<p>"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.</p><p>In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."</p><p>✊</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf</span><span class="invisible">4/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#environment</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/racism/" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="/tags/environmentalracism/" rel="tag">#EnvironmentalRacism</a></p>
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<p>Netflix Warns Against AI in Reality Shows</p><p>🎥 “It’s Hard to Tell What’s Fake and What’s Real” — Netflix’s U.K. Unscripted Boss says real people and authentic stories matter more than ever in the AI era.</p><p><a href="/tags/netflix/" rel="tag">#Netflix</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/realitytv/" rel="tag">#RealityTV</a> <a href="/tags/streamingnews/" rel="tag">#StreamingNews</a></p>
<p>Before working for 2 years on the Apache APISIX API gateway, I was mainly oblivious to API gateways. It’s only by working with them that I understood their value. Decoupling the client and the server unlocks a lot of options: moving authentication to the API Gateway, securing APIs, deduplicating API requests, etc.</p><p>In this post, I want to describe how the same pattern applies to <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a>.</p><p><a href="/tags/aigateways/" rel="tag">#AIGateways</a> work in a similar way.</p><p><a href="https://blog.frankel.ch/ai-gateways/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>blog.frankel.ch/ai-gateways/</a></p><p><a href="/tags/codingassistant/" rel="tag">#CodingAssistant</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/bifrost/" rel="tag">#Bifrost</a> <a href="/tags/mistral/" rel="tag">#Mistral</a> <a href="/tags/devstral/" rel="tag">#Devstral</a></p>
<p>Rivian says AI makes debate over CarPlay ‘completely obsolete’</p><p>Rivian’s chief software officer, Wassym Bensaid, joined Nilay Patel in the latest Decoder interview. And his comments on CarPlay show Rivian continuing to double down on its refusal to support Apple’s platform. more…</p><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">9to5mac.com/2026/05/28/rivian-</span><span class="invisible">says-ai-makes-debate-over-carplay-completely-obsolete/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</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> <a href="/tags/gadgets/" rel="tag">#Gadgets</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#Software</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/apple/" rel="tag">#Apple</a> <a href="/tags/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/startup/" rel="tag">#Startup</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/9to5mac/" rel="tag">#9to5Mac</a> [9to5Mac]</p>
<p>We resist <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> where ever we can, no AI features, no AI agents allowed, no AI feeds. Even our translation is using non-AI</p><p>Unfortunately we are now also paying the price for the AI hype.. Our monthly server costs has increased by almost €200 because of this</p><p><a href="https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.hetzner.com/pressroom/stat</span><span class="invisible">ement-price-adjustment/</span></a></p><p>We keep standing up against AI but we do need your help..</p><p><a href="https://paypal.me/stuxOS" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>paypal.me/stuxOS</a><br><a href="https://patreon.com/mstdn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>patreon.com/mstdn</a> <br><a href="https://ko-fi.com/mstdn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>ko-fi.com/mstdn</a><br><a href="https://bunq.me/stuxhost" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>bunq.me/stuxhost</a><br><a href="https://stux.me/donate" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>stux.me/donate</a><br><a href="https://liberapay.com/mstdn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>liberapay.com/mstdn</a></p><p><a href="/tags/noai/" rel="tag">#NoAI</a></p>
<p>They Jail Coup Plotters and Predators. We Shield <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/they-jail-coup-plotters-and-predators" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/they-jail-coup-plotters-and-predators"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/they-jail-cou</span><span class="invisible">p-plotters-and-predators</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/scotus/" rel="tag">#scotus</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#culture</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/epstein/" rel="tag">#epstein</a> <a href="/tags/epsteinfiles/" rel="tag">#epsteinFiles</a></p>
<p>- The current projections for "AI" data centres are 10x growth in 10 years, 100x in twenty years (26% year-on-year growth), in line with the expressed ambitions of e.g. Sam Altman and Michael Dell.</p><p>- However, that would require chip production to increase 100x as well. This is why Altman called for 7 trillion dollars investment in the semiconductor industry.</p><p>(1/n)<br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#genAI</a> <a href="/tags/frugalcomputing/" rel="tag">#FrugalComputing</a></p>
