Amy Keller

Moving fast and breaking things is… bad???

What I find so interesting is that the ~*whims*~ of a few billionaires are gonna send the rest of us careening off of a cliff into climate catastrophe and job market collapse. We’re all buckled into a ride that they’re just…kinda…building…without any major regulation. Just vibes.

Can we all get a vote on this before we (further) destroy jobs and the environment? 😕

AI relies upon theft.

Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google issue joint AI safety warning - here's why Monitoring AI's train of thought is critical for improving AI safety and catching deception. But we're at risk of losing this ability.

If we lose the ability to observe chain of thought (CoT) in AI models, stuff’s gonna go south REAL QUICK, you guys. Pay attention.

www.zdnet.com/article/rese...

A family came to Chicago seeking asylum. He was deported. Now she wants to leave. They came for the ‘American Dream.’ He says conditions in detention were ‘inhumane.’ Now, she’s enrolled in the government’s program to self-deport.

A family came to Chicago seeking asylum. He was deported. Now she wants to leave. A heartbreaking account. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“AI” is destroying us in so many ways.

The TCPA has been quite gutted in recent decisions and does little to protect consumers from unwanted calls. Now that AI is involved? Welcome to the fourth circle of hell.

Perfect being the enemy of the good, here. Prepare to go hunting for how to cancel subscriptions, again.

After several lawsuits, AT&T finally offers SIM swap protection. Hope springs eternal.

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

The web scraping wars continue: www.wired.com/story/cloudf...

Anthropomorphizing AI makes no sense if we don’t allow folks to claim copyright on AI-produced works. This decision is misguided.

Working from my mom’s house today and something really struck me. She doesn’t answer the landline anymore. Ever. She lets it ring. “It’s either a scam or spam.” Lawmakers have utterly failed to curb this nonsense. #TCPA #scams

*and get pardoned.

Kinda funny AI commercials don't have a person asking the AI to do the kind of task they'd actually ask of a person with a brain.

At various points I've tested AI products by asking them to do things I'd ask of an intern, secretary, or paralegal. 100% failure rate.

Sorry to hear Brian Wilson has died. The Beach Boys were the soundtrack of my summers, from "Surfin' Safari" on.

Book cover: "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (2025) by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna. https://amzn.to/3FPz1VV

Today's reading distraction: "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want" (2025) by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna.
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Think of data like an ink drop, and disclosure like a swimming pool. Once the ink is in the pool, you can’t… just… get it back. #DOGE

Yes, but… let us have this for just a couple of hours. It’s the first good thing that’s happened since January 20.

At the same time, in court:

“We own none of this. Not our fault. And even if it was our fault, no one suffered any damages. That credit card fraud? Couldn’t be us. Identity theft? Probably the individual’s fault.”

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By the way: excellent job concerning accessibility and the photo captions. You’re awesome.

Just saw a TikTok of a kiosk in a Chinese airport that when you look at it, it shows you your flight info and which way to walk to your gate.

Like, *your* flight info.

Fast and reliable facial recognition is here and we need to think hard about how to regulate it, not hide from it.

“Move fast and break things.” #AI

The lawsuit seeks an accounting of the funds used to support the Federal Indian Boarding School Program. These funds—exceeding $23 billion—***were taken directly from tribes themselves*** for the supposed purpose of providing money to support Native children’s education.

These abuses, widely known in Native communities, were not definitively documented until recently, when the United States Department of the Interior, under the leadership of then-Secretary Deb Haaland, released reports in 2022 and 2024 based on an investigation of the Boarding School Program.

The complaint details the extensive harm caused by the Boarding School Program, including physical and sexual abuse, forced labor, and the loss of life, language, and culture.

Native Tribes File Landmark Lawsuit Against U.S. Government Over Indian Boarding School Program Lawsuit Alleges U.S. Government Violated Trust Responsibilities, Misused Tribal Funds

The complaint alleges that the U.S. Government used Native Nations’ own funds to finance a program of prison-like boarding schools, spread throughout the United States, designed to separate Native children from their families, and destroy their language, customs, and cultural identities.

“…growing recognition that women’s pain should be treated.” Wild headline. Wait until you hear about what they do during a colposcopy.