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🔗 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🔗 linkblog: ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face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.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
Strategic ambiguity is as much an indicator of far right influences as any of these references. Gift link.
🔗 linkblog: Deepfake ‘Nudify’ Technology Is Getting Darker—and More Dangerous
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.
🔗 linkblog: A Mormon drag queen in the Queen City
Beautiful interview with some enraging stories along the way.
🔗 linkblog: We mourn state killings and demand justice, not terror | Friends Committee On National Legislation
FCNL is such a good prophetic voice.
🔗 linkblog: Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis
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.