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Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact!
We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!
If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!
We only have one chance! Lets go!
We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!
If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!
We only have one chance! Lets go!
The House just advanced §43201 (Sub. C, Title IV), AKA the 10 year ban on state AI laws: thehill.com/homenews/hou...
It's now time to reach out to your Senators!
Wondering how? See: 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
Or feel free to use the card below.
It's now time to reach out to your Senators!
Wondering how? See: 5calls.org/issue/ai-reg...
Or feel free to use the card below.
May 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact!
We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!
If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!
We only have one chance! Lets go!
We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!
If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!
We only have one chance! Lets go!
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I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a LLM and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into an LLM and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a LLM
www.theverge.com/apps/673208/...
www.theverge.com/apps/673208/...
May 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a LLM and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into an LLM and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a LLM
www.theverge.com/apps/673208/...
www.theverge.com/apps/673208/...
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1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI giants reject government’s approach to solving copyright row
OpenAI and Google have objected to Labour’s proposed opt-out model and pushed for broader exemptions to let AI software use copyrighted material free
www.thetimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:35 PM
1/4 Well look at that. Open Ai and Google outright reject “Opt-Out” models, hell they even reject basic transparency requirements.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
AI companies demand they get everything, including our Intellectual Property, for free, and without anyone ever being able to tell the companies no.
I'm starting a list of creatives from different disciplines that are for protecting human artists. Hopefully we can get a larger movement to unify creatives against AI. And I will make sure to not include anyone that has "no lists" in their description.
May 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I'm starting a list of creatives from different disciplines that are for protecting human artists. Hopefully we can get a larger movement to unify creatives against AI. And I will make sure to not include anyone that has "no lists" in their description.
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It’s been a while since I made a shout out for @aimod.social.
It’s a labeler for tagging genAI images and flagging accounts using genAI profile pics, banners, or frequent AI imagery. Much of the team are artists themselves, working to protect fellow artists and keep people informed.
It’s a labeler for tagging genAI images and flagging accounts using genAI profile pics, banners, or frequent AI imagery. Much of the team are artists themselves, working to protect fellow artists and keep people informed.
May 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It’s been a while since I made a shout out for @aimod.social.
It’s a labeler for tagging genAI images and flagging accounts using genAI profile pics, banners, or frequent AI imagery. Much of the team are artists themselves, working to protect fellow artists and keep people informed.
It’s a labeler for tagging genAI images and flagging accounts using genAI profile pics, banners, or frequent AI imagery. Much of the team are artists themselves, working to protect fellow artists and keep people informed.
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Facial recognition technology is “uniquely dangerous, unreliable, and a persistent threat to human rights.” CISI co-director @hypervisible.bsky.social quoted by @willoremus.com in today's @washingtonpost.com Tech Brief www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | More airports are scanning faces. A new bill would limit the practice.
Senators revive bipartisan push to regulate the TSA’s use of facial recognition at security checkpoints.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Facial recognition technology is “uniquely dangerous, unreliable, and a persistent threat to human rights.” CISI co-director @hypervisible.bsky.social quoted by @willoremus.com in today's @washingtonpost.com Tech Brief www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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This is an incredibly important story that needs a legal strategy. This is very bad news for Americans.
This needs to become a much bigger story. We cannot let Palantir get this contract. www.wired.com/story/palant... @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project
For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is an incredibly important story that needs a legal strategy. This is very bad news for Americans.
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The reason they are so bad at presenting reasons for using it is because the feature is for the company’s benefit, not yours. www.bbc.com/news/article...
April 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The reason they are so bad at presenting reasons for using it is because the feature is for the company’s benefit, not yours. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Meta tried to stop this hearing from going forward, says Senator Hawley.
Listen to the testimony of Sarah Wynn Williams, former Facebook executive that wrote a tell-all book, Careless People.
Zuckerberg wants to destroy this woman.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
Listen to the testimony of Sarah Wynn Williams, former Facebook executive that wrote a tell-all book, Careless People.
Zuckerberg wants to destroy this woman.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
A Time for Truth: Oversight of Meta’s Foreign Relations and Representations to the United States Congress | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
April 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Meta tried to stop this hearing from going forward, says Senator Hawley.
Listen to the testimony of Sarah Wynn Williams, former Facebook executive that wrote a tell-all book, Careless People.
Zuckerberg wants to destroy this woman.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
Listen to the testimony of Sarah Wynn Williams, former Facebook executive that wrote a tell-all book, Careless People.
Zuckerberg wants to destroy this woman.
www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
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What happens when democracy glitches?
The tactics of the #teslatakedown movement may vary, but one thing unites us all: we will continue to resist oligarchy and technofascism with all we got.
www.businessinsider.com/tesla-takedo...
The tactics of the #teslatakedown movement may vary, but one thing unites us all: we will continue to resist oligarchy and technofascism with all we got.
www.businessinsider.com/tesla-takedo...
The Tesla Takedown movement started with a Bluesky post and an '80s actor
As Elon Musk's political power grew, so did the movement against his company. Here's a play-by-play look at how the Tesla Takedown protests unfolded.
www.businessinsider.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
What happens when democracy glitches?
The tactics of the #teslatakedown movement may vary, but one thing unites us all: we will continue to resist oligarchy and technofascism with all we got.
www.businessinsider.com/tesla-takedo...
The tactics of the #teslatakedown movement may vary, but one thing unites us all: we will continue to resist oligarchy and technofascism with all we got.
www.businessinsider.com/tesla-takedo...
