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Parenting in the AI Age: What Sora 2 Means for Our Kids’ Safety When AI can recreate a child’s face in seconds, parenting decisions about privacy take on new weight. Here’s what I’m doing as a mom and why.

I wrote a lil something about my general screaming into the voidy-ness that I'm feeling about Sora and raising a kid in this day and age and other scream-worthy concerns.

Had to make sure someone tossed this name into the hat.

AI at a Crossroads: A Nationwide Strategy or Californication? YouTube video by House Judiciary GOP

📺 HAPPENING NOW: House Judiciary Republicans come out the gate with unequivocal support for a sweeping, broad AI moratorium, which will repeal laws protect kids and make CSAM illegal in states like in states like Alabama, Arizona, California, and more.

The Wallaces might say, “I don’t know why politics have to get in the way of being friends.”

Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop AI slop isn’t invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. It’s flooding the zone with AI shit.

www.e-flux.com/architecture...

Google Secretly Handed ICE Data About Pro-Palestine Student Activist Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

I cannot stress this enough: do not use email for organizing. Set strict retention so emails delete after a short period of time. Assume every Big Tech company will rat you out to the gestapo without lifting a finger to protect your rights theintercept.com/2025/09/16/g...

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

What a surprise www.theverge.com/news/773928/...

no shit

A meeting of two AI mega-minds!

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.

An excellent start and glad to see Anthropic stand by its values. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

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Look, if I’m interviewing you for a writing/language-heavy role and you send me a ChatGPT-generated thank you note I’m gonna get a lil pissed.

Google won’t be forced to sell its Chrome browser and can keep paying companies to keep its search engine as the default on smartphones, thanks to a federal ruling.

In other words? Google gets to remain a monopoly and keep its harmful, anti-competitive practices.

Shameful.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future | TechCrunch Mark Zuckerberg really believes AI glasses will be the ideal way to blend the physical and digital worlds together.

IMHO, it’s worth noticing how these dweebs are now more openly inserting their eugenicist talking points into the hype for their tech. In this instance saying people will be at a “cognitive disadvantage” if they don’t use his tech.

Dude what.

Cantwell blocked an AI regulation moratorium. Big tech will be back | Opinion I work with hundreds of families whose children died after being targeted by AI-driven algorithms engineered to maximize engagement at any cost. | Opinion

@cantwell.senate.gov helped lead the push to kill the AI moratorium — blocking Big Tech’s attempt to strip states of the power to protect kids. It worked when Senators from both sides of the aisle listened to parents, state AGs, and advocates like the SMVLC.

www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...

Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech The remarks, which came during a keynote speech at a summit hosted by the All-In Podcast, follow President Donald Trump’s newly released AI Action Plan.

“We are getting rid of woke,” he said on Wednesday. “The American people do not want woke Marxist lunacy in the AI models.”

www.wired.com/story/presid...

But hey it’s theoretical and

I feel like this is my thesis sentence for a freshman year paper that I’d look back on in grad school and say oh god how I knew so little.

This is the gentle singularity? Sam Altman says the AI utopia is already here — in a manifesto aimed at raising money from the Saudis. On the real vs imagined manifestations of modern AI.

“AI is being used to ramp up tensions, glorify violence, and to [support] hate and prejudice.”
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/this-is-th...

Super curious what Asimov would think about BlackRock naming their AI tool after him.

I like how one half of our economy is begging for better opportunities and living wages

and the other half is bloodlessly automating all labor while poking the other side with sticks

Why learn about intelligent criticism when you can simply say, “don’t be a hater” and move on?

/s

I totally agree! And I think it’s perpetuated the adoption of gen AI for artistic endeavors because people feel like they have a creative outlet and weren’t really taught how to create and appreciate expressive artifacts.

#booksky #writingcommunity

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI In an industry full of grifters and companies hell-bent on making the internet worse, it is hard to think of a worse actor than Meta, or a worse product that the AI Discover feed.

Once again Meta launches a feature without even taking a basic stab at privacy considerations www.404media.co/meta-invents...

Not to mention, those suckers are always pricey!

*cough*dudes*cough*

Built in call monitoring and data scraping free! At no charge!