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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 1h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 2h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

All anyone wanted to do with OpenAI's new Sora 2 app was make clips of copyrighted characters. Now they can't, they're pissed. Literally what is the point of this app www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 6h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah, avoiding the release of a completely unnecessary additional memes and manipulation-machine that requires more energy than entire countries just to produce its unnecessary outputs was never an option -- right, Mr. Clever?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Cyberlibertarianism.

He positioned the launch’s speed bumps as learning opportunities. “Not for much longer will we have the only good video model out there, and there’s going to be a ton of videos with none of our safeguards, and that’s fine, that’s the way the world works,” Altman said, adding, “We can use this window to get society to really understand, ‘Hey, the playing field changed, we can generate almost indistinguishable video in some cases now, and you’ve got to be ready for that.’”
Altman said he feels that people don’t pay attention to OpenAI’s technology when people at the company talk about it, only when they release it. “We’ve got to have … this sort of technological and societal co-evolution,” Altman said. “I believe that works, and I actually don’t know anything else that works. There are clearly going to be challenges for society contending with this quality, and what will get much better, with the video generation. But the only way that we know of to help mitigate it is to get the world to experience it and figure out how that’s going to go.”

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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 8h

Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 8h

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 6h

Una carriera da santo/martire, intendo

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 6h

Se nel mezzo ci scappa anche farsi una carriera perché no

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 7h

Era tanto che non leggevo una voce poetica simile. Classe 1997. Un talento infinito, una lingua tutta sua, meravigliosa e piena di apocalissi, come scrive Aldo Nove a commento.

Leggetelo.

Leggete i giovani poeti italiani.

Sono il nostro vanto, la nostra resistenza, la nostra dignità.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 7h

È tutto già visto e tutto evidente ma non c’è alcun modo di spezzare la catena dell’idiozia martirizzante/santificante.

Abbiamo creato mostri o nella migliore delle ipotesi caricature per decenni, e non sembriamo capaci di altro.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 7h

That’s terrible, I wonder whether OpenAI would write the same of the automated deportation machine in Trump’s USA

www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 8h

Anche Vannacci è italiano, e i modi in cui ne abbiamo discusso sono gli stessi. Non mi pare un grande risultato

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 9h

In case you, like me, saw your electric bill more than double.

Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 18h

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 8h

Ma per quale motivo il "dibattito" pubblico in Italia è interamente orientato intorno a Francesca Albanese sì/Francesca Albanese no?

Possibile che non si riesca a discutere di nulla senza farne un referendum su una persona?

È politica, non il televoto, santoddio.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 9h

Our latest edition is out, with @omerbartov.bsky.social's magisterial essay on the history of genocide denial and how Israeli denialism over atrocities in Gaza has roots in the country's own history
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 9h

Con @lucadebiase.bsky.social — che come sempre ringrazio di cuore — a parlare del mio nuovo libro su AI e migrazioni (o meglio, sull’automazione come gestione della paura dell’Altro)

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War Room InnovAction - Luca De Biase dialoga con Fabio Chiusi

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 10h

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 11h

Trump’s first months back in office have tested the limits of presidential power.

Now, the Supreme Court seems ready to erase many of those limits — embracing the “unitary executive theory”, a Republican idea from the 1980s that could make the presidency all-powerful.

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

Recent rulings indicate that the high court is leaning toward expanding the type of presidential power that is more emblematic of dictatorship than democracy.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14h

A reminder that this week the Conservatives announced they want a “British ICE”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 12h

#brexiters are quintessential hypocrites...

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 12h

Ricordate bene i pericolosi pagliacci che vi hanno detto e stradetto che tutto questo non sarebbe mai successo.

Ricordate di non ascoltarli mai più, qualunque cosa dicano.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 12h

Intanto le camicie brune del regime trumpiano continuano con violenze e abusi, nel disinteresse generale.

La normalizzazione del fascismo è questa roba qua: indifferenza, propaganda, disumanizzazione, miseria.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 19h

Here’s video of the incident

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 12h

"The researchers found that people do tend to treat their AI companion apps with social courtesy by saying goodbye and that the apps often respond using tactics that apply emotional pressure to keep users from signing off"

The Register @theregister.com · 12h

AI companion bots use emotional manipulation to boost usage

Researchers argue that this dark pattern poses a legal risk AI companion apps such as Character.ai and Replika commonly try to boost user engagement with emotional manipulation, a practice that academics characterize as a dark pattern.…

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 13h

"The irony here is that this is a perfect example of the idea of Doctorow’s actual book"

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Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

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