One of the more oppressive aspects of surveillance tech is how it traps and exploits those with the least power and options to avoid it.

A moment of joy afternoon pick me up: youtu.be/_o2RS8WfcbY?...

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Cannot fucking believe an external 4TB SSD drive that cost me $200 last year is now $1100. Had to check receipts to make sure. They’re really out there trying to keep you from having a PC, phone, or a gaming console so they can have hallucinating, polluting chatbots that drop bombs on kids’ schools.

"The FAA is working with Palantir to see if AI can help prevent collisions and close calls on airport runways" is a sentence that makes me never want to get on an airplane again.

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

Second, what LLMs do is make papier-mâché of their input. So you could put in the best, most carefully curated sources in the world and what would come out would still be some kind of slurry. >>

@melanie-ensign.bsky.social and I had an illuminating chat a few weeks ago about my Product Safety Resistance Playbook. Her words convinced me that I *am* being too nice to manufacturers. Wrote about it here: product-safety-for-the-information-age.ghost.io/melanie-says...

Abolition is the only sane response.

more countries need to follow this example

Revised definition of digital products here product-safety-for-the-information-age.ghost.io/what-are-dig... If we can agree on digital products, we can work towards reasonable digital product safety standards. current “Governance” is crap. we can do better.

In any democracy, this would be considered illegal state funding of the president' s political supporters

A common comment on my videos about LLM "hallucinations" is that this isn't as much of a problem because LLMs "cite their sources" now. This is a category error. Citing a source implies it was consulted. LLMs do not consult, even with RAG. A citation might be *included* but it's not *consulted*.

Corporate Sponsors include: Deloitte Exiger ExxonMobil IndyCar January AI John Deere Lockheed Martin Mastercard Oracle Palantir Penske Phorm Energy SAP Scotts Miracle-Gro UFC United Airlines

It’s not your imagination: “Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years…”

“In 50 or so years, by some estimates, snow could virtually disappear from the West, making life there exceedingly difficult.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

Like clockwork ... "Surveillance Tools Intended for Border Control Are Being Used Against Americans. U.S. citizens are being monitored and punished with technology meant to battle illegal immigration." reason.com/2026/05/06/s...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Jfc.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.

On Tuesday, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed into law a landmark privacy bill that prohibits the sale of Virginians’ precise geolocation data. We hope to see other states join the ranks of Virgina, Maryland, and Oregon, all of which have now banned this harmful business practice outright.

The government is buying data to avoid constitutional or statutory protections using what’s known as the data broker loophole, and that data is now being fed to opaque and unaccountable AI systems. The implications of this cannot be understated.

autistics are better than ai because: • we will make sure we are telling you facts • we will not fluff you up about how great you are • we will barely consume any water, to the point that you will be begging us to hydrate

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

you can’t build democracy on a tech stack that is fundamentally anti-democratic

Legal eagles noticed, and there’s been SOME mainstream coverage. But overall the political class has underreacted to this month’s OLC opinion, ordered up by Trump or on his behalf, declaring the Presidential Records Act unconstitutional. Things are likely being stolen and/or destroyed *right now*.

Last week, EPIC published a one-pager detailing how government agencies exploit the third-party doctrine as a loophole to purchase personal information from data brokers, even though they would have to get a warrant to access the same information directly.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116325532654671149 OK, this is evil. #anthropic specifically coding #claude to be nontransparent / opaque. Should we stop talking about bringing them to the EU now? Fully against the spirit, intent, and law of the #AIAct. Unless those guys are REALLY convincing […]

Can you have child safety and Section 230, too? I think so. But it requires acknowledging the distinction between speech and design: www.platformer.news/social-media...

…If i was going to make a nightmare allegory about surveillance and empire based on wizard of oz and Grimm's fairy tales themes, this is what part of it would look like.

Hard to fathom a worse moment in human history to devalue sociology.

Dear Zoom app, thank you for your kind offer to transcribe every MS Team meeting but no thanks.

I’ll raise you one @evacide.bsky.social and say we need to ban the selling of personal information. Some things shouldn’t have markets. Personal data is such a thing.

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

“The moral crisis we are facing is not just a matter of the war itself, but also how we, the observers, view violence, for war now has become a spectator sport or strategy game.…What a profound moral failure, for gamifying strips away the humanity of real people.”

A small marker of our times: this phrase in a news story (rather than opinion) and it being completely accurate. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

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...

I‘m over the moon that my paper on digital product safety as an adaptation and evolution of historical product safety strategies is out. can this show a harmonizing, holistic and more effective way forward? www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

The administration is engaged in norm destruction while installing new assumptions about and practices for how AI should be steered and regulated. Consider: $10 billion in equity stakes in tech firms and a "golden share" granting veto power over corporate decisions. This is not deregulation.

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.” “‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

…*and* I feel like focusing on shitty wrongheaded definitions of "intelligence" directs the collective attention away from asking better, more actually important questions.

…Also also, I'm frankly disappointed that the idea of "human-like/-level intelligence" is still being used or taken seriously as a metric At All. It's a meaningless cipher that Looks like it should mean something but which adds up to nothing, the more we examine it. Its roots are eugenic and racist…

"Perhaps the most substantive change is that the US government has achieved its own kind of “golden share” of unfettered TikTok user data. In short, it might be the worst of all possible worlds." By @lalevasseur.bsky.social Irene Knapp and Bryce Simpson

If they ban whistles switch to cowbells. It'll be fun for all the Gen Xers. Because we need more cowbell.

Right wing billionaires now control TikTok. It's unsafe.

(FYI Padlet is a leaky by design app- feeding the global commercial surveillance infrastructure. appmicroscope.org/app/843/ dm me if we can be of more support.)