This mfer manufactured a recession and has no other plan but to blame others for it. Very on brand.
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Digital Collapse Risk: Blackout Exposes Hyperconnected Society Vulnerability
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El apagón del lunes sirvió como un ensayo general de un colapso digital total.
No solo dejó a millones de personas sin luz: también expuso nuestra vulnerabilidad como sociedad hiperconectada. ¿Podría haber sido peor? Sí. Y también mejor https://
elpais.com/opinion/2025-0
4-30/a-cuatro-canas-del-caos.html
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Japan Develops AI to Evaluate Government Project Failures
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LE JAPON CRÉE UNE IA POUR ÉVALUER LES ÉCHECS DU GOUVERNEMENT Le gouvernement japonais gère plus de 5 000 projets — et surprise : ils ne savent pas toujours si ces projets fonctionnent… ou s’ils jettent juste l’argent par les fenêtres. Alors ils ont décidé d’entraîner une IA
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Photo Geolocation Technology Reveals Privacy Intelligence Implications
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I’ve independently verified this, twice, and have to spoil the thread to say “Any photo outdoors can be trivially location matched in a fashion you’d assume would imply capabilities of an intelligence agency. If that is news to you, feel free to incorporate it into decisions.”
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Is AI as significant as TikTok impact on technology?
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Yes, and I think the received wisdom is “AI is a big deal like Toktok is a big deal.” (Confidence: 60%?)
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Congressional AI Adoption: How Many Lawmakers Actually Use Prompts?
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I think I’m short “they checked out all this AI stuff at some point.” What’s your over/under on members of Congress who have actually, with their own two hands, typed more than 800 words into prompt boxes? I think I’m at “low dozens.”
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Predatory Business Models: Not All Industries with Whales Are Problematic
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Broadly agree that one should not make predation machines, but I’m not convinced every industry with whales is ipso facto a predation machine.
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Regulatory Barriers to Medical API Accessibility and Professional Gatekeeping
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(This is one reason why society pretends that that API call is intractable difficult to write unless one is a licensed medical professional.)
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AI Systems and User Competency Assessment in Decision-Making
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Also note that you will with very high probability interact with processes which explicitly or implicitly have to decide, discretely or continuously, “Is this user competent to make their own decisions?”
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Public Institutions and Vulnerable Populations: Ethics Beyond Shutdown
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But it’s useful to reflect that one doesn’t shut down e.g. public schools just because a public school is a terrible environment for someone with active mental health issues, and one would not shut them even if convinced they uniquely exacerbated those issues.