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Researchers from Stanford claim humans actually have two brains – which is cool because the same university can now ruin two brains for the price of one with all the GenAI shit they're forcing upon students and the academic community. 🙄

The 2036 Paralympics field will be quite crowded, I guess.

The GenAI & bots shitshow on Bluesky is in full swing. This is what Bluesky is currently showing as of August 13, 8:20 a.m. CET, when the polls have just opened. #Clacton #Farage

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

This whole thing is such a baffling product decision www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

With Ring’s recent partnership with Flock, which will further facilitate the sharing of video footage with police, and its new Search Party feature, the message is clear: Ring always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool.

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

We're ~3 years into this #GenAI circus and I still see many colleagues praise these systems as if their cost-benefit ratio were anything but utterly unacceptable. In case anybody needs a primer, here's a good one (ignore the baiting title for the YT algorithm): www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enX...

In case you need another reason to dump Google products wherever possible, here you go. #fail #DegenerativeAI #Chrome

Fantastic news out of Tucson! None of this is inevitable. Not "AI", not data centers, not the surrendering of public water resources, not the handing over of electrical grid priorities to big tech. azluminaria.org/2025/08/06/t...

Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-astronom...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

FFS! It's not enough to exploit & displace vulnerable people via toxic, resource-hungry tech systems – now these systems even speak for those whose voices we actually need to hear?! And the clowns behind this justify it with FOMO and saying it's just like going on a date?! Wtf? #AI #EmpireOfAI #fail

Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels 🔗 www.404media.co/authors-are-...

Oops!... They did it again... "GenAI vendors are making major claims for their products without meaningful documentation. You think genAI makes stuff up? Imagine what comes out of their vendors’ marketing departments." www.computerworld.com/article/3985... #GenAI #XL8 #AI

I love being able to explain academic things like statistics, and the history of computer science, to journalists. In this article, I got to do both. 😍 Meanwhile @emilymbender.bsky.social does a brilliant job at explaining why it doesn’t make sense to have machines as the “translator” for human art.