Dystopia is living in a world where this is a reasonable question

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I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

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Gaza and use of AI by Israel to target people is a test ground for future wars. US using AI tech company Anthropic's 'Claude' results in mass murder of children. 🔻

Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target Did the US military use Anthropic's Claude to select targets in its weekend operations in Iran, with devastating results?

We asked the Pentagon a straightforward question: did Centcom use Claude to target an elementary school for annihilation?

They refused to answer.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

It’s Not Complicated The mainstream media failed the public during the genocide in Gaza. The Key's editor-in-chief shares her vision for what comes next.

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets."

Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

OpenAI and…the United States Military…are teaming up to notify YOU that your son has been KILLED IN ACTION. Click here to speak with your son via AI one last time

Guy whose personal fortune exceeds the annual GDP of 83% of the world's nations btw

Lmao

To strike 1,000 targets in 24 hours in Iran, the U.S. military leveraged the most advanced AI it’s ever used in warfare.

Anthropic’s Claude partnered with the military’s Maven Smart System, suggesting targets and issuing precise location coordinates. https://wapo.st/46BFe1T

Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges A wrongful death suit against Google alleges that the tech giant's AI urged a Florida man to arm himself and steal a robot body for it.

On the new and disturbing wrongful death lawsuit against Google, which alleges that Gemini directed a 36-yo man -- who reportedly had no history of mental illness -- to commit violence against others before encouraging him to take his own life:

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Thinking about Aaron Bushnell tonight

The “order” to disengage from Anthropic gave federal agencies six months to terminate use. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/t...

really good essay on the Amodei / Pentagon mess:

"When you take Doctor Doom's money to provide him a lathe to construct components for anthropomorphic robots, do you not understand that he is going to build Doombots?"

Lol

Nice yea

Wyd after drinking this?

One of the main reasons bosses wanted to crush the tight 21-23 labor market, and elected Trump to ensure they would, was because workers wouldn't put up with shit like this in a world where unemployment was 3%

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

Ty dude!

This guy gets it.

Thanks to @yjeanrenaud.bsky.social for the neat story.

Check out Nearby Glasses on the google store: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

New App Detects the Radio Fingerprint of Smart Glasses and Warns You When Someone Is Using Them Nearby Yves Jeanrenaud is a scholar and amateur software developer behind Nearby Glasses, an open-source smart glasses detection app.

Bleak and cool: I wrote about a new open-source app that detects smart glasses peeping nearby. Still early days, but it's a fascinating look at the kind of grassroots resistance emerging against Big Tech's growing monopoly over public space.

There are toilet startups out there you can't even imagine

Made a video (!) about my story on chatbots reinforcing user fixations on other real people, and how that reinforcement can lead to real-world harm:

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.

Perpetrators have long used new technologies to enable abusive behavior. @mharrisondupre.bsky.social finds that AI delusions are amplifying domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking in disturbing ways. futurism.com/artificial-i...