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Tragic waste of capital and time www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The SpaceX/xAI merger situation is actually pretty important and, I think, very bad. "Data centers in space" is a bit of a pipe dream, but SpaceX now dominates low-Earth orbit in a highly concerning way. Starlink is real and could monopolize a lot of things.Not Good! www.404media.co/this-spacex-...

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

"The Polish government think Epstein may have been spying for Vladimir Putin, is the PM concerned that Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets, not just to a paedophile, financier, but also a Russian agent?" asks Ed Davey. Starmer: "The investigation will go wherever the evidence leads"

When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels

If you talk with the most down-to-earth, level-headed multi-millionaires, you see it taking form: So much invisible friction has been removed from their lives in ways great & small that they don't even see, so with best intentions they feel like they can still relate to common folks, but they can't.

Wes Streeting saying on Today that Mandelson is ‘not the man we thought he was’ but the trouble is, he is exactly the man we thought, just on a much worse scale than almost anyone thought. And there is an alternative world where none of this is this govt’s problem, because they never gave him a job

it's just so wild how the Qanon message board cult somehow missed the freely operating pedophile sex trafficking ring comprised of America's biggest, richest assholes

oh for sure bro, Elon Musk is such a transformative pioneer in the EV space... building a car company as a stepping-stone to a lethal self-driving scam, a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator, and global advocacy for racist politics is so cool and admirable, everyone should be just like him

Who would pay $200 a week for a dating app?

"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lunch and it literally made me cry in the restaurant.

Cyber-Crime Police assisted by Europol, "raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France. The Paris prosecutor said it related to an investigation into the content recommended by X's algorithm." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

New: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...

an unholy alliance of authoritarians, corporations, and libertarians disemboweled the federal regulatory state I'm not sure they're going to enjoy what happens next

Elon Musk is claiming he’s risked everything to protect kids from sexual abuse mere weeks out from laughing while his AI chatbot was generating nearly 8,000 sexual abuse images per hour that overwhelmingly targeted girls and young women

I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.

I get that The Times wouldn't go near this with a million foot pole, but surely the "indelible stain" is on his mother's reign? His relationship with Epstein and alleged conduct happened when she was on the throne, and she funded most of his defence against and settlement with Virginia Guiffre.

US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate. Projects in development expected to grow global capacity by nearly 50% amid growing concern over impact on planet www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.

Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it

You don’t need to care about celebrity news. But what you should know is that right-wing content creators have built a viral online pipeline that directs pop culture consumers—especially women—from celeb gossip to conservative news and commentary. spitfirenews.com/p/brooklyn-b...

Do we have any cartoonists among our followers? We have a story in our back pocket that is BEGGING for a cartoon but we have no skillz. Sorry we have no money- like us you would be doing it for the love of news- but full credit, naturally. DMs open, thank you in advance (we refuse to use AI)

24% of people who voted Labour at the last general election now plan to vote Green or Lib Dem. 0% of those who voted Reform at the last election now plan to vote Labour.

Take a look at The Telegraph's view on Trump. Every single 'columnist' (I use the term loosely) utterly wrong and totally disproven. Never read again.

This is the first recorded instance of a bovine using tools from her environment to relieve an itch—leaving scientists astonished. www.wired.com/story/veroni...

It's great to see the positive impact of schemes like the LTNs. Councillors get a lot of flak, and hear some bizarre conspiracy theories about our motives, but it's worth it if lives have been saved and serious injuries prevented.

Trump's cheerleaders said he would be a "global peacemaker" who would make the world "safer and stable" and mocked all those warning about the threat he posed as being "hysterical". Why Trump's apologists need to apologise for their own role in the calamity now unfolding

This might be the single most pathetic thing I've seen in my adult life.

No surprise to learn X is still permitting users to post these images generated by Grok despite claiming it had taken action. Enough is enough. @ofcom.bsky.social MUST use its powers to shut this down www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Something about an extremely senior POLICEMAN believing what Copilot told him that's especially alarming.

Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran has become the first Oxfordshire MP to quit X (formerly Twitter). She said “I can’t sleep knowing that I’m leading traffic to a site that actively enables sexual exploitation of women and children.” Her Bluesky profile is @laylamoran.bsky.social .

Hormone therapy reduces suicidality in trans teens

NEW: @Ofcom has launched a formal investigation into X over the use of the Grok to manipulate images of women and children in removing their clothes. “We have decided to open a formal investigation to establish whether X has failed to comply with its legal obligations under the Online Safety Act.

Not pissing off Elon Musk and Canada’s right-wing tech bros is far more important to Evan Solomon than protecting Canadians from deepfake sexual abuse and acting on child sexual abuse material.

Last year my wife had breast cancer and a double mastectomy. This morning, for the first time ever, she was challenged in the changing rooms at the swimming pool. Her breasts were not what make her a woman - but, breasts or not, she is entitled to dignity and protection from vigilantes.

Nice one @oxfordclarion.bsky.social 😃

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

In case you've seen the story about “grok now only generates images for paid users”, it's untrue. Apparently everyone just reported it because… it was what grok told them 🤦🏼 www.theverge.com/news/859309/...

What Elon Musk is doing to women protesting his humiliation of them = what TERFs do to trans people protesting their humiliation of them = what the pro-Genocide media does to those protesting against Israel's actions in Gaza.

Those social media smear campaigns against women, especially queer women, laid the path to people celebrating the murder of a queer woman by a man in a uniform who called her a “fucking bitch” afterward. They unlocked the entitlement and rage to cheer gender-based violence from the online sidelines.

Apparently the US government can kill people on the high seas, in other lands and on its own streets—and nothing will be done to stop it. The US is now a gangster state at home and a rogue state abroad, writes dag

It is hilarious* that UK gov ministers are insisting they need to keep posting on X - a platform run by a far-right warmongerer that enables the mass production of child sex abuse material and industrial harassment of women - because they're nostalgic for their Blue Tick Twitter days *not hilarious

The problem with "all options being on the table" is that it only means something if you're actually willing to pick any of them up and use them