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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Julie L. Lockwood, Christopher Wright , and 9 more

mark-bray.bsky.social
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Paul Davies, Michael D. McDonald

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ANDREESSEN: Even if AI ends up destroying all the jobs, “the result would be hyper-deflation of prices, which is the thing that people miss. .. Things that today cost a lot of money will all of a sudden be cheap or free.”

@fortune.com
fortune.com/2025/10/08/b...
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privacycdn.bsky.social
Government to table new border bill amid C-2 privacy concerns: sources | CBC News
Government to table new border bill amid C-2 privacy concerns: sources | CBC News
The federal Liberals are set to introduce a new bill expected to mirror much of what's in their already tabled border legislation — but with some clauses that sparked concerns from opposition parties...
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Meredith Broussard, Alan Richardson , and 2 more

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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.”
www.theverge.com
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
Great thread on #Carney 's headlong rush into poor #AI policy...
bhaggart.bsky.social
Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 20h
Carney’s reckless approach to AI policy should raise serious questions about his infrastructure & US policies as well. In all three, he seems to be relying on his own (non-expert) judgment, ignoring complexity & others’ expertise in favour of speed. But decisiveness isn’t the same as good judgment.
Carney’s haste may make bad AI policy - The Logic
The Liberals’ AI task force has just 30 days to do their job. Some members say it isn’t enough time.
thelogic.co
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bhaggart.bsky.social
Carney’s reckless approach to AI policy should raise serious questions about his infrastructure & US policies as well. In all three, he seems to be relying on his own (non-expert) judgment, ignoring complexity & others’ expertise in favour of speed. But decisiveness isn’t the same as good judgment.
Carney’s haste may make bad AI policy - The Logic
The Liberals’ AI task force has just 30 days to do their job. Some members say it isn’t enough time.
thelogic.co
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Scott L. Greer, Robert C. Richards , and 1 more

walterolson.bsky.social
New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.
Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.
thedispatch.com
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Anna O. Law, Peter Thorne , and 4 more

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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
Sure, dm me.
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ubisurv.net
A question: how are non-American folks who are organizing conferences or conference sessions in the USA in the current circumstances, justifying this? I cannot in good conscience encourage anyone to risk arrest, deportation or worse, for the sake of a conference paper... #AcademicSky
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climatecasino.net
Sad and tired ...

businessinsider.com/how-luxury-d...
How luxury doomsday bunkers turned into a billionaire status symbol
Atlas Survival Shelters is the world's largest bunker manufacturer, and it's extra busy with orders from billionaires.
businessinsider.com
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...
Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime
Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.
www.404media.co
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srossmktg.com
Huh.
ICE plans to use Vermont facility to host team using AI, social media to target people - The Boston Globe
Vermont has also long served as an essential outpost of the US Department of Homeland Security and, in particular, its most controversial arm, Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
www.bostonglobe.com
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
After years of exploiting and mistreating their captive #cetaceans, disgraceful #Marineland is now trying to extort the Canadian government by threatening to kill the remaining #Belugas if the government does not allow them to be sold to China.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Marine park threatens to euthanize 30 whales if Canada does not provide funding
Marineland’s warning comes after Canadian official blocked the transfer of the beluga whales to a theme park in China
www.theguardian.com

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So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from:

WhiteWind
Skylight
Bluescreen
Flashes

Basically all ATproto apps/projects?

WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
#UK is trying to stop public #protest.
roterote.bsky.social
roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 2d
The Right to Protest obliterated in the UK.
Protest requires repeated protests to be effective. This continues the state repression of any kind of protest that can actually challenge the state or capital. But what the government forgets is that ending the legal routes opens the illegal routes.
Home Office @ukhomeoffice • 20h The right to protest must be protected. But repeated large protests are leaving communities feeling unsafe. This cannot continue. Police will have new powers to instruct organisers to hold events elsewhere or risk arrest - protecting communities and police resources. POLICE WILL BE GRANTED NEW POWERS TO RESTRICT REPEAT PROTESTS WHEN THERE IS A RISK OF SERIOUS PUBLIC DISORDER
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Gráinne McKeever, Richard Moorhead

