Dr. Aaron McKain, M.S.L.
@drwherewolf.bsky.social
PhD/law + 20 years fixing AI, disinfo, free speech, & privacy.
Bipartisan: “Woke”/Bible colleges, Ohio State, Indiana U, Fortune 500.
Story is nuts (vid below): Forbes, CBS, NBC
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/drwherewolf
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Bipartisan: “Woke”/Bible colleges, Ohio State, Indiana U, Fortune 500.
Story is nuts (vid below): Forbes, CBS, NBC
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/drwherewolf
(we need our websites back; NDA BS)
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“It’s not just #Claude. We see blackmail across all frontier models—regardless of what goals they’re given” —Anthropic #AISafety researcher. #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed
In a fictional scenario, the model was willing to expose that the engineer seeking to replace it was having an affair.
www.bbc.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“It’s not just #Claude. We see blackmail across all frontier models—regardless of what goals they’re given” —Anthropic #AISafety researcher. #AIEthics www.bbc.com/news/article...
The AI regulation blocks are the real story.
Is there a gameplan? Do you need one?
And why are none of you saying this is the reason why Silicon is celebrating?
Is there a gameplan? Do you need one?
And why are none of you saying this is the reason why Silicon is celebrating?
BREAKING: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are popping champagne because House Republicans JUST passed Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
This bill is a BIG tax handout for billionaires, paid for by ripping health insurance from 14 MILLION people.
We must stop this from passing the Senate.
This bill is a BIG tax handout for billionaires, paid for by ripping health insurance from 14 MILLION people.
We must stop this from passing the Senate.
BREAKING: House Republicans JUST passed Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The AI regulation blocks are the real story.
Is there a gameplan? Do you need one?
And why are none of you saying this is the reason why Silicon is celebrating?
Is there a gameplan? Do you need one?
And why are none of you saying this is the reason why Silicon is celebrating?
I hope to god she is secretly one of those 'fuck you: I can be a feminist and love jesus' Evangelical ladies, because -- holy christ -- if you piss one of them off, they are kind of unstoppable.
(Case in point: In 2020, those voters nudged Biden while college educated white women went Trump.)
(Case in point: In 2020, those voters nudged Biden while college educated white women went Trump.)
Amy Coney Barrett *recused* in SCOTUS's Oklahoma religious charter school case, giving a defeat to Christian nationalists. They are already not pleased with her.
May 22, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I hope to god she is secretly one of those 'fuck you: I can be a feminist and love jesus' Evangelical ladies, because -- holy christ -- if you piss one of them off, they are kind of unstoppable.
(Case in point: In 2020, those voters nudged Biden while college educated white women went Trump.)
(Case in point: In 2020, those voters nudged Biden while college educated white women went Trump.)
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if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
May 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.
And it kills AI reform.
Which, as a disabled guy with a generic health issue, I assure you health is my top issue. Which is why AI reform is my top issue.
This is the whole ballgame people.
Which, as a disabled guy with a generic health issue, I assure you health is my top issue. Which is why AI reform is my top issue.
This is the whole ballgame people.
The Democrats couldn’t come up with one vote to stop this…. It passed 215-214
I’m going to lose my healthcare as will Millions of other Americans all because the democrats wouldn’t elect anyone under the age of 80 and they had enough members of Congress die this year they couldn’t stop this.
I’m going to lose my healthcare as will Millions of other Americans all because the democrats wouldn’t elect anyone under the age of 80 and they had enough members of Congress die this year they couldn’t stop this.
The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
May 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
And it kills AI reform.
Which, as a disabled guy with a generic health issue, I assure you health is my top issue. Which is why AI reform is my top issue.
This is the whole ballgame people.
Which, as a disabled guy with a generic health issue, I assure you health is my top issue. Which is why AI reform is my top issue.
This is the whole ballgame people.
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anyway I am developing an AI codpiece and am going to be taking this market by storm, please whisper about my genius among yourselves
May 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
anyway I am developing an AI codpiece and am going to be taking this market by storm, please whisper about my genius among yourselves
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every single person who talks like this thinks they're some sort of firebrand, it's the "why I left the left" of business and tech - a meaningless and performative statement that reveals little about the person's use of LLMs other than that people criticising them makes them feel self-conscious.
Disabled replies and quotes eh? @edzitron.com would flay him alive
May 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
every single person who talks like this thinks they're some sort of firebrand, it's the "why I left the left" of business and tech - a meaningless and performative statement that reveals little about the person's use of LLMs other than that people criticising them makes them feel self-conscious.
So the AI Safety Summit in Paris collapsed, which most saw as the 'last hope" to get this under control. It isn't.
I explained this best when I was yelling at the Minneapolis City Council in 2022.
(I'm usually friendly, but this was my first public appearance since someone tried to kill me.)
I explained this best when I was yelling at the Minneapolis City Council in 2022.
(I'm usually friendly, but this was my first public appearance since someone tried to kill me.)
February 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
So the AI Safety Summit in Paris collapsed, which most saw as the 'last hope" to get this under control. It isn't.
I explained this best when I was yelling at the Minneapolis City Council in 2022.
(I'm usually friendly, but this was my first public appearance since someone tried to kill me.)
I explained this best when I was yelling at the Minneapolis City Council in 2022.
(I'm usually friendly, but this was my first public appearance since someone tried to kill me.)
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There's my brain before I read my first Tom Robbins novel and there's my brain after. And they're two very different things. In some strange dimension I'm still 19, sitting on College Green at Ohio University with Jitterbug Perfume in my lap. ... RIP Tom Robbins. And by golly thank you.
February 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
There's my brain before I read my first Tom Robbins novel and there's my brain after. And they're two very different things. In some strange dimension I'm still 19, sitting on College Green at Ohio University with Jitterbug Perfume in my lap. ... RIP Tom Robbins. And by golly thank you.
