The Many Voices of Anne Ahlert

@TheManyVoices
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(She/her) Tooting out any #voiceover / #VO and #voiceacting #CastingCalls and #gigs that I run across. I also post my #NerdCalendar, and opinions about #superheroes and #ComicBooks, in both the #DCU and #MCU. I enjoy #humor, #StarTrek, #DoctorWho, and #dogs. Also, check out my #NerdCalendar

Demo Reels (SoundCloud):
http://soundcloud.com/anne-ahlert

i have yet to meet a single dev or office bee who was forced to use AI and now adopted that AI and saw their workload decrease. it's actually the opposite. now they are just working 2x/3x as hard to double check the AI's "help" 😂

this is one the greatest scam AI companies pulled on everyone while destroying jobs and environments.

> Women leaving the beach, going into a shop, or simply standing outside are now being approached by men usually wearing Meta's Ray-Bans, the company's "smart" or "AI" glasses, often in order to film the women's responses to casual questions or pick-up lines without their knowledge or consent.

Perhaps it is time to simply ban them from public.

Whether I'm talking about spy glasses or men, you decide...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o

Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.

"Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch."

https://itsfoss.com/news/debian-makes-reproducible-builds-mandatory/

In a Big Move to Linux Security, Debian Makes Reproducible Builds Mandatory

Packages that can't be rebuilt byte-for-byte are now blocked from entering Debian's testing branch.

It's FOSS

Analysis: The Epstein Files confirmed that "sexual abuse, elite wealth, big tech, & post-democratic ideology have been operating as a single system."

Thiel invests in Facebook, co-founds Palantir, receives $40 million from Epstein & advocates replacing democracy with corporate rule.

Elon Musk spends $300 million to elect Trump, then uses US diplomatic power on behalf of his own platform’s commercial interests.

https://bylinetimes.com/dark-enlightenment/

#USPol #EUPol #fascism #democracy #eugenics #racism .

“The public will be astonished to learn that in the British justice system a protester can now be convicted of criminal damage for disrupting an arms factory and then be sentenced as ‘terrorists’ without having been convicted of terror charges and with this having been kept secret from the jury.”

#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/12/palestine-action-activists-elbit-protest-terrorist-connection-ruling

Palestine Action activists in Elbit protest could be sentenced as terrorists

Judge’s ruling was not disclosed to jurors in two trials and can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions lifted

The Guardian

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general.

"Supply Ontario had the bots transcribe 2 conversations betw health-care workers & patients. Most of the vendors … had inaccuracies in their results, including 'incorrect information, AI hallucinations, incomplete information,' …

60% … recorded a different drug than was prescribed … 17 of 20 'missed key details of the patients’ mental health issues in at least 1 of the 2 tests.'"

😨 #AI #dystopia

https://www.torontotoday.ca/local/politics-government/ontario-medical-ai-scribes-erred-tests-auditor-general-12269474

Most Ontario-approved medical AI scribes erred in tests: auditor general

Sixty per cent of approved AI scribes recorded a different drug than what was prescribed, Auditor General Shelley Spence says

TorontoToday.ca

The artificial super intelligences that threaten humanity in fictional media have names like Ultron, WOPR, Skynet, Control, or Colossus.

The one we get in reality: Claude.

Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.

...

WHAT?

Welp, Gallup is no longer a source of viable anything, let alone survey data:

February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling
May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/methodology/709373/gallup-begins-research-simulated-responses.aspx

Gallup Begins Research on Simulated Responses

Gallup is exploring whether AI-generated agents perform well in predicting people's responses and where they fall short.

Gallup.com

This is the whole problem, and - to my mind - one of the central tensions of the decade. The institutions best able to move at the speed of the real world are the institutions we trust the least; while the institutions we trust the most are too slow, and too cumbersome to matter.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-war-between-fast-and-legitimate-is-here/

The war between fast and legitimate is here

The European Union spent four years drafting the AI Act, with OpenAI shipping GPT-4 to a hundred million users in two months. By the time Brussels finalised its definitions of "high-risk" systems, the systems in question had moved twice and grown various new appendages. The regulators were neither stupid, nor

Westenberg.