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  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • OK, but the point still stands if you allow that: It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are often not, in fact, helpful.

  • Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

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  • It's a self-fulfilling prophecy: if all the corporate leaders believe it will change everything and, in a fit of FOMO, force it into every corner of our lives, then everything will be changed. But not so much because of what AI can do, as because of a mass delusion among the LinkedIn types.

  • After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’: Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

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  • Karp is a nut; Thiel is a nut. Is Palantir elvish for "bag o' nuts" or something?

  • Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say

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  • They are men.

  • GOP South Carolina voters blame Biden for grocery prices, Emerson poll finds

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  • The most corrupt people leading the most ignorant. This is right-wing politics.

  • Trump just lost his battle to force a university to release its “list of Jews”

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  • Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

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  • In ISBNdb’s now-removed marketing materials, it admitted that getting caught destroying printed books during the scanning process would not be a good look. “The optics problem is real,” ISBNdb’s site said. “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy.”

    So their solution was to do the evil thing secretly?

  • US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

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  • No Nambia either. And where's the Democratic Republic of the Covfefe?

  • New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

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  • Sends like we have that anyway. Let's replace them with AI then switch the AI off.

  • AI companies are now destroying warehouses full of rare books

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  • There's no legitimate purpose for destroying these books.

    There are non-invasive ways scan books. But the destruction is an added bonus. These companies make a copy of these public domain books and then pulp the remains. They're rare, so that means they're hard to find (that's what rare means, after all).

    Then, they can turn around and sell their dataset to AI companies.

    The destruction is the point.

    Capitalism always creates perverse incentives. The most profitable thing you can do is seize something readily available and make it impossible to get without paying you.

    But which companies are doing this? It sounds like these are companies that supply training data to AI companies. I think we need names.

  • New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries

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  • LLMs are bullshit machines. I dont see how there's any question.

  • RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB

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  • Please note: All Upgrades have been put on hold due to the double cost of Memory Modules. The option to upgrade the supported GPUs has been disabled on the booking page.

  • DHS admission suggests sham emergency will justify ICE arrests at midterm polls

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  • ICE will be doing its best to provoke an "active public safety threat" wherever it can during the elections. They'll turn up and start grabbing people out of voting lines, or just threatening people, and as soon as anyone protests it will be an active public safety threat. Then they'll either shut the polling venue down or cause so much trouble outside that no one dare approach. Once the election is done and there just happened to be active public safety threats in Democratic-leaning areas only, the Democrats will decide they have to play by the rules and accept the result in order to protect democracy.

  • Memory chip maker CXMT debuts in Shanghai, up 470% at open and becomes the largest listed company in China

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  • The USA is close, with a two-week concept of a plan.

  • Uncle Bob becoming even worse:

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  • Maybe he was born in 1969 and started coding at 6 months old.

  • Hunter Biden claims 'closeted gay mafia' of Republicans is 'biggest problem in US'

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  • It's clearly the gays. No question about it.

  • The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems | James Talarico accused his Republican rival of owning 11 homes. As it turns out, he was understating matters

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  • Pay him and he'll tell you.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Hegseth Is Demanding US Households Pay $5,000 More Per Year to Fund the Pentagon, Economist Says

    www.commondreams.org /news/pete-hegseth-budget-request

  • AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk

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  • Do they? I know they process the images, blending in takes from the different cameras, doing white balance and enhancing colours, etc., but the "AI Enhance" is a button you have to press. Unless they have changed that.

  • Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

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  • It sounds like you have quite a lot of expertise most people don't have, which is probably why you find growing food relatively easy and many don't. It's not just needing the weekly time to plant and maintain the land, or needing to have good land in the first place, that stops people, it's also not having time to build up that expertise.

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    432 Linux kernel CVEs published in the last 24 hours

    lore.kernel.org /linux-cve-announce/
  • Rust @programming.dev
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    Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust

    github.com /tokio-rs/topcoat
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    ‘Isn’t It Humiliating to Be Unable to Answer?’ Asks Ossoff After Trump Spy Chief Nominee Won’t Say Who Won in 2020

    www.commondreams.org /news/jon-ossoff-jay-clayton
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney

    www.theguardian.com /commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Kernel Anti-Cheat Is an Overreach

    nooneshappy.com /article/kernel-anti-cheat-is-an-overreach/
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Most Empires in History Fell by Age 250. The US Is at a Weighty Crossroads.

    truthout.org /articles/most-empires-in-history-fell-by-age-250-the-us-is-at-a-weighty-crossroads/
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    NSA is sabotaging cryptographic standards to weaken it. Act now to stop it.

    nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Technocarcinization, Apple and Google becoming more like Facebook with both surveillance and control.

    pluralistic.net /2026/07/01/ontogeny/
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Apple 'Hide My Email' Vulnerability Reveals Peoples' Real Email Addresses

    easyoptouts.com /guides/apple-hide-my-email-is-leaking-email-addresses
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History

    medium.com /%400xaxgb/whatsapps-e2e-encryption-is-the-biggest-lie-in-tech-history-and-i-can-prove-it-mathematically-46ebdffeb319
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    License Plate Cameras Will Soon Track Phones, Wearables, Infotainment, and Even Your Pets

    www.thedrive.com /news/license-plate-cameras-will-soon-track-phones-wearables-infotainment-and-even-your-pets
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Stop Killing the Internet: Governments are walling off the open internet. We are a global movement opposing restrictions — and building a better internet.

    www.stopkillingtheinternet.com
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22

    www.ourcommons.ca /petitions/en/Petition/Sign/e-7416
  • Privacy @programming.dev
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    This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers

    www.404media.co /this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/