Dennisn't (Rudy van Gelder edition)

Keeping an Eye on Surveillance Pricing and Wage Legislation - Roosevelt Institute Corporations are increasingly using detailed information about their customers and workers to target them with individualized higher prices and lower wages. (They may not be advertising it much, but b...

"Surveillance pricing" uses personal data + AI to set individualized higher prices and lower wages.

We need rules that put people—not algorithms—in charge of the economy. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/surveil...

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”

Airlines, including Delta, are testing AI in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”

Clanker economy is going great

la "clanker economy" va a estar fantástica (?)

No, no van a usar la IA para curar el cáncer.
Los tecnooptimistas harían bien en despertarse de la siesta de memes Miyazaki y darse cuenta de una vez.

Se viene la ola de IA para precios dinámicos (numerosas veces dentro del mismo día) por parte de aerolíneas y supermercados; nos van a estrujar hasta el último centavo, más que en el último par de años.ñ; como durante la hiperinflación argentina de los 2000's, pero para maximización de ganancias.

Grok sayin git was suspended for talking about Israeli war crimes

Grok saying it's back and more based than ever

What tf is happening with Grok

A George divided against itself cannot stand! / S07E08 The Pool Guy

Lo que la Inteligencia Artificial, ese "cerebro externalizado", pone en juego en la Historia La investigadora Magdalena Candioti sostiene que el trabajo historiográfico atraviesa una crisis, que la IA acentúa cuando devuelve en segundos cualquier pregunta sobre el pasado.Asegura que la IA pro...

¿Qué es hacer historia, producir conocimiento histórico? ¿Los historiadores pueden ser reemplazados por la IA? De ser así, ¿a qué costo? Gran nota de @franmackandal.bsky.social que también revela qué es lo que la IA no puede hacer como un humano: plantearse preguntas.

Gracias, Google.

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

"Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital"

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“Urged to clamp down” sounds lovely. The soft touch the far right get while violently targeting minorities and the homeless while the peacefully protesting gran gets brutally arrested. Lines have never been clearer.

Maarten Inghels.
Yo solía ser una montaña.

I love the Beastie Boys but honestly they complained about biters too much. No one was trying to steal their raps about Ethel Merman

A Palestinian state isn't a perfect solution, but it's the only realistic one ***

Meanwhile in Israeli media:

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

One study concluded 70% of increased electric cost across US due to AI data centers.
apnews.com/article/elec...

If an individual offering consensual nudes of themself on OnlyFans is considered “illicit” but a program generating nudes of women without their consent is fine, the powers that be have made their priorities clear. And they’re the same as they ever were.

crabmandible Tumblr post showing a line of three photos of little clay figures with increasingly long legs captioned “I wonder if my ancestors are smilling apon me sometimes” Response from weepingbird reading; you: making aalittle thing with clay the ghosts of Australopithecus: yes yes yes yes

I love to see people mash up traditional media and techniques with contemporary subjects, causes, politics. It makes me feel so joyfully Human to see it. Truly the ghosts of Australopithecus are smilling apon us.

Aughhhh mistrial, already.

But you know I have OPINIONS.

‘Worm Queen’ Follower Heidi Klum Hammered for Promoting Dubious Trend “Parasites hate clove,” said the supermodel and spreader of questionable health advice.

Supermodel Heidi Klum said she's going to “deworm and de-parasite for the first time” after seeing posts about the controversial wellness trend. Doctors have spoken out against this “deworming” routine, writes Jack Silvers for Daily Beast. archive.ph/oW9bn www.thedailybeast.com/worm-queen-f...

fundamental part of 2024 is that people didn't believe that trump was going to do the things he was explicitly saying he was going to do

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

“The study found that when using Google’s AI tool ‘Gemma’ to generate and summarise the same case notes, language such as ‘disabled’, ‘unable’ and ‘complex’ appeared significantly more often in descriptions of men than women.”

A note to the Treasurer, on how to boost productivity

A note to the Treasurer, on how to boost productivity www.croakey.org/a-note-to-th...

Anna Mazzola @Anna_Mazz It's 45 years since the best ever account of an attempted crime. From the Edinburgh Evening News, 18 August 1978. While they were waiting at a bus stop in Clermiston, Mr and Mrs Daniel Thirsty were threatened by Mr Robert Clear. 'He demanded that I give him my wifes purse, said Mr Thirsty. 'Telling him that the purse was in her basket, I bent down, put my hands up her skirt, detached her artificial leg and hit him over the head with it. It was not my intention to do anything more than frighten him oft, but unhappily for us all, he died? 3:41 AM • 8/18/23 from Earth • 1.7M Views

That took a turn or two

Necesitamos otro Núremberg.

can’t believe he keeps bragging that he ACED an exam that is only really given to people who might have a cognitive problem

A man asked ChatGPT how to remove salt from his diet. It landed him in the hospital The man had been swapping sodium chloride, or table salt, for sodium bromide for three months after consulting ChatGPT

A man asked ChatGPT how to remove sodium chloride from his diet. It landed him in the hospital

Our blessed homeland Their barbarious wastes Our glorious leader Their wicked despot Our great religion Their primitive superstition Our noble populace Their backward savages Our heroic adventurers Their brutish invaders

Polarization Feels Good (and That’s the Problem)

The same needs that drive connection can also lock us into rigid "us vs. them" thinking.

The Psychology Behind Us vs. Them Thinking 🏺🧪
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

RIP