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A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death - Anil Dash
anildash.com · 25 people
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
Everybody is (understandably) very excited that Anthropic isn't selling their AI for Hegseth to use to automate his war crimes. But I would gently suggest that we not accept setting the bar quite so low.
— @anildash · Feb 28
A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
theguardian.com · 21 people
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
“How dismaying – how unforgivable! – that those past lessons have not been learned. How incredible that an elected 21st-century American president still believes it’s effective and permissible, let alone moral, to dictate to the world from the barrel of a gun. By what conceivable right does the US behave in this way?”
— @heidilifeldman · Feb 28
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
newscientist.com · 41 people
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
on todays episode of what the actual fuck...
— @Viss · Feb 28
‘I live in constant fear’: surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers
theguardian.com · 20 people
Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices
Surge in giant sinkholes threatens Turkey’s farmers
Falling groundwater, extreme heat and water-intensive farming are accelerating land collapse, forcing a rethink in agricultural practices
—Turkey is on the brink of a major drought crisis, with almost 90% of the country at risk of becoming desert.
— @cstross · Feb 28
Neil Sedaka, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Behind ‘Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,’ ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ Dies at 86
variety.com · 17 people
Neil Sedaka, legendary singer-songwriter behind hits like 'Breaking Up Is Hard to Do' 'Bad Blood,' 'Laughter in the Rain' and 'Calendar Girl,' has died. He was 86.
#NeilSedaka
"Over the course of his six-decade-plus career, Sedaka was nominated for five Grammy awards (including one at the second-ever edition of the show in 1959). In 1983, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and in 1978 received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame." 🙏😢🕯️🕊️Neil Sedaka, Legendary Singer-Songwriter Behind ‘Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,’ ‘Bad Blood’ and ‘Love Will Keep Us Together,’ Dies at 86
— @DharmaDog · Feb 27
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
techdirt.com · 18 people
If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine
For Accurately Reporting That
The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
— @cdarwin · Feb 28
The cult that wants to give human rights to robots
spiked-online.com · 14 people
Anthropic’s ‘Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.
"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. ‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.
But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."
— @timnitGebru · Feb 28
A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court
propublica.org · 17 people
From inside a women’s prison in Oklahoma, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse. Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work?
From inside a women’s prison, a domestic violence survivor began collecting other prisoners’ stories of abuse.
Their accounts helped shape a new Oklahoma law intended to reduce their sentences — but will it work?
#News #Oklahoma #Women #Prison #Abuse #DomesticViolence #Law
— @ProPublica · Feb 28
‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech
theguardian.com · 9 people
‘We don’t have to fight dirty to fight for change,’ says Green party’s new MP after Gorton and Denton byelection win
Dirty water, death and decline: the inside story of a privatisation scandal
theguardian.com · 9 people
There is no end in sight to the pollution caused by a ‘broken’ system. Experts say it could even be getting worse
"The then Conservative prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, promised in 1989 that privatisation would deliver higher investment."
It sure did. Shareholder profits over everything.
#privatization #corporations #environment #water #pollution #conservatives #climatechange
— @ShITVoid · Feb 28
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