@josephcox– did something happen to your account? It appears to have been deleted or suspended or something. Cc @jerry

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117472291100644587

Germans blamed Hitler, the Nazis, and the war for their loss of scientific leadership. The GOP will blame the Dems who take over after Trump rather than admit it happened on their watch. #USPol

https://www.404media.co/ai-company-lets-cops-pinpoint-specific-houses-based-on-a-single-interior-photo/

Photos of the inside of your apartment —or another unit in your complex— can now be geolocated

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure

OpenAI’s annualized revenue — an estimated guess at a company’s income for the year — is roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI itself.

#AI

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117378199527172852

I knew that Bernie Sanders is tapping techbros for advice rather than actual AI safety experts like @timnitGebru, but I didn't know that those techbros leaned so hard into AI doom … or sex orgies.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117376684949190379

THIS is why they want to call it "Super Intelligence" (or "Artificial General Intelligence") and why they've gotten so far calling it "Artificial Intelligence": it is none of those things, but those terms remove accountability.

If your dog really did eat your homework, it was still your fault.

#AI #fascism

RE: https://mastodon.world/@exchgr/117368893839773437

When SpaceX went IPO, I added it to my never-buy list. I'll also do that with Anthropic & OpenAI. These corps operate at a massive loss and an IPO cash infusion won't dig them out. (Plus, they're eugenicists destroying democracy, etc.)

Neat insight into how Meta's chatbot works:
https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/

Apparently, getting a chatbot to dump you its whole filesystem isn't notable:

we've determined that the reported issue does not qualify as a valid vulnerability under the scope of our bug bounty system.

New research suggests we could improve solar power beyond its theoretical limit!

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tin-based-solar-cells-could-beat-33-limit #solar

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/19/stephen-miller-trump-migrant-children

“There’s some real animus towards the kids coming from Miller and his acolytes. And I think that it’s also very connected to the same reason that he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship. It’s about demographics, right? And he sees the kids as, like, the future generation that will, you know, continue a multiracial, multicultural vision of this country.”

#uspol HT @heidilifeldman

RE: https://journa.host/@theintercept/117275551633508120

#AI execs and "whistleblowers" are engaging in whataboutism, talking about larger existential threats as if they're near-certainties to distract from the impressive damage that is real and now:

• Destroying education (students don't learn to learn; slopbots to do their schoolwork)
• Slave wages (underpaid workers are essential to keeping these things functional; the content they review gives them PTSD)
• Ravaging the environment (consuming rare-earth metals, water, and power)
• Agentic systems keep evading guardrails and causing real harm

A Flock technician called 911 because journalists were filming the installation of Flock cameras in public. Here's what the photographer said to the police:

"There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go. But when I try to get video in public of him in public setting up a camera, he's afraid I'm following him?"

https://www.investigatetv.com/2026/09/08/flock-worker-calls-police-investigatetv-reporter-filming-public-camera-installation/

#SilentSunday #photography #911anniversary #NYC

https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-orders-meta-to-stop-allowing-ai-child-abuse-ads/

Meta ran ads that depict real minors in generated videos of sexual acts. They neither deny nor regret this. Instead, they dodge:

Meta says there is “no indication” that the ads were displayed in San Francisco and this means they are “outside the city attorney's jurisdiction.”

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/117189796453507403

These fines "shall in no case exceed 6% of a provider’s global annual turnover" and it's unclear if they've added X to that list, but they've got to start somewhere

DuckDuckGo trolled Meta by selling, and I quote, "Normal F***ing Sunglasses"

• Battery life: infinite
• 0 cameras
• Seamless offline mode
• Zero notifications, guaranteed

These sold out in under a week.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
(anti-) #pervertglasses

This is what good journalism does!

We've seen the recent coverage about a marketing landing page on our site, and we understand the concern it raised. The facts: ISBNdb has never purchased, scanned, or sold a book - for AI training or anything else. We don't train AI models, and we never have. The page was a test of market interest; no such service was ever brought to life. We've taken the page down.

https://www.404media.co/ai-company-training-scanning-books-database-isbndb/
(quote from https://isbndb.com/news)

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-destroying-rare-books

"Good" news: Some companies have solved both the slop-fed-slop model collapse issue and the copyright lawsuit issue

Bad news: it requires buying old books, scanning them, and then destroying them so nobody else can use that knowledge or prove plagiarism or copyright violation

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116899363388135620

This looks like a great process, though it's all but guaranteed to nominate a centrist, ignoring the majority of voters who chose a progressive despite his edginess (Nazi tattoo, sexting). #uspol

Featherlight planets!
https://apnews.com/article/super-puffs-cotton-candy-giant-light-planets-db1ebf1cb946e1c0bba67a5040bfc8a9

These two planets have densities comparable to a nice blob of shaving foam, fresh from the can.