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Took the cannoli.

Anthropomorphic designed AI is a waste. Erik Brynjolfsson agrees with me. We don't need to create more human machines, we already know how to make humans.

https://www.ft.com/content/1e5ecce9-d402-41ab-8575-f186f5474349

Nearly 60,000 civilians who've fled Al Fashir to escape the large-scale atrocities that the world knew would happen — as it had been clearly predicted by human rights monitors — are missing. https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/the-killing-fields-of-al-fashir/

The biggest winners in the AI sector, from early next year, will likely be who can best short the market. We need a dead pool for which bots go quiet first.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/forrester_ai_spending/

American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/11/06/american-sanctions-are-being-used.html

"LLMs deceive us, not by intent but by the frame assigned to them by people who develop and sell them."

https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-hinton/

Naïve art with a wink at Dadaism.

Long been a listener of the This is Not a Drill podcast, but Gavin Esler’s interview this week with Bruce Schneier, in “Big Tech, A.I. and the dictators – Inside the future of authoritarianism” is maybe one of the best episodes I’ve caught. It has the spoilers about how democracy ends. Enjoy. https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-5zepv-2866513b

It's not that there are no valid uses of the tech stack we presently call 'AI' but so much of Gen AI's market investment is dedicated to unsolving solved problems. Take representing reality. We already have it. Fabricating realistic images makes no sense. There are cameras, and you can go outside.

Leaked docs show Google and Amazon created routes, known as "winking mechanisms," to bypass their legal obligations in order to sell their cloud services to Israel's military for use in its many war crimes.

https://www.972mag.com/project-nimbus-contract-google-amazon-israel/

Still get spam calls to the dorment mobile number from the Ledger hack. They go straight to bot but enjoy the transcripts.

"Prudential compliance division of blockchain. Our records show that your wallet is currently in a dormant status and immediate action is required to resolve this issue. To have one of our agents contact you within the next few hours, please press one now. Your prompt response is important to ensure compliance and resolve this matter. Thank you."

Lol.

At what point do we decide that it's not a good idea to allow massive sections of the Internet to rely on just one company?

The myth and legend of a ceasefire was greatly exaggerated.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-ceasefire-frays