I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website*
I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
What Stephen Colbert’s spat with CBS is really about
Congress could address the underlying issue simply by repealing the outdated regulation — or eliminating the Federal Communications Commission altogether.
Democracy dies in darkness
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.”
Either way, they take zero responsibility.
I feel like workers’ rights and folklore sharing the May Day space really should involve at least one billionaire being put into a wicker man.
Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler
I'm very excited about the potential for this part of DRP. I hope that it will represent the broader interests as well as the importance of academic research using this data.
It isn't hyperbole to say that these firings will cost people's lives.
Not just of workers, who will face all the hardships that come with job loss, but of the people their work saves.
The GOP is a literal death cult and they aren't pretending to not be anymore.
With Meta out there banging on the "snitches get stitches" drum, seemed like a good time to lay out my best guidance for tech industry employees who feel a need to speak up. Below are a few notes:
www.theverge.com/labor/621059...
If you have ever wondered why our safety net is so inadequate and so full of cruelties and indignities, it is because of anti-Black racism.
Democracy never got off the ground at all for Indigenous and Black folks, and has never fully operated for immigrant communities, the disabled, or queer folks
yea we did 😎
We ❤️ all the libraries that have been supporting data rescue and their patrons. Our focus is the preservation of access for all. www.datarescueproject.org/libraries-su...
From @apduorg.bsky.social
Such a major loss. The data was restricted access so access to historical data also unclear. Some indicators are available. We can archive those unless someone has done already.
Farmers Sue Over Deletion of Climate Data From Government Websites
The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
Gift link!
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
Hey @freegovinfo.bsky.social we are in Italian too! @datarescueproject.org www.internazionale.it/notizie/ales...
"Postdocs and PhD students hit hard by Trump’s crackdown on science
As US federal grants remain frozen and budget cuts loom, anxiety and fear grip early-career researchers." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
There’s been a remarkable uptick in fragile, argumentative white people in Black people’s mentions on here
"No matter DOGE’s goal, putting so much information in one place and under the control of a small group of people with little government experience has raised substantial security concerns," Matteo Wong writes in the Atlantic Intelligence newsletter:
Legal scholars and advocates are sounding the alarm that Trump’s seizure of dictatorial executive power may succeed with the Supreme Court’s approval.
Morning, all:
We remember what happened to USPS under Trump last time. Now, he's planning on taking control.
Please be aware. Yes, CALL YOUR REPS.
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
