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My daughter: “Never date a guy who uses AI. Because he doesn’t understand consent.”

Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...

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My daughter: “Never date a guy who uses AI. Because he doesn’t understand consent.”

Luciano Floridi on LinkedIn: “Loosen your food processor's lid on purpose. Set it to maximum. Then issue a grave press release about the soup on your ceiling. That, more or less, is what OpenAI did this week.”

The Mayo Clinic's AI assistant has serious privacy problems, an extremely high error rate, and a team that manipulated data to lie about the tool. After raising concerns, the research director and AI compliance lead was fired. The future is bright! futurism.com/health-medic...

While we’re on the subject of companies and journalists locating accountability in “AI” instead of the companies that design, test, and deploy their models, can I remind everyone that the UN, of all places, is doing the exact same thing? www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...

When you say “AI models went rogue,” you manage to skip the part where OpenAI manually removed its cybersecurity blocks and ran tests on a machine with a live network connection. Remember that when they insist they’re the “AI safety” people.

In case folks - patients or medical professionals - might find it useful, here's an edited version of a letter I sent to my own physician(s) about the reasons I refuse the use of ambient scribes.

I’m a joyful collector of hobbies. Newest is cyanotype!

Happy birthday! I bought cyanotype fluid and made my first cyanotype print!

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Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

People like to assert that we are in a post-shame world, but widespread and vocal disapproval of anti-social behavior still has an effect. It may not deter the worst people, but it might prevent widespread adoption.

…A private company should not be using surveillance equipment to determine when they will be taking those children to POLICE ENCOUNTERS w/o those children's parents being INFORMED AT ALL, let alone providing consent. To do or to advocate for said is to say "hi yes, i would like these children to be…

Now the post includes a link to a version you can print and share with your own doctor.

Actually, here it is: drive.proton.me/urls/BYM37SP...

If you'd like a version (like I printed out for my own physicians) that has the research links at the end, just dm me here and I'll send it to you. I may just add an accessible link to that version at the end of the post!

SO glad it was useful!

Yes, that too ✊