It suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued.<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/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/stanislawlem/" rel="tag">#StanislawLem</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#SciFi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="/tags/cybernetics/" rel="tag">#cybernetics</a><br>
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<p>Nothing is more valuable than a clear-headed understanding of which particular lies are most likely to succeed in the present environment, and which are just evanescent byproducts of the generally mendacious atmosphere. Dodge the decoys, save the right kind of energy to counter the real blows. Turning up the heat in lamenting the current crisis risks mistaking a mere mirage for a more substantial threat.<br></p>From “LYING IN POLITICS”: HANNAH ARENDT’S ANTIDOTE TO ANTICIPATORY DESPAIR <a href="https://www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-politics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.publicbooks.org/lying-in-p</span><span class="invisible">olitics-hannah-arendts-antidote-to-anticipatory-despair/</span></a><br><br>I found this to be an excellent and orienting read for anyone concerned about the US right now.<br><br>While folks are understandably worried about this administration, which has already inflicted significant harms, it's important to stay level headed and aligned with the actual facts and truths. That's our primary defense against what's happening which, as Arendt argued in the 1970s, hinges on a process of defactualization. Shouting "fascism!" and drawing analogies with the Nazis, as this essay argues, is going too far, turning up the heat about a mirage. Much as we wish they'd do better--and they could do better--in point of fact we do still have a functioning judicial system and media ecosystem, and there are significant numbers of people, including politicians and judges, fully willing to challenge every lie the administration emits. As dangerous as these times are we are nowhere near as far along the authoritarian trajectory as shouting "fascism!" makes it sound, and we should really stop doing that. Doing so grants bluffs and bluster more power than it actually has, which is ultimately a form of surrender. We should recognize our own strength and save it for real threats.<br><br>This is one of many reasons why I relentlessly call BS on generative AI and the claims about it coming out of the technology sector. There is a defactualization process at work there that plays into the broader political one; some of the individuals enacting this defactualization in tech are personally involved in doing the same in the federal government. If you've been watching you probably know some of their names and the companies they came from. Generative AI is itself a defactualization machine; that's one of its primary appeals to this crew.<br><br>Dodge the decoys and save your energy for the real blows.<br><br><a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USPol</a> <a href="/tags/hannaharendt/" rel="tag">#HannahArendt</a> <a href="/tags/authoritarianism/" rel="tag">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="/tags/despair/" rel="tag">#despair</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</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/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a><br>
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<p>Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up<br>—</p><p>Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-cfpb-investigation-capital-one-rocket-meta-carvana-greenlight?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/consumer/" rel="tag">#Consumer</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/doge/" rel="tag">#DOGE</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a></p>
<p>After Microsoft laid off 9000 employees, Xbox producer Matt Turnbull suggested affected workers use AI to “reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss”</p><p><a href="https://www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.videogamer.com/news/after-microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.videogamer.com/news/after-</span><span class="invisible">microsoft-laid-off-9000-employees-xbox-producer-matt-turnbull-use-ai-reduce-emotional-cognitive-load-that-comes-with-job-loss/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/xbox/" rel="tag">#xbox</a> <a href="/tags/gaming/" rel="tag">#gaming</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/layoffs/" rel="tag">#layoffs</a> <a href="/tags/enshittification/" rel="tag">#enshittification</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a></p>
It seems to me that the ability to read source code will become more and more important over time. This skill is rarely taught, as far as I can tell. The learning situation resembles that for natural language: knowing how to produce/generate text does not immediately translate into the ability to read it, let alone read it well.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/code/" rel="tag">#code</a> <a href="/tags/codeliteracy/" rel="tag">#CodeLiteracy</a><br>
<p>Want To Fight Back? Declare Independence From Corporate <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a>? Start Here!</p><p>WATCH & SUBSCRIBE! <a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/want-to-fight</span><span class="invisible">-back-declare-independence?r=j0lyx&triedRedirect=true</span></a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#substack</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#medicaid</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/stockmarket/" rel="tag">#stockmarket</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a></p>
<p>LIVESTREAM! </p><p>BREAKING: SECRET Pete <a href="/tags/hegseth/" rel="tag">#Hegseth</a> <a href="/tags/war/" rel="tag">#War</a> Plan <a href="/tags/texts/" rel="tag">#Texts</a> EXPOSED by <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#Press</a>!</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/live/w3NJEx7ONro" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>youtube.com/live/w3NJEx7ONro</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/signal/" rel="tag">#signal</a> <a href="/tags/yemen/" rel="tag">#yemen</a></p>
