The mixed bag of modest changes DOJ is packaging as strengthening corporate enforcement will do little to reverse the trend of declining corporate prosecutions.
Some may even make things worse.
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Gotta love how Harvard-educated Ron DeSantis goes out of his way to define elites as EXCLUDING those who control the "commanding heights" - ie. the Marxist definition of the economic elite.
Elites are just anyone who DeSantis disagrees with
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You gotta love how Ron DeSantis opens his book by railing against "elites" in the name of the people, before carefully noting that he doesn't mean Ivy League conservatives who vacation with billionaires, oil barons, or for that matter people of "great wealth" generally.
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even more reason to challenge the tech companies’ claims that generative AI is the future, that chatbots will replace search, and that we can trust this tech. it’s always move fast and break things to have a quick boom and cash in before people realize what they’re doing.
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Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a WashPost story.
The prof is real. The rest was made up.
We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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"West Virginia assumed the pipeline builders would comply with state storm water and water quality requirements despite finding that they had violated both many times.
WV “failed to explain "why it believes MVP’s past permit violations will not continue."
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Excellent summary of the backlash against Feedly's shameful robo-Pinkerton promo.
Would also add that the euphemistic "security" & "risk-assessment" language Feedly uses is EXACTLY how today's Pinkerton agency describes its work. pinkerton.com/protection/ons
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Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service, claiming to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused.
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We strive to be the world's safest delivery network every day.
Here’s one of the ways we’re using technology to ensure the safety of drivers and the community. 
#DistractedDrivingAwaressMonth
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"I'm terrified of the thing I'm investing in and all my friends work on."
Okay, maybe y'all should do something else with your lives?
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I’m scared of AGI. It's confusing how people can be so dismissive of the risks.
I’m an investor in two AGI companies and friends with dozens of researchers working at DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Brain. Almost all of them are worried.
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Holy shit. So 's documentation for their new shitty "AI protests" tool is beyond funny.
Almost all of their example screenshots in their docs show the model ROYALLY whiffing on the prompts...
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Call attention to dangerous use cases or misuses of AI when you see them. Feedly can course correct here, but this reaction was necessary and constructive.
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didn't take long for Feedly to land on surveilling workers and activists on behalf corporations as a potential "use case" for AI 
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👋🏾We’re a new progressive, worker-owned communications consulting firm operated by .
We’re working class WOC, daughters of immigrants, and organizers, raised by movements that taught us that if we want a seat at the table, we need to flip it over.
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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
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Reeling right now from news that one of my former interns took his own life late last year. He was only 32.
It's a shocking reminder we seldom understand how those around us may be suffering and struggling.
His family asked for contributions to , donating today.
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there are so many good reasons to want to know if there are protests in your area, and Feedly chose the absolute most vile one possible to advertise
also treating protests, strikes, and riots as equivalent is so disgustingly revealing
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who, exactly, was asking for AI to "track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company's assets"?
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who, exactly, was asking for AI to "track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company's assets"?
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well this is gross and disgusting on every level
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We live in hell🤗🤗🤗
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Our vanguard mode of production and profit is spam
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Remember how "corporate profits don't cause inflation?"
Is it just possible that corporate profiteering causes just a teensy-weensy bit of inflation?
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A year ago, egg producer Cal-Maine Foods pocketed $39.5 million in quarterly profit. This time around, $323 million ktla.com/news/money-sma
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Bernie Sanders unloads on Howard Schultz.
'Over the past 18 months, Starbucks has waged the most aggressive and illegal union-busting camping in the modern history of our country...led by Howard Schultz, the multibillionaire who is with us only under the threat of subpoena.'
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Credit Suisse violated a 2014 plea deal with the DOJ for enabling US tax evasion, a US Senate Committee found after concluding a two-year probe into the Swiss lender. The bank's new owner UBS, that took over this month, may have to face further fines reut.rs/3zih2jS
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no one “earns” a billion dollars
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Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz complains about Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “unfair” labeling of him as a billionaire:
“I came from nothing … Yes, I have billions of dollars — I earned it. No one gave it to me. And I’ve shared it constantly with the people of Starbucks.”
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When they say things like they can’t pay the minimum wage because it would destroy their business model, think about these decisions around executive pay.
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Instead: They're about concentration of power in the hands of people, about reproducing systems of oppression, about damage to the information ecosystem, and about damage to the natural ecosystem (through profligate use of energy resources).
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Just sayin': We wrote a whole paper in late 2020 (Stochastic Parrots, published in 2021) pointing out that this head-long rush to ever larger language models without considering risks was a bad thing. But the risks and harms have never been about "too powerful AI".
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"Why should we COPE? Why should we just plan to have disruptions and just "let" this shit happen?"
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"Why should society ADAPT to machines rather than making tools that WORK for us?"
- Timnit Gebru
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This is NOT inevitable unless we let it.
Are we REALLY pursuing progress?
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The very first citation in this stupid letter is to our #StochasticParrots Paper,
"AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research[1]"
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lol they posted on here about going robo-Pinkerton earlier this month but no one noticed twitter.com/feedly/status/
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I was about to say this might be a bad April Fools joke but no! They bragged about this a few weeks ago, it got no traction on here, so I guess they decided they need to have it pop up on their main page? gross twitter.com/feedly/status/
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Seriously, what makes you think I would in any way be interested in “How to track the protests posing a risk to your company’s assets with Feedly AI”?
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Hey , what’s going on here? I’d be happy to find a new RSS reader app that doesn’t use the AI hype to promote dystopian anti-worker propaganda.
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"How to track the protests posing a risk to your company's assets with Feedly ΑΙ"
Feedly ushering us into new levels of corporate surveillance
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how on earth did they go from being an RSS reader to this?
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cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
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Union buster version of Strike Tracker
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