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And, in case you were looking for the telephone number for your senator, here ya go…
March 27, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And, in case you were looking for the telephone number for your senator, here ya go…
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Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
Inside DOGE’s AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs
A DOGE operative at the Department of Veterans Affairs appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency’s systems, among other proposals.
www.wired.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Friday SCOOP: DOGE is now at the Department of Veterans Affairs, where a DOGE operative appears to be trying to use an AI tool to write code for the agency's systems, among other proposals. If you're a gov/tech worker and want to talk, I'm on Signal at vittoria89.82
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
Strongly suggest anyone to buy any imported foods you regularly consume soon: Seafood, coffee, olive oil, and certain types of rice are all import heavy.
I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence?
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
April 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Strongly suggest anyone to buy any imported foods you regularly consume soon: Seafood, coffee, olive oil, and certain types of rice are all import heavy.
When it comes to this wave of AI, it's best to argue from a position of some technology just shouldn't be made, rather than from accuracy. Everyone needs to be against this, the US with 'Predictive Policing' and every other country is going down this path. Make Orwell Fiction Again worldwide.
Would say “these systems don’t work” but the actual work of these systems is to more fully embed and perpetuate the racism of carceral systems, and thus they work exactly as intended.
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
When it comes to this wave of AI, it's best to argue from a position of some technology just shouldn't be made, rather than from accuracy. Everyone needs to be against this, the US with 'Predictive Policing' and every other country is going down this path. Make Orwell Fiction Again worldwide.
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When ai bros, grifters, and eugenicists push ai as an efficient solution, they are indicating the kind of care they think *you* deserve, not the kind of care they will continue to receive.
NEW: Dr. Mehmet Oz pushed for AI health care at his first Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) all staff meeting as administrator this Monday, promoting the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
from me and @stevenlevy.bsky.social:
from me and @stevenlevy.bsky.social:
Dr. Oz Pushed for AI Health Care in First Medicare Agency Town Hall
Dr. Oz, who now controls the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and its $1.5 trillion budget, promoted the idea that AI avatars could replace frontline health care workers.
www.wired.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When ai bros, grifters, and eugenicists push ai as an efficient solution, they are indicating the kind of care they think *you* deserve, not the kind of care they will continue to receive.
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Can’t stress enough how harmful it is for prominent people to do glowing promotions for surveillance devices during the rise of authoritarianism and assaults on bodily autonomy.
Chart your favorite pols biometrics during the rise of fascism.
Cory Booker Gave Us the Oura Ring Data From His 25-Hour Senate Speech
We got access to the New Jersey Senator's health info from his record-breaking address. Here's what it showed.
www.menshealth.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Can’t stress enough how harmful it is for prominent people to do glowing promotions for surveillance devices during the rise of authoritarianism and assaults on bodily autonomy.
There's a chance the nightmare will end after all. If the protests seen across the country expand to calling for the ban Agents and AGI research, PauseAI and StopAI's plan can finally break through the algorithmic suppression. Tell anyone you know that's worried about advanced AI pauseai.info/action
Microsoft has backed out of $1bn in data center plans in Ohio! It has begun!
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/micr...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/micr...
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
There's a chance the nightmare will end after all. If the protests seen across the country expand to calling for the ban Agents and AGI research, PauseAI and StopAI's plan can finally break through the algorithmic suppression. Tell anyone you know that's worried about advanced AI pauseai.info/action
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“Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda,” sources have told Reuters. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Exclusive: Musk's DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of the matter.
www.reuters.com
April 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda,” sources have told Reuters. www.reuters.com/technology/a...
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looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out
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Putting your fingers in your ears and pretending like it's never going to happen isn't helping anyone who is on the verge of being replaced. If you actually care about artists, VAs, programmers, basically all knowledge workers actually address the problem for what it is.
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Putting your fingers in your ears and pretending like it's never going to happen isn't helping anyone who is on the verge of being replaced. If you actually care about artists, VAs, programmers, basically all knowledge workers actually address the problem for what it is.
There are numerous studies showing Big Tech's algorithms are causing people, especially Gen Z, to become depressed and develop other mental health problems. We've been letting Silicon Valley push their 'cures' to harm they've caused for too long. Some technologies just shouldn't be made.
“…researchers gathered a group of roughly 200 people who had diagnosable conditions like depression and anxiety, or were at risk of developing eating disorders. Half of them worked with AI therapy bots. Compared to those that did not receive treatment, those who did showed significant improvement”
The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now
Many AI products claim to deliver mental health therapy, but with little quality control. But new research suggests with the right training, AI can be effective at helping people.
www.npr.org
April 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
There are numerous studies showing Big Tech's algorithms are causing people, especially Gen Z, to become depressed and develop other mental health problems. We've been letting Silicon Valley push their 'cures' to harm they've caused for too long. Some technologies just shouldn't be made.
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“A 21st-century, parenting-focused AI ELIZA could play a role in helping new parents navigate all the challenges of rearing kids.” 🤔
Every future imagined by venture capital is worse than the previous iteration.
Forget the Nanny, Check the Chatbot. AI May Soon Help With Parenting
The AI revolution means new startups can address some unexpected markets, like easing the challenges of caring for kids.
www.inc.com
November 8, 2024 at 11:57 PM
“A 21st-century, parenting-focused AI ELIZA could play a role in helping new parents navigate all the challenges of rearing kids.” 🤔
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Go show support and get this issue in front of KDE voices, this is by far the best funding idea that I've seen in a long time (came from my community btw). I'd be more than happy to promote KDE selling plushies in my videos for whatever period is needed discuss.kde.org/t/idea-for-k...
Idea for KDE promotion: Plushies!
There is the (older) Konqui plushie which is quite nice. Don’t know if that is still available. I would quite like to see the modern Konqui and friends as plushies.
discuss.kde.org
November 5, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Go show support and get this issue in front of KDE voices, this is by far the best funding idea that I've seen in a long time (came from my community btw). I'd be more than happy to promote KDE selling plushies in my videos for whatever period is needed discuss.kde.org/t/idea-for-k...