<p>🚨 Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”</p><p>Dear <span class="h-card"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span>, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find <span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@letsencrypt" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>letsencrypt</span></a></span> €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.</p><p>If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?</p><p>(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)</p><p>CC <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nlnet</span></a></span> @
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It's odd to me that people talk about data centers in terms of megawatts, a measure of electric power. For one example among many, a Bloomberg article from March about Microsoft cancelling data center plans began:<br><p>Microsoft Corp. has walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that would have amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity, according to TD Cowen analysts, who attributed the pullback to an oversupply of the clusters of computers that power artificial intelligence.<br></p>"Data center projects that...amounted to a capacity of about 2 gigawatts of electricity" is a nonsensical statement. The (technical) capacities of a data center have to do with storage, compute, transmission, and latency. I understand there's probably some Fermi calculation along the lines of converting electric power to compute capacity using the TDP of NVIDIA's latest GPUs or something like that. Nevertheless, it's misleading to speak this way, not to mention lazy. It is oversimplifying in a bad way, treating data centers as utilities that supply a commodity when that is just not the case (at least not with AI, where prices for services still fluctuate fairly wildly).<br><br><a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/energy/" rel="tag">#energy</a> <a href="/tags/power/" rel="tag">#power</a> <a href="/tags/datacenters/" rel="tag">#DataCenters</a><br>
Once again a fully automated, non-human system is denying me access to a resource on the internet because it has determined I am not human enough.<br><br><a href="/tags/2025/" rel="tag">#2025</a> <a href="/tags/dystopia/" rel="tag">#dystopia</a> <a href="/tags/cloudflare/" rel="tag">#Cloudflare</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/human/" rel="tag">#human</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a><br>
<p><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/comic/" rel="tag">#comic</a> <a href="/tags/webcomic/" rel="tag">#webcomic</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/browser/" rel="tag">#browser</a> <a href="/tags/polandball/" rel="tag">#polandball</a> <a href="/tags/countryball/" rel="tag">#countryball</a> <a href="/tags/searchengine/" rel="tag">#searchengine</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/meme/" rel="tag">#meme</a><br>Didn't take anytime with it and didn't give it much effort, but it's an original by me. Why make it? Idk. The balls are easy I guess. The joke/message is pretty basic too. I guess I'm just testing the waters before putting effort into any real artistic endeavours.</p>
<p>I sort of gave up on this awhile ago, but there's a lot of nerds here so I thought I'd ask: can anyone find a minecraft seed with just a description of around where structures are and other surrounding information? There was a world very dear to me, but my friend that was hosting got bored, deleted it, and refused to give me the seed. I'd do anything to see my village again. <br><a href="/tags/minecraft/" rel="tag">#minecraft</a> <a href="/tags/bedrock/" rel="tag">#bedrock</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/videogames/" rel="tag">#videogames</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/help/" rel="tag">#help</a></p>
<p>Greg Abbott's SHOCKING Statement on <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> Flood Victims Sparks Outrage </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYd3ivtXgs&t=306s" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYd3ivtXgs&t=306s"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKYd3i</span><span class="invisible">vtXgs&t=306s</span></a> <a href="/tags/texasfloods/" rel="tag">#texasfloods</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/fema/" rel="tag">#fema</a> <a href="/tags/flashfloodwarning/" rel="tag">#flashfloodwarning</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/maga/" rel="tag">#maga</a> <a href="/tags/cruel/" rel="tag">#cruel</a> <a href="/tags/football/" rel="tag">#football</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</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/fascism/" rel="tag">#fascism</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a></p>
<p>Our Somber Lives; My Trip to <a href="/tags/italy/" rel="tag">#Italy</a> & How the Right Destroyed Happiness in <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#America</a></p><p><a href="https://blueamp.substack.com/p/our-somber-lives-my-trip-to-italy" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="blueamp.substack.com/p/our-somber-lives-my-trip-to-italy"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blueamp.substack.com/p/our-som</span><span class="invisible">ber-lives-my-trip-to-italy</span></a> <a href="/tags/sicily/" rel="tag">#sicily</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/rome/" rel="tag">#rome</a> <a href="/tags/uk/" rel="tag">#uk</a> <a href="/tags/france/" rel="tag">#france</a> <a href="/tags/germany/" rel="tag">#germany</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ice</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/unitedstates/" rel="tag">#unitedstates</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/nato/" rel="tag">#nato</a></p>
<p>SECRET AUDIO: <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ELONMUSK</a> CRIES to <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DONALDTRUMP</a> In Oval Office</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/_PMt6klVyqs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/live/_PMt6klVyqs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/live/_PMt6klVy</span><span class="invisible">qs</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#video</a> <a href="/tags/podcast/" rel="tag">#podcast</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/tesla/" rel="tag">#tesla</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a></p>
