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AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
https://www.rfi.fr/en/middle-east/20250629-ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators

AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators
The world's most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors - lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.

How performers on OnlyFans and other adult sites are using LLMs for creative inspiration, amid a rise of adult-specific LLMs like sex worker chatbot GPTease (Lux Alptraum/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/692286/ai-bots-…

LLMs are optimizing the adult industry
Large language models are helping OnlyFans creators run single-person production studios.

Ziff Davis is laying off 15% of its unionized workforce, or 23 people, 19 of which work for CNET; Ziff Davis has bought five companies in 2025 (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/715220/ziff-davis-creators-guild-cnet-layoffs

Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree
Media company Ziff Davis is laying off 15 percent of its unionized workforce, with the majority being from tech outlet CNET.

They’re such gorgeous creatures! (This isn’t my flower mantis / photo - it’s Taylor Newton’s.)

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…

TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators | TechCrunch
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.

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Fui perguntar Š minha amiga no whatsapp se ela jš estava sextando. O corretor queria trocar "sextando" por "sentando" e eu não sei o que comentar a respeito disso rs.

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

TikTok adds new safety features, including enhanced parental controls, and publicly launches Footnotes, its Community Notes-like feature, in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/tiktok-adds-new-parental-controls-tools-for-c…

TikTok adds new parental controls, tools for creators | TechCrunch
The social network is bringing new parental controls to Family Pairing, its feature that allows parents to link their accounts with their teen's account to customize safety settings.

shoutout to Odilon Redon for titling so many of his illustrations shit like "The Breath which Leads All Creatures is also in the Spheres" and "Why Should There Not Exist a World Composed of Invisible, Odd, Fantastic, Embryonic Beings?"