This is so absolutely predictable:
‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’
Great to know their CEO doesn't even understand how AI works. It's not anxious because it's conscious, dumbass. It's anxious because you've been scraping the social media of users living and posting through fucking unstable times.
UK Lords Report, as per @diginomica.com
“widespread unlicensed use of protected works, coupled with limited transparency from AI developers about how their models have been trained, leaves rightsholders unsure about whether their content has been used, & unable to enforce their rights when it has.”
My first thought too.
Do it. Quietly place your Orwell Prize on the table in front of you. Or keep it in your lap, like a pet. Don’t be silenced, which is the ultimate goal of their criticism.
A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to.
https://tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-declare/
Thanks for putting that in perspective, particularly the “AI is special” trap. Been struggling with that in a document I’ve been working on.
Front Burner has become the best CBC current affairs program on any of their platforms. @jaymepoisson.bsky.social is a national treasure in the tradition of Michael Enright.
I cannot recommend this thorough and nuanced through line of the Iranian-American relationship by CBC’s Front Burner enough. It provides the essential context of the decades old reverberations necessary to begin making sense of what’s happening in Iran right now.
www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
You might even say “subsidizing”, which is how I view the AI companies using intellectual property for free. “De-risking” the obscene levels of investment is also an idea with traction in some quarters.
AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator to qualify for copyright protection. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
BBC has a good ticker of developments if you’re looking for reliable news with a dash of gossip about how the Brits are reacting to the denigration of their PM and what the RAF is up to.
Someone told tech companies the phrase “mass surveillance” is radioactive, so now they spend a bunch of time trying to pretend they are actually doing something different.
Big watching.
Large looking.
Titanic tracking.
Close up of map of eastern Saudi Arabia
About 10-15% of the population of Saudi Arabia is Shia. They live mostly in the Eastern Province and are concentrated mainly in Qatif and Al-Ahsa, across the sea from Iran. They face systemic discrimination and mostly live in poverty.
The Eastern Province is also where the Saudi oil is refined.
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Hegseth and Trump have no idea of what they’ve unleashed, do they?
NEW: More than 1,000 ships have been impacted by GPS jamming and spoofing attacks since the US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/gps-at...
#LunarEclipse FAQ:
Q: Is it safe to look at?
A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse.
Q: Do I need a telescope?
A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up!
Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom?
A: Not at all! The news has that covered.
They’d be the first thing I’d attack if I were a country that shouted death to America for 40 years. What is wrong with these Ai people?
"At one end, the glasses are marketed as an everyday assistant – a voice in the frame that tells you what you are seeing. At the other end, people in Nairobi sit annotating the most intimate moments the camera captures: open-plan offices, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms."
The US created Saddam Qaddafi Bin Laden and the Ayatollahs and every time they tried to destroy their creations something worse emerged
Seems our concerns about trojan horse WIPO exceptions were bang on @jenniferdavidson.bsky.social
Do not give this anti-human, anti-worker trash a single cent or click, ever.
This guy still around?
US aircraft leave Spain after government says bases cannot be used for Iran attacks
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
If Raisin’ gone be using mil slang in his pressers, an old glossary below. (offensive content warning)
Squirter: A person, assumed to be an enemy, running away from a military attack.
Not sure how a person running away causes casualties but what do I know.
Once again, we did not invent concepts like international law and rules of engagement because we’re woke pansy wimps
We developed them because we learned the very worst way, that even the strongest are less safe without them
1970s ad: GUESS WHO'S BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. The Shah of Iran is sitting on top of one of the largest reservoirs of oil in the world. Yet he's building two nuclear plants and planning two more to provide electricity for his country. He knows the oil is running out - and time with it. But he wouldn't build the plants now if he doubted their safety. He'd wait. As many Americans want to do. The Shah knows that nuclear energy is not only economical, it has enjoyed a remarkable 30-year safety record. A record that was good enough for the citizens of Plymouth, Massachusetts, too. They've approved their second nuclear plant by a vote of almost 4 to 1. Which shows you don't have to go as far as Iran for an endorsement of nuclear power. NUCLEAR ENERGY. TODAY'S ANSWER.
Fun ad from the 70s
Surprised he isn’t invoking a promise those sky virgins will be waiting for them first.
chat is it good when the regime is increasingly tailoring its public messaging towards its active service personnel during a spiraling military misadventure abroad
The level of de-risking already in the works from every G7 country is astounding: forced onto the public in education, healthcare, basic call centre stuff. It’s like a bail-out in advance. But folks can make memes. And porn of their exes and enemies.
