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A cautionary note for those seeking a shortcut to publication--from a very authoritative source.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Historian of technology, occasional dad jokes.
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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests 404media.co
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI 404media.co
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests 404media.co
Artificial Intelligence Floods Court Dockets with Home-Brewed Lawsuits nytimes.com
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Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs bbc.com
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Mar Hicks reposted
DHS may have a new designation for those who have a problem with AI, data centers, or the harms of the tech industry: anti-tech extremists. www.wired.com/story/us-law...
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- Wired reviewed over 1,000 pages of unpublished DHS, FBI, and fusion-center reports coalescing around a new label called 'anti-tech extremism.'
- A Delaware Valley fusion-center bulletin flagged AI data centers as extremist targets while conceding it had no specific plots or suspects.
- The term 'anti-technology violent extremism' does not appear in any publicly available DHS or FBI extremism documents, per Wired's review.
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“Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion [phone] app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.” 👁️📱👁️ www.wired…
Preprint research from Cornell: "We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently." www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
Companies encouraged employees to use AI and now they’re spending gobs of cash on tokens for employees to convert documents to PDF😅 “Leaked audio from Accenture says a big source of AI token ‘chewing’ is people just converting PDFs to presentation slides” www.404media.co/the-t…
This just in: meta workers can’t believe the leopards they built to eat everyone’s faces are eating their faces😮 www.wired.com/story/andrew...
“I have been a tech journalist for nearly 15 years, and before today, I cannot think of a single time when a Bing search result was more valuable than the Google equivalent. There really is a first time for everything!” Thanks, AI! techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...
Mar Hicks reposted
About "41% of longform written content seen by users on #LinkedIn is likely to be fully #I-generated and roughly a third of longer posts on X are AI-generated; roughly one-in-ten longer Reddit and Substack posts are #AI, according to the data." The rest are created by cheap la…
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- Pangram analyzed roughly one million posts over two months across LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Substack, and Medium using a Chrome extension.
- On LinkedIn, 41% of longform posts (250+ words) were fully AI-generated; on X, 25% were fully AI-written with another 23% AI-assisted.
- Pangram CEO Max Spero called AI content 'a tax on readers' time' and framed the numbers as a 'lower bound'.
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Judge Schiltz “characterized the overall problem as “an existential threat to the federal courts.” The arrival of A.I. has caused the number, length and complexity of pro se filings to “increase dramatically,” he said. “There’s just no end in sight, and no satisfactory solutio…
New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org
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- Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
- The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
- Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime
Mar Hicks reposted
Wow, Google's free cash flow is negative for the first time in over 10 years because of their relentless spending on AI products no one wants "Alphabet's spending on AI is now expected to hit as much as $205b...Alphabet's combined quarterly revenue hit $119.8b." www.bbc.com/ne…
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- Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.9 billion last quarter, its first negative print in at least a decade.
- Second-quarter capital expenditure hit about $45 billion, split roughly 60% into servers and 40% into data centres.
- Alphabet raised its 2026 AI spending outlook to as much as $205 billion, up from a prior ceiling of $190 billion.
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The levels of sexism, racism, and colonialism to this… miyaacacia finds that her face and voice have been stolen to make an AI avatar with pink hair and slightly modified features called “pinkwasian”
Been thinking a lot about the Horizon Post Office (UK) system in relation to the push to shove AI into major operating systems. Two unaccountable management technologies… Anyway, I’m sure it’ll be fine.
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