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“It’s like the famous Marshall McLuhan quote, ‘the medium is the message,’ right? If they’re getting out there in the message of the time, that means the message is still fresh. Christians are still relevant in the AI age, and they're doing it and like that in itself is all that matters.”

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How did Elon Musk get the green light to target a majority Black community for his xAI polluting facility? Watch this detailed short video!Thank you Samuel Black & @moreperfectunion.bsky.social for your commitment to truthful reporting. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

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The story is the latest example of how recent graduates, many of whom have long put too much faith in chatbots, are starting to feel the consequences of AI overreliance as they enter the workforce.

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Privacy Book Club, anyone?

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“AGI” is a vague signifier for a technology that will somehow lead to endless abundance for humankind — and conveniently also a means to avoid accountability as tech moguls make off with billions in capital investment and, more alarmingly, public spending, write Alex Hanna and Emily M. Bender.

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Absolutely obsessed with this take on prompt engineering by @anniesexton.com www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Mma385/

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FEEL REALLY NOT GOOD ABOUT THIS 🚨

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California state agencies have standard privacy guardrails around data-sharing. But the cities and counties that collect some of your most personal info? Nope. Zip. Zero. A.B. 1337 would fix that.

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Brands during Pride month: 🌈 Exxon: no matter who you love, we’ll make sure your children don’t have a livable planet 🌈 Amazon: we treat all of our warehouse workers like dirt, regardless of their sexual orientation 🌈 Raytheon: our tomahawk missiles don’t discriminate

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Teachers Are Not OK 🔗 www.404media.co/teachers-are...

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Oh my 🫠

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Some of the worst people on the planet are in charge of this tech, and they are telling you it should be your friend, coach, therapist, and tutor.

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Sources: the Trump administration is looking to change the AI Safety Institute's name to the Center for AI Safety and Leadership in the coming days (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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The so-called "AI moratorium" in the big bill is an existential threat to tech accountability and state sovereignty generally, not just a minor AI special treatment. It defines AI to mean any meaningful use of a computer, blocks enforcement of state laws against "AI", and has broken exceptions. 1/6

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It’s wrong to comment, “nice ChatGPT eulogy” on a eulogy…right? 🫠

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Interesting comment from one of the journalists reporting on the ai wearables that are always listening, regarding the cognitive load and the potential for the tech to gaslight you: “You become a fact checker of your own life.”

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Done With Meta? Here's How to Delete Your Facebook Once and for All

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"I have nothing to hide! I don't need digital privacy!" Well... - AI companies are scraping your data - Scammers are using AI to get better at their schemes - And yeah, a new era of government surveillance... A starter guide to protecting you online life:

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“OpenAI said this month that it’s updating ChatGPT to show products — including images, details and links — when users appear to be shopping. Some tech and beauty experts caution that the bot’s suggestions serve its maker’s goals, not the user’s.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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clear, depressing set of observations from @randomwalker.bsky.social - "The decline of reading-for-pleasure (due to video) and reading-for-information (due to AI) will accelerate each other, as reading text without an intermediary will come to be seen as a chore."

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They just ran a commercial for Google AI where a guy was making pasta sauce and poured too much sugar in, and the AI suggested he turn it into cookies (?). Then he ate one and was like “mmm!” What the actual fuck is wrong with this whole planet man

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"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin ••• Rickfrausto.com James Baldwin Portrait, 2019 #OriginalDrawing on paper Dimensions: 6 X 9 inches

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Productivity won't improve when you ensure half the population is locked out of pay equity claims, Nicola Willis. #nzqanda

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A “Heat Index” recently syndicated in at least two newspapers seemed like a normal summer guide—until readers noticed how much was made up. @damonberes.com and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the future of AI slop: https://theatln.tc/PZQA2kN9

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I would like to be able to land a UX-related job without being a thought leader online but I am willing to be an anti-thought leader thought leader. LinkedIn is an AI slop smorgasbord I can’t do it don’t make me 😵‍💫😭

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"The prevailing assumption is that data centers are 100% inflexible" [email protected] "The most important climate policymakers in the country right now are not in Washington. They’re in state capitals & these are public utility commissioners" -me Read: www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...