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Not a huge deal (hopefully), but an important lesson to not automatically trust a website because it aligns with your ideology.

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

"We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

Flying
#oc #art

Sketch of Moira Rose, Catherine O'Hara's character from the TV show Schitt's Creek. Drawin in loose pencil lines, mostly in black and white with small color accents for her hair, lips, and blush.

DAMN, I wasn't prepared to be sad today. RIP Catherine O'Hara, a legend who was great every time we saw her.

Keep drawing. Keep drawing things you like.

You'll become recognizable through your taste and discernment.

That's it.

Style is a compilation of things you like.

✏️ Hourly Comic Day: A How-To ✏️

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Hourly Comic Day. It’s exactly what it sounds like: an annual comic event where artists draw their day.

Read the full article by Maria Ku on PosterSpy:
posterspy.com/hourly-comic...

Yes, all videos stored on cloud services is vulnerable.

And when, if not already it gets to that, I'm hoping my countrymen and the EU has better luck with fighting back on this kind of surveillance by for one getting rid of US tech,

Although my own nation really want that shit too.

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming

YouTube video by ClimateAdam Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords

ClimageAdam talks about climate change claims made by the AI tech CEOs.

The crawlers very much show up.

There's been instances where they've resulted in giant bills for excessive web-traffic to website owners and even taken down websites due to too many requests. I've been documenting instances in my pinned thread.

I'm not sure what protection Wix offers.

Amazon's Ring Cameras Push Deeper Into Police and Government Surveillance Ring has partnered with Flock Safety, making it easier for law enforcement to reach out to Ring doorbell and security camera owners to request footage.

Amazon denies that ICE has access, but it wouldn't be the first time that a giant tech company has lied about something.

Have I Been Flocked? - License Plate Privacy Check - Search Flock Safety Audit Logs Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate

Another resource besides the one mentioned by @diffusedwavelength.bsky.social in this thread.

Check if you've been "Flocked".
Also know that Amazon Ring has entered a partnership with Flock and aids ICE.

DeFlock Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.

Check if there are Flock surverillance cameras near you: deflock.me

“If this technology had existed in earlier decades, it would have been used to track civil rights activists, LGBTQ+ patrons visiting gay bars, women trying to vote, or enslaved people escaping bondage. None of those acts were considered “legal” at the time.”

Sounds like possible scraping happening.

Seeing people in software dev who, a minute ago were talking about ethics, accessibility and sustainability, disregard the unethical nature of the tech and switch to using LLMs tells you everything you need to know about why the software industry continuously enables horrible things

Another addendum needed: So they can take our data and train their bots more.*

Norske forskere NRK kunne intervjuet om bruk av KI i jobbsøknader og rekruttering I dag publiserte NRK en artikkel om hvor fint det er å bruke KI til å skrive jobbsøknader uten å ta med kritiske perspektiver. Det er nesten en ren PR-artikkel for tekselskapene som selger KI. Norg…

Kjære journalister: ikke vær mikrofonstativer for tekselskapene som vil selge oss mer KI for å tjene mer penger. Her er noen av de mange norske forskerne med kompetanse på KI og etikk og arbeidsliv - og jeg har nok glemt mange, for vi er mange og dette er en kjapp liste. jilltxt.net/norske-forsk...

Hell yea!

Our hard work, our creative innovations are not tech’s gold mine.

The tech industry standard of exploitation and theft is not “progress”.

Our rights are to be respected and tech must to adapt to US!

Lets stand together! Learn more via link below👇

#StealingIsntInnovation

We're not anti-tech, we're anti-theft. If the future of “innovation” depends on stealing creators’ work without asking or paying, that’s not progress - it's stealing, and we shouldn’t accept it. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com/

YouTube video by More Perfect Union OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me

1/4 This latest report by @karenhao.bsky.social and @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
is an incredible breakdown of the dirty tactics the GenAi companies engage in to ensure they’re above the law.

But by organizing, educating and continuing our public pressure we beat their gross tactics everytime!🔥

you work for a company whose co-founder said it was created to "blow up commies", who tf did you think you were going to be helping?

Class Action Suit Filed Against xAI Over Grok 'Undressing' Controversy A new lawsuit against xAI alleges negligence, public nuisance, privacy violations, defamation, and unfair business practices, among other claims.

Centered on the experience of a South Carolina woman whose image was ‘undressed,’ xAI faces a new class action lawsuit over Grok generating non-consensual sexual images and publishing them to X. Among its claims, the suit alleges the company abandoned industry safety standards.

A comic in four panels: Panel 1. On a sunny day with a blue sky, the gothic sorceress walks away from the school with the Avian Intelligence Parrot in her hands toward the garbage. > Gothic Sorceress: "Enough is enough, this time it's straight to the garbage!" Panel 2. Not far away, a cute young elf sorceress is discussing with her Avian Intelligence in the foreground. Her Avian Intelligence traces a wavy symbol with a pencil on a board, teaching a lesson. > Elf Sorceress: "Avian Intelligence, make me a beginner's exercise on the ancient magic runic alphabet." > AI Parrot of Elf Sorceress: "Ok. Let's start with this one, pronounce it 'MA', the water." > Gothic Sorceress: ?!! Panel 3. The Gothic Sorceress comes closer and asks the Elf Sorceress. > Gothic Sorceress: "Wait, are you really using your?!" > Elf Sorceress: "Yes, the trick is not to rely on it for direct answers, but to help me create lessons that expand my own intelligence." Panel 4. Meanwhile, the AI Parrot of the Elf Sorceress continued to write on the board. It traced a symbol of poop on the board, then an XD emoji. The Gothic Sorceress laugh at it, while the Elf Sorceress is realizing something is wrong with this ancient magic runic alphabet. > AI Parrot of Elf Sorceress: "This one, pronounce it BS, the disbelief. This one LOL, the laughter." > Gothic Sorceress: "Well, good luck expanding anything with that..."

Generated Lessons

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

And by the way, training your monster on data produced in part by my own hands, without attribution or compensation.

To the others: I apologize to the world at large for my inadvertent, naive if minor role in enabling this assault.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I caught a headline earlier about how they'd made the "it might have feelings" thing, but the context makes this even worse. 🤦

What was your first design app?

#designsky #webcomics

YouTube video by Aaron Rutten My FIRST Drawing Tablet: VTech VideoPainter

😂

YouTube video by Improv Projects Could this really work?

Stupid shower thought of the day.

Is seitan to flour, what clay is to dirt?

Brought on by this YT short.