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"A disaster waiting to happen" – The privacy tech world reacts to the new Chat Control bill The Czech Republic, Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands are still against the bill

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New EU bill moves forward and it looks pretty messy.

a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a room . Alt: a man is holding a piece of wood that is on fire in a destroyed corporate office while an ostrich runs by.

Ramping up for my final live class weekend so I'm scarce. Final rush to finish projects this week. It's soooo much!

OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.

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Wow, OpenAI accused the NYT of hacking ChatGPT. Like, hired a hacker and everything - but didn't accuse them of breaking hacking laws. Huh.

How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.

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Anthropic Accidentally Gives the World a Peek Into Its Model's 'Soul' Does a chatbot have a soul? Sort of.

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As AI wipes jobs, Google CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s up to everyday people to adapt accordingly: ‘We will have to work through societal disruption’ | Fortune AI isn’t just coming for entry-level workers. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says no job, not even his own, is safe. But those who don’t adapt will be the first to fall.

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Forget the four-day workweek, Elon Musk predicts you won't have to work at all in ‘less than 20 years' | Fortune “The advancements in AI and robotics will bring us to the point where working is optional,” billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk says

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Altman memo: new OpenAI model coming next week, outperforming Gemini 3 OpenAI is preparing to launch a new reasoning model that, according to internal tests, outperforms Google's upcoming Gemini 3. The release is part of a broader strategic shift that will push other pro...

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It's named "Shallotpeat", to explain the image here.

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...

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This is called Universal Design, where something is designed technically to help people with disabilities but ends up helping a whole bunch of other people too.

Curb cuts is perhaps the most famous example of this - it's for people in wheelchairs, but everyone uses them.

this should just immediately write you a ticket when you turn it on

How to stand up to ICE: Lessons from Chicago and Charlotte We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.

We speak with organizers on the ground in Charlotte, NC, and Chicago, IL, about what to do when ICE invades your town.

El is a kind and caring person (and one of my closest friends) who really needs us right now. Please share and help keep them housed. Every cent helps! 💕💸

#MutualAid #HelpPeopleLive2025

America is a country that will test UBI hundreds of times, get the same radically positive results each time, and still look at it askance, but will also put untested robotaxis on the road because a billionaire threw a shit fit.

I’ve never paywalled my articles because I know many of my readers are on disability & can’t afford it.

I’m in a terrible situation with my housing and may need to ask for help.

What’s the best way to do this? Paywall? Wish list? Go fund me?

Would folks be bothered by a GFM in lieu of a paywall?

Little consultancy thing about risk.

Bun (bun.com) has been acquired by Anthropic. Great, right?

To me, that makes it *extremely* risky, not just because “AI bad” (it is)

The risk is although Anthropic have billions, they’re not even close to being solvent.

What goes when the cards are down?

Yknow... My college weights homework as the majority of our grades, and I only get accommodations for projects. I struggle the MOST with homework. We don't even have tests.

Sounds like he wants to live in an echo chamber.

I wonder how many EA people were around during New Atheism. They've done a great job capturing the smug, pseudo-intellectual debate bro machismo of that movement

twilight sparkle from my little pony is making a funny face and says everything is fine Alt: twilight sparkle from my little pony is making a scary face and says everything is fine

Yup. Every RTO is considered a soft layoff anymore. 😭 No doubt a real layoff is next.

And YES, OMG!!! The no screentime thing is alarming!!!

Silicon Valley is rallying behind a guy who sucks The coordinated support of David Sacks after a New York Times report is only drawing more attention to the story

Wrote another headline www.theverge.com/column/83693...

THE NERD REICH

omfg

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Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

A festive flyer for a toy drive features toy blocks, a wooden horse, and a toy truck. It lists gift drop-off dates, address, an online link, and a giveaway event, with "Holiday Season" and "Another World" in bright text.

I was so happy to contribute a teen gift to this toy drive that my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social is co-organizing. Everything is SO EXPENSIVE right now. Let's brighten the holiday for some young folks during this tough time.

Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK
Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

Projects An overview of projects at DAIR.

DAIR launched four years ago today, on the one year anniversary of my firing from Google.

We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️

Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵

Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs IBM CEO Arvind Krishna walked through some napkin math on Big Tech's AI data center spending — and raised some doubts on if it'll prove profitable.

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And he says LLMs leading to AGI are a 0-1% chance.

More than 1,000 Amazon employees sign open letter warning the company's AI 'will do staggering damage to democracy, our jobs, and the earth’ | Fortune The employees accuse the tech giant of “casting aside its climate goals” and helping build a surveillance state with AI.

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