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Mads Toftum

@q42.bsky.social

$dayjob is AWS / DevOps / infosec related Apache Software Foundation Member (part of root@ many moons ago) Free time spent on photography and cooking. @quasi42 in the twitters @q42 on Flickr.

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Grady Booch@booch.com · 13h ago

I can’t decide if people who assert that contemporary AIs can think or are conscious do so out of fear or out of envy. But I can say that any such people do so either out of emotion or perhaps driven by some pecuniary interest in it being true, not from any fully informed or defensible position.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hegseth continues to manipulate the numbers of dead and wounded in the Iran War. The tally of troops wounded during the Iran war was quietly increased by 37 without explanation from DOD. That includes 29 Navy sailors and eight Marines, according to the Pentagon’s database.

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

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Phil Steitz@psteitz.bsky.social · yesterday

Jev is demonstrating the obvious. Solving simple problems in slop-space with fake humans is laughably wasteful. Years from now, we will look back at the grotesque over-dimensionality of LLM agent representations and crack up.

Conrail Twitty@grenadine.bsky.social · 3d ago

As someone descended from an old radical who def had an fbi file it is UNREAL to me that they’re like “yeah it’s a bug you carry around with you that is always recording and pretends to be your friend and think for you ! This is a product you should want”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“People with knowledge of the device, who declined to be named discussing the product, describe it as a ‘holdable’ rather than a wearable. That means it’s a small, dedicated device that people can pick up and talk to throughout the day.” 🙄

Johnny Ryan@johnnyryan.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

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Robin Berjon@robin.berjon.com · last wk.

Ireland is to the US what Hungary was for too long to Russia. We need to be much stricter in Treaty-level interventions to shut down the beachheads of fascism.

Johnny Ryan@johnnyryan.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insanity. Irish Presidency's draft text of amendments to the GDPR allows training & operation of any AI without safeguards & tough legal basis (under "legitimate interest" a company claims what it is doing is OK. Up to you to find out and challenge in court). This is a free pass for US Tech.

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 3d ago

This week we learned that the Irish government has proposed weakening Europeans citizens' fundamental right to privacy to favour AI companies. We also learned this week that 83% of Irish people under 25 want stronger government regulation of AI. Who *exactly* does our government work for?

AI: EU Member States plan "digital expropriation" of Europeans in the interest of Al companies Artificial Intelligence / 21 September 2026 In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAl, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection. Use of personal data "in the context of Al" should automatically be lawful. There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions, as long as this happens "in the context" of Al. Schrems: "Under these proposals, the profits of Al companies would trump European's fundamental right to privacy. This is nothing but a digital expropriation of Europeans." All this is happening despite the key figures of Al corporations actively warn about the enormous risks associated with their own products.Transport costs and mental health also remain prominent concerns. More than seven in ten adults believe Al will make it harder for young people to find secure employment over the next five years, while 83% support stronger government regulation of Al. Just 17% of young adults said they believe the Government is doing enough to support them through the cost-of-living crisis. "These findings should serve as a wake-up call," said Grace McManus, Policy and Campaigns Manager at NYCI. "Too many young people feel that the chance to build a secure and independent life is slipping out of reach," Ms McManus said. The polling was conducted by RED C, which surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,010 adults, including a cohort aged 18-24.
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t think that this should just be shrugged off. One of our Ministers (Enterprise or Justice, probably) has presented this plan. It isn’t an anonymous creature called the Irish Presidency. That is our Government.

EUvsDisinfo@euvsdisinfo.eu · 4d ago

Yesterday, Russia used FAB-250 aerial bombs to destroy the Church of St. John the Baptist in Kramatorsk. This is what the Kremlin considers to be a ‘legitimate military target’.

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