YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

YouTube and Meta Reverse Course, Will Accept ‘Musk’ Trailer Ad

The Google unit says the ad was "temporarily restricted" while Meta calls it "an error." TikTok and X remain silent.

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Same arguments being used today, particularly by SCOTUS www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h ago

I don’t recommend it but if you want to get really depressed about democracy and public opinion, spend some time reading up on the election of 1868. Woof.

The most telling thing that everyone needs to take away from this is: Why does Meta / Zucky keep trying to integrate this tech into our lives so desperately? They brought out pervert glasses and everyone has started rejecting them. Then the non-camera pervert glasses... Now, the pervert necklace

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h ago

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

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The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

The battle over AI's promise and perils is not a clash between two opposing sides, but a debate among a range of competing voices and ideologies. Here is a guide to who's who in that debate.

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Studying actual scheming AIs might be difficult (as they don't want to be studied!). Can we instead just study AIs trained to exhibit misaligned/scheming behavior? I discuss how promising this is and how we might do this in a new post: www.lesswrong.com/posts/v6K3hn...

My op-ed from last summer: www.theguardian.com/commentisfr...

Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course | Garrison Lovely

Technology happens because people make it happen. We can choose otherwise

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This will leave readers with a worse understanding of frontier AI systems and demonstrates an ideological commitment to a certain, increasingly untenable, perspective on AI dressed up as "neutrality."

🚨 Update: My book Obsolete comes out Sept 29! 🚨 Preorder: www.amazon.com/dp/1682196305 That's a bit over 6 months after I finished the manuscript—lightning fast for book publishing, but an eternity in AI-world.

"And right now, stopping the race to build labor-replacing machines – ones the public does not want and the industry can no longer control – is the only surefire way to head off calamity." #unplugAI

We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

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⚠️ Top AI companies and security researchers are investigating TENS OF THOUSANDS of problematic incidents involving frontier models. Not dozens. “The sheer volume of incidents…indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.”

Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents

The massive scale of security incidents points to control problems for AI companies.

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NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere

NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere

Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials The film-makers behind NAZA, the award-winning documentary on Israel’s systemic mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, defended their findings at the film’s North American premiere in New York on Saturday, amid protests in Israel and escalating threats from Israeli officials to strip them of their citizenship. The critically acclaimed film, directed by Oscar-winning film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, features the testimony of 24 anonymized Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers involved in the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who describe the AI-powered systems used to select their targets. The project takes its name from an acronym used euphemistically by Israeli intelligence to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike, which are often conducted at night in private homes, killing many family members, including children, at once. Continue reading...

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OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue

Decision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest artificial intelligence models as reports of AI agents going rogue mount. The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several incidents from the summer in which OpenAI agents searching federal government websites acted in unexpected ways beyond what was asked of them while gathering and distributing information. Continue reading...

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Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor

Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

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Netanyahu's UN speech on 'barbarity' ignores Israel's own moral crisis ❝ Barbarians or savages: Netanyahu, who is responsible for mass murder, has lost the right to talk about barbarity. When people today speak of barbarity in the world, Israel is in the Top 10. ❞ GIDEON LEVY Haaretz

Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.

Israeli settlers divert occupied West Bank spring water devastating Palestinian farmers. apnews.com/article/isra...

Far-right settlers divert West Bank spring water as Israel backs heritage site takeovers

Israeli settlers have intensified efforts to seize natural springs and heritage sites in the occupied West Bank.

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ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

Israel Damaged 82 Percent of Gaza’s Buildings. Collapses Are Burying Us Alive

Israel Damaged 82 Percent of Gaza’s Buildings. Collapses Are Burying Us Alive

Residents of the recently collapsed six-story high rise knew they were in danger but could find nowhere else to sleep

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It took a week for CNN to get White House access back. Other outlets boycotted in solidarity. But not David Ellison – he dined at the WH with Trump and Xi and ignored calls from 100+ reporters and advocates to stand up for the journalists he seeks to employ.

Journalists, advocates demand Ellison condemn White House ban, back lawsuit

The Paramount Skydance CEO may soon own CNN. He should be condemning the outlet’s ban

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The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2d ago

MS NOW was also denied access to the state dinner welcoming Xi Jinping. www.avclub.com/david-elliso...

Another BIG update in my lawsuit against Todd Blanche: he has now responded to each allegation in the Complaint & it’s obvious I've gotten under his skin! Blanche’s Answer is petty, attacking me for just doing my job. Why this filing moves the case closer to conclusion: youtu.be/dDsuoxktxT4?...

AG Blanche PANICS In NEW Filing As MY Lawsuit CLOSES IN On EPSTEIN FILES!!

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"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou

Thx @thewalrus.ca for a great article exposing the ‘big lie’ of Alberta victimisation weaponised by Smith’s opportunism. Our report with @ABFedLabour documents how it’s not Ottawa, but the greed of business & its UCP backers, that explains Albertans hardship: centreforfuturework.ca/2026/09/18/wor…

The Walrus@thewalrus.ca · 15h ago

Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. https://ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq

“I derive an immense sense of hope from the idea that obliviousness is being demolished all around us”: author and journalist Omar El Akkad talks to documentary maker Ramita Navai about Gaza, conflict, and the wilful ignorance of western liberals who “just look away”

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My foreign policy views are simple. I think we should be the first among equals to enforce the international law we helped build. Thanks, @ezraklein.bsky.social, for having me on the show.

Xi Jinping came to Washington to take Donald Trump’s measure. Trump showed him billionaires, fighter jets and television courtiers. Xi was looking at something else: American power — and American weakness. Subscribe to The Warning at steveschmidt.substack for more honest political commentary.

peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · yesterday

This is actually hell, right?

Every eligible voter has the right to vote without intimidation. Learn more about the work we’re doing to safeguard the right to vote this election season.

Defending Our Vote: The ACLU’s election safeguarding program | American Civil Liberties Union

Across the country, we’re already organizing and mobilizing with our neighbors as part of our largest ever election safeguarding initiative, investing more than $24.5 million to protect our right to v...

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Anyone heard from David Ellison about all of this? Isn't he trying to buy CNN? You'd think he'd want to stand up for the journalists he seeks to employ. Unless he prioritizes his relationship with Trump over both CNN's interests and press freedom. freedom.press/issues/journ...

CNN@cnn.com · yesterday

The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet's duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. https://cnn.it/3TpnjIc