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Sources: Amazon's AI tools caused at least two AWS outages, including a 13-hour disruption in December after its Kiro AI deleted and recreated an environment (Rafe Rosner-Uddin/Financial Times)

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San Francisco chronicle: “The 20-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area”

Typical

On OpenAI: "OpenAI did publish principles of what they will and won’t do with advertising. But the principles are very vague... they’re contradicted by simultaneous incentives to override them. Why should we trust them to hold to vague principles that they have billion-dollar reasons to override?"

A poet-mathematician on why she quit OpenAI Zoë Hitzig is a former research scientist at OpenAI. She decided to quit OpenAI because she realized “the company is just not interested in being creative with regards to social problems."

OpenAI crossed research scientist @zhitzig.bsky.social's "red line" of advertising without guardrails protecting users' personal data. So she quit.

An exclusive interview with the poet-mathematician from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-poet-mat...

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

@evanhalper.bsky.social on one of the most important developments in the US power sector: the tech industry's push to power data centers without a grid connection. The effect of this fossil gas buildout is massive damage to the climate & local air and water w minimal regulatory or public input.

We got this

Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda

We're not just gonna sit back and take this, are we, good people?

These abject losers really do want to destroy all that's good and beautiful in this world. (gift link)

Anti-ICE protests were a ‘risk factor’ for tech firm that just moved to Miami Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, told investors of the concern before announcing a move from Denver to Aventura.

“Although Palantir’s announcement did not provide an explicit explanation for the company’s move, Palantir listed the protests among its ‘risk factors’ in the company’s 2025 year-end filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission — made public the same day it announced the move to Miami.”

Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇

beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...

Legend

Palantir is an intensely dangerous company.

People, if you’re able to, please deny their traitorous employees service in your businesses. They should be mocked and shunned. Find them on LinkedIn.

Do the same for staff at any companies that publicly align with Trump.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

What a day
Ramadan Kareem 🌙
Chinese new Year 🧧
Pancake Tuesday / beginning of Lent 🙏

Best of luck @sf.gazetteer.co this is great

Incredible, if true. Soon they won’t have cities left to scramble too. Losers.

Wild idea here

This is great from @lizcarolan.com

Chocolate cake with #TeslaTakedown in icing and a flaming Cybertruck

Vanilla cake with #TeslaTakedown in icing and a falling stock graph

Our #TeslaTakedown cakes have arrived 🤘

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Whoa is right

America is so fucked not sure people realize how different this country is gonna be real fast

What did it do?

WSJ: “Anthropic’s AI tool Claude (via Palantir contract) was used in the U.S. military’s operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, highlighting how AI models are gaining traction in the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the matter.”

Protestor outside the Amazon Spheres for an #iceout protest carrying a sign that reads "defeat Palantir's puppet Adam Smith" Elect socialist kshama sawant

If I were advising @adamsmith.house.gov I would tell him to sign the @purgepalantir.bsky.social pledge and donate the $100k+ he's taken from Thiel's gang because it's the right thing to do, but also because I wouldn't want to open myself to this kind of messaging in today's electoral environment 🤷‍♂️

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Screenshot of letter. Full text linked in reply.

Visitors to our country should not face a digital shakedown. @wyden.senate.gov and I are calling on CBP to reverse its invasive proposal to collect five years of social media history from travelers from trusted partner nations.

I am concerned that she has not learned her lesson.

I was one of those laid off. I agree that the Ohana sentiment seems dubious. I kinda felt that the culture within the company was more cult than strategic. Don’t get me wrong, lots of good people there and talent but the company didn’t end up being a good move for me. Unfortunately I went from a mid level position with 25 years of experience to sleeping in my car driving uber. Not sure if having them on my resume has hurt my employment opportunities or if it’s just the current state of the job market.

"Unfortunately I went from a mid level position with 25 years of experience to sleeping in my car driving uber. "

A reddit comment in response to @alexshultz.bsky.social's story on @hardresetmedia.com yesterday

www.reddit.com/r/technology...

YouTube video by Hard Reset Media A #texas patient had a stroke after being injured by #AI surgical tools. #shorts

An AI surgical tool misdirected a surgeon leading to a patient in Texas a getting a stroke youtube.com/shorts/_g6WI... via @hardresetmedia.com

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Has @grahamformaine.bsky.social taken the pledge not to take money from Palantir?

Senator Susan Collins is running for a 6th term in office. And while she’s suggested having played a key role in scaling back ICE’s presence in Maine, she’s also the #3 Republican recipient of donations from Palantir executives.

[See: The Palantir Payroll]