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Lifehacker: “If you’re tired of X and Threads, it might be time to move to greener, or perhaps bluer, pastures…It turns out that, with the right platform, it’s possible to like social media again. Bluesky is quite unlike most other social media networks. You have a lot of control over who sees your posts and …
Follow up to Open AI and Anthropic respond to Defense Department demands differently – See also Lawfare – Pentagon’s Anthropic Designation Won’t Survive First Contact with Legal System. “This is designation as political theater: a show of force that will not stick. On Feb. 27, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth designated Anthropic—the maker of the AI …
404 Media [no paywall]: “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 …
Ars Technica: “Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The finding, from a recently published research paper, is based on results of experiments correlating specific individuals with accounts …
MakeUseOf: “Your phone’s contact list is, in a way, one of the most intimate things you own. It holds the names, numbers, and sometimes addresses of everyone you care about. I’m talking about your family, your doctor, your oldest friend, your enemies, etc. And yet, by default, that entire list sits exposed in Android’s shared …
Measures models’ ability to detect nonsense across 100 plausible-sounding nonsense prompts in software, medical, legal, finance, and physics. BullshitBench v2: Detection Rate by Model. Percentage of nonsense questions each model detected (green), partially challenged (amber), or accepted (red).
Jonathan Larsen: “Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the militar A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran …
The Verge – Anyone else notice that ICE isn’t worried about getting doxed by Meta? – “There’s never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own …
Alliance Map Wiki – Connect with groups, organizations, and resources around the country. The Alliance Map is a growing directory of organizations working to protect our communities and environment from oil & gas pollution. Browse the map to find organizations working in your state. Is there an organization that should be be included on this …
The New York Times Gift Article – Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. Forty-three current and former C.D.C. employees on the changes they say are replacing science with ideology — and making Americans more vulnerable. The civil servants who spoke to me worry that, instead, a century’s worth of expertise is being …
The New York Times Gift Article: “Six American service members were killed, and U.S. military jets were shot out of the sky. Investors are bracing for market turmoil, fearing prolonged disruption to oil supplies. President Trump says the military campaign against Iran could extend for weeks, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that …
Follow up to Trump Using Another Executive Order to Take Revenge on Law Firms – See also The New York Times – “The Trump administration on Monday abandoned its attempts to impose potentially crippling executive orders against law firms that refused to capitulate to the president, walking away from its appeal of victories the firms …