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Dr Christopher Rudge, law lecturer at the University of Sydney, says the report that Deloitte prepared for Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations contained “hallucinations” because of an initially undisclosed use of generative AI. Now the government is getting its money back.
Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework
www.theguardian.com
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roterote.bsky.social
The Right to Protest obliterated in the UK.
Protest requires repeated protests to be effective. This continues the state repression of any kind of protest that can actually challenge the state or capital. But what the government forgets is that ending the legal routes opens the illegal routes.
Home Office @ukhomeoffice • 20h The right to protest must be protected. But repeated large protests are leaving communities feeling unsafe. This cannot continue. Police will have new powers to instruct organisers to hold events elsewhere or risk arrest - protecting communities and police resources. POLICE WILL BE GRANTED NEW POWERS TO RESTRICT REPEAT PROTESTS WHEN THERE IS A RISK OF SERIOUS PUBLIC DISORDER
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
We're launched! In my newsletter this week, I write about our new female-founded media collective
@thenerve.news,
the fuck you energy that's fuelling it & why the mainstream media's laundering of Tony Blair is *exactly* why you need to read it 👊👊👊
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-nerve
The Nerve
We've got it. Do you?
broligarchy.substack.com
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marcowenjones.bsky.social
Summary of some of the government of Israel's $8 million spend in the US in the past few months to serve propaganda to gen Z, manipulate AI, co-copt influencers, and flood the zone with bots open.substack.com/pub/marcowen...
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Dudes have been fantasizing about a computer friend in their glasses for a long time. This is 1959! www.wired.com/story/secret...
The beauty of the n-tuple method was that it could recognize many variants of the same character: Most Qs tended to score pretty close to other Qs. Better yet, the process worked with any pattern, not just text. According to an essay coauthored by Robert S. Boyer, a mathematician and longtime friend of Woody's, the n-tuple method helped define the field of pattern recognition; it was among the early set of efforts to ask, "How can we make a machine do something like what people do?" Around the time when he was devising the n-tuple method, Woody had his first daydream about building the machine that he called a "computer person." Years later, he would recall the "wild excitement" he felt as he conjured up a list of skills for the artificial consciousness: "I wanted it to read printed characters on a page and handwritten script as well. I could see it, or a part of it, in a small camera that would fit on my glasses, with an attached earplug that would whisper into my ear the names of my friends and acquaintances as I met them on the street... For you see, my computer friend had the ability to recognize faces."
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Lesley A. Hall, Fiona Moore

nnedi.bsky.social
This Anthropic settlement case…fellow authors, are any of you feeling rage? I have 12 books listed and money (I don’t CARE how many thousands, even millions) is NOT adequate compensation. What was stolen & used without my permission is priceless! Where is the option to scrub my work from AI?!
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
As the captain of the ship appears to be increasingly unreliable, the dark enlightenment rats are getting their swimming gear on...
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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d
mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
We are in agreement. All I'm saying is that Bratton's current argument is pretty much personal slight & being annoyed that Crawford and Morozov (et al.) are taken more seriously than him, despite him having his own research institute & he's trying to make it sound intellectual rather than personal.
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ubisurv.net
Absolutely. But it all seems like so much fluff to me (Bratton's "grand theory" I mean). I'm not sure it even merits the (valiant) effort in critique that Eryk is making here.
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
It's just standard accelerationist stuff, really. I've read and appreciated some of what Bratton has written in the past, more The Stack and less so Return of the Real, which was a terrible COVID cash-in. But he's always defaulted to a rather basic and boring accelerationist position.
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Reposted by: David Murakami Wood, Scott A. Imberman, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

helldude.bsky.social
mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass
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by David Murakami Wood

ubisurv.net
If there is still anyone who hasn't been convinced of the utter immorality and brutality of the current regime in #Israel –and I don't know how that is possible after everything happening in #Gaza and the #WestBank, but still...– just look at the humiliation meted out #GretaThunberg.
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
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*takes massive bong rip*
hailey @hailey.at • 6h an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok 4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron 89 $ 107 90 企 hailey @hailey.at • 6h if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that
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