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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Control AI is lobbying the US Congress but I cannot find any information on who is funding the organization. Anyone have any insight?

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/lobbyists?cycle=2024&id=F329222&u

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

And there you have it: #ControlAI wants the government to issue AI licenses so that only the largest tech firms can control the technology. It's #RegulatoryCapture and for some reason Hank Green is swept up in the hype.

https://controlai.com/dip

#AI #OpenAI #ChatGPT

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sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

@fromjason This AI was trained on ethically sourced, fully-organic knowledge–straight from the farm. Make sure you look for our seal of approval to ensure freshness!

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In his YouTube, Hank Green links to an organization called Control AI which has advisors from AI companies.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Hank Green applying sentience to AI and warning of AGI. This doesn't seem great.

I mean, it makes sense, Hank is very much in his white-guy tech bubble like he is in his white-guy political bubble.

Still, Hank has access to a lot of non-tech savvy people, and he's parroting talking point that tech CEOs love to hear. It would be great if he made room to platform someone like @timnitGebru to his audience.

#AGI #AI #OpenAI

https://youtu.be/90C3XVjUMqE?si=zHzHiAoQb3q1T9e8

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

It's things like this that make me dread going back to the classroom in January.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/02/i-dont-know-if-im-ready-to-teach-genetics-again/

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I suspect this is at least in part the attraction to Mamdani in NYC: He's a positive presence who wants good (and progressive) things for his city, and that's certainly a more appealing message than what either Cuomo or Silva are offering right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/dutch-voters-positivity-liberals-patriotism-d66-netherlands-election

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Tattie@eldritch.cafe ("Tattierantula 🎃") wrote:

Do you know stage magicians say that more educated people are easier to fool, not less?

I think about that a lot.

LLMs are the perfect yes-men, giving the user exactly what they expect to see, making them feel clever and special.

When studying my degree I came up with all these tricks to distinguish in a Turing test whether I was talking to a real intelligence or a fake one. I'm no longer certain I couldn't be charmed into thinking the AI had passed these when it hadn't.

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

This resonates with me SO STRONGLY. They took our revolution and turned it into Surveillance Stalinism, farming our emotional outrage to harvest advertising dollars and burn the planet as a side-effect.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/115479982892174664

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DrJosh9000@cloudisland.nz ("Joshua") wrote:

Why is it "making the bed" and not "ensheetification"?

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elena@aseachange.com ("Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂") wrote:

Dear Fedi friends,

If you can set aside 11 minutes today, I highly encourage to watch @vkc's latest video: "I stream nothing, and I am happy."

🔗​: https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/ns3WDZZgAoe1SfrDCAUrni

It is ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT and should be shown in media literacy and digital literacy classes everywhere. Actually, everyone should watch it (I'm about to send it to my family and friends).

My favorite part comes up towards the end. Veronica eloquently explains (9 min 27 sec in):

"I feel like we owe it to ourselves and to those who follow us to try and break free of algorithms, which tell us what we should like, who we should believe, and how we should feel about it.

It may sound melodramatic and maybe it is, but I see the increased dependence on algorithmically-driven entertainment as a symptom of that larger problem: uber-convenience that separates us from our critical thinking.

We're learning to abandon reason for small decisions, and wouldn't you know it, now it's easier to ignore reasons for the larger ones.

I'm not here to tell you what to think. I was raised in a "mind-your-own-damn-business" household and that's where my head is at. But I do want to implore all of us to think critically about how streaming media, autoplay, and the algorithm are impacting us."

I'm super proud to be a backer of her Patreon and I cannot thank her enough for this incredible video... which comes at the perfect time, as I was already planning to set up #Jellyfin next week.

If you can, join me in supporting Veronica's work here: https://www.patreon.com/VeronicaExplains

#DigitalLiteracy #BigTech #SelfHosting #independence #resist #MediaLiteracy

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Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿") wrote:

@ChrisMayLA6

Polanski: Here are some good things we can do for everyone!

Pharage: Give me money, and hate brown people!

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ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

There's an old saying in Political Science that democracy is really mostly about voting against things, not for them.... and (sadly) while this may often be the case, pragmatically, it leads to a hollowing out of democracy:

We voted against Farage/ReformUK, we go the current unimpressive Labour Govt.;

We voted against the status-quo & we got the self-harming Brexit.. and so on.

