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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

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ht @mat.tl

folks, it’s friday

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

‘The idea of frictionlessness has very narcissistic, “player character” vibes:
You don’t experience friction if the whole world is build around you and your needs…To never be touched by anyone or anything really.’

‘If “AI” solves everything…you never have to acknowledge anyone else ever again.’

Absolute bangers from a 4th century joke book

À quoi ressemblera internet en 2026 ? – Hyperradio En février 2024, le New Yorker se demandait si les médias n’étaient pas à deux doigts de vivre une extinction massive. En cause : des revenus

En 2024, le New Yorker se demandait si les médias n'allaient pas vivre une extinction massive. Bon, un an après, force est de constater que la situation est critique (la faute à Google évidemment)... Sauf peut-être pour les podcasts ? hyperradio.radiofrance.com/blog/news/a-...

THE VERGE: What if instead of billionaires who didn’t do the reading, your feed was curated by weirdo goth nerds who love cell phones

Sans déconner, quand on entend un politicard de merde menacer la sécu on devrait tous/toutes être dans la rue avec des fourches et des piques, voire des fusils et des grenades.

I mean, an Arts degree has always been the Swiss Army knife of learning.

Teaching people how to read, how to assess what they hear and read, how to communicate their thoughts.

Literally the most valuable set of skills in a media saturated society and attention economy.

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Big Money turning to fascism not because they needed protection from socialism but because they were bored and poisoned their brains with social media is the story of this century I think

Je sais pas comment expliquer à Frank Leboeuf que je n'ai pas de voiture à vendre

Bloquez moi cet olibrius

Ah fuck we got the Philip K Dick future 😞

major job losses in the neo nazi industry, as publications replace writers with Grok

🔴🏛️ Audiovisuel public : la motion de rejet présentée par les députés du Ecologiste et social contre la réforme de l'audiovisuel public a été adoptée par l'Assemblée nationale. Le texte défendu par Rachida Dati n'est donc pas examiné par les députés dans l'hémicycle.
#DirectAN

Futurism Perfect Customer | Jun 10, 10:10 AM EDT by Maggie Harrison Dupré People Are Becoming Obsessed with ChatGPT and Spiraling Into Severe Delusions "What these bots are saying is worsening delusions, and it's causing enormous harm."

NEW: We investigated several stories of people who spiraled into severe, life-altering mental health crises after developing all-consuming obsessions with ChatGPT.

Screenshots we reviewed show the AI directly engaging with and supporting user delusions + conspiracies.

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L'investigation est un pilier du service public. A la radio, elle ne doit pas être menacée! Soutien à @investigationrf.bsky.social .
Lettre ouverte 👇

Audiovisuel public : les fake news de Rachida Dati 🤥🫠
#HoldingHoldUp #DatiDemission #sauvonslaudiovisuelpublic

US State Department adviser wanted to fund French far-right leader Marine Le Pen Samuel Samson, a political appointee, made the explosive recommendation as Le Pen eyes the presidency in 2027, two State Department officials tell POLITICO.

A firebrand State Department political appointee proposed using American taxpayer money to support French far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she appeals her embezzlement conviction, according to two State Department officials.

La Droite de Wauquiez et le Rassemblement National viennent de mettre plus de 100 000 personnes au chômage technique.

C'est le nombre de personnes qui travaillent en France dans les énergies renouvelables.

Pendant ce temps on continuera d'importer pour 70 milliards d'énergies fossiles par an.

Let's talk about the real climate killer: libraries! Good thing is, they'll all be gone soon to make space for more data centers. Problem solved!

Trop trop cool ! 8 jours c’est pas un peu court en temps normal ? À Belleville Brûlerie ils me disent qu’il faut attendre deux semaines

???

the more you research gen-AI the more you understand how not only is a lot of technology not neutral, but naturally fascistic down to its design.

by getting people to doubt their own senses, per Umberto Eco, AI tools both create and exploit the conditions necessary for a fascistic state to function

The Guardian launches Secure Messaging, a world-first from a media organisation, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge Secure Messaging is a new innovation for confidential story-sharing and source protection, underpinning the Guardian’s commitment to investigative journalism. The Guardian has published the open sourc...

Congratulations @lambda.bsky.social! Today @theguardian.com is launching a new way for whistleblowers to anonymously contact journalists, based on years-long research by Daniel and other colleagues. www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

Fwiw, I do not think this is what Tim Berners Lee had in mind

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this NYT article about programming work at Amazon (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/business/amazon-ai-coders.html) because it perfectly illustrates how “productivity” trends in AI in the workplace benefit so few.