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symbo1ics.bsky.social
The "use case" for LLMs is: Spam. Everywhere.
Screenshot from quoted article: The LLM is for spam OpenAI’s AI-powered text generators fueled a lot of the hype around AI — but the real-world use case for large language models is overwhelmingly to generate content for spamming. [Vox] The use case for AI is spam web pages filled with ads. Google considers LLM-based ad landing pages to be spam, but seems unable or unwilling to detect and penalize it. [MIT Technology Review; The Verge] The use case for AI is spam books on Amazon Kindle. Most are “free” Kindle Unlimited titles earning money through subscriber pageviews rather than outright purchases. [Daily Dot] The use case for AI is spam news sites for ad revenue. [NewsGuard] The use case for AI is spam phone calls for automated scamming — using AI to clone people’s voices. [CBS] The use case for AI is spam Amazon reviews and spam tweets. [Vice] The use case for AI is spam videos that advertise malware. [DigitalTrends] The use case for AI is spam sales sites on Etsy. …
November 22, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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disinfo.eu
📺 👏 Thank you to everyone who joined “Climate deception ‘on Air’”!
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzWr...

🔜 Next webinar, 5 February: Who Is Most Vulnerable to AI-Generated Mis/Disinformation?
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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meribolst.bsky.social
< Note Kirstie Kimball 3d substack If you don't live in Minneapolis, I need you to know a few things about the occupation. -the helicopters don't stop -there are so many abductions from cars that we have a towing moratorium and there are constantly cars parked haphazardly in the street-these are often running or have their hazards on and they often have glass from broken windows by the wheels -even if you're stationary in one spot, you will likely see ICE multiple times a day -songs with honking or whistles on sports TVs in bars get people to stand up automatically -most restaurants, even those that aren't owned by immigrants, have locked their doors -there was a military style checkpoint by the execution site of Alex Pretti last night and people had to prove they live there with ID or mail to get into their neighborhood -whatever you see on the news or Instagram, it's worse
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
Screenshot of an X.com post by The Associated Press (@AP) stating that dozens of immigrant families protested for better treatment behind fences at a Texas detention facility, where a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent after being detained in Minnesota. Below is a video thumbnail showing a crowd gathered outdoors along a fenced walkway; many people wear bright blue or red outerwear, and some hold signs.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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greatdismal.bsky.social
I think we’ve got better and more culturally-varied street food than I could have imagined, cool jackets galore, and drugs that make us think we’re really fast and strong before they kill us.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 20d
we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
This is the full text of the real, batshit insane letter Trump sent to the Norwegian Prime Minister.

We all know MAGA is a death cult, but if Congress & his Cabinet refuse to remove the mentally incontinent idiot from office, they’re guilty of risking the lives of every single person on the planet.
The letter in full reads: “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
January 19, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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chrismckillop.bsky.social
Super PhD opportunity.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 25d
are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

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About the PhD: Audits and evaluation of AI systems — and the broader context that AI systems operate in — have become central to conceptualising, quantifying, measuring and understanding the operations, failures, limitations, underlying assumptions, and downstream societal implications of AI systems. Existing AI audit and evaluation efforts are fractured, done in a siloed and ad-hoc manner, and with little deliberation and reflection around conceptual rigour and methodological validity. This PhD is for a candidate that is passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like. This requires grappling with questions such as: What does it mean to represent “ground truth” in proxies, synthetic data, or computational simulation? How do we reliably measure abstract and complex phenomena? What are the epistemological or methodological implications of quantification and measurement approaches we choose to employ? Particularly, what underlying presuppositions, values, or perspectives do they entail? How do we ensure the lived experiences of impacted communities play a critical role in the development and justification of measurement metrics and proxies? Through exploration of these questions, the candidate is expected to engage with core concepts in the philosophy of science, history of science, Black feminist epistemologies, and similar schools of thought to develop an in-depth understanding of existing practices with the aim of applying it to advance shared standards and best practice in AI evaluation. The candidate is expected to integrate empirical (for example, through analysis or evaluation of existing benchmarks) or practical (for example, by executing evaluation of AI systems) components into the overall work.
January 15, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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umaw.bsky.social
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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jsmanrique.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
An interesting open position in @EclipseFdn for those into digital #productmanagement and #opensource at #OpenVSX, the biggest open-source registry for VS Code extensions, used by platforms like #windsurf. 😉😉 […]
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January 16, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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caitlinkelly.bsky.social
It was amazing to watch the journalists who built this tool at work. Months and months of painstaking effort, careful reporting behind every decision.

It's the kind of work that ProPublica does best.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Dec 18
NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
Where Was My Generic Prescription Drug Made? - Rx Inspector - ProPublica
The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information on your prescription label to locate the factory and see inspection reports.
projects.propublica.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
“We already have general intelligence in humans, and instead of attempting to replicate it artificially, we should focus on amplifying collective intelligence through AI-human feedback loops. The core challenge is not creating autonomous artificial minds but developing dynamic, adaptive systems […]
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December 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Next time you’re applying for a job, any job, be sure to mention you were able to pick out a giraffe during a regular dementia test.

Let’s see how it plays out.
December 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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ifex.org
#Brazil 🇧🇷 @indexoncensorship.org covers how Meta removed multiple Brazilian left-wing influencers from Instagram, with politicians calling the bans a “direct attack on freedom of speech” and on voices denouncing corruption and police violence.
Meta bans Brazilian left-wing influencers - Index on Censorship
Politicians say it is a "direct attack on freedom of speech and the work of those who denounce injustices within Brazil"
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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missionlocal.org
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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bsd.cafe
"The contrast with Docker is striking: while the Docker container required 100% CPU to reach peak for the HTTP and HTTPS throughput, the FreeBSD jail delivered the same speed with ~60% of the CPU sitting idle. In terms of performance cost per request, Jails are drastically cheaper." […]
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November 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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jsmanrique.bsky.social
Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions by OpenSSF. Worth reading, and worth contributing 😉

best.openssf.org/Security-Foc...
Security-Focused Guide for AI Code Assistant Instructions
The Best Practices for OSS Developers working group is dedicated to raising awareness and education of secure code best practices for open source developers.
best.openssf.org
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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perryodontal.bsky.social
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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dabeard.bsky.social
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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kimzetter.bsky.social
Starting Monday LinkedIn will begin using data from your profiles/posts to train AI. If you live in EU/EEA/Switzerland/Canada/Hong Kong your data is subject to being used this way, but you can opt out. Go to Settings/Privacy/Data for Generative AI Improvement and toggle the switch to off
Update to our Terms and data use | LinkedIn Help
Update to our Terms and data use
www.linkedin.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
rockygrober.bsky.social
Didn't have that on my bingo card....
jeremymillar.bsky.social Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · Oct 28
Not now truckload of aggressive rhesus monkeys infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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malwarejake.bsky.social
"When one of the man's broken ribs punctured his skin and scratched an ICE agent's skin, he was charged with assault."
themorrancave.bsky.social Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · Oct 28
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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jsmanrique.bsky.social
#OSPORADAR, to develop the technical tooling to enable Academic Open-Source Programme Offices (OSPOs) to efficiently archive, manage, and showcase their institutions' software productions.
Help needed on the stakeholder requirements deliverable:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
D1.1 OSPO-RADAR Stakeholder Requirements and Specifications-community-review
D1.1 OSPO-RADAR Stakeholder Requirements and Specifications Project Title Open Source Program Office Research Assets Dashboard and Archival Resource Project Acronym OSPO-RADAR Grant Agreement No. ...
docs.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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carlbergstrom.com
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM