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“A fundamental shift is needed in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents,” argues Meredith Whittaker. “Basic lessons in privacy and digital security are being discarded,” she warns
AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security
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the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 3h agoBREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Tribune reporter Courtney Tanner and photographer Rick Egan spent the day in Fillmore covering the Widemouth 2 Fire. The story will post tomorrow, but in the meantime, this photo needs to be seen.
Canada is proof you can have massive pickup trucks *and* universal health care 🤔
Whenever I go for a ride across the Golden Gate Bridge, my route coming and going through the Presidio passes the spot where a day drunk driver crossed the oncoming lane to kill beloved track racer Ethan Boyes head on. I stay angry. sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/e...
No prison time for intoxicated driver who killed cyclist Ethan Boyes
Champion cyclist Ethan Boyes’s loved ones split on whether the intoxicated driver who killed him should be incarcerated. On Tuesday, a federal judge sentenced that driver, Arnold Low, to one year of h...
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Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d agoI realize I probably come across as an "angry cyclist" a lot on here but then I remember that 7 cyclists have been killed in my state since early June and I have my life threatened on a nearly daily basis and then I don't feel so bad about being a jerk sometimes
Old Metallica fan here. Worth a read to connect with the music that speaks to our emotions and expresses anger and pain for us… it’s just really good and I connected with it
Leah Sottile@leahsottile.bsky.social · 2d agoAbout ten years ago, I started experimenting with the idea of writing letters as a storytelling form. This year at Pickathon, I read two letters I've written to Metallica (and never sent) that are about a lot more than just their music. Weird, I know. leahsottile.substack.com/p/74-letters...
Minnesota’s Superior National Forest received a $10 million grant in 2024 to cover wildfire prevention efforts, then DOGE delayed funding. now, parts of that area are burning. I spoke with a former wildland firefighter who says the cuts made the fire worse. youtu.be/0cbI9_CNZmM?...
Fmr. fire ranger: DOGE DELAYED a $10 million wildfire grant. It ‘would’ve really helped us’
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These pubs could hire recovering addicts who are journalists (there are plenty of us!) to write these stories, but they would rather lie to the brunch set. This entire article is horseshit. Doesn't address how drugs are getting to the street in the first place and points fingers at the helpers.
jtickel STAND WITH UKRAINE@tickedoff.bsky.social · 6d agochallenging www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
If we want to talk about undercovered stories, the fact that DOGE is responsible for the wildfire smoke that the Midwest and East Coast experienced last week is up there.
Heartland Signal@heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 6d agoDOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/07/30/doge-grant-freeze-left-minnesota-forest-vulnerable-to-wildfires/
The GOP scapegoating attacks on Dr. Fauci, a spectacle designed to affirm the conspiracy theories of a brain-wormed base, are chilling. What scientist or public servant, in their right minds, will choose to put themselves on the line during the next pandemic or crisis? www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth in dramatic Senate hearing about Covid pandemic | CNN Politics
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the US government response to the Covid-19 pandemic, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, refusing to testify Wednesday just minutes into a Capitol ...
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not sure how anyone can stay on an app thats fighting in court for the right to generate non consensual nudes of people, including children
Watch it till the end. This is moral clarity -- TMZ understands the moment, and what that Rand Paul kangaroo court was, better than any coverage I've seen so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zaO...
This Is Personal
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Dynamite blasting and nuclear waste are treated as "ultrahazardous"—strict liability applies no matter the precautions. Reflecting on the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident, Keith Porcaro of Duke Law argues advanced AI belongs in the same category.
Advanced AI Is Ultrahazardous. Let’s Treat It That Way
Advanced AI creates some degree of risk to digital infrastructure that cannot be fully mitigated, writes Keith Porcaro.
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What’s gross is that xAI could most definitely prioritize getting deepfake and non-consensual porn off their site but 1) it would alienate some of their heaviest users, who would leave 2) they want to be known for this and 3) Elon thinks he’s above the law.
Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · last wk."A company with a thousand violative images could be fined up to $500 million. And a business whose users created a hundred thousand images...could owe an eye-popping $50 billion dollars." The statute, "burdens both xAI’s and its users’ right to free expression under the First Amendment."
This felt like a history lesson for the past 20 (!!!) years and now i really wish i could re-inhabit my 2006-2007 brain to see how the synapses have changed… always good from @erikahall.bsky.social
Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · last wk.Your Sunday read is by @erikahall.bsky.social: “If the personal computer was a bicycle of the mind, the iPhone is the car. We’ve reshaped the world around it and because it also feels like an extension of the individual self, we aren’t doing a great job reckoning with the systemic harms.”
one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
Every day that the murderers of Alex and Renee go uncharged is painful for those of us who knew them. Justice will come.
The Politics Chicks@thepoliticschicks.bsky.social · 2w agoThe DOJ has found time to indict James Comey for posting a picture of seashells and subpoena NYT journalists for doing their job, but somehow hasn't managed to do anything about the federal officers who executed Alex Pretti six months ago today.
This is the bike of one of the cyclists who was "bumped" by the pick-up truck driver. This sort of language is one way that media outlets downplay traffic violence.
The Durango Herald@durangoherald.bsky.social · 2w agoMedics and law enforcement responded Tuesday to a crash south of Durango where a pickup truck driver – suspected of impairment – allegedly bumped several road cyclists and seriously injured one.
A good sign of a total crank is when they apply totally different standards to what they like and don't like. He's demanding vaccines prove myriad negatives while letting peptides just rip. I really noticed this with Alex Berenson and covid too.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
Public trust is like the fertile soil of democracy and this is like salting the earth. Winning back power and holding it will not be enough.
The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
This kind of stupid billshit is what happens when you have a lying conspiracy theorists in charge of the CDC. This is unacceptable. www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-hea...
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The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2w agoI’m sorry what
While imperfect and unevenly enforced, the Americans with Disabilities Act was a genuine civil rights milestone that has literally reshaped our society for the better. We should celebrate it loudly.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w agoThis month is the 36th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and it reminds me that the ADA could not be passed today. It probably couldn’t get a vote in committee today.
What’s extraordinarily important about this story is…under the current Trump regime, Congress has 2x fully funded this lifesaving AIDS program under budgets signed into law. The money is there—gathering dust. Trump is refusing to spend it. Congress is spineless and people are dying
Apoorva Mandavilli@apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...
(guy pointing at the first toaster) is this a bread witch
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w agoCould AI be conscious?
an idea's been rolling around in my head about how what we lose with assuming everyone wants "answers" & not search results is similar to what we lose when "route" is the only kind of map we encounter I won't get the academic terms right, but it's some version of skipping an essential abstraction
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoI am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.
