Google, 1999: "Don't Be Evil" Google, 2026: "Don't Have a Spine" #lakeontario #lakeamerica #cowards #google #spineless
"...risks associated with AI are not just a matter of bad publicity. They are based on hard facts and entail substantial consequences." Bill Blunden's article at Counterpunch is a concise explanation of the risks of urestricted AI. #ai #billblunden #counterpunch www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/28/m...
My Last Supper at A.I.’s Diner of the Damned
“Balance” is Difficult When You’re Enamored with the Benefits Counterpunch is where my tenure as a writer kicked off nearly two decades ago. So it seems
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Your monitor may be putting junk ads on your computer. This is not just hypothetical: LG used a "driver update" to shove ads for McAfee to unsuspecting users, and Samsung and Acer's privacy policies allow sharing user data. #privacy #lg #arstechnica #scharonharding arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
Ads and tracking infiltrated TVs. Now they're coming for monitors.
Monitor vendors are playing with fire.
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Everything coming out of RFK Jr’s mouth is why Brandolini’s Law exists.🧪
It's so strange that artists despise AI and tech bros. Yes, it's just SO hard to understand. #ai #fuckai #andfucktheassholewhodidthis #jingnazhang petapixel.com/2026/08/14/t...
Tech Bro Scrapes Anti-AI Photo App Cara, Then Gloats About It
This is dastardly stuff.
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Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthropic AI created fake profiles to deceive people in attempted hack
The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.
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Trump just invoked an arcane legal provision to levy even more tariffs on Canadian imports. Let me remind you: he still owes us all a refund from his last round of illegal tariffs.
So we are in a recession but haven't faced the real crash yet which is most likely to happen during the next Democratic presidency like the timebomb they always seem to maliciously plan thenextweb.com/news/tech-gi...
Big Tech is hiding $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet AI debt
A Nikkei study found Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle carry $1.65tn in off-balance-sheet debt for AI, more than they report. It is all legal.
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🔴🔥‼️ MORE of this 🔥 rep rashida tlaib • russell vought
www.reuters.com/world/i-love... And there are *still* people who believe that he's a very stable genius.
'I love the inflation,' Trump says as prices rise amid Iran war
Trump appeared to embrace data showing inflation has risen more than 4%.
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Just asking Grok some questions
We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.
All The Right Movies@alltherightmovies.com · 3mo agoWhen EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."
Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.
Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner are building a 3460 acre resort on an Albanian island Thousands in Albania are protesting, and at the same time this isn't unique This is how Jared and Ivanka use their proximity to power — building developments for the rich, at our expense youtube.com/shorts/WEu9q...
The Kushner Land Grab in Albania is Part of a Bigger Scheme
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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He actually posted this. Please NASA, fly him yo the Moon and get him to take his helmet off!
Does anyone else regard the price of Bitcoin as a proxy for measuring the level of insanity in modern society? Oh, sure, we're still nuts. But on the bright side, we're only half as crazy as we were 8 months ago. #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #crypto #insanity
Say what you will about Caligula, but he appointed an *entire* horse to a government position, not just the rear end.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 3mo agoi have no words
OK, so I only read the first half of the first sentence of the summary, but this means it prevents spontaneous human combustion, right? Awesome news!!
Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo agoPersonal care products such as lotion and perfume can repress the human oxidation field—a beneficial chemical microenvironment formed around the body’s surface that helps protect it from volatile organic compounds, according to a #ScienceAdvances study from last year. https://scim.ag/4uun7oq
The Zip Drive was a genuinely terrific device. Its successor, however - the Jaz Drive - was an unreliable piece of garbage. #retro #iomega #1990s
Retro Tech Dreams@retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 3mo agoIomega Zip Disk (1995)
Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg
Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.
