I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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One of New York's largest hospital networks will use biometric tech to verify patient and employee identity: “New Yorkers should not have to hand over their faces to receive healthcare,” said S.T.O.P. Communications Director Will Owen.
Read more.
www.biometricupdate.com/202603/clear...
Gen X is READY for this
Traffic to top tech publications has plummeted since 2024, new analysis shows www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/traf...
This whole thread.
Some religions sort of leave you alone to think for yourself most of the time. Then there are sects that won't let a single meal, snack, piss, or even breath go by without inserting a ritual to remind you of your obligations to their God. The tech religion is increasingly determined to be the latter
GREAT new resource from us:
You can now flip through the financial disclosures of Trump officials.
See what they own --and how much they're worth.
See who's worked where-- and how much they banked.
Want the folks connected to Palintir? Please enjoy.
projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
WSJ reporting that the U.S. used Claude for the air strikes in Iran. Centcom has been using Claude "for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”
Stewart Brand finding out about maintenance theory (minus you know all the feminism) in his late 80s is still incredibly funny to me, like yeah man you gotta take care of your knees
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education is stronger than ever.
“The scrapers have become the scraped, their own powerful distillations of the world’s information sampled, reconstituted, and distilled once more.”
nymag.com/intelligence...
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @josephcox.bsky.social www.404media.co/this-app-war...
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...
There are privacy implications raised by this, but ingenious investigating to find a serial rapist by asking Google for IP addresses of those who looked up the address of a victim's house apnews.com/article/goog...
I'm celebrating 400 episodes of Techtonic - with handpicked excerpts of past interviews, featuring @merbroussard.bsky.social @jasonkoebler.bsky.social @writearthur.bsky.social @byrontau.bsky.social & more.
Full episode:
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The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?
“People followed wrong AI answers 80% of the time. The effect size for the gap between AI-accurate and AI-faulty trials was massive…Essentially, AI determined the outcomes more than people.”
www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...
"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"
Oh, the full coverage of this exchange is even worse:
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
“Are you steering the technology or is it steering you?” asked a slide on the classroom whiteboard at Washington Park High School. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
Don’t think people realize how much journalism has almost never paid for itself. The work of news gathering has almost always required some kind of subsidy — either by bundling, licit government support, or a de facto monopoly on local info distribution — and usually works in firms as a loss leader.
NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.
Spanish nonprofit Maldita.es uncovered how TikTok's algorithm pays creators to spread AI-generated political disinformation and fuel polarization across Europe. To learn more, Justin Hendrix spoke to Maldita’s Carlos Hernández-Echevarría and Marina Sacristán. www.techpolicy.press/how-to-get-p...
everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine
Yeah so that Ring ad that aired at the Super Bowl about 'Search Party?" 404 Media now has proof that it won't just be used to locate dogs...
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
Love this exercise idea!
