Tyler King

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Author: THE DEBT, RIOT STREET (Hachette)
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There is no model in which these products become profitable. The overhead is astronomically high and will require defying the laws of physics to overcome. Meanwhile, they’re fleecing gullible businesses and governments blind on false promises of an everything tech that in fact does very little.

Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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Freedom means never having to say you’re sorry for punching a fascist in the throat. Happy Independence Day, troublemakers.

That’s the predictably convenient thing about the left. Our sincere concern about the people we elect to office never fails to be weaponized against us.

Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

A thing we like to point out is how people who don’t really care about the outcomes have the privilege to be unaffected. There’s another thing, too. When the positive outcomes have helped others but maybe less so you, so you don’t think those outcomes are important.

16 million more people with health care coverage Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors 700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns and so on

“Generative AI could ‘distort collective understanding of socio-political reality or scientific consensus,’ and in many cases is already doing that,’” according to a new research paper from Google’s own DeepMind lab.

Google Says AI Could Break Realitywww.404media.co “While these uses of GenAI are often neither overtly malicious nor explicitly violate these tools’ content policies or terms of services, their potential for harm is significant.”

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Biden should not have promised not to use his new powers. He should instead have closed his remarks by saying, "The Supreme Court made one mistake. They let me live."

Sellers on Fiverr advertise services to dox anyone for $30. Many of them claim to do so w/ a data tool provided by TransUnion to law enforcement and private investigators. While some of them are likely scammers, it’s really be better if credit bureaus and data brokers didn’t exist.

Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Toolwww.404media.co Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.

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In my day job, I work on vote.gov. We’re currently working on an accessible form filler tool to help people register to vote — see it at vote.gov/national-vot... This is open for comment right now in the Federal Register. Comments of all kinds are helpful. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

NVRFvote.gov Vote.gov is a United States government website that provides trusted voting information and can help you find voter registration rules for your state.

I’d contend more of our economy than not is just doing fraud.

I don't get it, why can't they commit fraud? Congress is doing it, scotus is doing it, the presidents do it, the wealthiest people in the world do it, everyone they are told to look up to and respect are celebrated for it. Why wouldn't they think they could commit fraud? It's the American Way.

Gen Zers are so disillusioned with the economy that they think it’s OK to commit fraudfortune.com A third of Gen Zers either know someone who has participated in payment fraud or have done so themselves.

There’s a phenomena where his followers believe they are imbued with the same power and latitude of their leader and just imagine what they’ll think they can get away with now that he’s completely immune from consequences.

He sent a mob to kill his own vice president. Of course he’d kill a camp full of immigrants. A protest full of trans activists. A Pride parade. A BLM demonstration. Remember, Pence so distrusted the Secret Service agents in the Capitol on Jan 6 that he refused to get in the car with them to evac.

Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

There are a lot of dire reasons not to let that guy back in the White House. This ruling might be the most important one yet. He would absolutely order extrajudicial executions of his enemies and people who make fun of him on TV.

First encountered this almost a decade ago at the car rental desk at SeaTac.

New from 404 Media: in a growing trend of virtual employees working at in-person offices, a car rental company has replaced its agents with people on video chat software. This is now how you 'speak to a manager' www.404media.co/car-rental-s...

“Ed would even be able to detect and respond to emotions such as hostility, happiness and sadness.” In every instance generative tech is being sold on a lie.

“ai” edtech company collapses after taking six million dollars from the Los Angeles school district to develop an “educational friend” platform.

A.I. ‘Friend’ for Public School Students Falls Flatwww.nytimes.com Los Angeles schools hired a start-up to build an A.I. chatbot for parents and students. A few months later, the company collapsed.

“‘The crows come to the house and scream to warn us that there is no more water ... it’s our alarm,’ says Ortiz Ramos.” The US border wall cut off wildlife access to a natural spring, leaving numerous species without a water source in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It’s one of many consequences.

Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlifearstechnica.com Scientists are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity.

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Remember when a group of crypto bros bought a copy of 'Jodorowsky's Dune' for $3 million (around 100x more than it was worth) thinking they could turn it into NFTs and an animated series because they didn't understand what copyright is?

