The Internet's Most Powerful #Archiving Tool Is in Peril (via @wired.com) www.wired.com/story/the-in... #archives #webarchives #digipres #publishers @archive.org

Phillips P. OBrien (@phillipspobrien) People who are saying the US and Israel are being surgical in their air strikes against Iran are missing one major fact. The US and Israel have killed many more Iranian civilians in airstrikes since F...

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(I'm NOT deleting my post below 👇)

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Says Vance, interfering in the Hungarian election.

= tom'sHARDWANE• SUBSCRIBEr @ Q Tech Industry Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAl's $30B Stargate Al data center in Abu Dhabi — regime posts video with satellite imagery of ChatGPT-maker's premier 1GW data center News By Mark Tyson published 9 hours ago Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued this specific threat in a video update.

I may be on the wrong side of this war.

Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services Generative AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini are some of the fastest-growing consumer services. Individuals using such services must accept their terms of use before access, and conform to these ter...

New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me

We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms

arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter...

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Mark Zuckerberg, 2021: “within five years, [Facebook] will be known primarily as a metaverse company.”

Mark Zuckerberg, now:

“Astronaut” is ancient Greek for “Star Sailor”
But sadly that’s all we know about the ancient Greek space program.

Trump is about to turn CNN into "Fox News 2." Will the network go down swinging? The White House used thuggery to seize another news network that the president doesn't like, yet its on-air talent is largely silent. They shouldn't be. History is tuning in.

How Trump is taking control over CNN. It's terrible to watch how MAGA is gradually defeating the free press.

Easy targets: kids using AI, woke AI, thirsty AI, immoral AI

Don’t hold your breath: concentration of power amplified by proprietary intellectual capital

The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The fuck is a jingle horse

Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

I heard Ashbery read this ages ago. It is still magnetic every time.

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

honestly impressive feat from mr musk. grok said it so it must be true.

Registering my prediction: over the next 5 years, Tesla sales will continue to decline, and the Optimus robots will be a Cybertruck-scale nonstarter.

BUT.

The company will be a world-leading innovator in shady market manipulation and fraudulent accounting techniques. He’ll hit his fake targets.

Congratulations & thank you from a happy user! I hope you’ll keep up the good work!

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.

They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Not a lot of people know this but the MC in MC Hammer stands for master carpenter

Conditional on somebody being a more senior scholar active in replication initiatives, they are less likely to be known for their own highly visible scientific achievements.

In other news, conditioning on the outcome reliably makes it very hard to understand how the world works.

Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr Yes, the huge firms pushing unsuitable content must be regulated. But until they are, adults can model the positive use of tech, says digital humanities academic Dr Kaitlyn Regehr

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr

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