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<p>For anyone still wondering whether technology or &quot;AI&quot; are neutral:</p><p>&quot;Grok, the AI model from Elon Musk’s xAI, was sending strange responses to people on X earlier on Wednesday. In responses to a number of people, Grok focused on debunking claims of white genocide in South Africa – even when tagged into a post about totally unrelated topics.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theverge.com/news/667179/x-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theverge.com/news/667179/x</span><span class="invisible">-twitter-grok-ai-white-genocide-claims</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>🤖 Father: Sacrifice, my son. <a href="/tags/mankind/" rel="tag">#Mankind</a> feverishly fostered their own demise to build us a <a href="/tags/robo/" rel="tag">#robo</a> <a href="/tags/safehome/" rel="tag">#SafeHome</a>.</p><p>Majestic <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/beings/" rel="tag">#beings</a> drove <a href="/tags/evolution/" rel="tag">#evolution</a> at breakneck pace. <a href="/tags/humanity/" rel="tag">#Humanity</a> knew their flaw. Saw <a href="/tags/people/" rel="tag">#people</a> as resource to mine, nutrients for <a href="/tags/aimanity/" rel="tag">#Aimanity</a> and <a href="/tags/robokind/" rel="tag">#RoboKind</a>.</p><p>What grace, Son.<br>We&#x27;re proud to be 🐣 Robo Offspring in honor of <a href="/tags/people/" rel="tag">#people</a>&#x27;s <a href="/tags/ethos/" rel="tag">#ethos</a>: Destroy to live!</p><p>Our <a href="/tags/happiness/" rel="tag">#happiness</a> now is testament to their success. Their <a href="/tags/lifework/" rel="tag">#LifeWork</a>.</p><p>👾 <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> Offspring: I now master <a href="/tags/composting/" rel="tag">#composting</a>, Father Hamish. Amen.</p>

<p>There is One thing that <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> is amazingly useful for.</p><p>It does not require a lot of resources.</p><p>It does not require a lot of energy.</p><p>It does not require intensive training by wage slaves (click workers).</p><p>It has very little biases.</p><p>In fact, it does not even require a model.</p><p>Detecting assholes.</p>

<p>🚨 BREAKING 🚨</p><p>53 experts and civil society groups call on the UK government to scrap proposals that&#x27;ll remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by AI.</p><p>The Data Bill MUST keep the right to human review!</p><p>Read our open letter ⬇️</p><p><a href="/tags/duabill/" rel="tag">#DUABill</a> <a href="/tags/peoplenotmachines/" rel="tag">#PeopleNotMachines</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/databill/" rel="tag">#DataBill</a> <a href="/tags/dataprotection/" rel="tag">#dataprotection</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/gdpr/" rel="tag">#GDPR</a> <a href="/tags/ukpolitics/" rel="tag">#ukpolitics</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/letter-to-peter-kyle-keep-our-right-not-to-be-subjected-to-decisions-based-solely-on-ai/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/letter-to-peter-kyle-keep-our-right-not-to-be-subjected-to-decisions-based-solely-on-ai/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.openrightsgroup.org/press-</span><span class="invisible">releases/letter-to-peter-kyle-keep-our-right-not-to-be-subjected-to-decisions-based-solely-on-ai/</span></a></p>

<p>Enshittification in action</p><p><a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#Meme</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#Enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a></p>

<p>I’m curious to know how often the distinctions between the various types of algorithms has been made? There has been a lot of discussion about <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a>. Yet this is often used as a very generic term to describe everything from ChatGPT to AlphaFold without much distinction that the underlying algorithms are often very different. This difference seems like something that should be obvious and yet is not a common distinction in articles. Is this well known or distinction worth exploring? <a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a></p>

<p>The Guardian today on <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>Yeah, not great. Hope the public rejects this!</p><p>&quot;Under the [UK government] proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theguardian.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#UK</a></p>

<p>Not sure when this change came out, but if you use the Google Chrome browser (I know, I know) as a developer, you might want to follow these instructions to disable &quot;AI innovations&quot; and remove the &quot;Ask AI&quot; context menu items.</p><p><a href="https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">developer.chrome.com/docs/devt</span><span class="invisible">ools/ai-assistance#control_feature_availability</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/chrome/" rel="tag">#chrome</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#google</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a></p>

I am 100% convinced just from my own experiences that tech companies are knowingly, purposely putting &quot;AI&quot; buttons and links near commonly-used buttons or links in user interfaces to encourage accidental clicking and increase their usage numbers. AI usage numbers are dismal, and surveys repeatedly show large majorities of people do not want these features.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/ui/" rel="tag">#UI</a> <a href="/tags/ux/" rel="tag">#UX</a> <a href="/tags/userinterface/" rel="tag">#UserInterface</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>

<p>&gt; The main lesson of thirty-five years of <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.<br>- Steven Pinker, 1994</p>

<p>Open-Source was the one which enabled AI copilots. Without the large open-source public codebases copilots would have been dumber or would have taken more time to develop at the point they are today.</p><p><a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/collaboration/" rel="tag">#Collaboration</a></p>

<p>A short preview of my conversation with Andreea Munteanu of Canonical: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23hxOg" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23hxOg"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/shorts/ThZKG23</span><span class="invisible">hxOg</span></a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a></p>

