It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.

Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras

Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.

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I'm very tired of the guardrails metaphor, because it so often is where thought dies.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 37m ago

It’s not a guardrails problem but rather a fascism problem.

Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 1h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

This sucks, but it is worth remembering DA fully embraced genAI and brought with it so many users who have been proven to have extremely low media literacy thanks to AI use, and thus DA has become a honeypot for these kind of VERY low effort scams!

Hypnotic-Ink@hypnoink198.bsky.social · 5h ago

They get dumber and more obvious every year I swear

I don't dunk on people but the dude saying 'If you hate AI, could you get through a working day if it all went away tomorrow?!'is testing my resolve on that so much. I don't use your dogshit thief machine incompetence tech, Sparkie. I fucking work for a living.

"Imagine if AI was banned tomorrow—" DON'T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME.

Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.

Every time they open their mouths, I swear to god, it’s a confession of how pitiful they are. They are so hopelessly addicted to the sycophantic lie machine that everyone else HAS to be using it too. “Checkmate!” they scream as they slowly turn to reveal their soiled trousers

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 11h ago

I have one answer.

Police using Flock to warrantless follow people across state lines is an act incompatible with our legal system--especially in a country where many things are legal in some states in criminalized in the other. First we saw it with abortion care, now we will see it with marijuana.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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And beat 60mil in PAC and AIPAC funding against him. They smeared him, they contorted his resume and played racist anti Muslim games and they got nothing. We don’t want it anymore. We want justice, we want fairness ,and we want your money out of our political system. Get out.

Forbes@forbes.com · 4h ago

Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

That was quick. Speak up, people! Bullies are cowards; the would-be vote suppressors backed down. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

so cool to start seeing the book out in the world! get more info and preorder your copy: hyperscalebook.com

Stephen Sparks@ssparks.bsky.social · 2d ago

A lot of people prefer to log on to get pissed off. I find it salutary to do it the old-fashioned analog way: by reading books like @parismarx.com's forthcoming Hyperscale, an expose on what our tech overlords are stealing from us in their quest for ever more compute.

Some graves are worthy of dancing upon.

Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24h ago

“Rod Liddle Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words” The prolific journalist, who passed away on Sunday, urged Muslims to ‘blow themselves up’, joked about ‘trying to shag’ children and mocked an MP who spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

France suspects Russian meddling in run-up to presidential polls: Source www.courthousenews.com/france-suspe...

France suspects Russian meddling in run-up to presidential polls: Source

The propaganda network Storm-1516 has also been connected to an effort to spread false claims linking President Emmanuel Macron to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Michigan health authorities were in touch with Taco Bell’s parent company about a parasitic outbreak in early July, weeks before the company officially alerted consumers

Taco Bell owner, Michigan met on Cyclospora weeks before recall

Documents reveal Taco Bell was warned about a parasitic outbreak weeks before the company alerted customers.

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Accidentally opened Threads and what’s apparently going on in there right now is that like 80,000 people have formed an ironic cult following for some random woman who posts weird stuff, and her family members have also gotten on the app to warn people she is schizophrenic and in active psychosis

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say

The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.

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Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

The major airlines stopped selling this bundle of data after 404 Media revealed the scheme, but we’re still just discovering the extent to which the federal government was indiscriminately surveilling individuals across the globe.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

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"Five women have died at Women's Huron Valley since mid-May ... The families of multiple women who have died at Women's Huron Valley shared the stories of their loved ones, and chanted alongside organizers to demand that the same thing does not happen to more women."

Truthout@truthout.org · 3d ago

As severe medical issues and deaths increase, advocates and families are pressing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to take action.

Alexa, how feasible is it to survive Monday on 2 hours of sleep? 😶

Lia@emmi4793.bsky.social · 2d ago

Leo will be doing live signings on his Instagram on Sunday August 30th, 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST. Your own images can be uploaded 1 week before the signing, just make sure no nsfw, AI or artwork that isn’t your own unless you paid for a commission. Streamily.com/leonardo-san... @leosantaiti.bsky.social

LRP leave kids alone you fucking freaks. leave them alone whether they're trans or cis or gender conforming or not or gay or not or intersex or not or whatever it is: leave them alone, you goddamn creepy horrible motherfuckers

It's kinda funny how anything that is not a straight christian white man is instantly labeled as a takeover attempt Whether it is lgbtqa+ people, muslims, women, poc, etc..💀

I've been irate at how little national coverage the killings of four Black men in Memphis by federal agents have gotten -- and even how little in Tennessee. The root? State lawmakers who wholeheartedly approve of the occupation of Memphis.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

Can’t believe I’ve lived long enough to witness the advent of people juicing the algo by using an anti-surveillance message.

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2d ago

seeing lots of algospeak-adjacent anti-surveillance content on youtube these days from relative normies