nitasha tiku

nitasha tiku

@nitasha.bsky.social

technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10

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Byron Tau
@byrontau.bsky.social

A look into the kind of pressure tactics DHS is using against travelers to get them to open their devices at border crossings: officials lied to a man, saying they wanted to search his phone for "kiddie porn" when they were investigating him for "terrorism," docs show www.404media.co/dhs-said-the...

404media.coDHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They LiedOfficials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say.

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Blacksky Algorithms
@blackskyweb.xyz

Introducing Discussions - a new way to have conversations on Blacksky 🗣️ Now you can create a dynamic poll right from the post composer in the app to ask questions, get feedback, or to build community around any and every topic you find interesting.

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Renee DiResta
@noupside.bsky.social

Remarkable lack of dot-connecting to attacks on Trust & Safety over the last 3 years, executed by some of the same people. Then, they worked to reframe the research community as woke censors. Here they're trying to reframe it as woke cranks...and censors. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comThey told the world AI was dangerous. Now Trump’s allies are coming for them.The Trump administration and its allies are embracing some ideas championed by AI safety advocates, while also working to marginalize the movement in Washington.

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Kevin Beaumont
@doublepulsar.com

Microsoft running their ‘new products’ live stream with the CEO and their viewer count is going down as the event is going on. Why? It’s all AI.

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Bobby Allyn
@bobbyallyn.bsky.social

Meet Thomas, a 35-year-old who got hooked to FanDuel and DraftKings in the pandemic, ended up $50,000 in the red. He filed for bankruptcy and signed up for a Pennsylvania registry that banned him from using betting apps.

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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.

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Drew Harwell
@drewharwell.com

New: She was a foot soldier for Nick Fuentes. Then his movement turned on her. Inspired by tradwives, Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of his model “groypettes.” A vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame. wapo.st/4da9OTD

wapo.stShe helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.

propublica.orgI Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...

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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026)
@eileenguo.bsky.social

New investigation from @jamesmodonnell.bsky.social & me into the border #SurveillanceTech by #Anduril, General Dynamics, and Israeli co. Elbit Systems that failed to catch 1 in 4 deaths within range. In other words: 1,050+ people dying on camera. www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1... 1/x

technologyreview.comThe US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

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Katrina Manson
@katrinamanson.bsky.social

The Guardian recommends reading Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare “to make sense of it all”

The Guardian@theguardian.com

Feeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it all

theguardian.comFeeling overwhelmed by the AI doom loop? Here’s the essential reading list to make sense of it allIt’s a chaotic time in an industry that’s reshaping our lives – Guardian reporters and experts recommend the books that help explain how we got here, and where we’re headed

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Cat Zakrzewski
@cqzakrz.bsky.social

NEW: The Trump family’s sprawling business empire is increasingly intertwined with the AI boom, as the president resists calls to slow down development. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

washingtonpost.comTrump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdownTrump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖
@alexip718.com

INBOX: Science retracted a news article this week after editors found that the author (likely an AI agent) impersonated the identity of an established science journalist, both with editors and sources in the story. Furthermore, two of the quotes provided were plagiarized: (h/t @wudan.bsky.social)

science.orgYour heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes informationFrequently ignored bodily rhythms may be skewing neuroscience experiments

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Scott Nover
@scottnover.bsky.social

New: A Microsoft executive called the training of artificial intelligence models the “largest theft of labor in human history,” according to legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday. w/ @gerritd.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

washingtonpost.comMicrosoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records showThe quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.

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Noah Weinberger
@noahweinberger2003.bsky.social

I am #lookingforwork. I’ve done this LinkedIn slop a lot on well, uh, LinkedIn but it’s true. Job market is ass right now and I don’t like being a NEET, I am too qualified imo. My DMs are open on signal NoahW.03, and I can send my resume upon request. If you like AI models, run FOSS projects

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Sheera Frenkel
@sheeraf.bsky.social

“Largest theft of labor in human history.” What a quote.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Ej Dickson
@ejdickson.bsky.social

There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story. It’s called the “burnerverse”: a network of anon burner accounts ostensibly discussing college sports. But they have another goal: destroying young girls’ lives.🧵: www.wired.com/story/burner...

wired.comA College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to WorkMaddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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caillemillner.bsky.social
@caillemillner.bsky.social

Massive layoffs today at McClatchy's local newspapers in Lexington, Kentucky; Miami, Florida; Sacramento, California; Charlotte, North Carolina and more. Reactionary politics depend on an uninformed populace and here we are: www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

lpm.orgMcClatchy guts Lexington Herald-Leader newsroom, among nationwide layoffsMcClatchy laid off 13 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader, a majority of its reporters, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.

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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com

Teachers and professors are throwing out old assignments, installing new policies and protocols, and incorporating AI built for the classroom, rather than feeling forced to choose between returning to pencil and paper or acting like the AI police.

washingtonpost.comThese teachers fight AI cheating with classes that force students to show they are learningInstead of relying on AI detectors or going back to pen and paper assignments, educators said they redesigned classes to make students prove they are learning.

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Katie Drummond
@katie-drummond.bsky.social

NEW: The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed REI (yes, the outdoor retailer) for details on anyone who bought a specific green beanie in the Minneapolis area. It's one part of a larger, and very disturbing, effort to go after people protesting ICE:

wired.comICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 YearsHomeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

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nitasha tiku
@nitasha.bsky.social

I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comHer childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
nitasha tiku
@nitasha.bsky.social

I talked to a young woman in Wyoming whose stepdad uploaded a photo he took when she was 11-yrs-old into Grok. Then allegedly used the AI tool to generate 7,000 graphic child sexual abuse images, which he traded online www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comHer childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.