'15-plus years after her death at the age of 54, Teena Marie is remembered as an important contributor to R&B and Soul music, who against all logic sustained a 30-year-plus singing career with an overwhelmingly Black audience base.'
medium.com/p/1631ae97989a
#BlackSkyOver50
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications. www.wired.com/story/openai...
Thank you <3
Why your prompts could be subpoenaed. My conversation with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, out today. links.profgmedia.com/4ucFCOy
Was die KI über Sie weiß, kann gegen Sie verwendet werden, warnt die prominente KI-Expertin Meredith Whittaker. Und fordert: Stoppt die leichtsinnigen Anwendungen!
I mean, sure, and the declaration is straightforward and they don't tell you who else is signing or ask you to endorse those co-signatories, they ask you to endorse the declaration
YES
Grateful to the journal of East Asian Science, Technology and Society for asking me to review Jeffrey Ding's excellent new book Technology and the Rise of Great Powers. I use it to discuss AI development not as an inter-national scientific 'race,' but an intra-national financial struggle.
YES
Lecture streaming here tomorrow at 9:00am CET www.iaseai.org/schedule-2026
“We should be questioning how power formed in a way that enabled a handful of people—in service of their quarterly returns—to make socially significant decisions on behalf of everyone else, without scrutability, without clarity, and without democratic oversight.”
- @meredithmeredith.bsky.social
> Half of tech is just running around praying to a sky god that lives on an nvidia chip
> a bunch of people who have no idea about tech, but are pretending to have an idea about tech … and a bunch of septuagenarian CEOs are taking their word for it — it’s almost an elder abuse issue going on
Spoke with @davidenrich.bsky.social and @greenwell.bsky.social about current threats to press freedom and what ought to be done about them. Thanks to @columjournreview.bsky.social for hosting, and to all of the audience members who asked such great questions. www.cjr.org/kicker/the-l...
Very excited about this new @knightcolumbia.org project, both because it gives us the chance to look beyond the current democratic crisis and because so many super people have already agreed to participate. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
www.404media.co/with-ring-am...
When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means
“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”
NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
Yes, but a little is not enough
Ici, je parle de Signal, de la protection de la vie privée, de Foucault et du modèle économique de la surveillance – pour mes amis français, avec toute mon affection ❤️
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Ici : www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
"These paramilitary tactical units behave not like local police, but instead like special forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, or other far-flung battlefields from the Forever Wars of the past quarter century."
Apologies! I generally do, this time I was rushing between everything 🙏
Non, pour votre confort et le mien
À demain mes chers amis <3
LOL good one
Yes. Sigh. If only being right were also a prophylactic.
There's the Epstein list.
But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.
