maywa.bsky.social

"We are told, repeatedly, that we need to generate more electricity for this revolution. But it may well be the other way around: Data centers are an excuse to squeeze a few more years of fossil-fuel profits from an exhausted planet." 👌🏽👌🏽

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

"Like, what if we subjected a new highly addictive consumer technology to rigorous examination *first,* and *then* allowed it to be marketed to children?"

Because this would actually be governing tech, and therefore the state, well (?)

"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter @karenhao.bsky.social, whose new book is "Empire of AI."

Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude AI systems are no longer just specialized research tools: they’re everyday academic companions. As AIs integrate more deeply into educational environments, we need to consider important questions abou...

New report by Anthropic on higher ed concludes: “There are legitimate worries that AI systems may provide a crutch for students, stifling the development of foundational skills needed to support higher-order thinking.” www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

If this is the salesman, imagine a sober view.