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Kristen Bourgault
@ksbourgault.bsky.social
Mother, crafter, professor, instructional designer, feminist, agitator
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
404media.co
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
I see a lot of social media discussion about what the “Democratic Party” is that’s untethered from reality as a party organizer. It’s not a black box in DC, it’s people in your neighborhood trying to make a difference. If you have new ideas, your local & state party are the ground floor opportunity.
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · last mo.“There’s libbing out of all kinds here. Moderates who’ve been at it for forty years and progressives who’ve been pushing party boundaries for ten. There are tables hawking campaign merch, staffers who look like they didn’t sleep last night, and consultants who definitely haven’t slept in a week.”
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
Huh. The president thought this was of such significant importance as to hold a national televised address
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoREPORTER: Was there an agreement on election interference during your talk with the Chinese foreign minister? MARCO RUBIO: We didn't discuss that topic
Scary stories about teens sell. The data tells a different story. After decades studying adolescent mental health, here's what I found: This isn't an anxious generation. It's a resilient one. Let's start treating them that way. go.ted.com/candiceodgers
What we're getting wrong about teens and tech
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a generation. But developmental psychologist Candice Odgers says that decades of data on teens tells a different story — violence, alcohol u...
go.ted.com
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
I really enjoyed @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s new book, and sat down with him to talk about it. slate.com/podcasts/wha...
A.I. Enshittifies Everything
Should you base the whole economy on companies that hemorrhage money?
slate.com
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
Harrison Ford is an award-winning actor whose iconic career spans more than six decades. Ford looks back at the Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal program that put thousands of unemployed men to work improving America’s parks and natural lands. #WeAreAmerica250
NEW: Sen. John Hickenlooper is calling on Trump to personally pay back taxpayers for the millions he spent revamping the Reflecting Pool, now a cesspool of algae + chunks of blue sealant. “This was not a result of vandalism, but your administration’s incompetence." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
Senator Demands Trump Personally Pay Taxpayers Back For Reflecting Pool Mess
“This was not a result of vandalism, but your administration’s incompetence,” Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) told the president.
huffpost.com
Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵
At least 222 recruits at Lackland Air Force Base have been diagnosed with the flu; four hospitalized The outbreak is unfolding two months after Hegseth made the annual flu shot optional for troops, scrapping the military's requirement for it, which dates to 1945
Military services again requiring recruits to get flu shots as Air Force outbreak grows
A flu outbreak at a basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is growing to at least 222 cases and four hospitalizations.
abcnews.com
honestly this is nuts, they're establishing an 8-hour security perimeter around the most used transportation hub in North America, so one guy can attend a basketball game
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4mo agoIncredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game
Send this to your friend who doesn't know who Merrick Garland is. Listen to Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Gorsuch now: swap.fm/l/slowburn
Reminder: a.) Iran wasn't close to having a nuke and b.) the actions taken by Trump made them closer to getting one (when he pulled out of JCPOA) and c.) current war is not helping reduce the risk and d.) the price hikes will not be a short-term phenomenon. (And the lunatic with nukes is Trump.)
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoHassett on high gas prices: "It's our view that it's a temporary phenomenon that is a result of the president taking strong action to make sure these lunatics in Iran don't have a nuclear weapon"
NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.
AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
wired.com
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.
No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
bit.ly
Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. The last time he was seen publicly for something other than a pre-taped interview was six days ago -- Wednesday, May 27 -- for his cabinet meeting. (He went to Walter Reed the day before.)
“Working on AI text, as an editor, is like trying to operate on a body whose skin, muscles, veins, bones, and organs are all compromised. There’s nothing to leave intact, nowhere to begin.”
The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written By AI
Looks closely and you’ll see that everything is equally off.
theatlantic.com
So true - the Trump Administration has decided to murder people it thinks (maybe) are engaged in drug trafficking, rather than relying on our criminal justice system to determine guilt or innocence, let alone punishment. And Congress is doing nothing. And it doesn’t register as a campaign issue.
Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 5mo agoAs horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