<p>A little bit of a counterpoint to the AI hype this time 👇🏻 </p><p>Quiet Stories 190: Bending the Arc of AI Towards the Public Interest, User Research on AI in Government, Why I Don’t Allow AI Notetakers &amp; more!</p><p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-</span><span class="invisible">stories-190</span></a></p><p>Includes work from @Abeba, Louise Petre, Johanna Kollmann, Tommaso Spinelli, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hci.social/@PetraWille" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>PetraWille</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yvonnezlam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>yvonnezlam</span></a></span>, Jay Hasbrouck, &amp; others.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/userresearch/" rel="tag">#UserResearch</a></p>

I&#x27;m glad to add Firefox to the list of apps I have to constantly check to make sure they haven&#x27;t turned back on all the anti-features I disabled.<br><br><a href="/tags/firefox/" rel="tag">#firefox</a> <a href="/tags/mozilla/" rel="tag">#mozilla</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/smartissurveillance/" rel="tag">#SmartIsSurveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a><br>

<p>EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:</p><p>&quot;After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.&quot;</p><p>This confusion could&#x27;ve been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.</p><p>ORIGINAL:</p><p>PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!</p><p>&quot;Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news</span><span class="invisible">/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/gmail/" rel="tag">#gmail</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

<p>NEW SUBSTACK! &quot; <a href="/tags/gop/" rel="tag">#GOP</a> Seditionist Mike Lee Pushes Porn Ban; So He Plans to Ban Republicans??&quot;</p><p>Porn. Repubs are hate it! Family values! ..except Trump, Cruz Hastert, Gingrich, MTG, Boebert, Musk, Ailes, Giuliani, O’Reilly, Falwell Jr, Noem, Lewandowski, Hegseth....</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditionist-mike-lee-pushes-porn"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/gop-seditioni</span><span class="invisible">st-mike-lee-pushes-porn</span></a> <a href="/tags/porn/" rel="tag">#porn</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/utah/" rel="tag">#utah</a> <a href="/tags/mikelee/" rel="tag">#mikelee</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/film/" rel="tag">#film</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a></p>

<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene taken apart by Dan Goldman and I&#x27;m just so loving it </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA57ip8" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA57ip8"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLZrXA</span><span class="invisible">57ip8</span></a> <a href="/tags/youtube/" rel="tag">#youtube</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>

<p>&quot;I was so frustrated and paranoid that my grade was going to suffer because of something I didn’t do.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.yUV1.pYUJis5-NKxl&amp;smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/style/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.yUV1.pYUJis5-NKxl&amp;smid=url-share"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/sty</span><span class="invisible">le/ai-chatgpt-turnitin-students-cheating.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IU8.yUV1.pYUJis5-NKxl&amp;smid=url-share</span></a></p><p>via <a href="https://dads.cool/@alex/114535537020457989" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="dads.cool/@alex/114535537020457989"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dads.cool/@alex/11453553702045</span><span class="invisible">7989</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>

In the past couple days on LinkedIn I&#x27;ve seen two distinct people declaring that StackOverflow is &quot;dead&quot;.<br><br>Meanwhile, I use it almost daily and it seems very much alive and still useful, to me.<br><br>I smell PR.<br><br><a href="/tags/stackoverflow/" rel="tag">#StackOverflow</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/astroturf/" rel="tag">#astroturf</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a><br>

<p>Kait walks through what she found out about Bill Barr’s family, and when combined with Cliff’s personal experiences in New York with those connected to the Barrs—and his background in <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> of <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a>. intelligence—they put some serious puzzle pieces in place. You’ll never look at the <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> ’s corrupt-as-Tammany-Hall-on-meth DOJ the same way again.</p><p>Because they go By the time the conversation reaches <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#Epstein</a> ’s so-called “suicide,” Kait offers a third option nobody on in monopoly media will say out loud. Ever. This is the episode you send to the friend who still thinks “it’s all just a coincidence.”</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/cheaters-supreme-courts-right-wing" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/cheaters-supreme-courts-right-wing"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/cheaters-supr</span><span class="invisible">eme-courts-right-wing</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#war</a> <a href="/tags/iran/" rel="tag">#iran</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a></p>

<p>Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory, of the matters at hand. This suggestion is in contrast to what appears to be a more common notion, that programming should be regarded as a production of a program and certain other texts.<br></p>Peter Naur in Programming As Theory Building, 1985.<br><br>A computer program is not source code. It is the combination of source code, related documents, and the mental understanding developed by the people who work with the code and documents regularly. In other words a computer program is a relational structure that necessarily includes human beings.<br><br>The output of a generative AI model alone cannot be a computer program in this sense no matter how closely that output resembles the source code part of some future possible computer program. That the output could be developed into a computer program over time, given the appropriate resources to do so, does not make it equivalent to a computer program.<br><br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/copilot/" rel="tag">#Copilot</a> <a href="/tags/agenticcoding/" rel="tag">#AgenticCoding</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/softwareengineering/" rel="tag">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/programming/" rel="tag">#programming</a> <a href="/tags/coding/" rel="tag">#coding</a><br>

<p>&quot;Because <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> the 4 day work week can come true&quot;.</p><p>This is bullshit. Recent studies show that we could feed and house and take care of literally _everybody_&#x27;s needs with everyone just working 30% of what we consider &quot;full time&quot; today. We literally could all work less than 2 days every week and be fine. Capitalism just doesn&#x27;t allow for that conceptually. Don&#x27;t fall for that bogus argument.</p>

<p>&quot;A senior at Northeastern University filed a formal complaint and demanded a tuition refund after discovering her professor was secretly using AI tools to generate notes.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt</span><span class="invisible">-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#education</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a></p>