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🔗 linkblog: How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
An important read on OpenAI’s seeming selling out.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Says Iran War Could Last Weeks and Gives Competing Visions of New Regime
I nearly completed a degree in international relations (traded it for a political science teaching minor near the end), and what impressed me about that experience is how less sure I was about knowing what I was talking about the longer that I studied things. Trump, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be bothered by that same concern and is happy to insist that things will go a certain way just because he says so. Gift link.
🔗 linkblog: Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch
Don’t think I’ve posted anything on this story yet because as the article points out, it’s hard to focus on this evil with so many other evils distracting us.
🔗 linkblog: Trump announces 'major combat operations' in Iran
It’s not even March, and it’s the second time this year I’ve woken up to Trump treating the military like his plaything to do something reckless while I was asleep.
This line made me laugh-to-keep-from-crying:
Trump said the U.S. had “sought repeatedly to make a deal” but Iran “rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions.”
Hey, what happened to the deal we already had with Iran?
🔗 linkblog: Anthropic Hits Back After US Military Labels It a ‘Supply Chain Risk’
It takes a lot to get me on Anthropic’s side in any disagreement, but Pete Hegseth is a lot, so I guess this tracks.
🔗 linkblog: Anthropic refuses Pentagon’s new terms, standing firm on lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
Anthropic is weird, and their conscience is focused in some directions at the expense of others (Claude is trained on pirated copies of my research), but at least they have a conscience.
🔗 linkblog: What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework?
The headline isn’t what I would have chosen, but there’s a lot worth reflecting on in here.
🔗 linkblog: The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about
Love that I get to worry about deepfake nudes, scramble to change the way I assess, and now pay more for tech—if it’s even available.
🔗 linkblog: Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn't Offer Much Proof
Important, helpful read.
🔗 linkblog: Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Who could possibly have predicted this?
🔗 linkblog: 'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School
So many horrifying details crammed into a single article. Grateful to be a 404 Media subscriber and angry at ed tech AI grift.
🔗 linkblog: Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace
Like Dr. Strangelove, but dumber. Gift link.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating Trump
Excellent jokes to distract from the real horror.
🔗 linkblog: With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
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.
🔗 linkblog: Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
I appreciate Ron Wyden, but I wish we didn’t need more of him so badly.
🔗 linkblog: ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
Horrifying stories like this should be in our minds every time we think about AI.
🔗 linkblog: ChatGPT isn’t the only chatbot pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.
🔗 linkblog: ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Facial recognition is always a scary technology, but it’s becoming even more so under the current administration.
🔗 linkblog: Musk to Epstein: ‘What Day/Night Will Be the Wildest Party on Your Island?’
Unsurprising, I guess, but still newsworthy.
🔗 linkblog: After Minneapolis, Tech CEOs Are Struggling to Stay Silent
CEOs’ silence is indication of a moral vacuum.
🔗 linkblog: Apple says Patreon creators must switch to subscription billing by November
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.