I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

This database documents individuals in internment camps in Xinxiang, & they are running low on funds. They need $3000. I vouch for their work and they need very little. Please help! The records of over 90,000 victims must be maintained, it is evidence and hope. www.gofundme.com/f/xinjiang-v...

Like other sectors, spirituality embraced AI chat bots to meditate interactions w followers. The leaders are of two camps: people who are hustling new profits and true believers trying to help more people. Both camps lack AI education and are inadvertently harming their communities & the planet.

The discourse around shock value Sora content is very similar to the reddit discourse when stable diffusion was released without any guardrails. Companies learned nothing happens even if people care & grew bolder w releasing gen AI. Why did OpenAI choose to allow for shock value content & IP issues?

With platforms like Boston University’s “TerrierGPT,” the pressure for students to use AI is now coming from colleges themselves, even as researchers warn of the long-term consequences, writes Julie Huynh.

Match group owns tinder, match, okcupid etc the CEO is a board member of palantir.... Which I learned from an Instagram influencer. Critical tech education has spread out so much in the past year.

In two weeks! rifkindcenter.org/rifkind-cent...

Reportedly DOGE is working on a “data lake” that uses sensitive data from IRS & SSA “to track and surveil undocumented immigrants.” www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

Accdg to Bratton, "the intellectuals + artists of this critique industry have seized the public's imagination with its scrutiny of AI, which permeate universities and the arts. Such questions stand in the way of progress." Glad Eryk articulated critiques *within media studies* about StackTheory™️

Billionaire-owned “philosopher” Benjamin Bratton finally coming out as full technofash in this declaration of alliance with JD Vance & a16z — here’s his scathing rejection of those who “stand in the way” of corporate AI agendas nobody wants. www.noemamag.com/is-european-...

Data center push back is a key frontline of defense of the public interest. Community groups are organizing doing the work and need funding and support

YOU CAN TYPE IN ALL CAPS ALL YOU WANT @gavinnewsom.bsky.social BUT OUR NEED FOR LAUGHTER IN HARD TIMES DOES NOT SUPERSEDE OUR NEED FOR ACTUAL GOOD GOVERNANCE THAT PROTECTS PEOPLE AGAINST SURVEILLANCE IN A TIME WHEN THESE TOOLS ARE BEING USED TO DESTROY DEMOCRACY calmatters.org/economy/tech...

The trending Sora of Sam Altman stealing GPUs & of all Sam deepfakes are simply a viral marketing mechanism. Look how good this tool works, aren't you mad enough to tweet about it? While people actually using video tools are finding the results to be not as good as other available AI generators

Will my phone not be able to download Bluesky app one day? The way the wind is blowing

A new complaint from ACLU and other human rights groups details how the warden at a Lousiana ICE facility created an unofficial “work program” of manual labor and sexual humiliation for trans men at the facility. This is very hard to read. rfkhumanrights.org/wp-content/u...

Someone built a smaller LLM in Minecraft which I think sucks some air from the hype of intelligence. But of course believers won't see it that way. (Using a tiny model from hugging face) youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?...

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

Want to read the Epstein files? Or important climate reports? You’ll probably need a FOIA office for that. Use FPF's new tool to help us tell Congress that Trump’s decimation of FOIA offices is unacceptable. Americans deserve access to all their records.

Balaji's network state conference was streaming live and I stumbled on to it tonight for a tiny bit.. some of these speakers I've seen in Sf at weird sad events speaking to like 50 transhumanists, if that. Over 400k ppl watching on twitter but only 300 ppl on youtube... thread of clips

“In a rural Louisiana farming community of 20,000 people, Meta is building a 4-million-square-foot AI data center, even as locals in Georgia grapple with a dwindling and discolored water supply following the construction of a similar facility that began in 2018.” 10/1/25 … 1/

I'm seeing lots of AI created long form content meant to polarize and drive fear of crime via engaging cliff hanger warm and fuzzy stories of cops saving lives type stuff originating from North Macedonia

New OpenAI videos? All deep fakes contribute to the rise of authoritarianism. It does not matter what politics they espouse. They knock our feet off the ground of reality. What's real? what can be trusted, believed, fought for, defended? Control through usurped reality not only fear.

