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People in the abortion rights world have been warning you about the criminalization of miscarriage underway in MULTIPLE states already, along with laws targeting pregnant people who use illicit drugs in pregnancy! We are already prosecuting pregnant people!!

Albert Camus, Editor of the French Resistance Newspaper Combat, Writes Movingly About Life, Politics & War (1944–47) When totalitarian regimes around the world are in power, writing that tells the truth, whether literary, journalistic, scientific, or legal, effectively serves as counter-propaganda.

www.openculture.com/2017/01/albe...

LLMs, or more specifically the way they’re sold as “intelligent” (and ultimately as ersatz humans) are the biggest grift in history

Watching free and liberal countries fall into the darkness of totalitarianism and religious extremism is deeply depressing. Especially for anyone like me who has grown up in such a place.

Facebook gave our data to Cambridge Analytica and all I got was this $38.36 More than I expected, actually!

Facebook gave our data to Cambridge Analytica and all I got was this $38.36

“Civility” is how the modern Right — and increasingly the modern “middle” — describes the attitude “thank you Sir, may I have another”

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

case in point

The evil that men do lives after them

Glad the WSJ didn't rush to report inflammatory claims backed by no evidence whatsoever at an incredibly sensitive time.

Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre.

Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.

the Linus Tech Tips guy was saying this yesterday. not great for so many people to be at the mercy of opaque algorithms that can be changed overnight with no notice or explanation

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This is censorship from an authoritarian regime that wants to project the illusion that they face no internal opposition or dissent. No other way to describe it.

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...

As a life long fan of technology, I find it genuinely heartbreaking that the last 15 years have trained me to assume that a new tech innovation will, one way or another, prove to be incredibly evil.

I wrote about that here:

little-flying-robots.ghost.io/i-just-want-...

I follow enough tech people now to know that generative AI does have interesting applications and isn’t a nightmare machine etc. but it is hard to get past Sam Altman being like “yeah no the nightmare is very much the point”

Well, this is one of the most terrifying and anxiety inducing things I've ever seen.

Imagine the road filled with drivers doing this. Now you can understand the hyper vigilance required of pedestrians and bicyclists. And despite that, we can still get splattered because of 3 seconds of distraction.

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

The purpose of AI is so that the wealthy can access skills without the skilled gaining access to wealth.

Nothing would stop these Silicon Valley assholes while there is no criminal liability. They should go to prison for this.
BTW OpenAI's Head of Safety:

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

🍟 Absolutely. Yes, please. I use translation on Twitter all the time. I actually really miss that here. Current implementation sucks.