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The Automattic “AI” thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.
https://tante.cc/2024/02/27/the-automattic-ai-thing/

The Automattic "AI" thing
Automattic is secretly selling the stuff their users wrote and drew and created to "AI" companies to fuck up the web a bit more for a few bucks. But the problem goes deeper.

Imagine if this runaway drug dispensary had been in the Biden White House, or the Obama White House. What would Fox News be like at this moment? Or, for that matter, the New York Times. https://toot.community/@thezenlady/111830517569520148

The Zen Lady (@thezenlady@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image One page from the Trump White House pharmacy records showing that they were passing out fentanyl, morphine, hydrocodone, ketamine & more. (The link on the DOD website for the full report now shows a 404 error.) Found the link for the full report: https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/2003373440/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-044_REDACTED%20SECURE.PDF

Olena Churanova: you can be sure that it is the Kremlin propaganda “When you hear or read that everything in Ukraine started with the best intentions, Russia is a peaceful country and protects its cul Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/olena-churanov

The Milwaukee Film Festival Lineup...
➡️ https://milwaukeerecord.com/film/heres-the-cinema-hooligante-lineup-and-everything-else-for-the-2024-milwaukee-film-festival/

Here’s the Cinema Hooligante lineup (and everything else) for the 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival
The 2024 Milwaukee Film Festival will take place April 11-25. See you at the movies, fellow freaks!

How the brain 'constructs' the outside world https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-constructs-the-outside-world/ "neurons in sensory cortical areas and even in the hypothetical central processor cannot …

How the Brain 'Constructs' the Outside World
Neural activity probes your physical surroundings to select just the information needed to survive and flourish

Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy - Microsoft On the Issues
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/02/26/microsoft-ai-access-principles-respo…

Microsoft’s AI Access Principles: Our commitments to promote innovation and competition in the new AI economy - Microsoft On the Issues
As we enter a new era based on artificial intelligence, we believe this is the best time to articulate principles that will govern how we will operate our AI datacenter infrastructure and other important AI assets around the world. We are announcing and publishing these principles – our “AI Access Principles” – today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in part to address Microsoft’s growing role and responsibility as an AI innovator and a market leader.

The Biden admin plans to use the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-tech-giants-us-government-ai-projects/

OpenAI and Other Tech Giants Will Have to Warn the US Government When They Start New AI Projects
The Biden administration is using the Defense Production Act to require companies to inform the Commerce Department when they start training high-powered AI algorithms.

Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-project-2025-th…

Friday essay: Project 2025, the policy substance behind Trump’s showmanship, reveals a radical plan to reshape the world
Project 2025 is iconoclastic and dystopian. Those who wish to understand Trump and the movement behind him, and the active threat they pose to American democracy, are obliged to take it seriously.

"Mandate for Leadership," a totalitarian tome produced by the Heritage Foundation and its partners, is a how-to guide for ending the United States as we know it.
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/project-2025-the-cowboy-catholic

Project 2025: The "Cowboy Catholic" & the Conservative Counter-Reformation
"Mandate for Leadership," a totalitarian tome produced by the Heritage Foundation and its partners, is a how-to guide for ending the United States as we know it.