Do you use Claude Desktop? Did you know that if you do, Anthropic installs silent brower hooks across all Chromium browsers on your machine?
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Yet another reason to avoid the shitshow that is AI.
A new layer of AI hell: AudioJack.
Those "AI assistants" that listen to you can be subverted by sending them instructions embedded in music/background noise (that you can't hear), to search for files or data and send information to a email address.
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No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.
So FIRE is up to its usual stupidity, pretending that "freedom of speech" means "platforming racists who want to suppress the speech of others is good, actually."
An excellent way to lose all credibility as a free speech organization is to invite Ilya Shapiro.
If you're voting in California, drop your ballot into a COLLECTION BOX, not a mailbox. There should be collection boxes by government offices and libraries. USPS is set to deliberately fuck with mail-in ballots.
My stress dreams still involve having to give school presentations, many decades out of school. Today I dreamt I was preparing to give a presentation on politics in a post-truth world.
Maybe I should stop reading about politics before bed.
because I know y’all can’t click and read
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida.
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If you take any generic medications you should listen to this investigation from @propublica.org. And check your medication’s manufacturing inspection history. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/
And some of us who support independent journalism refuse to support substack.