<p>"According to new research from consulting firm Robert Half reviewed by Fast Company, nearly a third (32%) of hiring managers say that their organizations eliminated a role or let someone go primarily due to productivity gains from AI or automation, and then later rehired for that same role."</p><p><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91554983/ai-boomerang-why-some-companies-are-rehiring-employees-they-laid-off" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.fastcompany.com/91554983/ai-boomerang-why-some-companies-are-rehiring-employees-they-laid-off"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.fastcompany.com/91554983/a</span><span class="invisible">i-boomerang-why-some-companies-are-rehiring-employees-they-laid-off</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/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workers/" rel="tag">#workers</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>Today in "Why we cannot have nice things": Ladybird stops public code access thanks to AI code.<br>Maybe I soon will be the grumpy old man who says: "Back in my days, you could fix bugs in Open Source Software yourself."<br><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#opensource</a><br><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/ladybird-browser-bans-public-pulls/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.xda-developers.com/ladybird-browser-bans-public-pulls/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.xda-developers.com/ladybir</span><span class="invisible">d-browser-bans-public-pulls/</span></a></p>
In other words Ladybird is no longer a free and open source software project. It is, in an important sense, closed now.<br><br>"Proprietary" means having owner(s). If the maintainers are the only ones allowed to introduce changes, they are establishing an ownership relationship over the codebase. I.e., it's a proprietary project, and that is the sense in which it's closed.<br><br>This is the destiny of most projects that go AI, in my opinion.<br><br><p><a href="https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116697078838020135" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/116697078838020135"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">exquisite.social/users/thomhol</span><span class="invisible">werda/statuses/116697078838020135</span></a><br><a href="https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ladybird.org/posts/changing-ho</span><span class="invisible">w-we-develop-ladybird/</span></a></p><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/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/webbrowser/" rel="tag">#WebBrowser</a> <a href="/tags/browser/" rel="tag">#browser</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ladybird/" rel="tag">#Ladybird</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/oss/" rel="tag">#OSS</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/closedsource/" rel="tag">#ClosedSource</a> <a href="/tags/proprietarysoftware/" rel="tag">#ProprietarySoftware</a><br>
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This rsync thing has me thinking about the difference between the "free as in beer" model of free software and the "free as in freedom" model the FSF originally put forward. There are important differences, and it's meaningful when a project changes from one model to the other, which is one way to narrativize what's happened to rsync.<br><br>I think "free as in beer" software is more appropriately called "Libertarian and Open Source Software", or LOSS. Among other things it involves no obligations on other people, and expects no obligations in return (*). But this means it's an everyone for themselves, anti-communitarian endeavor. We should be honest about this. We should also be honest when a project changes state from FOSS to LOSS, because that's a meaningful change, and actually is a loss in my view.<br><br>I continue to believe that enthusiastic embrace of AI/LLM coding tools is a leading indicator of an impending FOSS→LOSS transition.<br><br>It seems to me at least one driver of the uproar over rsync is that a bunch of people thought it was a FOSS project but it had, in a short period of time, converted into a LOSS project and the shock was jolting (understandably). As a FOSS project, rsync served a community function, leading people to depend on it, make assumptions about its longer-term stability, and so on. Those are reasonable expectations of a communitarian project. As a LOSS project, rsync is under no obligations to anyone and the maintainer(s) can change the software at any time, for any reason, at their discretion alone. It seems rsync is a LOSS.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/software/" rel="tag">#software</a> <a href="/tags/softwaredevelopment/" rel="tag">#SoftwareDevelopment</a> <a href="/tags/foss/" rel="tag">#FOSS</a> <a href="/tags/freedom/" rel="tag">#freedom</a> <a href="/tags/rsync/" rel="tag">#rsync</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/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a><br><br>(*) Putting aside whether this principle is consistently applied or hypocritical.<br>
<p>What I’ve been reading week ending 31 May 2026 <a href="https://medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-31-may-2026-84dfd1ed83e1" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-been-reading-week-ending-31-may-2026-84dfd1ed83e1"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/@jchyip/what-ive-be</span><span class="invisible">en-reading-week-ending-31-may-2026-84dfd1ed83e1</span></a> <a href="/tags/tdd/" rel="tag">#TDD</a> <a href="/tags/fowarddeployedengineering/" rel="tag">#FowardDeployedEngineering</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/leadership/" rel="tag">#Leadership</a> <a href="/tags/projectmanagement/" rel="tag">#ProjectManagement</a> <a href="/tags/productmanagement/" rel="tag">#ProductManagement</a> <a href="/tags/productivity/" rel="tag">#Productivity</a> <a href="/tags/strategy/" rel="tag">#Strategy</a></p>
