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Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

People Have the Right to Refuse AI Britt Paris is the author of Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up, a new book published by the University of California Press.

"If AI is inevitable, why is it being shoved down our throats? What options do we have?" writes @hellobrittparis.bsky.social in @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Refuse! Don't be a mark!

I do think the most insane part of the age gating laws is they absolutely won't fix anything whereas if you passed a law absolutely assigning liability in deaths to the AI companies with a nice fat minimum settlement all these problems would get fixed lickety-split.

Cartoon scene of a restaurant. Several tables, respectively labeled "Healthcare," " Education," " Sciences," "Arts," have only one customer each, with only empty plates. One table labeled "War" is lavishly served, being attended by 3 waiters carrying big, full dishes.

This is so perfectly fitting, had to share.

Read Anthropic CEO’s Memo Attacking OpenAI’s ‘Mendacious’ Pentagon Announcement Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sent a 1,600-wordmemo to employees Friday as OpenAI announced a deal to provide AI to the Pentagon. The OpenAI move came hours after the Pentagon said it would sever ties wi...

Exclusive: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei blasted OpenAI’s new Pentagon deal in a 1,600-word internal memo, calling its safety measures “80% theater.” https://thein.fo/4stQeqI

Africa isn't waiting to be included in the AI conversation. It's leading it. 🌍

This week, ODET joined partners in Cairo for "An Algorithmic Awakening," a capacity-building workshop on #AIGovernance, peace & security across the continent. Built with Africa. Not just for it.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

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...

"For now" aged fast.

36 countries will present Voluntary National Reviews (#VNRs) at #HLPF 2026.

Most are returning for their 3rd review, while Togo and Uruguay reach their 5th.

Nearly all UN Member States have now reported at least once (all but Haiti, Myanmar and the US).

https://hlpf.un.org/2026/vnrs

Brazil!! 😭

(So sadly true...)

Don't mock. I had Feelings for him. 😆

It's weird that Bannon signed some AI declaration with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, right?

That must mean he is coming around to her way of thinking, obviously... 🙄

Human singers, hallucinating with complete confidence to the adoration of many. Precursors to LLMs.

Awesome! 👏

Learn Accessibility  |  web.dev An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.

"Learn Accessibility" is a course that takes you through the essentials for building accessible websites and web apps. Created for both beginners and advanced users, this course can be taken beginning to end, or used as a reference for specific topics.

web.dev/learn/access...

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

“Most of what a writer experiences is failure. Developing a voice takes years. The point is not to make it out of the woods quickly or unscathed. Getting lost is not the rough part. It’s the whole thing.”
—Charles Yu
@theatlantic.com

@authorsguild.org @penamerica.bsky.social @wgawest.bsky.social

Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.

Welcome to the "machine web,” where “websites are built for AI to read rather than for humans, and reading summaries by chatbots becomes a primary way we consume information.”
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Urbana to local data center naysayers: "Hold our beer"| RANCO annexation still "on track" despite setback | Clarifying how county TIF funds can be used Give us a few moments and we'll serve up what matters in Marysville, OH on Thursday, March 5, 2026

Urbana County, Ohio, a county of just 11,000 people, just passed a 12-month moratorium on data center construction.

open.substack.com/pub/marysvil...

The Dom tower, Utrecht; cyanotype exposure from 120mm negative.

Rethinking Sovereign AI as Strategy Swarnim Shrivastava says the pursuit of AI sovereignty poses a tough question for nations: how much control is economically and institutionally feasible?

“Sovereign AI is ultimately about governance capacity,” writes Swarnim Shrivastava. Most nations cannot afford to build their own AI stack, turning instead to open source models as a way to prioritize integration and governance over scale.

Lawsuit? The most appropriate reaction to a machine like this is HYSTERIA. Take this sh*t seriously! It's a killing + terrorism making automaton.

Send the G-Men to where it lives and knock over the servers! Visit the boss's homes/offices/yachts/islands and force them to make it stop.

TURN IT OFF!

Dozens of Catholic priests molested hundreds of Rhode Island victims over decades, multiyear investigation reveals Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese maintain...

Investigation finds that 75 Catholic clergy in Rhode Island molested more than 300 victims since 1950, but the numbers are likely much higher. The church often transferred accused priests to new assignments without thoroughly investigating complaints or contacting police.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.

Daily reminder that calling ai dead labor and stolen labor is literal.

For crying out loud, just pay a good human engineer US$ 1,000 more PER WEEK, and save some serious cash! 🙄

United States Leads Dismantlement of One of the World’s Largest Hacker Forums The Department of Justice announced today the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools.

LeakBase, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools, has been seized by US law enforcement. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...

Another reason to deeply admire @rajiinio.bsky.social. ❤️👏

Few people pay forward the support they received. Too many pull the ladder behind them. The world would be so much better if we normalized being kind to those who come after us!

whatever else we do

we need to make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i," "me," and otherwise pretend to be people

it's not innate to llms -- it's part of the interface layer between the user and the statistical model

and it can be gotten rid of

Guns versus butter model - Wikipedia

Oh, didn't know that one...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_ve...

We're playing..." said the creep.

181 children, dead.