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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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This is bad. Clearview AI CEO replaced by right wing co-founder and Lambert, major Trump funder who is in talks to increase DOD + DHS. Reminder Clearview was seeded by Thiel and has had to pay fines for illegal practices. therecord.media/clearview-ai...

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“One of Google's examples is asking ‘Did the kids leave their bikes in the driveway again?’ with Gemini reporting back that the kids had left their bikes in the driveway several times this week. Of course, this kind of snitching works with all kinds of toys or belongings from pets or children.”

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This is a real concern all over . There's an algorithmic pipeline that leads people to men's rights and right wing extremism gradually; using conspiracy theories, gaming etc to push the politics of those who feel left behind

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ACLU director called this the Rubicon in the New Yorker. Well, I don't think they brought us here to picnic by the Rubicon. Be careful, be kind and be prepared.

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🏳️‍⚧️ the headlines say there's no evidence of hate for the torture and murder of Sam Nordquist. Cowards. This country is actively attacking and spurring hate for trans people. It leads to violence. It kills. theprogressivists.substack.com/p/no-evidenc...

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On the fascist aesthetic of AI art slop: Ideology like art is vision but one that is promised, a future vision. AI slop is what they want, undemocratic not democratizing, Inhuman, surveillance built from stolen labor & concentrated power. Fascist art can be defeated by new art- other visions.

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Believe fascists when they tell you the scary stuff they plan to do. Don't believe anything else. Don't count on your institutions to save you. - a friend

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“No amount of normalisation and ‘validation’, however, can alter the fact that AI imagery looks like shit. But that, I want to argue, is its main draw to the right. If AI was capable of producing art that was formally competent, surprising, soulful, then they wouldn’t want it.”

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Sadly relevant essay (and added commentary) by Peter Thiel from 2009. Important to consider as he brought JD Vance to power, hired him in 2017, mentored, and funded him and introduced him to Trump. www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/p...

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Peter Thiel gave a very unhinged interview Nov 2024 connecting the antichrist to AI with his tech ideology, which is nonsense, but one which jd vance and elon could help push. He aligns a one-world government with evangelical belief. see thread www.hoover.org/research/apo...

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Stop posting pictures of protests with people's faces identifiable in them. Anything identifiable, clothing, hair, or tattoos puts people at risk in the future for arrest and harassment. Not only by cops but creepy rightwingers dox them and harass them.

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Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI www.theguardian.com/gnm-press-of...

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Tech world Latin trend: proclaiming they are emperors but it's very uh . . .high school, insecure, uncool. Yet it is scary. Cause they have power & wealth. Zuck's shirts "aut Zuck, aut nihi", new baby's mom signalling Elon w "Alea Iacta Est". They think playing w our lives is a video game to win.

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A thing I have been saying for the past couple years is that AI is labor devaluation scheme. There are very few areas in which capitalists are so perturbed by costs as in labor. The goal is to reduce labor cost to nothing. There are only a few ways to achieve this. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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Here's a short talk called Artists and AI: Best not to skip therapy this week. I think what I said makes more sense now thinking about current gov data shenanigans re. what types of power dynamics are wrapped up in the deployment of these tools youtu.be/19PiRRGHcAk?...

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Realistic economic vision of the future, which will also have large pushback and movements too; but like Hemingway said the US is heading one way: “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly" www.ft.com/content/4e3f...

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We're being tested by chaos. Where is our red line? Mine was day one. Trans identity can not be outlawed. It is a horrific act of declaring some people less than human without rights. So many trans friends are scared, what will come next? Where can they run? It is life or death. I will fight🏳️‍⚧️

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The ideology here is disgusting. They are high off of the chaos and frightening developments politically and the deepening right-wing tech fusion which they view as an opportunity but in very practical material terms only means death and suffering for ordinary people. sherwood.news/tech/the-wei...

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Agree. He was spot on

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grateful for the @archive.org right now blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Sketchy AI surveillance company says it can dox Palestinian protestors so US can deport. Jack Paulson reporting so has all the connections and receipts. www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-pal...

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A cultural review of 90s politics but the valley is also materially entwined from deeper roots. Without military funding, equipment, and spaces the tech industry in the Bay would not have happened. Follow the money and embedded w the hippie counterculture ethos it's conservative tech nationalist.

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I'm moving the phrase "we don't always see eye to eye" into my red flag category. It is increasingly followed by excuses for some nasty fascistic or racist behavior

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At panel last night, @edwardongwesojr.com kicked off dialogue on what's the OpenAI business model. It's good to ask it of every company. Some are completely phony non existent, others make exploitation easier. Look under the we don't have to hire people profits. Is there evidence, wishes, or scams?

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Tech CEOs are saying "social contract" a lot recently in interviews. Many imagine themselves as political philosophers, while also thinking they are remakers of society, nerd gods. For some, it's merely marketing products as powerful, for others, they're true believers. For both- it's narcissistic

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gentle reminder that deepseek is an open-weight model and NOT open source. there's nothing open about it; no information on how its trained or data trained on, just like its western counterparts

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I wrote a whole book about why you should not need nor allow a machine to tell you who you are and what your story is. Yet one cannot overstate how attractive that idea is to a certain kind of man

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Cancer does not pause for 3 months cause Trump said so.

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Has anyone seen other meme studies like this one but specifically on educating people to resist social media propaganda? mediaengagement.org/research/bri...

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If you compare comment sections of Zuckerberg announcements this week and last month it is night and day. The public is currently livid. I find it curious that there's a massive shift to bluesky from Facebook users when the platforms are not similar and won't meet what they are looking for.

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A former tech CEO is on a crusade to get the record of his arrest removed from the internet — suing a journalist for $25 million for truthfully reporting that the domestic violence arrest had occurred. sf.gazetteer.co/a-former-tec...

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Hacked data broker exposed some spyware ( expected) but with great context here with previous harms. Downloading VPN apps that track your location is sick. Yikes. www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

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"This isn’t just a thin equality, but a definition of equality as colonial expansion. This isn’t a metaphor: the material resources needed to run these machines require violent imperialism and all of its diplomatic doppelgängers." www.e-flux.com/criticism/65...

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