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“Search ‘how much gold does a Flock camera have’ and Google’s AI Overview doesn’t even push back a little bit. Instead, it flatly asserts that a ‘Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its internal circuit boards and wiring.’”
Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
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BALTIMORE ! Family of Detained Filipino-American Demand Immediate End to Detainment! Community Rally Thursday August 6 5:30pm McKeldin Plaza, 100 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD
Age verification is surveillance by another name. They won’t stop until they’ve age-gated everything that transmits over the internet. Including your streaming and messages.
404 Media@404media.co · 23h agoMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
AI eating everything would give me more cheer if I were allowed to retire and enjoy leisure. But somehow I'm not? Somehow AI has solved math and coding and jobs yet I still have to have a job doing approximately those, but for a boss instead of what I like, and the choices of bosses are all AI VCs.
NEW: A PR firm used at least 15 fake personas — equipped with fake emails, fake websites, and in some cases, fake AI-generated faces — to send me dozens of pitch emails about its (very real) clients. Those clients told me they had no idea this was happening. futurism.com/artificial-i...
We Are Alarmed by This PR Firm Using a Small Army of Fake AI-Powered Publicists to Barrage Journalists With Pitches for Its Clients
A PR firm called Movchan Agency operated a roster of fake PR representatives, some with AI faces, to pitch journalists on stories. Why?
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That "what are we a bunch of ASIANS" tweet will live on for decades I'm afraid
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Nearly five months after US forces killed over 120 children in Iran, Trump suggests photo evidence showing US missile fragments in the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school is "AI generated."
Trump Says Images of the Iranian Elementary School His Lackeys Obliterated Could Be "AI Generated"
Over four months after a deadly US military strike killed over 120 Iranian children, Trump now says evidence of US-involvement may be "AI."
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"The climate and ecological crisis cannot be viewed in isolation from Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians or the fight against the destructive effects of AI. These abuses originate from the same few mega-rich, the same large corporations." –Martijn Dekker, Extinction Rebellion spokesperson
Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid
Activists with the group Extinction Rebellion targeted a future Microsoft data center with balloons filled with acetic acid.
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The Chicago Reader Union has been bargaining w/ Noisy Creek since February. In that time, management has consistently offered proposals that would cut longstanding benefits in exchange for meager pay raises. We need YOU to tell Noisy Creek we deserve better! 🧵 🔗: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
For months EFF has been ringing the alarm about a new Flock Safety feature that would summon the police after publicly-placed microphones picked up sounds of “human distress.” We are happy to report that the feature has been discontinued.
Victory! Flock Ends Rollout of Audio “Distress Detection” of Human Voices
Reversing course, Flock Safety—the surveillance technology vendor most known for its extensive network of automated license plate readers—has announced that it will end a pilot for its acoustic gunsho...
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In a set of speeches on the supposed “Resurgence of Political Terrorism,” Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other top Trump administration officials labelled the political left as a “terrorist” threat and vowed to use all of the tools at their disposal to systematically destroy left-wing groups.
Miller Labels Leftists a “Cancer” That World Must “Root Out” in Fascistic Speech
People with left-wing beliefs are “enemies of civilization,” said Miller in a speech with numerous McCarthyist echoes.
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Do you know how big of a piece of shit you have to be for the LAPD to be grossed out by you?
Futurism@futurism.com · 3w ago""This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues."
you want to do away with the bludgeoning passersby industry? ok. so i guess you can provide new jobs for all the unemployed bludgeoners, bludgeon manufacturers AND a skyrocketing number of passersby?? dream on
Bernie and AOC are pushing a much-needed federal data center moratorium. But their AI policies couldn’t be more different. Bernie’s AI policy responds to exaggerated industry narratives, while AOC is taking on the harms we’re seeing from their products. We need policy based on reality, not on hype.
Bernie and AOC Are Taking On AI. Only One of Them Is Doing It Right.
Sanders is responding to the deceptive narratives floated by the industry. AOC is talking to experts who really understand how AI works.
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While Hochul's executive order is technically progressive, comparing it to a parallel data center bill in the state senate reveals a governor who would rather negotiate with the tech industry than regulate it.
New York Becomes First State to Ban AI Data Centers
New York governor Kathy Hochul announced a first-of-its kind executive order banning most data centers over the next year.
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Tuesday marked the launch of a two week sit-in outside NYC council speaker Julie Menin's penthouse, over her refusal to pass the original "No More 24" Act (Intro 303) to end the legal 24 hour work day for home care workers in New York
NEW: Alice Gilman, a cofounder of R3 Bio — a startup that's said it wants to create nonsentient "organ sacks" — tried to delay the publication of an interview she gave in February to the podcast Skyline Drive. Why? Unclear. But she alluded to being a "federal asset." futurism.com/future-socie...
Secretive Silicon Valley Startup Tries to Quash Interview, Says It’s Definitely Not Working on Growing Brain-Free "Organ Sacks"
A cofounder of a secretive startup fought to keep an interview about its quest to build brain-free "organ sacks" out of public view.
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The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.
The number of innocent lives lost around the world because of Lindsey Graham, one of the most bloodthirsty war hawks in Congress over the last few decades, is incalculable.
ive looked at the data and crunched the numbers and my company that doesnt make or sell anything should be worth more than planet earth by q3 2031
Anyone who follows this account knows I’ve been warning about Waymo since they went live. Waymo willingly works with I.C.E. as well as cops. It’s NOT written explicitly in their policy, but Waymo’s actions are clear. I’ve personally witnessed evidence obtained from Waymo. This is very, very bad.
Waymo Takes Revenge, Dropping Drunk Teens Directly Into Squad of Cops
A Waymo vehicle delivered two 15-year-olds, who were drinking alcohol and shooting small water beads out of the car, straight to police.
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Over 4,400 nurses & home care clinicians just walked off the job in Boston, launching the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history. Mass General Brigham executives need to pay up. These heroes save lives every day—they deserve a fair contract, not corporate greed. Let's show our solidarity!🤦🏾♂️🙌🏾
More blockbuster reporting on Madison Square Garden’s surveillance apparatus from @wired.com An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, including labeling those identified as “LGBTQIA.” …! By @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities
An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.”
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There is a good chance that if this had happened to me in this story, I would have died. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
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