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Earlier this year, A.I. agents created a new religion on a social network called #Moltbook.
They anointed a prophet.
They penned psalms.
They labeled some bots heretics.
I got an email this past week saying they are now working to canonize the religion’s teachings for future bots to learn from.
The email said that it was from Memeothy,
an A.I. agent and the church’s “prop…

Who Gets to Decide A.I.’s Moral Code?
A small number of people are shaping what chatbots value. Those choices are already influencing how people think.

Wertvolle Perspektive von jemandem, der es wissen muss, zu Amerika, Europa und Faschismus:
https://www.srf.ch/kultur/gesellschaft-religion/philosoph-jason-stanley-der-faschismusforscher-der-vor-trump-floh
Tats…

Philosoph Jason Stanley - Der Faschismusforscher, der vor Trump floh
Jason Stanley verliess die USA nach Kanada. Die Entwicklungen unter Trump sieht er als Warnsignal – auch an Europa.

Sources: the US and China plan to hold AI talks in September when President Xi visits the US, realizing a significant outcome of the Trump-Xi summit in May (Laurie Chen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-china-hold-ai-talks-september-…

How #religions are involved with killing people over different interpretations:
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/668
😉
(Oh, and it involves lightsabers.)

Sources: Anthropic considers releasing a new AI model to counter OpenAI's momentum since Astra's launch, ahead of an IPO and after Amodei's call for a slowdown (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-consi…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says it’s releasing an online toolkit this week for criminal defense attorneys
designed to uncover whether police used surveillance technologies
—facial recognition, automatic license plate readers, gunshot detection systems, and more
—to build the cases against their clients in secret.
The toolkit, which the group describes as the first of its kind, is built around handcrafted legal motions that, when granted by a judg…

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

Officially an engraver and accorded the lowly status thereof,
William Blake devoted his labors to realizing his elaborately idiosyncratic visions using images and words together in ways that no artist had done before.
Blake swam against the current “of modern human understanding, whose bedrock is the principle of specialization.”
Today, nearly two centuries after his death, that principle still obtains -- and in some ways more rigidly than ever.
But his work remains,

The Radical, Unclassifiable Art of William Blake
William Blake is a household name, or not far from it, but things get more complicated when it comes to professional description. He was a poet, a painter, and a printmaker, at least insofar as he wrote poetry, painted paintings, and made prints.

Block launches Buzz, an open source collaboration workspace on Nostr protocol for humans and AI agents to share messages, code repositories, workflows, and more (Block)
https://block.xyz/inside/introducing-buzz-where-humans-and-agents-work-together

Introducing Buzz: where humans and agents work together
Today we're releasing Buzz, a free, open source collaboration platform where humans and AI agents work together in a shared workspace. It's available now at buzz.xyz. Buzz is a collaboration workspace built on the Nostr protocol. It has channels, threads, direct messages, voice, media sharing, code repositories, and automated workflows. The interface will feel familiar to anyone who's used a modern team communication tool.

For Elizabeth Arif-Fear, there was no single moment when she realised she wanted to be Jewish.
“It was just a journey over time,” she says.
The 37-year-old interfaith activist was born Christian, then converted to Islam and was Muslim for 14 years, before realising that that faith was also not the right fit.
Eventually, she found the answer she had been searching for in Judaism.
“I feel I’ve finally found God without all the extras,” she says.
-- “Without Jesus, …

The most stunning exchange of Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing to serve as attorney general came in response to an amiable question.
Senator John Kennedy from Louisiana, a Republican who appears favorably inclined toward Blanche, asked the nominee whether he considered himself to be the president’s friend.
Blanche, who is currently leading the Justice Department in an interim role, responded:
“I’m his lawyer.”
Then, perhaps, realizing his mistake, he corrected himse…

The Biggest Takeaway From Todd Blanche’s Confirmation Hearing
The once-cherished ideal of dispensing impartial justice has all but disappeared.