Ben Winters

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course.

www.thestar.com/opinion/publ...

“Same Product, Same Price”: Onyema Introduces Landmark Bill to Ban Surveillance Pricing  - Insider NJ Today, Assemblyman Chigozie U. Onyema (D-Newark) introduced legislation to prohibit surveillance-based pricing.

We must ban surveillance pricing now before even more companies start using AI to charge you more based on your personal data.

I’ve introduced the first federal bill to ban it, and I’m glad to see a proposal in New Jersey to do the same.

this is like the microsoft execs screaming "DONT CALL AI SLOP SLOP"

Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

The (near) future is a cloyingly named AI surveillance tool micromanaging every single thing you do www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Big Tech never met a climate claim it couldn’t greenwash. While AI-driven electricity demand throws the fossil fuel industry a lifeline, we’re told AI can help solve the climate crisis. The reality? 74% of claims about AI climate benefits are unproven.
Read now: beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/r...

Data center tax breaks are on the chopping block in some states • Wisconsin Examiner Some states are scaling back data centers tax incentives to balance economic development and energy considerations.

Data center tax breaks on the chopping block in some states wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/02/24/r...

People saying OpenAI reporting a user it banned for posts about gun violence would be mass surveillance are fucking idiots.

The tech industry *is* mass surveillance. There is no genAI or ChatGPT without mass data collection on everyone.

Don’t like mass surveillance? Stop using fucking chatbots.

Thrilled to see this work as well as our urgent warning from last August about X featured in the @energycommerce.bsky.social investigation launched last week

democrats-energycommerce.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

X has not done enough and those responsible have not yet been held accountable

these people’s brains are fully cooked

call me crazy but anthropic doesnt *have* to contract its little LLM with the mf pentagon to help kill people only "lawfully"

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

“It is a reminder that even right now, even as the fight rages on, there is time for joy, there is time for art, there is time to celebrate difference and self, and to insist that you too can be free.

Because they want you to forget that.”

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”

“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.

bullying always works

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare Putting smart glasses on trial.

“The fact that Meta’s legal team appears to have come to this hearing in a trial over the dangers their systems cause equipped with invasive glasses that put jurors and others in the courtroom at risk is a bit on the nose.”

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process.

Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties.

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“Fomi offers a three-day free trial. If you decide you like it, subscription plans cost $8 per month. However, since the tool uploads screenshots of your desktop to an AI model in the cloud, there are privacy concerns you will need to weigh before deciding if a tool like this is right for you.”

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Shame the hell out any politician who takes money from these creeps.

The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:

- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components

with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

Buncha dumb shit about AOC like she's a FP waif when she's not

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat