Mastodawn

My wife was trying to explain the concept of the ‘Manosphere’ to her mom. After listening, her mom said ‘it’s not new? It’s always been like this?’ And I guess that’s true but there are influencers for it

caranea 5d ago

Timnit Gebru (she/her).Mar 16

Not to toot our own horns but I feel like we packed so much in this one hour panel with Karen Hao and John Palfrey.

You can find the recording at https://www.youtube.com/live/I1tJnM81NCM

Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI

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caranea 5d ago

@xgranade
Seeing as Nasdaq wants to fasttrack SpaceX into the Nasdaq-100, Sam might try to take a leaf out of Elon's book and get a similar deal for OpenAI. That way he won't have to try to pull $100 out of your pocket -- the various pension funds will do it for him, whether they want to or not.

caranea 5d ago

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Cassandra is only carbon now 6d ago

It's really refreshing and reassuring to know that, during these chaotic and depressing times, our economy is being run by serious people who believe in things that are definitely real and who take rational actions on the basis of those beliefs.

It'd really suck if capital was concentrated in the hands of a rogue's gallery of capricious sycophants, sleazy conmen, and number-crunchers who suck at math, all of whom had their brains melted by AI.

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caranea 5d ago

@DaveMWilburn @jalefkowit
Spread the rumour that there is this company called "Palantir" that tries to protect immigrants (leave out the "if they are white, racist South Africans") and wait to see how long ICE remains at airports...?

caranea 5d ago

Fascinating analysis, although I don't think big tech will change anything. The concentration of power is the real challenge behind it.
https://ict4peace.org/activities/bombing-clouds-when-military-ai-depends-on-commercial-data-centres/

Bombing Clouds: When Military AI Depends on Commercial Data Centres

As military AI systems increasingly rely on commercial cloud infrastructure, the legal and human stakes are changing fast. This new article examines two linked developments from the March 2026 Gulf ...

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caranea Feb 28

Ricky Mondello Feb 27

Just this week I’ve heard people on two different podcasts talking about how in macOS Tahoe, AutoFill of verification codes received in Messages or Mail work in more Mac apps than before, including popular web browsers. The people seemed very happy about it.

I just wanna say that people talking about this brings me joy, because I worked hard and did unspeakable things to get that to work.

caranea Feb 28

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Cory Doctorow Feb 28

In related news: yesterday, Block announced it was firing half its engineers to make a "big bet on AI."

Block used to be called "Square" and it had a very successful business as a payment processor. It changed its name to Block when it went all in on crypto.

Block's mass "AI" layoffs coincide with a *50%* drop in Bitcoin, with concomitant collapses in other cryptos. Crypto market watchers warn that the industry is so overleveraged that this could lead to total collapse.

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caranea Jan 18

@0xtero @SecurityWriter
Yup. Most assuredly has nothing to do with stuff like https://www.mining.com/web/factbox-greenlands-rich-but-largely-untapped-mineral-resources/, absolutely nothing. Pure coincidence. 🙄

At least Europe is finally calling the whole "needed for defence!" bluff by sending their own multinational contingent.

Factbox: Greenland’s rich but largely untapped mineral resources

A 2023 survey showed that 25 of 34 minerals deemed

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caranea Jan 16

Patrick C Miller

Jan 16

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content https://www.theverge.com/news/861794/bandcamp-ban-ai-music

Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content

Bandcamp is banning AI-generated music and won’t allow its content to be used for training AI models.

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