* 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
Critiques/discussions about specific AI products that don’t really belong in my other collections * 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

Do we actually know how to make cities safer for women?

British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think

How The Heck Do Record Players Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection

Wikimedia: Rogue OpenAI agents behind unauthorized Wikipedia edits
List of Wikipedia controversies
List of political editing incidents on Wikipedia

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

Microsoft

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

J-Type 101 — Secret Riso Club

Lost in Translation? A Designer’s Guide to Japanese Type – PRINT Magazine
The easiest way to get a big scoop in journalism is to straight-up steal it from @marisakabas.bsky.social, as we've seen over and over from…
Nicole Bedera (@nbedera.bsky.social)

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

Semafor Keeps Hosting Ridiculous “Restoring Trust In Media” Events That Only Further Undermine Trust In Media

Semafor Keeps Hosting “Restoring Trust In News” Events Stocked With Known Right Wing Bullshitters

Semafor Joins A Very Broken US Media Industry Claiming To Have Found The Cure For Eroded Trust In News. But Have They Really?
Patrick Cosmos (@veryimportant.lawyer)

出身地鑑定!! 方言チャート

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AIと著作権について | 文化庁

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時間外労働の上限規制 | 働き方改革特設サイト | 厚生労働省

Did Trump say he now owned 'tallest' building in downtown Manhattan during 9/11 interview?

The Forgotten Hate-Fueled Shootings in the Wake of 9/11

How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens • Stateline

‘War on terror’: How 9/11 changed the language of conflict

9/11の3年前に「爆発物を積んだ航空機」の脅威を米CIAが警告 機密文書公開で明らかに - BBCニュース

CIA warned of threat of 'explosive airplane' years before 9/11, documents show

「別班」の存在を暴いた記者が抱く『VIVANT』シーズン2への違和感…別班の正体と越えてはならない一線とは 『自衛隊の闇組織 秘密情報部隊「別班」の正体』の著者、石井暁・共同通信記者に聞く | JBpress (ジェイビープレス)

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

『古畑任三郎』時系列・順番を完全解説!放送順との違いと全事件一覧

The (Edited) Latecomer's Guide to Crypto
the majority of regular bsky users don’t like ai. A large part of the atproto power users are also ai power users. Attie’s features feel…

thoughts on attie - half baked

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

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

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice
Hey! I got an exclusive invitation to this off-the-record conference . . . but I think I’ll take 3515 Jamaican beef patties instead.

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

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial autho…
🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical…

Video: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About Trump
NYT is explicitly using 2FA as a punishment to try to upsell existing subscribers.
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at…

Trump Told Supporters To “Cheat Like Hell.” The NY Times Went With “A Bit Tired Of Politics.”

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Color Names — 31,912 colors, named by people

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Facebook's Broken Promises | TTP Interactive Database
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