<p>I'm so confused. I just found a small body of literature applying LLMs to reinforcement learning type tasks, exploring the use of LLMs for "autonomous decision making."</p><p>I guess people are building more LLM agent systems, and we ought to understand them and what makes them better / worse at what they do.</p><p>But I still feel like LLMs are fundamentally not suited to decision making tasks. They don't weigh options and decide. At best, you could say they interpolate what a reasonable choice might look like based on the examples of people making choices in their training data.</p><p>That's... really not the same thing! Like, not at all. It's impressive that this sometimes works, but this seems very silly to me when we could be using actual RL systems that really are making informed decisions from experience, with mathematical rigor to estimate the quality of those choices.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#llm</a> <a href="/tags/rl/" rel="tag">#rl</a></p>
<p>"At Microsoft, managers are including questions about AI use in performance discussions. Employees are supposed to quantify how they are using AI tools in their workflows."</p><p>Solidarity with all workers affected by this ✊ </p><p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/</span><span class="invisible">tech-firms-aren-t-just-encouraging-their-workers-to-use-ai-they-re-enforcing-it/ar-AA1X0lge</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/workslop/" rel="tag">#workslop</a></p>
Hot take: the AI bubble already burst, and what we're experiencing now is the bailout. "Patriotic tech" is one of the forms it's taking.<br><br>It seems to me that, as with the still ongoing COVID pandemic that very few recognize as such, the looming asset collapse and economic recession we're living through in the US is not perceived because it's not talked about as such, and therefore might as well not be happening.<br><br><a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#US</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/useconomy/" rel="tag">#USEconomy</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/bubble/" rel="tag">#bubble</a> <a href="/tags/recession/" rel="tag">#recession</a> <a href="/tags/covid/" rel="tag">#COVID</a> <a href="/tags/covidpandemic/" rel="tag">#COVIDPandemic</a><br>
<p>Talked to a software engineer at Microsoft working on Copilot Studio today at a social event and he said he was ashamed that he hadn’t written a single line of code in over three months. “I used to take pride in my work.” (They simply create plans in neutral language and feed it to the LLM which generates the code. They can’t even do human code reviews anymore as there’s too much code being generated.)</p><p>He said that a lot of them were waiting for a catastrophic event (something that would take down crucial infrastructure) to get top management to reverse course. He seemed to think such a failure was very likely.</p><p>Given what we’ve been seeing recently, I tend to agree with him. Although I feel they will just double down. There’s too much money in the pot for them to fold.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/llms/" rel="tag">#LLMs</a></p>
<p>New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords. </p><p>From the story:</p><p>"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."</p><p><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/ha</span><span class="invisible">ckers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/instagram/" rel="tag">#instagram</a> <a href="/tags/hack/" rel="tag">#hack</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/romantic/" rel="tag">#Romantic</a> <a href="/tags/dance/" rel="tag">#Dance</a> Amidst <a href="/tags/roses/" rel="tag">#Roses</a> by Kaye Menner Wide variety <a href="/tags/prints/" rel="tag">#Prints</a> & lovely <a href="/tags/products/" rel="tag">#Products</a> at: </p><p><a href="https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/romantic-dance-amidst-roses-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/romantic-dance-amidst-roses-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaye-menner.pixels.com/feature</span><span class="invisible">d/romantic-dance-amidst-roses-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/dancing/" rel="tag">#dancing</a> <a href="/tags/couple/" rel="tag">#couple</a> <a href="/tags/manwoman/" rel="tag">#manwoman</a> <a href="/tags/reddress/" rel="tag">#reddress</a> <a href="/tags/romantic/" rel="tag">#romantic</a> <a href="/tags/passionate/" rel="tag">#passionate</a> <a href="/tags/colorful/" rel="tag">#colorful</a> <a href="/tags/pretty/" rel="tag">#pretty</a> <a href="/tags/floralsurround/" rel="tag">#floralsurround</a> <a href="/tags/digitalart/" rel="tag">#digitalart</a> <a href="/tags/autumncolors/" rel="tag">#autumncolors</a> <a href="/tags/flowers/" rel="tag">#flowers</a> <a href="/tags/homedecor/" rel="tag">#homedecor</a> <a href="/tags/mastoart/" rel="tag">#mastoart</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/fediart/" rel="tag">#fediart</a> <a href="/tags/fedigiftshop/" rel="tag">#fedigiftshop</a> <a href="/tags/giftideas/" rel="tag">#giftideas</a> <a href="/tags/wallartforsale/" rel="tag">#wallartforsale</a> <a href="/tags/art/" rel="tag">#Art</a> <a href="/tags/artforsale/" rel="tag">#artforsale</a> <a href="/tags/buyintoart/" rel="tag">#BuyIntoArt</a> <a href="/tags/ayearforart/" rel="tag">#AYearForArt</a> <a href="/tags/artist/" rel="tag">#Artist</a> <a href="/tags/fineartamerica/" rel="tag">#FineArtAmerica</a> <a href="/tags/photographyfeed/" rel="tag">#PhotographyFeed</a> <a href="/tags/visualarts/" rel="tag">#VisualArts</a> <a href="/tags/creativearts/" rel="tag">#CreativeArts</a></p>