<p>Vivaldi 7.5 for mobile is here! Bugs have shipped off on a one-way cruise to give you a smoother, speedier browser that works your way. ☀️</p><p>📖 <a href="https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-5-on-mobile/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-5-on-mobile/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-5-o</span><span class="invisible">n-mobile/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/android/" rel="tag">#Android</a> <a href="/tags/ios/" rel="tag">#iOS</a> <a href="/tags/ipados/" rel="tag">#iPadOS</a> <a href="/tags/apps/" rel="tag">#Apps</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/vivaldi/" rel="tag">#Vivaldi</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a></p>
<p>Little Bits: Issue <a href="/tags/23/" rel="tag">#23</a> For March 2025</p><p>A mountain of bits (links) awaits in exploration along with a message to remember to enjoy and be gracious to ourselves with intention.</p><p><a href="https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-23/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little-bits-issue-23/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.adamsdesk.com/posts/little</span><span class="invisible">-bits-issue-23/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blog/" rel="tag">#blog</a> <a href="/tags/opensource/" rel="tag">#OpenSource</a> <a href="/tags/freesoftware/" rel="tag">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/linkdump/" rel="tag">#LinkDump</a></p>
<p>Lauren Boebert Tries To Be Clever, Jasmine Crockett DESTROYS Her </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH01MtI-9dk" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH01MtI-9dk"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH01Mt</span><span class="invisible">I-9dk</span></a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/usa/" rel="tag">#usa</a> <a href="/tags/us/" rel="tag">#us</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#elonmusk</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#musk</a> <a href="/tags/economy/" rel="tag">#economy</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/america/" rel="tag">#america</a> <a href="/tags/tariffs/" rel="tag">#tariffs</a> <a href="/tags/europe/" rel="tag">#europe</a> <a href="/tags/canada/" rel="tag">#canada</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a></p>
<p>A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers<br>—</p><p>The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/mic</span><span class="invisible">rosoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/cybersecurity/" rel="tag">#Cybersecurity</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#Technology</a> <a href="/tags/microsoft/" rel="tag">#Microsoft</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/data/" rel="tag">#Data</a></p>
<p>New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-dp</span><span class="invisible">s-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/</span></a> </p><p>This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. </p><p><a href="/tags/surveillance/" rel="tag">#surveillance</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/gregabbott/" rel="tag">#GregAbbott</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#police</a> <a href="/tags/border/" rel="tag">#border</a> <a href="/tags/privacy/" rel="tag">#privacy</a> <a href="/tags/security/" rel="tag">#security</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
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<p>"What I refer to as The Iron Triangle of <a href="/tags/fascism/" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> ..A new paradigm--RW <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a>, corporate media & weak Dem leadership combine to pave a path to perdition. </p><p>A major event occurs. It can be the <a href="/tags/charliekirk/" rel="tag">#CharlieKirk</a> shooting or Benghazi..And here’s how it goes from there.."</p><p><a href="https://www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-holds-up-a-mirror-to" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-holds-up-a-mirror-to"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-</span><span class="invisible">holds-up-a-mirror-to</span></a> <a href="/tags/shooting/" rel="tag">#shooting</a> <a href="/tags/tv/" rel="tag">#tv</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/press/" rel="tag">#press</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#donaldtrump</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#trump</a> <a href="/tags/russia/" rel="tag">#russia</a> <a href="/tags/china/" rel="tag">#china</a> <a href="/tags/eu/" rel="tag">#eu</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#ai</a> <a href="/tags/memes/" rel="tag">#memes</a> <a href="/tags/ukraine/" rel="tag">#ukraine</a> <a href="/tags/israel/" rel="tag">#israel</a></p>
At some point Google Drive started preventing the context menu from appearing when you right-click something. I installed a browser extension that re-enabled this function. The modern web is quite tiresome.<br><br><a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/dev/" rel="tag">#dev</a> <a href="/tags/web/" rel="tag">#web</a> <a href="/tags/darkpatterns/" rel="tag">#DarkPatterns</a> <a href="/tags/googledrive/" rel="tag">#GoogleDrive</a><br>
<p>Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments<br>—</p><p>Following reporting by ProPublica, three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have warned HUD against using crypto, which they said could be “dangerous, speculative, and harmful to working families.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/hud-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/hud</span><span class="invisible">-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#Tech</a> <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> <a href="/tags/democrats/" rel="tag">#Democrats</a> <a href="/tags/crypto/" rel="tag">#Crypto</a> <a href="/tags/cryptocurrency/" rel="tag">#Cryptocurrency</a></p>
<p>⇒ Please help me find <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> truth-telling sites! ⇐<br>In the past I've come across several websites that effectively debunk <a href="/tags/generativeai/" rel="tag">#GenerativeAI</a> hype.<br>However, now that I actually need them, to help me make the case at work for strong oversight of the company's GenAI use, I can't find any of them.<br>It seems like no matter what search terms and search engine I use, I get garbage search results (hype, indeed!).<br>What are your go-to websites for debunking <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> hype?<br><img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/federate.social/boostRequest.png" class="emoji" alt=":boostRequest:" title=":boostRequest:"> <a href="/tags/tech/" rel="tag">#tech</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a></p>