The Saga of the 'Dune' Crypto Bros And Their Very Pricey Mistake Is At Its Endwww.esquire.com In a dismal crypto climate, the group is looking to sell its 'Dune' bible and cash out its treasury. “Really wish this worked out better," the group co-founder said.

Something most Americans would be shocked to learn is how responsive the federal administrative state is to complaints and inquiries. Agencies like the FCC, FTC, EPA, etc., want to get your tips and questions. And they follow up. That’s what SCOTUS wants to steal from you.

🧵 In 2020, I nearly died from mysterious industrial chemical exposure at my apartment. Later, I discovered my employer was dumping toxic waste into our windows from their Skunkworks semiconductor fab next-door. I tipped off US EPA, who then raided them in 2023. EPA sent me the report on Friday. 💀 ⬇️

The bubble is bursting

When you've lost Goldman Sachs...

Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit?www.goldmansachs.com

Even the iRobot guy says LLMs are vastly overestimated and people should stop expecting them to do human-level tasks.

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AI

MIT robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are vastly overestimating generative AItcrn.ch He says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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“In a more just world, the cops would be banned from using this technology altogether.” Written by Robert Williams, who was wrongfully arrested due to a faulty match by facial recognition.

Why Police Must Stop Using Face Recognition Technologiestime.com "What the Detroit Police Department made me endure changed my life forever," writes Robert Williams.

Also: one of the best things about bsky is that there is no algorithm. You control what you see by following people and curated feeds you choose. So get some cats. Get some baby animals. Get some nature and funny web comics. You are the master of your own skyline.

Periodic reminder: What you see on social media is an algorithm-curated echo chamber. Those who shout loudest typically get amplified the most, regardless of whether they’re right. The real work takes place offline. If you’re getting stressed out by today, take a break, focus on what you can do.

Mar-A-Lago just became shit-front property. So that’s kinda funny.

Let me tell you why this is b/c of Covid: DeSantis has become a hardcore anti-vaxxer b/c it made him popular with the MAGA right during Covid. So he took it a step further and began waging a war on all child vaccines. Then all public health. He vetoed a bill that would have empowered the state DOH.

Ew.

This is a totally bullshit, made-up “rule” he’s citing strictly to reassure investors and turf the press narrative, but he knows better. He, like the rest of us, lived through torrenting and Napster, et al. He lived through the migration to the subscription model. When we stopped owning our software

Microsoft declares Right to Plagiarize

Ever put content on the web? Microsoft says that it's okay for them to steal it because it's 'freeware.'www.windowscentral.com Microsoft's CEO of AI said that content on the open web can be copied and used to create new content.

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The normalization of death threats as standard right wing political behavior has already hollowed out local election workers, now it’s risking educators and our public health corps. Remind me again why journalists still don’t treat this as an acute, national emergency?

A USPHS officer told me, "if they equipped and trained us like the Navy - gave us a sidearm, body armor, took care of our families, then maybe. But they don't"

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heartbreaking. this was probably my favorite part of visiting Seattle. Now instead of being accessible to people it'll all be parted out to rich people's collections. www.xda-developers.com/living-compu...

The Living Computers Museum in Seattle is closing down, and it'll auction off 150 pieces of history for charitywww.xda-developers.com The Living Computers Museum's auctions will contain some amazing items, such as a signed letter from Einstein and Bill Gates's first PC.

This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

I reiterate that our society took a nosedive when the internet stopped being exclusively for cats.

I had no idea what this meme was. Now I know and am confused why it's viral and also I hate our stupid world. But this is a really, really good article.

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Story on groundwater depletion in the Ogallala aquifer on PBS News Hour tonight, with comments by me on growing climate change risks. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farmingwww.pbs.org In the heart of the country, Great Plains farmers and ranchers produce a quarter of all U.S. crops and 40 percent of its beef. But they rely on a resource that has been slowly drying up, water. Stepha...

You’re all gonna have to chill the fuck out or you’re gonna stroke out before the doomsday party.