This wasn’t the only time, but it’s illustrative. He sounded like he had an answer for a lot of things, but only because he made things up.

I'm curious if OpenAI actually is or intends to use trusted computing technologies to protect their model weights etc. when deployed into a cloud under the DoD's control. I haven't found any confirmation or denials.

This is exactly why we need every major outlet to hire dedicated repro reporters - and why I publish Abortion, Every Day. We are *fucked* if our gov't can label IUDs and the pill "abortion" and the nation's biggest papers don't think that's worth writing about

The focus of critiques about pharmaceutical monopolies is generally on PRICE. But this case is a compelling example for problems of SUPPLY: it's not a great world when one company controls global supply of a drug and can just refuse to sell it to people who need it. 7/

Brian Jacobs is an antisocial ass pushing shitware at Covexent and trying to destroy Wikipedia with slop. It isn't AI doing it, it is Brian Jacobs.

The credence goods framing is interesting.

how to make programming terrible for everyone jneen.ca/posts/2026-0...

I appreciate @seanhollister.bsky.social 's reporting here about the latest step Google is taking in their quest to destroy the information ecosystem and disempower information seekers: www.theverge.com/tech/896490/... 🧵>>

As B.C. enters permanent daylight saving time, many States along the West Coast are thinking about doing the same. This week I laid out the case for elected officials and asked them to join us.

The part of this Tesla Tower Plasma Cannon video that surprised me the most was the great cinematography. Ahh SRL.

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy. We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

This morning we sued Donald Trump and Pam Bondi for the approval of the illegal sale of TikTok's U.S. assets to administration allies like Oracle. This deal allows both China-allied ByteDance and Trump-allied Oracle to censor content they don't like.

If you care about the rights of young people to access information, express themselves, associate with others, and to play. &/or if you care about the privacy and anonymity rights of both adults and minors. & if you don't want surveillance embedded in all online services, speak out against these.

Indifference to suffering is a hallmark of genocide.

Had some more thoughts on the latest between Anthropic and the Defense Department. The story is less about the specifics, and more about the way Anthropic now feels it needs to act to grovel before the Trump admin.

I'm working on a book proposal at the moment, the core thesis of which is "Democracy fails not when lies spread, but when verified reality can no longer alter incentive structures." and we're seeing it happen in real time. Which is good for the book, but bad for democracy.

"In the Doubao phone, the AI agent comes fused into the operating system (OS). It is an elevated OS systems-level permission called INJECT_EVENTS that reads and interprets the screen and clicks buttons in ways that are indistinguishable from a human user." Cute new data arms race, apps versus OS.

Uncle CSAM wants YOU to sell your soul to serve pedophiles. #seattle #streetart #epstein #epsteinfury #ice

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons. openai.com/index/our-ag...

fuck i hope that dude who said he needed to blow the whistle on something stupid being done in natsec was talking about something else or else i'm gonna feel really dumb about telling him we'd talk next week

Gugusse et l'Automate (1897) English language title: Gugusse and the automaton "Gugusse the clown appears to control the actions of Pierrot Automate, a child-sized automaton standing on a pedestal [...] At the final stroke of the hammer, he disappears." Check out the blog post.

Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases? 8/

I'm a cognitive scientist with an interest in epistemic vigilance, and this essay that's been going around gave me pause. I don't think it's straightforward to apply the concept of epistemic vigilance to interactions with LLMs, as this essay does. 🧵/ sbgeoaiphd.github.io/rotating_the...

"script kiddies with jailbroken LLMs writing bespoke casualty-maxxing attack code for every industrial control device they can find via shodan": specific, clearly delineated threat model, focuses on the danger of the tech-empowered motivated idiot over the hypothetical hard takeoff

Zoomers and millennials are quickly becoming a majority of the electorate, and many older politicians do not understand how vehemently younger voters despise elected officials who take corporate money or appear to engage in insider trading.

"To be a lawyer is to be involved in a system of injustice, to take part in the business of violence. I have no intent to stop telling people to “be gay, do crime.” I have nothing but admiration for those who, in the name of justice, dare say: “Fuck the law, fuck the courts, and fuck you.”"

As a psychologist I think yeah, there is a topic of concern here which is how do current fulltime SWEs invest in learning and protect skill growth. But that is not the ONLY psychological topic here: this whole change to people's self-concepts and potential motivation to do technical work is big

The implication here is straightforward: that people with platforms, including Democratic politicians and media, need to keep highlighting the threat to democracy specifically — centering democracy as an issue in both word and deed. To save democracy, you have to actually talk about democracy.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

"Courts have held that compelled access to database records of Google search terms, geofencing records, and tower dumps are covered by the Fourth Amendment[.]If at least some data in a database is protected, how broad a Fourth Amendment search occurs when government agents direct a scan through it?"

One of the families we've been helping, the father was finally released from the facility in Texas and then from Whipple. They dumped him on the street with no coat, no phone, nothing, in single digit temps. Bless the people who monitor Whipple 24/7

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I mean this is the most church counselor way of putting it, but intelligence by itself is nearly worthless. wisdom and prudence and discernment are necessary qualities for intelligence to be useful. innumerable religious scriptures have tried to explain this but yr tech bros aren't big on books

This is an excellent thread and strategy. It makes me feel like I should be wearing tin foil to say “X poses an existential threat” but it does and we don’t owe anyone our participation.

like look at that blue whale I just reposted. Is the blue whale “relevant”? no it’s sublime. it’s transcendent. it’s a blessing from God. these and a trillion other qualities are more valuable than “relevance” ffs you should not even be able to say “relevant” without laughing

The “humanness” of humans has long been an inconvenience for capitalists… human workers need food, rest, bathroom breaks, healthcare, spend time with our families, etc. Treating people as machine-like licenses bosses to ignore the human needs of employees 9/

Triceratops

A good overview of the history and current state of Grok from @jbbranch.bsky.social I'm hopeful Grok is facing internal headwinds due to it just not being that good, but hard to be confident in these times as top down directives proliferate.

This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely

this is all happening as Pinterest's CEO is pushing AI in op-eds, laying off humans at the company, and feeding posts into the site's proprietary gen AI

OpenAI knew that the Tumbler Ridge shooter was planning to commit an atrocity and did nothing about it, other than banning the teen's account with them.

NEW: I spoke to the sex workers organizing a union at Sheri's Ranch, a brothel in Nevada, about a contract that they say could threaten their right to control their images online. The fight is already serious: since the drive began, four workers have been fired. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Even though refugees CANNOT apply for green cards until one year after arrival, DHS now claims that the 1980 Refugee Act actually *requires* ICE to “detain and inspect” refugees who don’t have a green card at year one. Reaching this conclusion required overturning decades-old interpretations.

Trump v. United States is an illegitimate decision.

“From a student’s perspective, when answer options don’t logically fit the question, it feels like a betrayal of their effort to learn and succeed. How can we expect students to trust our assessments when the very questions meant to test their knowledge are flawed?”

These kids are not ok.

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

The whole ChatGPTcomplaints subreddit is deeply disturbing. I don't know where to begin. Ouch. This is the first post I found browsing, I didn't have to look hard.