Is the ad hoc AI licensing regime a precursor of the US monarchy?

1. use children as a rhetorical shield for mass ID checks
2. move slowly, selectively, or opaquely on real-world child trafficking and institutional abuse

Age verification: it’s to save the children.

How about listening to the victims? They’ve raised their hand.

We have suspects. They’re on a list I’m told.

How about we start there instead of dragnet surveillance capitalism?

A society where the wealthiest gets beheaded.
You can be wealthy. Just not the wealthiest
Not like a ceiling. More like a chimney.

Theory: USG banned Fable because they couldn’t play with Mythos to find vulns in Russian and Chinese infrastructure

The future is about to get way more unevenly distributed

The USG ~shutdown of Mythos and Fable makes a strong case for rolling your own open source models. More hardware scarcity, more points to open source/open weight.

I know OS is not as capable. But at least you can rely on it being available

The newsletter from [email protected] now has a distinct AI smell. For better or for worse?

Surveillance capitalism is the enemy. Not your neighbor, not the other guy. Fight surveillance not your fellow citizen. This beast is eating democracy.

Reuters killed an artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRl2LRfm5Hs

Very proud for the Reuters journos who took on the courageous job of unmasking a world-adored graffiti artist. I wonder what glorious milestone they’ll be tasked with next. Take note criminals, no more wanton vandalizing. Subvert no more!

Friends of Epstein, on the other hand…

He told his Uber driver “give me the Waymo experience”