Important, helpful read.

Who could possibly have predicted this?

So many horrifying details crammed into a single article. Grateful to be a 404 Media subscriber and angry at ed tech AI grift.

Like Dr. Strangelove, but dumber. Gift link.

Excellent jokes to distract from the real horror.

Ring sucks and is creepy. Here’s the killer paragraph from this story;

Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir or some other high-profile surveillance companies, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism.

I appreciate Ron Wyden, but I wish we didn’t need more of him so badly.

Horrifying stories like this should be in our minds every time we think about AI.

Tim Cook wasn’t blameless before this, but now?

Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.

Facial recognition is always a scary technology, but it’s becoming even more so under the current administration.

Unsurprising, I guess, but still newsworthy.

CEOs’ silence is indication of a moral vacuum.

Heartbreaking read but better for it.

So, Apple will kick Patreon off the app store for not forking over 30% of its revenue, but it won’t do anything about Grok? Sounds about right.

The Onion delivers again.

Surveillance sucks.

Strategic ambiguity is as much an indicator of far right influences as any of these references. Gift link.

Good rage in this post.

Look, I’m open to the argument that there are legitimate, good uses of generative AI, but I think anyone making that argument needs to address stuff like this.

Beautiful interview with some enraging stories along the way.

FCNL is such a good prophetic voice.

Not particularly interested in watching the video footage myself (don’t need those nightmares), so I’m glad for journalists providing descriptions of the footage and how it stands in tension with DHS accounts. Abolish ICE. Gift link.

What a story:

What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.

Wish I’d had this to cite in some recent publications. What a great(?) example of saying the quiet part out loud:

One internal November 2020 presentation slide said acclimating children to Google’s ecosystem in school would hopefully lead them to use its products as adults: “You get that loyalty early, and potentially for life.” Another undated slide deck suggested imagining a world where “Parents ask their children ‘Why aren’t you watching more YouTube?’” and “School Administrators shift budgets from Textbooks to YouTube subscriptions.”