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Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Microsoft blocks the word Microslop on its Copilot Discord, bans users, and locks channels after backlash, showing tensions around its AI push

But users are clamoring for AI to be stuffed in all software!

www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

I used to drown in the backlog, now I've mostly just given up.

Twitter used to have a 'top tweets within a list' functionality/view but they unfortunately got rid of that. We need something like that here (except maybe instead of top tweets, just a way to group similar tweets that are all talking about the same thing) to make things more manageable.

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

After the airstrikes in Iran, the US or Israel seem to have used an Iranian religious social media app to send messages to IRGC and senior government figures to offer them immunity if they abandoned existing leadership.

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

“I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.” www.404media.co/meta-directo...

Done Data Work? You Might Have Worked With the US Military Without Knowing. As data workers organize around the world, they need to push for change on what appears to be a major ethical oversight, writes Krystal Kauffman.

The AI boom runs on invisible labor, writes Krystal Kauffman, a research fellow with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Underpaid workers in Kenya, the US, and beyond are unknowingly training intelligence systems. This isn't just an ethics problem—it's a consent problem, she says.

"the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans...information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced..."

Everyone Speaks Incel Now After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

After migrating from misogynist forums to social media feeds, terms like “looksmaxxing” and “mogged” are now impossible to avoid.

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

www.404media.co/man-opposing...

Alternate explanation: that Dorsey is an idiot who doesn't realize the specific value that humans bring, and the fallibilities of AI technology. (Yeah, maybe it can replace some people. But 40% of the company seems dubious. ESPECIALLY so suddenly.)

Where we propose ppl ban use of their persona in will - "do not bot me". In modern world tho , maybe being a post mortem influencer appeals!!! @edinadd.bsky.social

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

Vestager on stage, in a cool white combi outfit.

And @vestager.bsky.social takes the stage at #Rebuild. She's talking about digital infrastructure: "That's not a tech problem. That's a democratic problem."

It's amazing to finally hear this said by someone with voice.

Prediction markets are a cancer

IMO what's really missing is a decentralized user directory and contact discovery service and a general decentralized and portable identifier you can move between services (much like a phone number), though AT does at least allow this between PDS-s (but not outside the AT ecosystem AFAICT).

SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random) SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.

Have you seen simplex.chat? It's essentially a decentralized Signal+Matrix with very neat privacy, security and anti-spam properties. It has a 'P2P with relays' architecture that I think is philosophically somewhat similar to AT. Whereas AP is federated and is architecturally similar to email.

Politics is the defining aspect of networked technology. AT corresponds best to the kind of institutional structure that is key to large scale democracy. AP is a better match for smaller, village-style governance, which is very valid but not the problem I care about.

Recording of this available anywhere?

Has anyone made the inevitable lesbians moving to Europe joke or is that too niche outside the US?

Maybe we need to be adding new circles of hell...

Also Europe should perhaps start courting Anthropic and/or its talent, including with government contracts if they jump ship.

DOD Declares War on Anthropic and Claude DOD drafted every American frontier AI company today and there is no conscientious objector status, just a blindfold and a cigarette.

“DOD drafted every American frontier AI company today and there is no conscientious objector status, just a blindfold and a cigarette.”

Preach, @adamconner.bsky.social

www.thefunsinthefight.com/p/dod-declar...

Oh, very interesting! Thank you!

I guess Cloudflare kind of (unintentionally but maybe also not) did the opposite with the adoption of Encrypted Client Hello (which helps privacy somewhat), hiding the SNI from ISPs and their blocking software. That made traffic a LOT harder to selectively target.

Yeah, poor phrasing on my part. What I meant to say is which do we prefer? I guess the latter since neither authoritarian governments nor IP rights holders care about the collateral? Though IIRC the collateral is also what got Russia to back off on (performatively) blocking Telegram.

The UK hasn't repealed/changed ePrivacy to allow for this, has it? Then again, they probably don't care because it wouldn't be enforced anyway.

Electric car drivers ‘spied on by government’ through phones Two-year mass surveillance project commissioned by Department for Transport under Tories

“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.”
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Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

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We keep looking for sophisticated explanations for the crisis of liberal democracy. Maybe the unsophisticated one — plain misogyny — deserves far more weight than it's been given. Ends