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evacide.bsky.social
This article makes two important points:

1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private

2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models

www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
www.404media.co
September 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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barteeckhout.bsky.social
Waar zitten al die koene ridders van de vrije meningsuiting, nu Theo Francken een politieke vijand afdreigt?

www.demorgen.be/meningen/waa...
Waar zitten al die koene ridders van de vrije meningsuiting, nu Theo Francken een politieke vijand afdreigt?
Bart Eeckhout is hoofdcommentator van De Morgen. Hij schrijft dat de vrije meningsuiting er niet is voor wie ons gelijk geeft, maar voor wie ons tegen de haren strijkt, beschaafd of onbeschoft.
www.demorgen.be
September 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is what shutting down scientific debate actually looks like
A Top Virus Scientist Stared Down Covid Lab-Leak Proponents. Now His Life’s Work Is at Stake
The battle over Covid’s origins has come for Bob Garry, who’s faced some of the world’s deadliest viral threats.
www.bloomberg.com
September 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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explaintrade.com
College kids defacing a McDonalds during a climate change rally lead to calls to call in the tanks, whereas coke-head wife beaters trying to burn refugees alive get sorrowful expressions of sympathy for their "legitimate underlying concerns" and "lads with strong feelings, what can you do?" shrug.
August 10, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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gelliottmorris.com
People who spend all day on X reading fringe posts fed to them by the algorithm seem to think the entire Democratic Party wants to cancel Thanksgiving, not realizing 95% of Dems winning primaries are normies. Francesca Hong is not, in fact, the head of the DNC www.noahpinion.blog/p/are-the-de...
Are the Democrats going to save us this time?
And if not, what do we do?
www.noahpinion.blog
August 6, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Researchers find a flaw in Apple's Private Relay that exposes users' real IP addresses, which also affects users of Tor's OnionBrowser in iOS: www.404media.co/apples-priva...
Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
www.404media.co
August 5, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Pedantic I know, but does this read to any of you like spacex is *planning* factories on the moon? Seems like just any other fact free Elon rant, unsure if he was aware of being in an earnings call.
August 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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zekehausfather.com
Published estimates of AI energy use per prompt (~0.3 watt-hours) appear reassuring small. But they are increasingly disconnected from how we actually use AI. Modern agentic tools use around 600 times more energy per prompt, as I discuss in my latest over at The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....
August 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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danielsohege.bsky.social
The phrase "military age men" is designed to be inflammatory and ignores reality. Yes, majority of people making long, dangerous, and often expensive routes to seek asylum are younger men who have the ability to work and earn money to bring over more vulnerable people, mainly women and children. 1/
July 31, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
Apple has fixed the bug in Hide My Email that linked Hide My Email addresses to your real one, but leaked email addresses could still be in third-party logs: easyoptouts.com/guides/apple...
How Apple's Hide My Email exploit worked and why you're still at risk
The vulnerability has been fixed as of July 7, 2026, but the exploit was simple, and hidden email addresses may still be in third-party logs.
easyoptouts.com
July 23, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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gingerspiced.bsky.social
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset"

U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
July 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Krugman points to some reasons crude prices didn‘t rise as much as expected. tl;dr it’s mostly about refining capacity and end user products did rise a lot (enough?). paulkrugman.substack.com/p/suddenly-h...
Suddenly, Hormuz is Less Crucial Than It Was
Why? Because the real energy crunch is coming from the Russia/Ukraine war
paulkrugman.substack.com
July 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The reason oil prices are still relatively stable is supposed to be drawing down of reserves, but shouldn’t that show up in these IEA figures? www.iea.org/data-and-sta...
Oil Stocks of IEA Countries – Data Tools - IEA
Oil Stocks of IEA Countries - Data tools. A data tool by the International Energy Agency.
www.iea.org
July 12, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Some of these replies… The whole colonial period thing is about a genocide that killed 5 to 10 million people. I’ve always found it inappropriate to use that history for some gentle ribbing in the context of a fucking sports match.
lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · Jul 5
i'm just glad americans don't know enough about belgium to make fun of them
July 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
I don’t understand oil prices very well, but surely supply has been well interrupted for months now and Brent oil never really got over 80$ a barrel. Were analyst just wrong about demand elasticity?
June 30, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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polphilpod.bsky.social
this is not why i call musk a fascist
June 28, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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elisecutts.bsky.social
I feel like there's a growing gap in perception between people who use LLMs to code or do code-adjacent things and people who only evaluate LLMs on their ability to write prose.

This might be a stretched analogy but it reminds me of the different "worlds" of the polarized US media environment.
June 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Hard to shake a sneaking suspicion that all the centrists who went along with condemning the Illiberal Left as the real threat to free inquiry might just have been thought of, in certain circles, as useful pawns in a very different game.
proflhunter.bsky.social Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · Jun 22
Heavy-handed censorship by the regime, banning particular talks at scientific conferences based on their topic.

They are just getting started. Proposed OMB rules would push this kind of fine-grained political control into all aspects of US funded research. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
HHS removes nearly one-fifth of sessions from early childhood research conference
Researchers fear political screening after abrupt cancellations
hechingerreport.org
June 22, 2026 at 7:24 AM
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ultrabrilliant.xyz
One second from every scene in Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace.
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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normative.bsky.social
My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 5
Trump says he's interested in govt taking equity stakes in the giant AI companies like OpenAI or Anthropic: "There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership. The American people can benefit from the success of AI, and by doing that, they're gonna like it better."
June 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
I legit thought the picture I saw of this earlier was AI generated.
May 28, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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iandees.bsky.social
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
A photo of a Dell laptop screen taken between two train seats. The screen has a training video with the text "You never know who's sitting next to you" showing on it. The picture taker is sitting behind the person taking the training, so it's OK.
May 26, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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damonyoung.com.au
The thing about these conservatives and the Odyssey is that *they don’t care*.

They don’t read. Their talk of “the western canon” is a dog whistle. They want to vilify coloured people.

That’s it. Stop taking their bad faith complaints seriously.
May 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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mattnegrin.bsky.social
The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb

Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.."

L: Trump
R: AOC

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The New York Times: The American president’s comments had been released over the weekend, after Mr. Trump left a summit with Mr. Xi in Beijing on Friday. He said he was keeping on hold a decision about a package of weapons to Taiwan worth around $14 billion, and described it as a “very good negotiating chip” that could be used with Beijing. “I’m holding that in abeyance and it depends on China,” he said in an interview with Fox News. It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump wanted China to do in return. The New York Times: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
May 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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andymasley.bsky.social
Everything MPU posts about data centers is complete garbage. They have zero respect for their audience. Literally no one here is losing power. This post is a complete lie. 🧵
May 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM