McClatchy has fallen.

i will literally never forget this 9to5mac.com/2025/08/06/t...

Florida attorney general alleges ChatGPT advised FSU campus shooter The AI chatbot told the man accused of killing two people in 2025 what ammunition to use and when to strike, the state attorney general said.

Florida’s attorney general opened an investigation into OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT advised the man accused of killing two people in a shooting at Florida State University last year which ammunition to use and where and when to strike.

“The general public has grown extremely tired of the fact that every single thing they do, within their own homes, outside of their homes, is being collected and cataloged and cross-referenced to potentially be used against them at some point.”

Here are just a few of the ads we show in the complaint -- and appreciate the tireless work of @ttp-updates.bsky.social and @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social @reuters.com which was incredibly useful in this effort.

This doesnt replace the necessary work of regulators or legislators, but it is past time

NEW: we @consumerfed.bsky.social are suing Meta in DC for knowingly facilitating massive scam losses through ads and misleading consumers about what they're doing to stop it

www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

thanks to @tyckozavareei.bsky.social @techjusticelaw.bsky.social for repping us.

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

The creeps who make up Trump's paramilitary force (aka 🇺🇸 ICE) will soon be outfitted with the same glasses worn by all the other creeps who wear them, except these creepy glasses will be fused with mass surveillance data

by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/kenklipp...

at least google glass looked kind of futuristic. these will get you shoved in a locker, and it doesn't matter how old you are.

yikes yikes yikes

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Important story from the Times on the rise of AI influencers for Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

The Privacy Tax · Consumer Federation of America This report illustrates the deceptive practices by prominent tax preparation companies, the privacy violations they commit, and the growing threat of tax-time scams from fraudsters impersonating the I...

“ #TaxDay is stressful enough, without worrying about being upsold, misled, or having your #data used in ways you’d never imagine,” CFA Director of AI & Privacy @benwinters.bsky.social

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

Humans have a certain level of intelligence, they told us, and now generative AI tools — or “agents” — would complement that intelligence. In their mind, there was no distinction between human intelligence and supposedly computer-enabled intelligence, meaning the total intelligence in the world and available to the individual was expanding as the technology became more mature. We would all be more intelligent as a result. It’s an appealing story, as long as you don’t apply any critical thought to the claims of those tech executives. The most obvious point is that chatbots are not intelligent. They rely on pattern recognition to try to produce a response that reflects the prompt they’re given. They do not understand the response, they do not think about the response, and they have no ability to determine the accuracy of the response — hence all the discussion of “hallucinations” these past few years. But the problem goes even deeper.

AI boosters want us to see human intelligence and artificial intelligence as comparable and complementary, even though computers are not actually thinking — companies are just designing interfaces that trick us into believing they are.

disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb...

Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.

His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

"#Meta is profiting from the harm AGs are warning about at the expense of consumers who are suffering the financial and emotional consequences. We encourage AGs to hold Meta accountable for facilitating and profiting from #scam ads.” @benwinters.bsky.social

consumerfed.org/press_releas...

This story is wild, this man should be studied for how makes the worst looking choice at every single opportunity

www.axios.com/2026/04/09/m...

Also lol at the ad Meta is running right above it 🙃

A juvenile cardinal perched between seats on a WMATA 6000 series car. It is upset.

Today on the Silver line at Cheverly... Got off at Deanwood after some cajoling.

Also a reminder: keeping your phone powered off while traveling (like through airports) puts it in that “before first unlock” state, where a lot less data is accessible without a passcode. Turn off biometrics, and don’t reuse pins!

TIL: recent iOS updates are locking cops out of seized iPhones. For months now, forensic tools like Cellebrite haven’t been able to extract data from some of these devices

One workaround I’ve heard: police will subpoena jail phone systems to get defendants PINs…then try those codes on the phones

a simpler way to phrase this concept is as a “bad product”

LG has announced its new microwave was too powerful to be released to the public - reports now confirm the microwave explodes every time and doesn’t heat up food and steals your data

www.wired.com/story/army-d...

A reminder that no one has worked out how to spot emotions, nor even is there a full consensus on what emotions there are.

Anyone remotely claiming to is lying.

it’s true, there are no middle class white kids in the american education system. they have all been excluded by invidious racial discrimination

(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline)

oh that's probably the good guy in this movie

Minneapolis Area Cities Shutting Off License Plate Cameras The debate over the cameras, the surveillance infrastructure they create and who has access to the data has intensified since the major federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota this year.

More.

Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading private Facebook photos The former employee was fired from Meta after being suspected of downloading 30,000 photos, the company said.

“A former Meta employee suspected of downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police.”

I Guess We're Just Waiting Around To See If This Demented Psychopath Kills Everyone | Defector There is a particular indignity that comes from living in America, derived from the experience of waking up in the morning to see reports that Donald Trump has said something profoundly evil, and then...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

sneaky + maddening surveillance pricing practices from Floor & Decor. same product, all labeled “clearance”

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You know these AI companies are getting desperate when the big ask is “Try Computer.”