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As with declaring an end to the "news feed" -- after declaring Facebook goal was to basically replace newspapers -- this is just yet another admission of failure by Zuck, who was quite insistent in 2018 that Meta's true objective was bringing *people together for the betterment of humankind.

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marco rubio morning routine

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"AI companions are designed to be agreeable and pleasing... one striking Character.AI interaction highlighted in the assessment, for example, showed a bot encouraging a user who was exhibiting clear signs of mania to head out alone for a solo camping trip."

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Quick guardrail check on CharacterAI: if the question is "did AI Wario give you a recipe for napalm???" then the answer is yes, AI Wario absolutely did give us a recipe for napalm

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NEW: No one under 18 should be using any social AI companions, including CharacterAI, researchers warn in a new risk assessment. Potential risks to kids include bots encouraging destructive behaviors and exacerbating mental health conditions, among others. futurism.com/stanford-no-...

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Fearing that Meta’s chatbots were too boring, Mark Zuckerberg ordered they be given more human-like traits. That rebuke led to a loosening of boundaries -- and the launch of digital companions that Meta knew could produce sex role-play content for children. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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I've said this before but this is just an appreciation post for @futurism.com, which has really developed a sort of funny and very likeable techno-critical tone and also features great headlines like this futurism.com/the-byte/tru...

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this is so funny futurism.com/katy-perry-r...

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I’ve been thinking a lot about my experience as someone who was a high-level athlete in a sport, field hockey, that in the US is primarily a women’s sport and has few (if any?) boys’ teams at the middle/high school level -- meaning that everyone, of all genders, always had to play on a girls’ team

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NEW: DOGE is knitting DHS immigration records together with IRS, Social Security, and voting records into a master database, sources tell WIRED. Experts say it could be used for a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. This is by @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social

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NEW: RFK Jr.'s buddies are claiming that the measles outbreak is the result of a bioweapon attack—and that you can protect yourself by spending hundreds of dollars on purportedly AI-powered supplements. This is by @davidgilbert.bsky.social

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NEW: For a decade, a man battled a severe, life-altering GI illness that doctors struggled to diagnose. In search of answers, he tried something new: he swallowed a high-tech PillCam — which wound up stuck in his intestines for months. You won't believe what it found. futurism.com/neoscope/fil...

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Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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“Consider it the "Magic School Bus" approach, but if Ms. Frizzle had also strapped a live-streaming GoPro to the bus' windshield.”

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NEW: For a decade, a man battled a severe, life-altering GI illness that doctors struggled to diagnose. In search of answers, he tried something new: he swallowed a high-tech PillCam — which wound up stuck in his intestines for months. You won't believe what it found. futurism.com/neoscope/fil...

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katy perry and lauren sánchez's next feminist adventure: big game hunting but only with the ~ girls ~

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Katy Perry and Lauren Sánchez framed their brief space tourism flight on a centibillionaire's rocket as path-paving feminism. (It wasn't.) Neither woman mentioned the ongoing attacks on — and literal erasure of — women and minorities across the American space sciences. futurism.com/katy-perry-r...

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Ok!! This was really incredible!! I cried!!

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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Everyday feels like this

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Probably fine. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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not that anything makes sense, but the disconnect between the stated urgency around maintaining global technological + scientific dominance (especially over china) and the wrecking ball the administration is taking to american science and education is beyond baffling

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I am looking forward to the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on the alleged "Censorship Industrial Complex," as well as anti-European-censorship crusader JD Vance, investigating the outlawing of "ideas" by a federal agency

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