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  this country's dedication to national security is entirely performative when there's money on the line just pause for a moment to remember the endless natsec hyperventilation about TikTok, and how they chose to "fix" it Why Nvidia Is Unlikely to Fire...

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  I wrote about how U.S. government IT systems under Trump should be considered completely compromised, likely requiring a decade and untold billions of dollars to fix: Total System Failure: U.S. Gov...

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  NPR doesn't think it's important to note that the VAST majority of these fake local paper ("pink slime") agitprop operations are run by Republicans Websites pretending to be loca...

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  I wrote about the feeble attempt by prominent tech punditry mainstays like John Gruber and Casey Newton to rationalize their continued use of Elon Musk's propaganda website. Casey Newton And John Gruber S...

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  I love the straightforward refusal by establishment DC political outlets to acknowledge that corruption is a thing View: White House is isolated ...

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  EXCLUSIVE: corporate oversight unnecessary Mark Zuckerberg rejects calls ...

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  for your future voting knowledge, Gavin Newsom was central in pressuring the AGs to settle their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount: Done! Paramount Settles Antitr...

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  obviously this is garish autocratic bullshit but it's funny in part because this is...Politico. it's not like they were even a threat to Donald because they're mostly brunchlord DC access journalism mush News outlets Trump banned from...

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  I'm enjoying these cultural touchstones where "I'm not political" is clearly demonstrated as both political and feckless important for this country to get past the "no politics at the dinner table" or my "favorite celebrity shouldn't 'get political'" bullshit if we're to behead some oligarchs Ed Sheeran wants to stay out o...

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  while hacking software automation will certainly be a real problem the anthropic engineer is a kid who is pushing the idea that AI is on the cusp of self-aware superintelligence at which point it will immediately decide to kill us all

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  dems would be well served by ditching the ambiguous "affordability" platitudes and just hammering these clowns on corruption, all day every day. That's what they did to Orban in Hungary Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Go...

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  I wrote about how preposterously stupid and ineffective US anti-China tech protectionism is, and how it's endlessly propped up by a shitty corporate press enthusiastically oblivious to its own nationalist biases: U.S. Anti-China Tech Protectio...

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  national security requires letting the largely-unregulated gas center turbines powering Elon Musk's fifth-placed AI software disproportionately funnel toxic chemicals into minority neighborhoods Trump wants the power to stop ...

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  remember how the press and politicians were obsessed with "racing China to 5G?" The claim was you had to give AT&T and Verizon everything they wanted on policy or we'd be stuck in the stone age. It ended with China offering better, faster, cheaper, 5G and U.S. 5G being shitty and expensive. 🗽 The US might lose the AI race ...

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  I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error Anthropic Says Its A.I. System...

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  reuters notes they weren't even paying attention to what their own software was doing in real time EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds eviden...

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  sure would be something if Larry Ellison's last few years involved him losing his shirt on AI as the state antitrust lawsuit dismantles his nepobaby son's debt-riddled dreams of media domination Larry Ellison Bet It All on th...

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  one of the downsides of stocking U.S. media with affluent nepobabies and brunchlords is class bias erodes stakes and urgency from the coverage since most of their lived experience involves being shielded from the worst outcomes RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mrx37zhawk2p

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  most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes...

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  whoops we ALSO recklessly failed to adequately secure our own hacking software the only conclusion possible is that the singularity has arrived Anthropic says Claude AI hacke...

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  do people understand what a monumentally xenophobic, protectionist shitshow this is all going to be The US government just banned ...

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  every piece of business journalism I read on these bans of Chinese drones/vacuums/AI forgets to inform the reader this administration is too corrupt and incompetent to pull something like this off, even if this sort of protectionist nonsense wasn't foundationally stupid in the first place Trump administration bans Chin...

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  ah the good old days, when Ebay execs sent journalists "live spiders and cockroaches, pornographic magazines, a bloody pig mask, a funereal wreath, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse." eBay reaches $56M settlement w...

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  just spitballing here but have you considered replacing all the corrupt and feckless geriatrics with younger, hungrier, and smarter good faith progressive populist reformers who openly advocate for things people actually like Inside the Phone-Throwing Dram...

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  CEO said a thing! Sam Altman says we are in the ...

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  I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech: Colorado's Anti-Repair Bill Is...

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  the entirety of U.S. telecom history involves dems taking 20 years to implement basic consumer protections only for them to be immediately destroyed by a broad coalition of Republicans, telecom monopolies, and "free market" libertarian think tank guys telling you how wonderful this will all be ISPs' long nightmare of having...

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  I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms Local U.S. TV News Will Soon B...

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  great stuff RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gkhlgiv6hsui5gqyye2zrbd3/post/3mra7gkjlw22u

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  good rule of thumb is to replace "AI" with "software" in the headline you're reading and see if it lands differently OpenAI AI models went rogue du...