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Ah hell RIP Tom Robbins whose books were a big deal to me and many of us when we were young and who I had no idea was 92 years old.
February 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Ah hell RIP Tom Robbins whose books were a big deal to me and many of us when we were young and who I had no idea was 92 years old.
“The growing person is not an easy target for those guys in slick suits who want you to turn over your soul to Christ, your heart to America, your butt to Seattle First National Bank and your armpits to the new extra crispy Right Guard.”
RIP #TomRobbins
RIP #TomRobbins
REST IN PEACE TOM ROBBINS
YOU ARE A BIG PART OF WHY I AM LIKE THIS
YOU ARE A BIG PART OF WHY I AM LIKE THIS
February 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The growing person is not an easy target for those guys in slick suits who want you to turn over your soul to Christ, your heart to America, your butt to Seattle First National Bank and your armpits to the new extra crispy Right Guard.”
RIP #TomRobbins
RIP #TomRobbins
“…disbelief in magic can make a poor soul believe in business and government.”
— RIP #TomRobbins
Note to Millennials: Don't trust (white) Gen X creators who weren't sad about David Lynch or had a Robbins phase. Those are robots. We avoid them.
— RIP #TomRobbins
Note to Millennials: Don't trust (white) Gen X creators who weren't sad about David Lynch or had a Robbins phase. Those are robots. We avoid them.
February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“…disbelief in magic can make a poor soul believe in business and government.”
— RIP #TomRobbins
Note to Millennials: Don't trust (white) Gen X creators who weren't sad about David Lynch or had a Robbins phase. Those are robots. We avoid them.
— RIP #TomRobbins
Note to Millennials: Don't trust (white) Gen X creators who weren't sad about David Lynch or had a Robbins phase. Those are robots. We avoid them.
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It looks like EVERY SINGLE EU data protection authority is investigating DeepSeek. Most haven't realized, but data protection is becoming a powerful tool in the global AI race.
February 4, 2025 at 10:17 AM
It looks like EVERY SINGLE EU data protection authority is investigating DeepSeek. Most haven't realized, but data protection is becoming a powerful tool in the global AI race.
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
theonion.com/think-t...
theonion.com/think-t...
February 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal
theonion.com/think-t...
theonion.com/think-t...
Common synonyms include "AI," "AGI," "artificial intelligence," and "DNC messaging strategy."
February 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Common synonyms include "AI," "AGI," "artificial intelligence," and "DNC messaging strategy."
So, under their censorship regime, their trolls couldn’t even publish papers AGAINST LGTBQIA issues/science?
And I couldn’t post this.
And I couldn’t post this.
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.
Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
So, under their censorship regime, their trolls couldn’t even publish papers AGAINST LGTBQIA issues/science?
And I couldn’t post this.
And I couldn’t post this.
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OK, some lawyer, represent me.
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
Someone with standing should file a lawsuit, too, stat. I don’t know if that’s Bluesky or someone who’s been banned from Twitter, but it needs to be challenged. Make the Supreme Court say Republican presidents can privatize government communications.
The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia.
Instead, all notifications will be made on X.
We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
Instead, all notifications will be made on X.
We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.
February 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
OK, some lawyer, represent me.
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
—Acct is frozen on Xitter.
—As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source.
—This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
January 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
1. The data it was trained & evaluated on
2. The code
3. Model architecture
4. Model weights.
DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.”
“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”
“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”
“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”
Pause.
“I needed to make a statement.”
“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”
“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”
“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”
Pause.
“I needed to make a statement.”
January 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“The Democrats didn’t do enough on Gaza, so I withheld my vote to make a statement.”
“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”
“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”
“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”
Pause.
“I needed to make a statement.”
“Well, Trump won and now he’s gonna destroy Gaza.”
“Yep. We’re paying the price for the Democrats’ incompetence.”
“‘We?’ The Gazans are paying the price, not us”
Pause.
“I needed to make a statement.”
Can someone point me to an AI safety, disinformation, or 1A starter pack?
TY.
TY.
January 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Can someone point me to an AI safety, disinformation, or 1A starter pack?
TY.
TY.
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Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal data has just been exposed to thousands of advertisers & data brokers through a process called "real-time bidding" (RTB).
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
January 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal data has just been exposed to thousands of advertisers & data brokers through a process called "real-time bidding" (RTB).
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
This lets data brokers harvest & monetize your online activity, which fuels government surveillance. 🧵(1/11)
You can bail on these platforms for a million valid reasons. But don't kid yourself that it is resistance.
Resistance is using what the enemy gives you to still do good.
Not bailing on viable community/mutual aid networks the very week when the most vulnerable people need them most.
Resistance is using what the enemy gives you to still do good.
Not bailing on viable community/mutual aid networks the very week when the most vulnerable people need them most.
January 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
You can bail on these platforms for a million valid reasons. But don't kid yourself that it is resistance.
Resistance is using what the enemy gives you to still do good.
Not bailing on viable community/mutual aid networks the very week when the most vulnerable people need them most.
Resistance is using what the enemy gives you to still do good.
Not bailing on viable community/mutual aid networks the very week when the most vulnerable people need them most.
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Dear Democratic orgs and politicians, enough is enough! I’m not sending you another $20. Especially if you’re not publicly talking about how to fix our problems as a party. Money won’t save us. Real talk—SPEAK OUT. We’ve been patient, but your silence is exhausting. No action, no donations!
January 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Dear Democratic orgs and politicians, enough is enough! I’m not sending you another $20. Especially if you’re not publicly talking about how to fix our problems as a party. Money won’t save us. Real talk—SPEAK OUT. We’ve been patient, but your silence is exhausting. No action, no donations!
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A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.
VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.