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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report wired.com
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows | WIRED wired.com
Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal 404media.co
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‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess wired.com
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
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Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI 404media.co
‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access 404media.co
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals. businessinsider.com
Internet of Shit: AI Poop Analysis App Offered to Sell Me Database of Its Users' Poops 404media.co
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The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao | The Guardian theguardian.com
You can no longer Google the word 'disregard' | TechCrunch techcrunch.com
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah's remarks on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical "Magnifica humanitas" \ Anthropic anthropic.com
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“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”
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New: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI assistant www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
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“It’s literally the gulag. You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." Every once in awhile, the clouds part & provide perfect moments of clarity. This description of life at Meta perfectly mirrors life…
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Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
“University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models.”
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A company called BusPatrol is trying to turn school buses into roving surveillance cameras: www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...
“Some people have interpreted the pontiff's letter as grounds for religious objections to using AI in the workplace.”
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A guy made an app that analyzes pictures of its users' poop ostensibly for health reasons. He is then turning those photos into a tagged database for AI training that he has been advertising for sale on Reddit: www.404media.co/ai-poop-anal...
“Nothing about this trial or OpenAI’s financial structure will change the imperial drive of these companies to consolidate ever-more data and capital, terraform the earth, exhaust and displace labor, and embed themselves deep within the state to gain leverage over its apparatu…
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