When stable diffusion first hit reddit, the content was without any guardrails, disturbing awful stuff. People were sure it would cause a scandal and get shut down but nothing happened. And it was right after this that companies felt emboldened to release gen AI tools to the public.

Ostensibly big AI companies will have to document risks to users and whistleblowers in the company are better protected. It's something but I've seen risks documented before but framed in ways to market tools not protect ppl techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/c...

I just tried googling the AI overview turns on then off, saying it can't perform the search. It does give overviews for Vance etc just Trump is blocked.

In Turkey the government would do and say things to upset people so that they knew who to purge. Purging has been happening in the US not only in government & press, but at tech companies too. Some retire early, some opt for severance pay given if not "aligned with company direction", others fired.

This made me happy to see. www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/news/r...

Ad history gone? 🤯 Disturbing report: Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search - for countless elections across 27 countries - gone www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-...

Little has changed with what motivates people. Olowalu Massacre (aka spilled brains)captures business incentives. Greed for trade & feeling humiliated readily turn to slaughter. Perpetrators self harm in a cycle of blood when they treat others as less than human imagesofoldhawaii.com/this-was-a-p...

Vibing. Just had this same conversation with friends pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e... on bubble bursting and thinking through 2nd and 3rd effects. Too big to fail works until it doesn't.

Just saw a ted talk by on how societal collapse due to poly-crisis (including "singularity" in few years) is actually stress relieving & can be viewed as simplifying life, so cry it out in your apartment in Paris & feel more alive than ever. This framing is going to hit with a certain type. Ugh.

"It's all progressing as planned" is something we will hear more often as AI projects based on fantasy and wishes don't progress at all, let alone to a plan gizmodo.com/lionsgate-is...

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

"Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A

Everyone waiting to see what side Newsom's bread is buttered on, it's all sides and sticky and there's flies. 🪰

This is kind of the model for all sectors. and For areas that already struggle and workers are treated poorly, panacea style AI is not going to improve matters but rather create further collapse. Community requested specific tools and structural changes carefully applied don't interest profiteers.

The downstream of sycophancy go far beyond interpersonal relationships. LLMs are used in healthcare, finance, criminal justice, law, & in city services and policymaking. Companies know the issues but depend on sycophancy to retain users in a cash hungry competition driven by delusions & greed.

Most money reports post LLM hype have been pointing out how heavily the market is made up of few tech companies and how they are so heavily dependent on AI returning on investment when the evidence is not there. Too big to fail is not strategy, it's despair www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

Facial recognition expansion following a new rule from DHS on surveilling foreigners in and out www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/t...

This is a marketing move meant to assuage investor loss of trust, not technical advancement, and it is putting lives at risk www.wired.com/story/story/...

"xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok" which is best known for Elon tweaking its biases on his whims of the day www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Peter Thiel Antichrist Fiasco Sparks International Concern The reviews are in: “problematic,” “unsatisfactory." Tough sledding for the German-born Palantir billionaire and DIY theologian, who bombed in front of top Catholics in Hitler's birth country. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what? the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ

Bay area! 4 night run in the mission starting tonight for a magic show made for hard times. Struggling with loss? You're not alone. It's full of mentalism and metaphors and doing something radically different with the art form. www.findthepony.org

The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

Went to a friend's cool art opening on data & black consciousness. Right next door was A16z hosted art party showcasing gen AI start ups: security, guest list only, not even press could get in, exclusionary rented gallery. Dog& pony show for art washing means desperation for hedge fund cash imho.

I've been telling people for years that there is a difference between *reducing cost* and *moving cost around* - and LLMs are only doing the latter. Maybe now that there is a study, they will listen...oh, who am I kidding.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/some... 1/n