Richard Milhouse Nixon not only wasn't convicted of his blatant crimes, he recieved a full presidential pardon, events which set the tone/laid the groundwork for the increasingly naked corruption of American politics in general & the Republican party in particular through the 20th & 21st centuries…

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5d ago

More than 50 years after Watergate, the Justice Department is reaching back into history to consider whether Richard Nixon was treated unfairly on.wsj.com/4ADM7NH

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

Whew. Listen.

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle@drdoylesays.bsky.social · 6d ago

CPTSD is not primarily about what happened to us. It's about how what happened to us turned us into someone we didn't choose. The "just get over it" people don't understand that. We don't "just get over" who we've become. We have to recondition, rewire, reshape ourselves.

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

engadget.com

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last wk.

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Seriously, just do not use muse

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last wk.

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

Microsoft goes quiet after church groups ask for 1% of data center costs

“Microsoft claims to want to be a good neighbor, but the jury is still out."

share.google

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

🔥 The Blacksky mobile app is here. Today we're opening up our public beta on both iOS and Android. If you've been waiting for a native mobile experience, now's your chance to try it before our full public launch and help us make it even better. 🧵👇

So much of the normie American left and media has no idea how in love Evangelicals are with the end of the world. How much they want it to happen

😬 i can check in the back but i think we're all out of fucks to give

I say this over and over again. It’s trans rights. It’s immigrant rights. It’s Palestinian lives. It’s always been Black and indigenous lives. No one is free until everyone is free is a warning, not a mantra!

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 2w ago

it's trans rights or we all go to hell

I get that people are afraid dems will lose but what use are politicians that wont stand up for marginalized people _specifically in this moment_. The scale of what needs to be done requires people with courage not just another spineless politicians. We have hundreds of those right now. To what use?

I have this dude muted. I'm only occasionally reminded that he exists. And whenever it happens, it causes me to take a moment to enjoy how unburdened I feel in a world where I don't have to read whatever asinine shit he's saying.

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago

If Thomas Chatterton Williams agrees with you there is something foundationally wrong with your argument

People act tough because they think an internet mob is gonna make me back down. Then they find out this is not my first time and I want ALL the smoke. These hands never duck a fade. Don't be scared once you realize you found the wrong one. 😂

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

when ai leaves u behind

Xero now with 100% more 🎃@artificer-ind.bsky.social · 4w ago

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

It feels like there are way more white people trying to convince me to hate AI than there are trying to convince their fellow white people to stop spreading fascism. I will denounce AI today if you agree to put all of this same energy into talking to your family.

Should we talk about what "inherently harmful" means today? No, we absolutely should not. It's likely to devolve into useless pedantry. However, we can talk about why people think labeling something as "inherently harmful" is a useful thing to do.

Rob is super clever y'all. He has spent several hours duping me into showing my true colors. But he's worried that you'll never see it because it's buried in these replies. I said I'd help him out so you can decide for yourselves that I'm not a person you should listen to.

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

nytimes.com

I was gonna say I can't believe so many people read this as anything other than a vague shitpost. But that's not true. I absolutely believe it. I need to face facts that I do it knowing full well people are gonna lose their shit for no reason. bsky.app/profile/polo...

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 3w ago

If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks LLMs are inherently harmful, help them install one on their laptop, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."

I wrote this 2 years ago. smh.

Marco Rogers@polotek.bsky.social · 2y ago

So we need to decide what we're going to do. The default is that we walk willingly into this fresh hell and spend the rest of our lives complaining about it. I believe there is an opportunity to focus on regulation and ethics standards. To put guardrails in place. But we're running out of time.

So many people swear they can read intent from a few words in a post. I do it sometimes too. But I've learned to ask first anyway. There are real reasons somebody might be saying something that sounds wild. Including being neurodivergent and literally missing the context that you take for granted.

People really hate to be asked to hold more than one thought at the same time. bsky.app/profile/polo...

Oh.

Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w ago

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”