zero surprise, but interesting to help confirm a known/known - https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/23/surveillance-vendors-caught-abusing-access-to-telcos-to-track-peoples-phone-locations-researchers-say

wow! i sure hope this means the rest of us can race out and upgrade at whatever cost soon, so we can save ourselves! ;> https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ssguib/unauthorized_group_has_gained_access_to/

fears without tears, because 'everybody wants to rule the world' - PolicySim - https://policysim.policy.cafe - an open-source, AI based, interactive simulator that models how U.S. legislation moves through Congress.

duh! - even chatgpt hallucinates about this ;) https://gizmodo.com/openai-investors-arent-sure-sam-altman-is-the-guy-to-take-them-public-2000747926

Nelly Furtado saw this coming ;> "I'm like a bird, I'll only fly away" - https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/15/investing/allbirds-pivot-to-ai

from an AI technology, business and humanity future perspectives, the core question is less about Sam Altman and more ---> Does OpenAI <still> Matter? @ronanfarrow @andrewmarantz https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-altman-may-control-our-future-can-he-be-trusted

Robotic Labor Pains or #joverc (joules > calories) technology's primary impact is "labor saving," and its secondary impact is witnessing the primary =O https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/business/economists-once-dismissed-the-ai-job-threat-but-not-anymore.html

the irony of being a 'founder' is that you're 'lost' most of the time.

not total b.s., but close enough to fertilize the 'hearts and minds' with AI p(doom) with a touch of exclusivity, like an Edward Bernays campaign, because it's 'so powerful' that we can only let a limited 'club' have access. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/opinion/anthropic-ai-claude-mythos.html @nytimes

Weixin ---> Weixout =O https://decrypt.co/363367/china-orders-jack-dorseys-bitchat-pulled-from-apple-app-store @jack