eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models.
If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.
In case you missed it, here's my article about how completely f*cked the whole "ASI extinction" discourse is right now. If ASI is "misaligned," humanity dies out (they say). But if ASI is "aligned," humanity also dies out.
www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-asi-ex...
Yet another Kalshi offering that serves no legitimate economic purpose. It's not possible to make a rational bet on this without material non-public information. It's a market solely for fraud by both regulators and corporate insiders, and everyone connected to it in any way should go to prison.
NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open.
And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.
Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’
Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now
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I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.
centrist: we need to focus on popular policy
me: holy shit! you mean we’re finally going to support universal healthcare?
centrist: no haha not that policy
me: ok so…gun control?
centrist: no lol not that policy either
me: ok which policy?
centrist: oh you know the ones
The whole 'Grok is a boer now' thing is very funny, but it also really exposes how every 'AI tool' isn't just passively biased from training data, but actively designed to shape your worldview according to the interests of the billionaires who made them.
1. In a new leaked memo, Pam Bondi is directing the DOJ to go after trans care providers under "anti-FGM" laws.
She also has directed the investigation of HRT manufacturers.
She calls transgender people "infectious."
The latest from S. Baum.
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the anti-woke media would tell you that im a danger to fairness and safety in womens sports just for taking literally every performance enhancing drug and also a herbal supplement that turns me into a werewolf every night