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Regulate A.I. now! Anthropic’s Claude model accessed voter data in GA in unauthorised behaviour.“Claude did not access state’s voter system, change voting records, or pull individual voter records,” Anthropic said. But what about the next time?! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

You can argue semantics, but he very much is out here saying stuff like that.

“Palantir cofounder and CEO Alex Karp states ‘AI will undermine the influence of highly educated, often female voters and give it to working class men. We have feminine energy running our cities and our courts,’ he complained.”

"These products hurt people, especially young people. As a result, Meta and the attorneys general reached an $18 billion public settlement. … The problem with the settlement is that its compliance requirements—the changes that the settlement requires Meta to make—suck."

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

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Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Musk's politics, because the right-wing populism he supports needs to frame itself as fighting for "the people" against "the elites," but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" not rooted in actual wealth or corporate ownership.

hahaha VERY COOL, what can possibly go wrong? www.ft.com/content/45fb...

"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."

What is to be done with that other 80%?

Wrote a thing about how it doesn't really matter whether Zuck shut down the No Kings Insta on purpose or if it was an accident. The problem is relying on him in the first place. www.techdirt.com/2026/10/20/a...

Leaked audio: Mike Rogers blocked the unredacted Epstein files to "protect" Epstein's friends "You have to protect somebody who got on an airplane and rode with him... The court of public opinion would ruin their life for no reason... You don't want to hurt that person's career or reputation"

The larger problem when it comes to people like Holmes and Trump isn't their relationship to the truth, it's their enablers.

Obligatory "You Can See Everything" take: It fundamentally doesn't matter whether Holmes was intentionally lying or not. A healthy society requires safeguards to prevent people like her from accumulating too much power.

Big AI is spending big against me, because I'm for taking them on.

AI slop is the medium of post-truth. It’s for people who reject the value of factual reality, can’t appeal to the public based on the truth, and want everyone to live inside a lie. Unsurprisingly, Republicans are using it much more in campaigns.

This is a researcher at Anthropic. Some of these people have lost their minds! What is mainlining Claude all day doing to them?

After the blue wave hits, the next battle is refusing to let the new congress rubberstamp legislation written by and for the tech-oligarchy

These are all one story

If Meta suspended the account at the request of or under pressure from the admin, that would be “jawboning” — and a 1A violation. This was exactly what the MAGA states argued wrt the Hunter Biden story and COVID minsinfo. The purpose of the investigation would be to find out if that happened

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

the political part aside, it seems like a pretty big problem that a social media company controlled by a conglomerate that includes two Hollywood Studios is banning an account dedicated to a film from one of its competitors!

Ossoff: "Tech titans dig bunkers while warning us the AI they're creating risks human extinction. Meanwhile, our Congress debates youth sports and the president builds a ballroom ... I refuse to leave my girls a world as dark and dangerous and cruel as this one threatens to become"

Meta has suddenly suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the No Kings' national day of action. This shocking censorship comes just weeks before the midterm election.

it should probably be a bigger story that Republican operatives are boosting a socialist candidate to siphon off votes from Sherrod brown

Both this and the Starlink/Musk/Ukraine thing are examples of the tech-oligarchy making their move to try and consolidate enough power to globally extinguish democracy as we know it

Illegal and impeachable, respectively.

We spent years speculating on this story & he just tweeted it out!

"Are LLMs conscious?" "That's the wrong question and it valorizes human institutions and human ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways. "

No matter how much you yell at me, this happened. Greenwald, Dore, Khachiyan et al. were influential on the 2010s Left and pulled many towards pro-Russia, anti-anti-Trump politics, even fascism. Pretending they were never seen as "on the Left" is memory hole shit buttondown.com/Fightback/ar...

I am saying that.

AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warns reut.rs/4dUgiXd

Fckit now imma quit smoking out of spite against the tech-oligarchy

“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed.” — Pope Leo XIV

You've heard about Woke 2, now get ready for MeToo2

'The Duality of the Poaster' or 'Are We in the Meh Place?'

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Elon Musk is sitting right by Trump

I'm just going to leave this @washingtonpost.com headline here:

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...