Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

The report highlights that the UK maintains a seemingly ineffective approach to civilian harm tracking; fails to investigate civilian harm consistently; and has introduced unprecedented legislation to severely restrict civilians’ access to response-and accountability mechanisms.

A new report by @ceasefirecentre.bsky.social finds the UK is ill-prepared to protect civilians from harm during future UK military operations. Airwars’ Policy Specialist lays out noticeable gaps in the UK approach to tracking, mitigating, & responding to such harm. airwars.org/civilian-har...

Despite new EU transparency laws, researchers are still blocked from vital social media data, while corporations buy the same information freely, argues Brandon Silverman. The result: a two-tier system that shields platforms from scrutiny and weakens democratic oversight. buff.ly/KEzQ4wE

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

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The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

I cannot stress enough that you should not in any circumstances be using an AI-generated summary when you are signing contracts of any kind DocuSign scrambling onto the anxiety-fuelled AI slop festival.....

It's well-documented that the most toxic corners of the internet have slipped into the mainstream, writes Paul Elliott Johnson. As trolling continues to arrogate power and authority, reality’s move from bent to broken accelerates, he says.

"In a search of the words “bear” and “video” on TikTok, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper found that about 60% of 100 selected clips were fake, having been produced using OpenAI’s video generator." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Another point: I cannot say 100% certain but the quality of video changed drastically the day Sora was released. The videos look like they're Sora videos, and they follow Sora tropes (Walmart, McDonald's). The biggest, most "valuable" companies on Earth are enabling and pushing this shit on people

It's entirely fitting that one of the first big AI-generated music producers is a Deloitte consultant.

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-generated...

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

if what you want from culture is to be "interpellated" by it, then AI-generated content would seem ideal: the comforts of ideological indoctrination without any of a human's foibles or inconsistencies www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

openai is trying to program a stolen content machine to stop people from making stolen content www.404media.co/openai-cant-...

Apple's brand marketing history, Our Users Are -Revolutionary visionaries (80s) -Like Picasso, Einstein "think different" (late 90s) -Cool creatives (iMac/iPod) -Successful, high status (iPhone to iWatch) -Unprepared bad workers, office loser, can't read/write one line emails (Apple Intelligence/AI)

thelogic.co/news/transal... “The province has received (www.aeso.ca/assets/Uploa...) a flurry of data-centre proposals totalling 33 projects that would require more than 20,000 megawatts of power…

The Uninhabitable United States

No kidding

My son's gf, who is studying to become a special needs educator told me that certain students are using ChatGPT to write up child observations, and in the process are feeding the children's actual names into the chatbot. Yet another egregious, ignorant use of AI that will harm the most vulnerable.

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

“It is not just older generations who have enjoyed seeing photographs of their forebears — Yazidi youth have also flocked to the exhibitions, recognizing that they are testimony and affirmation of their traditions, culture and presence in Iraq’s sociopolitical landscape.”

What’s behind Israel’s new plan to divide Gaza in two While Trump hails "peace," Israel is entrenching a new regime of fortified borders, proxy rule, and engineered despair — with expulsion still the end goal. www.972mag.com/trump-israel...

Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Slop Evader: Search the internet before AI. By @tega.bsky.social tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

"Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen (...) EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offendingDonald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook.

training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down

flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools

this! the AI industry and CS at large literally treats the human condition as a problem to be solved

QC Govt chasing doctors out of Quebec in droves w draconian laws & fines of $500,000/ day on doctors who challenge government's policies. Premier's office: “But we’re not going to back down on what’s essential. We’re doing this for Quebecers.” 🫠 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I hope Canada is paying attention...'The "AI" investment bubble will burst, but unlike the 1840s Railway Mania, we will be left with a useless infrastructure of rusting data centres given the short shelf life of GPUs.' "AI" is not the future. @mark-carney.bsky.social @evansolomon.bsky.social

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

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"Data centers [...] pollute water through chemical runoff from evaporative cooling systems, including biocides, corrosion inhibitors, and heavy metals that accumulate at scale when facilities discharge up to 5 million gallons daily."

meanwhile... "The Trump administration has budgeted more than $36 million for the Army program in 2026, and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told Reuters the service plans to buy at least one million drones over the next two to three years." dronexl.co/2025/11/10/t...

"[DND] officials will be using downtown Ottawa to test new technologies to track mini-drones in an urban setting. The tests will run Nov. 24 to Nov. 28 and will involve [CF] personnel, defence science experts, the RCMP and officials from the U.S. government" o rly ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

meta pr keeps implying that the glasses and a phone are no different. in response, we say this:

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Please have a listen to my conversation with @justinhendrix.bsky.social shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

Finally had a chance to watch this, and if you are looking for a piece on ai to use in class, this is really great!

As you may know, the US Department of Labor is posting White Christian Nationalist, fascist-style AI #slopaganda for months now. Or, as the Washington Post puts it: «The campaign has drawn scrutiny, with critics saying it is not realistically portraying the diversity of the country’s workforce …»

"The fight is only just starting."

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers. “If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” one commander says. It’s a genocide. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

"It would just be better, say experts, if the most famous investors in the space – tech magnates such as Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman – were less interested in uploading their brains to computers or merging with AI." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

I feel this intensely.

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

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