everyone in the US is cooked if IRS data falls in the hands of palantir & musk www.wired.com/story/palant...

Well that’s a headline I did not except to see. Ever.

#US US Defense Security orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning, therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

After spending the morning focused with horror on the new low trump has sunk, this was at least a bit of an antidote

I remember when the west was outraged at China censorship. What will the Chinese say about censorship in the west?

Big Tech is taking down posts that discuss abortion – even when they don’t violate content policies or guidelines. We can push back against this digital suppression. #StopCensoringAbortion

Move fast? Check. Break things? Check.

I verified this, but it did initially respond to questions around the Uyghurs and it gave a full response, then a few seconds later it deleted its answer, and said it was out of scope. I then compared to the question around the function of Guantanamo bay, which it was happy to answer.

What a great way to start your week: Physical copies of our book on #OECD and corporate responsibilities arrived. For everyone else: Digital copy is #OpenAccess @otgontuya.bsky.social @springer1842.bsky.social

A bunch of invoices got paid recently, and I'm looking at the bank balance thinking. "Fekking government will take most of this". So I called my business partner and we decided to run away with the cash. We'll use AI to email excuses to everyone on a regular basis. This could work.

"You are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole."

Joking aside, What's the point of being rich and powerful if you still need to make decisions based on kissing the ass of a megalomaniac politician

At last! Here you have password security questions for the depressed. Guaranteed to be more inclusive for the less happy people: - What is the name of your least favorite child? - In what year did you abandon your dreams? - What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? (1/3)

Very disappointed that my new Fitbit records my runs as walks. I'm not ashamed of my pace dammit. I've checked and there is no appeals process either.

According to some car manufacturers privacy notices they're already tracking this.

This has inspired me to track the time it takes to get a company's privacy governance to a mature state.

KNN + topic detection getting a big glow-up www.anthropic.com/research/clio

Avoiding emotional neurosurveillance must be a right despite any claimed benefits

A difficult listen, but goes to the heart of AI concerns. It's less the tech, and more the ego centric douche-leaders who run them and should not be allowed to exist in this space

Brill

Bluesky needs to stand for something better than X or threads, or it risks losing the moral imperative that brought many of us here in the first place mashable.com/article/blue...

What a sad story, and a reminder that without honest people, who are willing to give up a lot, society will continue to be duped by greedy and cowardly individuals at big corp. Worth reading

The new data use and access bill going through parliament has removed the provision in the defunct dpdib to make SARS "more proportionate and considerate of business resources." Then they say the bill will boost efficiency by £10bn. I don't get it?

Although I'm not in the least bit surprised, I still somehow managed to be disappointed. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I feel seen

#StephenHarper #IDU #NeverEverTrustCONservatives