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05.03.2026 22:00
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that's good right
yasssssssss (I cried)
Once a simple proofreading tool, Grammarly is now bristling with AI features and a suite of "expert" agents based on the works of real authors. But the company doesn't ask permission and in some cases offers feedback from virtual versions of dead writers—including one historian who died in January.
NEW from me: the pledge big tech companies signed at the white house today is supposed to protect ratepayers from high utility bills due to data centers — but the WH actually has little ability to make that happen
"this is theater," @aripeskoe.bsky.social told me
I didn't expect the "then they came for..." to hit me QUITE so specifically, but lesson learned.
Unprompted by anything specific… worth noting that WIRED’s ASME award nominated package, “How To Win a Fight,” includes a piece on how to advocate for your trans and nonbinary neighbors:
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
Every trans woman I know has had "why not be an effeminate man?" shoved in our faces for ages and yet thus piece suggests that even once suggesting an effeminate boy might be trans is some sort of crime against humanity.
This is transphobia.
thank you Kevin
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Gebbia was reportedly spotted at a San Francisco coffee shop using an unidentified pair of earbuds with a circular disc that looks similar to the device seen in a recent OpenAI hoax ad. www.wired.com/story/joe-ge...
OPEN AI: WILL YOU LET THE GOVERNMENT USE YOUR TOOLS FOR MASS SURUEILLANCE? OPEN AI: WILL YOU STAND UP FOR AMERICANS? OPEN AI EMPLOYE WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?
Criticism of OpenAI working with the Department of Defense seen in San Francisco this morning.
“OPENAI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?”
ByteDance is still trying to make the VR workplace happen
The ByteDance company wants to make the case that XR is “not just for gaming” anymore by giving you a digital office.
The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills. www.wired.com/story/war-in...
practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.
NEW: X Is *drowning* in disinformation following US and Israel’s attack on Iran. WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.
read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
congress sounds cool i wish it was real
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
Huh. He literally did the speech.
there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true
a robot that deletes all my emails in a way that’s out of my control lowkey sounds amazing and cathartic
If you've been watching Love Is Blind for years and feeling like it's become more and more blatantly MAGA-coded—with increasingly misogynist men, you're not alone. Had to blog it out. www.wired.com/story/love-i...
A new bill that would give farmers in Iowa the right to repair is a big threat to tractor manufacturer John Deere. www.wired.com/story/latest...
