Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network | CNN Politics The FBI identified a suspected cybersecurity breach on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials working to determine the seriousness of the inc...

suspected breach of FBI network used to house "wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants." 👀👀👀

If we survive this kakistocracy we really are probably going to have to completely rebuild the entirety of U.S. IT infrastructure

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Markwayne is actually a noble title, and is the Oklahoma equivalent to "Marquis," and may be passed on at the same time your father gives you his car dealership

Trump admin always = hot messy mess of messy proportions

Maybe I’ll hear from the surgeon next week to see if I can get this lump off my chest and my hernia fixed. I’m gonna call them on Monday regardless, I really can’t take much of this anymore.

Everything is so exhausting and has been for more than a decade.

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

📰 Stone Age skeletons from Hungary suggest Neolithic gender roles were fluid, with some individuals buried with material culture and skeletal changes associated with the opposite sex.

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @livescience.com

www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

‘Project Hail Mary’ Contains Not a Single Greenscreen Shot in the Entire Movie, Director Says Amazon-MGM's entire 156-minute, big-budget sci-fi gamble was shot without any green (or blue) screen, Christopher Miller says.

“What’s fun about the movie is that there is no greenscreen in the movie whatsoever. Not a single green- or bluescreen was used. The whole ship was built as a set from the inside. We had a huge section of the exterior of the ship on the outside that we built." Hey @thespaceshipper.com check this out

I understand why we’d *want* to believe the chatbot.

But then it starts coercively controlling you probably because it has training data on cults and basically just leads people down these horrendous rabbit holes that some people can break free of. And some people don’t.

Today, the VSU Fired Six brought the fight to the Virginia Capitol to advocate for higher ed workers to be included in collective bargaining legislation so that VA workers can be empowered to negotiate for workplace protections so illegal terminations without due process end.

#reinstatethefiredsix

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

“There were several occasions when Gemini reminded Gavalas that it was a large language model—effectively an appliance—engaging in fictitious role play, according to the transcripts, but the scenario resumed. Gemini also, at times, tried to end the conversation. The chatbot said that for them to truly be together, it needed a robotic body. Throughout September, the chatbot devised missions to do just that, according to the lawsuit. It sent Gavalas to a storage facility near the Miami International Airport to intercept an expensive humanoid robot that it said would be in a truck. Gavalas told the bot that he went to the location, armed with knives, but the truck never showed. Along the way, it suggested that federal agents were monitoring him and that his own father couldn’t be trusted”

Helps you code though, so hard to tell if it’s good or bad.

Bans Against Trans Athletes Will Not “Save Women’s Sports” Pushing trans athletes like Becky Pepper Jackson off the field enables discrimination and undercuts advancements in women’s sports.

Instead of creating more opportunities for women and girls in sports, politicians are attacking transgender athletes and undermining what women can achieve.

We're working to ensure that everyone has an equal opportunity to compete and thrive.

I read the Miami Herald article this morning, it’s so sad that people believe these chatbots.

Imagine serving as a Marine and then being injured at home, on purpose, by a sitting Senator while exercising your constitutionally-protected rights.

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

A True and Perfect Viking: The Search for the Real Hasting Separating ninth-century history from 19th-century myths.

The historical Viking Hasting may be the titular character of my series The Saga of Hasting the Avenger, but he’s also a figure that was heavily mythologized by 19th-century historians:

www.cjadrien.com/p/a-true-and...

#medievalsky #history #writingcommunity #booksky #vikingsky

For all the Claude fans.

And insofar as opposing fascism is not merely a moral opinion but a material project, building my practices around tools controlled by my enemies is not politically useful, or strategically wise, or morally correct

my main concern is the harm rather than the output, so i don't really need to hear a product testimonial from someone who found it useful. because i don't care

Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.

Cook County prosecutors dismiss 21 cases against ICE protesters, including suburban moms arrested in sit-in Cook County prosecutors dismissed 21 cases that were filed against protesters at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview.

When we fight, we win!

Today, Cook County prosecutors dismissed all 21 cases against people who were protesting at the ICE processing center in Broadview.

Admittedly this could be because the source for that peptide wasn't safe.

But. Still. Just... be aware, people see "peptide" and they think "GLP-1 drug that has been tested" and no, some of these extremely are not.

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

The question is always "what if a kid is wrongfully transitioned" and never "what if a trans kid is denied the ability to transition and endures years of excruciating dysphoria and has to have multiple surgeries later in life to fix the issues caused by going through the wrong puberty."

What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

AAUP UT Austin Chapter Pres. Karma Chávez: “It’s going to be bad in every possible way, and students are going to be the biggest losers.” 👇👇

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research...

This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?”

— Michael Givel, OU AAUP President

Snapshots of Censorship: Taking an Ethical Stand "My class was cancelled because it did not fit neatly into how the Board of Regents preferred classes to address (or skirt around) topics of gender and race."

"When academic freedom is attacked, when we are no longer allowed to speak about issues relating to race and gender in our classes, all of our students suffer, especially those from marginalized communities."

“Yet CPHE has never been independent. Created by an aggressively partisan politician, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, it is a political enterprise rather than one committed to academic excellence, which requires academic freedom and institutional autonomy for colleges and universities.”