Hey @olivia.science, I probably should have said: “If you haven’t seen it, read this essay by the brilliant—and very human, @tante.cc

A strong contender for the Gaslighting Of The Year award. As Peggy astutely notes, this is “EPA cosplay.”

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“One piece of evidence that they view your disempowerment as necessary for their survival is that their entire messaging strategy is to try to persuade you that there is nothing you can do but submit to their domination, & to threaten you with dire consequences if you do not.”

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Happy Eid al-Fitr!

“University of Virginia privacy law expert @daniellecitron.bsky.social said she was ‘flabbergasted.’ ‘If that information is shared willingly & knowingly & they are sharing without the reason they collected it, it’s a violation of the Privacy Act.” It takes a lot to “flabbergast” Danielle!

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“No great poem gives up its secrets in one go. It reveals more every time you read it. If the world is a poem, then perhaps every generation is another reading. And perhaps its author still has more to reveal—as some of our own poets have said.”

With AI able to quickly summarize everything from self-help books to great novels, we need to remind ourselves why we read in the first place, writes Spencer Klavan.

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God, I wish the New York Times had this level of courageous reporting in regards to white men.

You think Trump is going to invite the winning Venezuelan side to come to the White House?

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

I wasn’t prepared for this story. It is indeed—as noted by Andrew—devastating. In every way. My heart screams in pain for Dolores who had to both endure abuse, & the silence thereafter to protect the mission that gave meaning to her life. To see a (former) hero abuse power in this way is sickening.

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“The free market that Silicon Valley champions depends…on the least free capital in the world. Kingdoms & gangs, bound in a compact of association, dividing the plunder according to an agreed convention, infesting the earth until nothing is left (or until someone abandons the compact).”

A perfect description of Brendan Carr— “Carr is a cultural claims adjuster, a pasty-faced, soft-spoken agent of Trump's retribution.” 🙏🏼 ⁦‪@mattbaidc.bsky.social & RollingStone (the new paper of record)

I think people are too focused on the part of Joe Kent's letter involving Israel. He also explicitly says Iran posed no "imminent threat" and warns about sending in troops. A top intel official directly undermining Trump's entire case for war and warning of quagmire he campaigned against is big!

Tech-funded R Street says: “The massive amounts of online content used to train AI models wouldn’t exist absent advertising-funded platforms.” As if we should thank tech co’s for exploiting artists for the past 20 years so that they can be further exploited in the Age of AI. An unvirtuous circle. 🤬

The entire Cabinet is going to have plantar fasciitis within a few months from clenching their toes to keep their shoes from falling off!

NEWS FLASH EFF (who takes the position that using copyright works to train AI models is fair) says that preventing unauthorized reproduction by the Internet Archive won’t help to stop unauthorized scraping. IN OTHER NEWS, foxes & wolves announce partnership in campaign for free range chickens.

“Anthropic’s research continues a time-honored tradition by AI companies who want to highlight the ‘good’ uses of AI that show up in their marketing materials while ignoring the world-destroying applications that people actually use it for.” 🙏🏼 Jason & @404media.co

For anyone who’s been [mistakenly] celebrating Anthropic as some kind of white knight company, please see this paid content from Anthropic, suggesting that Claude is a tool for teachers “who want to teach.” As opposed to those anti-AI luddites teaching for the 💰💰💰💰💰? 🤬 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social

Not at all dystopian, amirite? “Critics argue this work is extractive & poorly compensated, especially when these AI systems are being trained to ultimately replace human labor.” Hey @latimes.com, can I have a word? How is this the only mention of the underlying exploitation in this story?

Happy St. Patrick’s Day ☘️

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The “Save America Act” says that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from SSA whose databases were mishandled by DOGE. I include this & other parts of the Act in my 8-point summary. 1/

“opportunity theft” seems like a perfect description of life in the age of AI. the dimming of our aspirations & horizons masquerading as our inevitable—and liberatory—future. original colors replaced by gray, only to be oddly colorized downstream.

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I mean, even as a search engine the models are prone to hallucinations. And the intellectual property theft at the heart of ChatGPT needs to be fixed. You can’t train a model on copyrighted work and then spit back out an inferior version of said work. Do better.

“If plagiarism is wrong & bad & theft is wrong & bad & schools are duty-bound to help instill these values in students, how can they justify adoption of a technology that is, at its core, built on stolen work & whose purpose is the extrusion of text to be passed off as one's own thinking & writing?”

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What’s the definition of tragedy? 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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“Vance has said the deal will value TikTok at $14 billion. That would mean the transaction fee is about 70% of the company’s worth.” Wait until MAGA voters who are always telling us how much they hate socialism/communism hear about this state involvement in the market. They’re going to be LIVID!

AI & education aren’t like oil & water. More like poisoning the well. Here’s a nice look by @bcmerchant.bsky.social at the current struggles between educators & AI companies, frequently backed by school administrators in the mistaken belief of tech inevitability.

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“I don’t want to hear even the slightest amount of bullshit about how you didn’t need to ask for permission to use our names & use our identities. You just wanted to steal, so you stole. You wanted to take things without permission, so you did. It’s wrong. It’s so enragingly wrong.”

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay

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In the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates & KKK members. The Trump Administration axed the grant teaching about this event after “ChatGPT deemed it ‘D.E.I.’ because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race.”