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if you like wigglypaint or cool little things in general, this blog post from the person behind it is infuriating; ai shitbros stole his project, rehosted it with ads and ai garbage added in
beyondloom.com/blog/onwiggl...
Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...
holy fuckin shit lmao
a supply chain attack perpetrated by a prompt injection in a github ISSUE TITLE
eh. coding agents? what could go wrong
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).
Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.
Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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I joined 300+ security and privacy academics in calling for a global pause on online age verification: www.politico.eu/article/age-...
A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.
Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.
In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.
It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.
My months-long investigation 👇
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "I’ve been laid off 12 months after moving my family to another continent."
A quote on a black background with a crowd of cartoon raised hands at the bottom. The quote reads, "During my first games role out of college, I experienced a medical event 6 months into my role, and was let go while in the hospital."
Responses to the We’re Done Playing Petition responses are often brutal. The layoffs game developers experience are shocking, callous, and wreak havoc on their lives, and the lives of the people closest to them.
Have you signed the petition? Add your voice here: actionnetwork.org/forms/were-d...
EVERYTHING you have ever asked about or shared with OpenAI is going to intel database. Our government will know everything there is to about everything you asked or have offered to ChatGPT
Hey yall this is your chance to show the trans community you really are an ally and you're not just saying it for brownie points!!
-Do not support ANY of this
-JK Rowling has said on numerous occasions that her income goes DIRECTLY into anti-trans legislation in the UK
-Seriously. NONE. Of it.
Mainstream reporters are desperate not to cover what's happening to trans ppl in the US.
The narrative was activists got a little too uppity and some mild hand smacking was needed to put them in their place.
The reality of a genocidal campaign of terror against a vulnerable 1% makes them look bad.
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment.
If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
Universal income would mean more people like you and like me would be free to create more games.
But aren't there already too many games, you may ask?
Only if you need to worry about sales, says me, replying to you.
And you wouldn't, not with universal income. See how that goes all full circle?
A tube of chip star brand potato chips
When it comes to saddle-shaped potato chips CHIP STAR is lightyears ahead of Pringles
It's literally the "we are still doing it but now we would like you to be less mad about it." post. After 3 backdowns that didn't even back down they pull out another BIG puppy eyed SUPER sorry backdown that ALSO doesn't back down.
No. You've fuckied your last wucky, UwU.
bsky.app/profile/teal...
Actually, it is precisely the bourgeoisie that has always played the hypocrite by characterising formal equality as “democracy”, and in practice using force against the poor, the working people, the small peasants and the workers, by employing countless means of deception, oppression, etc.
"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building."
www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
In a historic year for women at the Olympics, Trump specifically awarded male athletes with the presidential medal of freedom at the SOTU. They never cared about women’s sports. They never cared about women, period.
Discord was going to use age verification that literally pipes your information straight to the fascist US government, until hackers exposed it.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
www.therage.co/persona-age-...
The wrongful death suits should destroy the company.
I'm open for work again! I'm looking for interesting opportunities; want to work with me?
My experience includes web archiving and digital preservation, devops, and internal developer tooling. I'd love to put that experience to work for you and your team.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders' plan to build a huge mega-prison in rural Arkansas has drawn major opposition, with some residents saying it's made them think differently about incarceration in the face of organizing.
Now that's bleeding into a local election, as candidates vow to fight the governor.
NEW:
Studios are chasing Fortnite, but without the awareness that Fortnite launched to weak performance with a game mode that wasn't very popular and only became "Fortnite" by copying PUBG and doing a ton of post-launch investment.
Consolidation is bad for workers. It’s bad for customers. It’s bad for markets.
a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing
Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
Announcement from Substack: Post Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Substack, as expected, escalates toward hyper-disinfo.
Remember, folks: The tech bros tearing down our country are the major forces behind this monstrosity.
Choose your future wisely.