Long been a listener of the This is Not a Drill podcast, but Gavin Esler’s interview this week with Bruce Schneier, in “Big Tech, A.I. and the dictators – Inside the future of authoritarianism” is maybe one of the best episodes I’ve caught. It has the spoilers about how democracy ends. Enjoy.
It's not that there are no valid uses of the tech stack we presently call 'AI' but so much of Gen AI's market investment is dedicated to unsolving solved problems. Take representing reality. We already have it. Fabricating realistic images makes no sense. There are cameras, and you can go outside.
Leaked docs show Google and Amazon created routes, known as "winking mechanisms," to bypass their legal obligations in order to sell their cloud services to Israel's military for use in its many war crimes.
https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/
Still get spam calls to the dorment mobile number from the Ledger hack. They go straight to bot but enjoy the transcripts.
"Prudential compliance division of blockchain. Our records show that your wallet is currently in a dormant status and immediate action is required to resolve this issue. To have one of our agents contact you within the next few hours, please press one now. Your prompt response is important to ensure compliance and resolve this matter. Thank you."
Lol.
Just the Department of State staff following orders to use official channels, in open violation of the Hatch Act, for partisan attacks against the political opponents of their neurosyphilitic-damaged, despotic leader.
ICE is planning to buy Israeli spyware for domestic use in the U.S. to help access location data from nearly any mobile, and potentially scrape social app information.
Huwaida’s a political prisoner. Abducted by Israel’s occupation forces from international waters for nonviolent direct action against a genocide.
#FreeHuwaida