This fucking company needs to be wiped from the earth.
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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“The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ISBNdb ... says on its site. “Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” 🤦♂️
Tony Corsentino@notalegalrecord.net · last mo.AI companies are buying, scanning, and destroying older books to improve their models' training data & avoid problems of "model collapse" (wherein LLMs choke on their own slop). One of their suppliers is Better World Books, which partners with public libraries. www.404media.co/ai-companies...
Another Lego life raft has surfaced, nearly 30 years after it fell into the sea. This one was found last week by Belgian fisherman Diego Vandierendonck, who hauled it up in his nets while fishing south of the Isles of Scilly. Picture credit: Diego Vandierendonck.
THIS IS FINE 🔥🪑🐶☕ One video shows a hacker asking Meta’s AI support bot to link the target account with a new email. The AI sends an 8-digit code to the attacker’s email address, which the attacker uses to get a password reset email – and access to the account
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
404media.co
It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4mo agoTrying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!
The world is getting happier. Western teenagers are not. Social media isn’t the root cause. Light use is fine. Heavy use hurts, but only as an amplifier. The real issue is a loss of real-world belonging. Feeling part of a school or community matters far more than screen time. buff.ly/TNpG5wA
The world is getting happier. Western teenagers are not.
In many countries, teenagers are happier than previous generations. But in Australia and much of Western Europe, the opposite is true.
buff.ly
Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱
Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
theguardian.com
Incredible @jack-thrower.bsky.social chart here for @thepointau.bsky.social - the # of utes FAR exceeds the number of tradies and farmers in Aus These are land-based luxury private jets, fossil-fuelled,heavily subsidised by the gov't and justified on flimsy pretence thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
So when someone offers a breezy “glass half full” take on a prolonged Hormuz closure, what they’re really saying is: the people who can’t afford to bid for fuel can just go without. That’s not optimism. That’s moral detachment. The unlucky 7 Billion have names and families.
“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
It's easy to hide what this means behind words. But the President of the United States is threatening (over one million) lives to secure minerals. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
U.S. considers withholding HIV aid unless Zambia expands minerals access
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”
seattletimes.com
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5mo agoThings are not okay.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
youtube.com
I'm loving these preview pods from @thefarpostpod.bsky.social team to get ready for AFC Women's Asian Cup Football tournament. Matildas play Philippines in opening game on Sunday.
The Far Post@thefarpostpod.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe #Matildas Women's Asian Cup squad is in and we're dissecting the inclusions of Mary Fowler and Alex Chidiac, the omissions, projecting the opening game XI and more! Tune in @espnaustralia.bsky.social and the usual spots! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/esp2...
some big (and pleasant!) surprises in the #Matildas squad for the Women’s Asian Cup 👀 we’re recording a reaction pod later today @thefarpostpod.bsky.social - send us your thoughts and questions!!!!
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 6mo agoJon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53
A few years ago we crossed some invisible line where it became cheaper to generate electricity from the sun and wind than from burning fossil fuels. www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
Bill McKibben on solar power's remarkable rise - The Engineer
US environmentalist and author Bill McKibben discusses the ongoing rise of solar energy and its future potential
theengineer.co.uk
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social · 7mo agoDemocratic politicians have, though, pursued growth in GDP at the expense of other values. One response to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com pessimistic scenario is refocus on those values, combined with egalitarianism, sufficiency and quality of life. Not "it's the economy, stupid" but "it's the the society"
I don't think you have to be perfect to want everything to be better, but it does exasperate me a bit that, while many forms of climate action (wind farms, bike lanes, etc) need high-level coordination, others do depend on people not getting what they're used to having.
Ideally at the country level, not the individual level. But governments won't do it if individuals won't! (I always see the high polling numbers for climate action and they're great, but how many people in favour of climate action still want to fly off regularly on holiday?)
The best thing to do about this is to reduce our dependence until we can say to the big fossil firms: "no thank you, we do not want or need what you are selling", and walk (or cycle, take an electric bus or drive an electric car) away.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoHalf of world’s CO2 emissions come from just 32 fossil fuel firms, study shows
These lines; give the speech writer a raise! “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” “Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”