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Vibe code is legacy code

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‘Elle est passée où ta Greta Thunberg ?’

Elle est toujours là, active, à se battre pour le climat. C’est juste qu’elle est aussi contre la colonisation et les gouvernements d’extrême-droite donc quand elle a communiqué sur le genocide en Palestine de nombreux médias ont cessé de parler d’elle.

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

mother of pearl, nobody cares about the data china has about americans.

the natsec concern is not the spying (unless it comes to government employees), it is the direct and unfettered access to shape the hearts and minds millions of americans.

it is an “enemy” propagandist’s wet dream.

NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

When they ask you why you think the richest dude in the world is deeply deranged and insecure, show them this interaction between him and his burner account.

OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivot A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.

🤖 for those not keeping score:

- OpenAI now has a military contract
- Anthropic has a contract with Palantir

www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...

This place feels nicer

Happy to find back tech twitter community here, though we lost it for a moment