Imagine being in NATO Command controlling all your drones with AI and a random input makes it generate a catgirl on the big main screen and crash all the bombs on friendly territory and generals are angrily demanding you explain how AI works and why this happened but you can’t.

You look through the input and it’s like “CATEGORY: GROUND RAPID RESPONSE” which some coder last month had shortened to “CAT:GRR” and passed the user interface element to the AI instead of the full text.

And years later they recover a full corpus of the lost AI training material and there was a blog in 2003 that posted a new catgirl going rawr every day for like 11 years all tagged with “cat” and “grr!”

Welcome to the future of war.

Announcing: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance!

We've updated and overhauled our Street Level Surveillance hub so it has all the basic facts you need to know about the 16 most common types/categories of surveillance that local PDs use.

https://sls.eff.org/

As both a designer and a researcher I got twice the joy from this.

(I don’t know who originally created this. It may be Rebecca Barter? https://www.rebeccabarter.com/blog/2015-07-23-pie)

#Design #Research #PieChart #Data #Funny

To achieve important goals in cutting carbon emissions, it’s important to have the right leadership.

Just a reminder that Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act included plans and funding to put us on the path to meet them.

U.S. Carbon Emissions Fell in 2023 as Coal Use Tumbled to New Lows:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

As the year turns, it seems time to issue a warning about the game some people who are not operating in good faith will be playing on social media — especially as the 2024 US election approaches.

It's not uncommon for people posturing as "concerned"/"liberal"/"progressive" to come to social media feed of folks ACTUALLY trying to further progressive ends, with the intent of lobbing bombs into progressive conversations.

#politics #trolling #SocialMedia
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🎶If you're a MAGA and you're fired it's your fault! 👏👏

If you're a MAGA and you're fired it's your fault!👏👏

If you were spotted in the mob, and you lost your fucking job... If you're a MAGA and you're fired it's your fault!👏👏

everyone: 'move fast and break things' mentality doesn't exist in traditional engineering disciplines because people would die

boeing: hey