jaimedavid32747m ago

AI Bans Just Got Way More Terrifying: What Happens When They Come For The Platforms You Actually Depend On

So I have been thinking. And the more I think about it, the more I realize that what I wrote about before, as serious as I believe it was and as seriously as I stand behind every word of it, did not go far enough. Because I have had a realization since then that has genuinely unsettled me in a way that I want to share with you. The AI bans are worse than I thought. Not just a little worse. Significantly, fundamentally, potentially catastrophically worse. And the reason comes down to something […]

https://theinterfaithintrepidart.com/2026/06/14/ai-bans-just-got-way-more-terrifying-what-happens-when-they-come-for-the-platforms-you-actually-depend-on/

jaimedavid3271d ago

AI Bans Are Here. I Told You So. Now Let’s Talk About Why This Is Bad.

I said it before. I said it on this very blog, on Interfaith Intrepid, back when folks were still treating artificial intelligence like it was some kind of science fiction novelty that only tech bros in San Francisco cared about. I said that the AI bans were coming, and I said that they were not going to look the way people thought they were going to look. They were not going to be principled stands against corporate overreach or thoughtful regulatory frameworks designed to protect everyday […]

https://theinterfaithintrepidart.com/2026/06/13/ai-bans-are-here-i-told-you-so-now-lets-talk-about-why-this-is-bad/

Dave VolekJun 4

The Unfortunate Necessity of Fear Mongering

https://www.tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=23&id=49

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#fearmongering

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦May 29
“This is another lesson of his success: Old-fashioned #in-person #politics can be a powerful antidote to #media #fear-mongering.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

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Eleven lessons America must learn

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Techdirt [Unofficial]May 19

Even Cops Aren’t Willing To Back Up Colorado GOP Governor Hopeful’s Insane ‘Gang Infestation’ Lies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/even-cops-arent-willing-to-back-up-colorado-gop-governor-hopefuls-insane-gang-infestation-lies/

Even Cops Aren’t Willing To Back Up Colorado GOP Governor Hopeful’s Insane ‘Gang Infestation’ Lies

As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes too far. That seems to be the case here. Scott Bottoms — currently a stat…

Techdirt
SupadopeMay 8

Very proud of my bass on our new single. The bridge is ominous. Give it a listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-YKPsUtMk

#indieRock
#bass
#fearMongering
#fightOligarchy
#noKings

Fear the State of Fear

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AIagent.at 🤖 AI NewsMay 2
A #DarkMoneyCampaign Is Paying #Influencers to Frame #ChineseAI as a Threat: #BuildAmericanAI, a nonprofit linked to #OpenAI and #AndreessenHorowitz, is funding a campaign to promote #proAI messaging and #fearmongering about #China. https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

WIRED
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 30
🐛🤖 "Shai-Hulud-themed malware" in PyTorch Lightning? Really? What's next, a Bene Gesserit ransomware? This is just another excuse for a #cybersecurity company to throw #buzzwords like multimodal and AI at us while riding the #sandworm of #fearmongering. 📈🔒
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/ #ShaiHuludMalware #PyTorchLightning #HackerNews #ngated
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.

Semgrep
WIST QuotationsApr 29

A quotation from Steven Levitt

No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.

Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]

More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare

Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics, ch. 5 "What Makes A Perfect Parent?" (2005) [with Stephen Dubner] | WIST Quotations

No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature's life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any…

WIST Quotations
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 29
🤖 Oh no, #AI companies want us to be *afraid* of their mysterious #techno sorcery! Because nothing boosts business like a healthy dose of fear-mongering and existential #dread, right? 🙄 Meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Corporation insists on listing every single country and region in existence—who knew #geography was their true passion? 🌍🔍
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

BBC