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Kevin BeaumontA thing being repeated across businesses worldwide, including at Microsoft, is C level execs struggling to know why most staff aren’t using Copilot for M365, despite how much it costs.
Because most staff don’t spend all day in Teams meetings reading out PowerPoint slides to people who pretend to care. They have actual jobs. Doing work. Which they know how to do. Because it is their job.
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Dare ObasanjoTrump suing the U.S. government for $10 billion and then bragging about how he plans to settle with himself makes me realizes Nigerian kleptocrats were babies when it comes to corruption.
This is generational genius in grifting.
HeavenlyPossumA lot of people are correctly noting the galling hypocrisy of US conservatives who spent decades fetishizing gun rights and specifically the insurrectionary theory of the 2nd amendment suddenly justifying a man’s public, summary execution on the grounds that he was (legally, non-threateningly) armed when he encountered police.
And I get it. They are hypocrites. The hypocrisy is galling. I get it.
But I am begging you to move rapidly past this realization to a place where you never, ever take this people seriously for even the tiniest moment. Everything they say, every single thing, is said instrumentally to achieve their goal of power in that particular moment. There are no principles. They will not feel shame when caught in the discrepancy. Do not waste time on it, do not entertain it, do not debate it, do not lend it credence as an idea that warrants a serious and considered rebuttal.
Do not take them seriously ever again.
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe flying cameras on drones are bad enough, but they’re becoming even more powerful surveillance tools. Communities should work to enforce standards around their adoption and use. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/drone-first-responder-programs-2025-review
Drone as First Responder Programs: 2025 in Review
Drone as first responder (DFR) adoption really took off in 2025, normalizing this invasive technology while incorporating AI and automated directions to replace human operators— while integrating it into more real-time crime center structures. Capturing video of your home, your backyard, and your movements that should require clear policies around retention, audits, and use. It's crucial that next year communities work to enforce standards around their adoption and use.
abadideaZuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so sure that it would revolutionize the world that he renamed his extremely famous company after it. And now he's on to the next thing that he's so very, very sure about.
The world needs direction from sober people who aim to improve the human condition, not the whims of a handful of billionaire princelings who absolutely, positively cannot be dissuaded from failing at unprecedented scale while chasing their own vainglory off the edge of a cliff.
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"America is a place where the department of war main guy either ordered the deaths of incapacitated enemy combatants, which is a war crime, or ordered the deaths of non enemy combatants, which is a war crime, but since nobody wants to say which they were, it's apparently totally fine and normal and not a war crime.
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)we didnt spend an entire lifetime learning how the machine works and developing an above-average understanding only to turn around and let a literal words-averaging machine take over the thinking for us!
https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/115593745939304247
https://tech.lgbt/@ngaylinn/115593745939304247
Nate Gaylinn (@[email protected])
My friend seems genuinely baffled that I am an AI researcher who refuses to use AI! Not only that, but I argue against it from theory, not experience. Why don't I just give it a try for a while, and see what it's really about before I judge it? I guess I see where he's coming from. Part of the problem is the word "AI." LLMs are *not* my research focus, so it's less of a contradiction than it sounds. But I admit, being a non-user makes my arguments against LLMs less credible. I just don't understand why I *owe it* to anybody to give AI a shot. I know how LLMs work in gory detail, and I don't trust them. I've seen the mediocre work they produce. I've read studies about the seductive illusion of competence and caring they create, and how people fall for that. I know it's all built on an incredibly exploitative business model. I feel *entirely* justified in *not* giving them a chance. I guess I'm just as baffled by how *badly* he wants me to try it, and how sure he seems to be that it would change my mind.