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🔗 linkblog: New tech bolsters UK's law enforcement presence, but one priority requires buy-in from campus residents
5,000 cameras?! What the heck?
🔗 linkblog: After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
Truly, we live in the dumbest (and pettiest) timeline.
🔗 linkblog: Research, curriculum and grading: new data sheds light on how professors are using AI
Surprised that more isn’t made of the fact that Anthropic was surveilling users’ conversations for its research. Are professors and students thinking about the company’s ability to read everything they type?
🔗 linkblog: DOGE’s “Efficiency” Theater Comes Full Circle: Trump Admin Scrambles To Rehire The Very Workers Musk Fired To “Save Money”
Depressing read but very well put.
🔗 linkblog: OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus
I continue to believe that cracking down on intellectual property is not the right way to resist AI, but Koebler does a great job of describing how maddening it is that big companies are going to get away with worse infringement than individual people taking advantage of fair use.
🔗 linkblog: Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions
I think it was an episode of the Reply All podcast that opened my eyes to the fact that not listening to microphones and still placing creepily relevant ads is actually the worse possibility.
🔗 linkblog: The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
I’m completely serious when I say that Peter Thiel makes me want to get a seminary degree, because if we’re going to have theology about AI, I want it to be better than his.
🔗 linkblog: In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI
Don’t know if this is better or worse than what I worried about.
🔗 linkblog: Peter Thiel: strict AI regulation will summon the Antichrist
I’ve wanted to get a seminary degree for a while, and I’ve often wondered if my seminary thesis would be on theology and technology, but I never expected to be in dueling theologies with Peter Thiel.
🔗 linkblog: Les femmes osent les métiers d'hommes en Suisse, mais les hommes hésitent
Pour vraiment atteindre l’égalité, il faut non seulement ouvrir « le masculin » mais aussi valoriser « le féminin »
🔗 linkblog: Quand le mouvement MAGA réécrit l’histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
Il est souvent utile de lire une perspective étrangère sur tout ce qui se passe actuellement aux États-Unis, même quand ça me déprime.
🔗 linkblog: 'Just going to blow them up?': Sen. Paul had hoped the Trump administration was backing off on boat strikes
Rand Paul continues to be right on this.
🔗 linkblog: Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books
More money for libraries, less for LLMs.
🔗 linkblog: Pourquoi la Suisse peut-elle être considérée comme le berceau du minigolf
Le minigolf est suisse ? Je savais pas du tout !
🔗 linkblog: The MechaHitler defense contract is raising red flags
Good overview of recent Grok nonsense.
🔗 linkblog: This season’s flu and COVID vaccines are now available at Kentucky pharmacies
Better grab these while I can.
🔗 linkblog: GOP megabill could cost UK HealthCare $100M annually in Medicaid reimbursement payments, but a leading university official has doubts
The effect on university budgets is among the least objectionable parts of the Big Beautiful Bill, and it’s still devastating.
🔗 linkblog: 'Despicable and thoughtless': Comments on boat strike create a new rift between Sen. Paul and VP Vance
I frequently disagree with Rand Paul, but when he’s right, he’s usually really, really right.
🔗 linkblog: Suisse: le rail atteint un nouveau sommet avec 23 milliards de personnes-kilomètres
Habitant dans un « désert ferroviaire » ressens une jalousie profonde !
🔗 linkblog: MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech
Wild read. It’s as if the right is an alliance between the most dangerous coddling of Big Tech and the dumbest criticisms of it.
🔗 linkblog: Tech leaders take turns flattering Trump at White House dinner
Ugh, this article makes it sound even worse.