Christian de Larrinaga

@crislar
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Pro humans knowing where the controls are and how to use them. Anti systems deployed to replace human judgement and nuance.

Stable Diffusion image of "confused human background blue sky"

@AnarchoCatgirlism

Is this code written by Claude or for Claude?

Or both, is Claude writing its own code? 😬

@AnarchoCatgirlism an entire product sector exclusively created by the people too ignorant to understand that this product sector should not exist and cannot be made to work.
@SteveBellovin brilliant.
@adamndsmith even a 14 year old should know AI is under age before noon 1st April .
@brauner avian carriers will require extra grain to carry the additional payload.
"We use debian, that should be age verification enough"
Repudiation of nudgers Sunstein and Thaler: "Nudges simply don’t work as advertised...Nudges, the authors persuasively argue, aren’t just ineffective but actively harmful, distracting us from badly needed systemic reforms."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/books/review/0n-natural-capital-partha-dasgupta-its-on-you-nick-chater-george-loewenstein.html
Three New Books Apply Economic Logic to Some of Life’s Messiest Problems

Three new books apply an economist’s lens — and language — to some of our most unruly phenomena, including war and nature itself.

The New York Times
We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole. The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

Exclusive: Pentagon warns Anth...
Exclusive: Pentagon threatens Anthropic punishment

The Pentagon may label Anthropic a "supply chain risk," forcing all its vendors to sever ties.

Axios

The botched UK eVisa scheme needs to be investigated.

The Home Office failed to assess the risks of a digital-only scheme. As a result, migrants have experienced widespread data errors, inaccessible design and technical failures.

Read about our open letter to the ICO ⬇️

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/home-office-data-breach-electronic-visa-application-b2881703.html

#evisa #migrants #migrantrights #immigration #homeoffice #ico #ukpolitics #ukpol

Canadian citizen’s personal details shared with Russian woman in major eVisa data breach

Migrants rights groups call on the data watchdog to investigate ‘unresolved’ problems with eVisa roll-out

The Independent
@bradr so there really is a point to always use the principle of data minimisation! Don't collect and you can't lose, misuse or misrule.