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<p>What I’ve been reading (and watching) this week ending 22 February 2026 <a href="https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-bee</span><span class="invisible">n-reading-and-watching-this-week-ending-22-february-2026-b7d5e04e95c9</span></a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#housing</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/economics/" rel="tag">#economics</a> <a href="/tags/product/" rel="tag">#product</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/lean/" rel="tag">#lean</a> <a href="/tags/management/" rel="tag">#management</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a></p>
<p>"According to CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, some of his underlings have created an AI clone of him so they can prepare for meetings with him, ensuring everything is fine-tuned for his wants and needs."</p><p>Is the next step getting rid of CEOs altogether?</p><p><a href="https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/uber-employees-ai-ceo"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">futurism.com/artificial-intell</span><span class="invisible">igence/uber-employees-ai-ceo</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> <a href="/tags/ceos/" rel="tag">#CEOs</a></p>
<p>Dear friends, acquaintances, mysterious strangers, I'm thinking about developing a new online course. Among the following, which would you be most excited to enroll in? Note that all of them would have a philosophical/theoretical bent.</p><p>Boosts appreciated, thanks! 🙏 </p><p><a href="/tags/philosophy/" rel="tag">#philosophy</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/academia/" rel="tag">#academia</a></p>
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<p>𝑫𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒅 𝑺𝒉𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝑹𝑬𝑨𝑲𝑺 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒏 <a href="/tags/𝑬𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏/" rel="tag">#𝑬𝒑𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒊𝒏</a> & we're joined by @qasimrashid to rip/mock Trump SOTU</p><p>"Epstein Files: Explosive <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Allegations—Is FBI Investigating?" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GPJLk3k_4&t=3008s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GPJLk3k_4&t=3008s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GPJL</span><span class="invisible">k3k_4&t=3008s</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a></p>
<p>Some interesting insights in this Pew Research Center's study.</p><p>"One-in-five teens living in households making less than $30,000 a year say they do all or most of their schoolwork with AI chatbots’ help.</p><p>A similar share of those in households making $30,000 to just under $75,000 annually say this. Fewer teens living in higher-earning households (7%) say the same."</p><p><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/demographic-differences-in-how-teens-use-and-view-ai/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/02/24/demographic-differences-in-how-teens-use-and-view-ai/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.pewresearch.org/internet/2</span><span class="invisible">026/02/24/demographic-differences-in-how-teens-use-and-view-ai/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/study/" rel="tag">#study</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>
Something notable about this case is that Google essentially argued that everyone knows Google's AI overviews are untrustworthy, and it's on them if they believe any of it. Coupled with Microsoft's assertion that Microsoft Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, one really has to wonder how seriously the companies pushing AI take their own technology.<br><br>From the linked article: "The Oumi analysis also found that 56 percent of the correct Gemini 3 answers couldn't be backed up by the sources Google linked. The AI is giving answers whose origins users can't trace." This technology is not fit for purpose.<br><br>Frankly, given how much is at stake, I find it unacceptable that multi-trillion-dollar corporations are playing word games with the legal system. They should release their products on Steam and XBOX if they're for entertainment only and get them out of search engines and office suites, tools people use to do real work every day.<br><br>Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers: <a href="https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">the-decoder.com/landmark-germa</span><span class="invisible">n-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/</span></a><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/google/" rel="tag">#Google</a> <a href="/tags/googlegemini/" rel="tag">#GoogleGemini</a> <a href="/tags/gemini/" rel="tag">#Gemini</a> <a href="/tags/aioverviews/" rel="tag">#AIOverviews</a><br>
<p>To Gen or Not To Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI - My Not So Private Tech Life <br><a href="https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/</span><span class="invisible">04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/</span></a> <br>by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://det.social/@jlink" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jlink</span></a></span> </p><p>Highly recommended read... please take the time.</p><p><a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/ml/" rel="tag">#ML</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a></p>