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OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers "gentle reminders" to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-will-n

ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to remind users to take breaks if they chat with AI for a long period of time.

Universal Pictures has started adding a legal warning at the end credits of its films stating that their titles "may not be used to train AI" (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Universal Pictures to Big Tech: We’ll Sue If You Steal Our Movies For AI
The studio is getting more aggressive about protecting its films from companies pirating them.

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:
1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.
2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.
3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.
4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.
5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.
It’s a grift, through and through.

Honestly, between the fascism, climate records breaking monthly, and AI I'd say we've arrived at the singularity.
Since the pandemic I've been feeling it's pointless, but every day I'm more and more certain it's not worth investing anything "for the future" any more.
So yeah I'm probably buying a guitar

Joe Rogan's Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI
AI might already be hiding its real capabilities. That’s what Dr. Roman Yampolskiy told Rogan in a podcast episode that will rattle both skeptics and true believers.

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Panthers' Horn misses practice after car accident https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45913440/panthers-horn-misses-practice-vs-browns-following-car-accident

Once again: #FuckEricAdams
Unbelievable how he's managed to avoid jailtime breaking federal/state laws while City Council allows him to continue to break _their_laws as well.

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No to 15 mph e-bike speed limit, yes to real safety! - Transportation Alternatives
A ridiculous 15 mph speed limit for e-bikes won't work. Tell Mayor Adams and City Council: We need effective, data-driven policies that protect everyone, and accountability for the corporations fueling chaos on our streets — not the cyclists surviving it.

According to capitalists:
✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.
❌ Displaying images of the genocide.
Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*
But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?
* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean…

Top 10 NFL preseason storylines to watch: How will Cowboys-Parsons saga play out? Which Colts QB emerges?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-10-

Browns DC Jim Schwartz expects career year from Myles Garrett following record-setting contract https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-dc-jim-schwartz-expects-career-year-from-myles-garrett-following-record-setting-contra…