What would be better would be if we could vote *for* a positive change in politics...

#politics #democracy

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AlisonCreekside@mstdn.ca ("Alison Creekside") wrote:

Marxism 101 ...

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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

Get ready!

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ghostrunner@hachyderm.io ("Ghostrunner") wrote:

#politics #meme

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carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

https://blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/attention-authors-updated-practice-for-review-articles-and-position-papers-in-arxiv-cs-category/

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brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org ("Brewster Kahle") wrote:

"An urgent warning about the open web’s shrinking commons"

Vint Cerf,Cindy Cohn,Jon Stokes (ars technica),and me. a take:

"remake the connective tissue—technical, legal, and economic—that made the web an engine for learning and civic life.

Keep the network interoperable.

Safeguard libraries.

Restore competition.

If the open web can still be a place where truth moves farther and faster than lies, the next chapter can still be written with those principles in mind."

https://www.findarticles.com/an-urgent-warning-about-the-open-webs-shrinking-commons/

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vmbrasseur@social.vmbrasseur.com ("VM (Vicky) Brasseur") wrote:

"The technologist, one of the winners of the 2025 Right Livelihood Award, promotes the social use of technology — a mission that has led her to develop, among other projects, a system to combat online child sexual abuse"

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-02/audrey-tang-hacker-and-taiwanese-digital-minister-ai-is-a-parasite-that-fosters-polarization.html

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wingo ("Andy Wingo") wrote:

it has been a while, but whoo, new bloggery: "wastrel, a profligate implementation of webassembly" https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/10/30/wastrel-a-profligate-implementation-of-webassembly

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

TIL 5G (+/SA) is fast as hell.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/i/6820463528

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phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

I'm Kimie Shimizu in her monster form, from Silent Hill F for tonight.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Photo of a cat tragically denied grilled chicken by his humans, where is justice for Smudge, I ask you

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exador23@m.ai6yr.org ("Hippy Steve") wrote:

A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates. The Boston Fire Department Arson Unit responded to the incident and determined the explosion to be intentional. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/11/2/explosion-longwood/

The explosion took place on an area of the fourth floor of Goldenson, a Harvard Medical School building on the school’s main quad. An officer who responded shortly before 3 a.m. observed two individuals fleeing the building, according to the email sent by HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano this afternoon. HUPD sent a subsequent email to Harvard affiliates shortly after 5 p.m. asking for assistance identifying two men, who they described as suspects. The images were captured on security footage. Both men are shown wearing sweatshirts with hoods and ski masks.

The Boston Police Department performed a sweep of the building and determined there were no additional devices in the building. No injuries were reported in relation to the incident.

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mike_k@mstdn.social ("Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴‍☠️") wrote:

“Donald Trump’s pet project has been referred to by some in the White House as the “Epstein Ballroom,” the president’s biographer [Michael Wolff] says.”

And so say all of us.
#uspol

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AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

"Anti-religious beliefs."

I know you're trying so fucking hard not to acknowledge that he's one of you - but he's one of you. The guy's a fundie who thinks Mormons are heretics.

I fucking hate this government more every day and that's difficult to imagine because of how much I hated these nazis right off the rip - but here we are.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/michigan-mormon-church-shooter

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themoep@infosec.exchange ("jakob") wrote:

PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.

edit: huh, this blew up so I'm adding sources. Here's vimeo's own announcement: https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138
and the wikipedia page for bending spoons has their track record of past acquisitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bending%5FSpoons

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copter_chief@mstdn.party ("CopterDoctor") wrote:

42,000,000 Americans go hungry, healthcare premiums about to double, all so this narcissistic asshole can have a golden ballroom.
#FuckTrump #PedoTrump
#ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

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BenRiceM wrote:

The Danish Foreign Minister gifted his Egyptian counterpart a Lego set of the pyramids and I think all politics should just be some variation of this

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Just to be clear. MAGAs are gutting:
•Medicaid—which 60M Americans rely on to survive
•SNAP—which 42M Americans rely on to eat
•School Lunch—which 30M kids rely on daily
•Housing Assistance—which 5M families rely on to live

ALL to cut $4.5T in taxes for 800 Billionaires

This Is Barbaric.