New talking point just dropped. They are trying to make pro-AI a part of working class masculinity and going for the “it will make those other people suffer” approach.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

These companies don't pay taxes... because they're churches. Like I've been telling you.

Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir www.bmj.com/content/392/...

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜 @mmitchell.bsky.social writing on how people dramatically misunderstand the "stochastic parrot" critique. medium.com/@margarmitch...

AI = manosphere = Epstein island = how many more examples

He's 29. Dropped out of college after one year (IU) and likely got on the tech boyz radar because he started an IP company called Brainbase in college. He ended up on Forbes 30 under 30 showing again that that list is cursed.

sometimes i can't believe that (+15 years ago) i picked data centers as my research focus, when it was just like 'wow data is stored in an actual building' --- to this ...

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Wondering if the insane levels of energy & water consumption by US data centers will keep spiralling upward? I don't know the plumbing of AI research, but I know that waste is generally a bad business strategy, especially when your competition is making gains w efficiency and cost reduction.

Data centers don’t: bring jobs; bring a tax base; bring revenue; bring concomitant industry to communities. Data centers do: rip off resources of typically rural, working-class and often racially plural or primarily minority communities; create unbearable pollution; cheapen value. Get stuffed.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

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Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Admin complicity has been kind of heartbreaking > Many universities’ administrations are embracing AI for instruction, research, and evaluation. In some cases, AI has guided decisions about which programs to cut at times of austerity in the education sector. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

NEW: A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men, including minors, to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits. When we asked them about it in January, they lied about the huge security flaw. Here's why we're naming them now:

an ad for the manosphere!

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

“Now meet Ark Data Centers, an Iowa firm building a $136 million campus expansion in Northeastern Ohio. The project costs more than any of the above, yet its final job count won’t be in the hundreds, or even the dozens: instead, it’s exactly ten.”

“Clavicular is probably unaware of the phenomenon of jolie laide—and, in turn, of his own anti-eroticism—because it is anathema to his thirst for simple, if draconian, guidelines…”

Most of the talk about OpenAI, Anthropic and “mass surveillance” neglected to mention that widespread scraping of the web is in itself mass surveillance.

Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

The “US military leveraged its AI targeting tools—which still employ Claude—to strike over 1K targets in Iran during the first 24 hours of the now rapidly expanding war. The US is using Claude through Anthropic’s partnership with…Palantir [co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale].” 3/5/26…1/

I simply can't believe the guy who made an app to help you "cheat on everything" would turn out to be untrustworthy

i teach undergrads about the fallacy of political neutrality

wtf gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-c...

Inherently violent.

“Data centers … they need some PR help,” said President Donald Trump at the event. “People think that if the data center goes in, their electricity is going to go up.”

ivermectinpeptideslooksmaxxing i need to get off the internet

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

STS folks, I'm organizing an open panel on CONTRAPTIONS for 4S this year, following up on a lovely panel at last year's AAA meetings. You should submit something if you got it! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Had a conversation yesterday with a data security specialist for 50,000 student university who says what keeps him up at night is Antropic Cowork. “Do not put that on any computer that contains anything you are not prepared to lose.”

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