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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live March 6, 2026 YouTube video by GBH News

I was on @wgbh.org The Curiosity Desk to discuss AI in Warfare with Dr Josephine Wolf from Tufts.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought about how these guys just got a fancy calculator and we are stuck with it

These States Are Joining in the Push to Ban Surveillance Pricing At least a dozen states are considering legislation.

“The law would ban changes “based on demand or other factors, including through the use of artificial intelligence or an artificial intelligence model that retrains or recalibrates based on received information.”

Anyone have this Grammarly product that can check if I’m in the database for “expert review”?

A group of doctors that Jeffrey Epstein hired for himself and the young women around him bent or broke ethical rules for Epstein, who rewarded some of the medical professionals with hefty fees, gifts ... TikTok video by The New York Times

This is a real story from the Epstein files, where an injured girl is denied care until Epstein arranged for a Dr. to give her 35 stitches on Epstein’s dining room table, instead of in a hospital.

Monsters are real.

My contribution draws from ethnographic fieldwork on the Tea party movement I conducted in the summer of 2010.

I think about the limitations of participant observation and interview-based methods but also the strengths of reading with an "ethnographic eye."

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A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

TikTok video by Toure YT: ToureTube

I agree with @toure.bsky.social And think you will too.

The US attack on a school for girls is even worse than he describes here! Some reports say that a second missal killed first responders. Investigators are looking into the role AI may have played in identifying this target.

It’s a war crime.

OpenAI, the U.S. company behind ChatGPT, has said it had banned last June the account associated with the teenager behind the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The company told CBC News that Jesse ... TikTok video by CBC News

Journalists in the US should also be covering this story very closely. OpenAI employees knew this kid was ideating about school shootings and gun violence, but “leadership” chose to do nothing.

ChatGPT is an accomplice and Altman is complicit.

Samsung reveals first details of its AI smart glasses to CNBC Samsung's AI smart glasses will be launched in 2026 and will mark the company's first foray into the product category.

Today in luxury surveillance.

Dropkick Murphys, local bands to play free concert at Alex Pretti memorial Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey says the band will visit the Minneapolis site where federal agents killed Alex Pretti and perform a free acoustic set at an anti-ICE fundraiser there, arguing the k...

Dropkick Murphys will play at a free concert at Alex Pretti memorial on Friday in Minneapolis. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Congratulations DHS Secretary Stephen miller on continuing to be DHS Secretary

NOEM IS OUT.

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Amazing! Listening to your record on bandcamp now. I'm sure we have friends in common.

BREAKING on MS NOW:

The House Oversight Committee just voted to subpoena Pam Bondi as part of the panel's Epstein investigation.

The vote was 24-19. 5 Republicans voted in favor.

Do you ever wonder why there is a place like Disneyland?

Information Warfare in the Age of Reckless AI

Encrypted Resistance: Youth Revolt in Memes, Art & Metadata SXSW 2026 Schedule | As authoritarian regimes globally expand digital control through AI-powered surveillance, censorship algorithms, and language policing, free expression faces coordinated attacks. ...

I am really looking forward to the tacos and chill conversations with strangers.

schedule.sxsw.com/events/PP116...

Anyone going to be at SXSW 18-20?

One of the videos, which has got 70 million views and claims to be of an Iranian missile attacking a US fighter jet, is actually from a video game. #Iran #MiddleEast #News #BBCNews TikTok video by BBC News

BBC VERIFIED AT IT AGAIN!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8QP34Nv/

“Prevenge” is a rare choice.

Short for preventative revenge, “prevenge” is taking action knowing you are going to be punished no matter what. It’s something a 5 year old would think is cool diplomacy.

Can’t uninvent the 💣, but we can 🛑 KILLER 🤖 🤖 🤖

First, we organize the evidence and lay out the facts.

Second, we raise public awareness through promotion of these findings.

Third, we look for local interventions into laws or regulations that meaningfully protect the dignity of human life against silicon death rays.

I never thought I’d need to say this, but here we go…

We must pass legislation against autonomous killer robots.

It’s that simple.

Worldwide ban on killer robots.

If you do investigations into this, please link your work #NoKillerRobots to be included in a syllabus on weaponized agentic AI.

*Mario voice* here we go!

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.