* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me

Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

Once-in-a-generation moment to protect U.S. Privacy - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

ICCL report on the scale of Real-Time Bidding data broadcasts in the U.S. and Europe - Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

Windows 11 is adding another Copilot button nobody asked for

Dialog Claims It Was Hacked. A Misconfigured Website Left Its Members Exposed

Hollywood Names Surface in Peter Thiel-Backed, Invite-Only Society

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How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

Directors of Firms Linked to Sanctioned Cambodian Conglomerate Bought Properties in Japan

「アジア最大の犯罪組織」最高幹部逮捕 うその住民異動容疑、警視庁:朝日新聞

Hong Kong Justice Department Applies for Order to Freeze Prince Group Assets

Executive linked to major Asian crime group arrested in Japan
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Prince Group executive Hu Xiaowei arrested in Tokyo over $15B Bitcoin scam investigation
* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me

No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe

The New York Times neglects accountability after letters call out its anti-trans coverage
New York Times Sign On Letter | GLAAD

The New York Times helped fuel an anti-trans panic in 2022. Will 2023 be any better?

Lessons From a Heated Media Rivalry

The New York Times Responds to Criticism of Anti-Trans Bias by Silencing Its Own Reporters

Deep-Research Agents Can Be Poisoned via User-Generated Content

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned

How Wikipedia Will Survive in the Age of AI (With Wikipedia’s CTO Selena Deckelmann)
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection
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出身地鑑定!! 方言チャート

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dialect.redlog.net

How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)

How Do You Talk? — American Accent Quiz & US Dialect Map
Welcome | Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English in North America

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古畑任三郎、1話が最初の事件ではない!?時系列を1.4万字で考察:朝日新聞

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Public Body Vulnerabilities

The European Social Stack · An open declaration

Pravda in numbers - Content and Network analysis

Perception of Global Leaders - Nira Data

Government Ratings - Nira Data
Global Pulse

AI is eating website traffic, websites are blocking AI – and reliable information is getting harder to find

How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?

Meet the Serbian Businessman/DJ Who Runs the Zombie AI Southwest Journal - Racket

Google Search's guidance about AI-generated content | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers

Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
Copy of Digital Masquerade

The Worst Magazine In America

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The day that CBS News became literally ‘fake news’ for America | Will Bunch

The End of CBS News

What Liberal Media? Axios Thinks Being Neutral Means Kissing Trump’s Ass
US media: The Washington Post (by あ) — Semble

New Federal Indictment on Minnesota 15 Peddles DOJ 'Antifa' Conspiracy Angle After Raids - UNICORN RIOT

The Next Step in Criminalizing ICE Protests Is Here

出身地鑑定!! 方言チャート

Visit Japan Web | デジタル庁 ウェブサービス・アプリケーション
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デモカレンダー|全国のデモ・集会情報

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How Do You Talk? — American Accent Quiz & US Dialect Map
TRAC Immigration

Federal Immigration Agent Shootings

Resources - National Immigration Law Center
[V5] National map — Habeas Flight Watch
ICE Flight Monitor
Ratioed — dame.is
OUTLIER · Daily Global Word Game Scored on Rarity
everythingwx.com
MOSCOT Eyewear - NYC Since 1915
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The Verge guide to privacy and security