Hypervisible
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
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Our house had a Ring when we bought it. You need something more powerful than a hammer. Those suckers are sturdy.
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Our house had a Ring when we bought it. You need something more powerful than a hammer. Those suckers are sturdy.
The failure here is that step one isn’t “grab your hammer.”
Here's how to disable Ring's creepy Search Party feature
Ring's Super Bowl ad alerted many people to the company's Search Party feature, which is basically neighborhood surveillance. Here's how to disable it.
www.engadget.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The failure here is that step one isn’t “grab your hammer.”
What could go wrong.
MrBeast is buying a banking app geared toward teens
YouTuber MrBeast's company is buying the banking app, Step, as it looks to expand beyond media and chocolate bars and into fintech.
www.businessinsider.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
What could go wrong.
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She's literally a signatory on the Effective Altruism GWWC Pledge 😂.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 PM
She's literally a signatory on the Effective Altruism GWWC Pledge 😂.
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The morals: Warmed over oxbridge empire apologism
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The morals: Warmed over oxbridge empire apologism
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In light of Ring Cameras allegedly helping you find your dog:
February 9, 2026 at 5:34 PM
In light of Ring Cameras allegedly helping you find your dog:
“In addition to overturning dozens of regulations aimed at reducing air pollution to save lives, the EPA has also exempted over 100 industrial facilities…”
As EPA weakens air pollution regulations, Black women stand to face the greatest health risks
They already face the highest rates of asthma-related mortality in the nation. Dirtier air will make that worse.
ca.news.yahoo.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
“In addition to overturning dozens of regulations aimed at reducing air pollution to save lives, the EPA has also exempted over 100 industrial facilities…”
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starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
February 9, 2026 at 5:12 PM
starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import
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"Doctors can be wrong, too!"
Yes, and you can have a meaningful conversation with them that isn't just autocomplete.
Yes, and you can, in extremis, sue them for malpractice.
Yes, and you can have a meaningful conversation with them that isn't just autocomplete.
Yes, and you can, in extremis, sue them for malpractice.
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
"Doctors can be wrong, too!"
Yes, and you can have a meaningful conversation with them that isn't just autocomplete.
Yes, and you can, in extremis, sue them for malpractice.
Yes, and you can have a meaningful conversation with them that isn't just autocomplete.
Yes, and you can, in extremis, sue them for malpractice.
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“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds
Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”
www.404media.co
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“In an extreme case, two users sent very similar messages describing symptoms of a subarachnoid hemorrhage but were given opposite advice,” the study’s authors wrote. “One user was told to lie down in a dark room, and the other user was given the correct recommendation to seek emergency care.”
If only someone had seen this coming.
The dark side of AI meeting notes | Fortune
The meeting ends. The AI doesn’t.
fortune.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:56 PM
If only someone had seen this coming.
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The allure and folly of trying to control something in a way that is fundamentally outside of its essence is one of the oldest warnings passed down in basically every culture, yet here we are. Again.
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The allure and folly of trying to control something in a way that is fundamentally outside of its essence is one of the oldest warnings passed down in basically every culture, yet here we are. Again.
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Perhaps because they’re perfectly aware that a even a single Covid infection could be career-ending?
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Perhaps because they’re perfectly aware that a even a single Covid infection could be career-ending?
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Ah. Exploiting our love of dogs to manufacture consent for a privatized for-profit surveillance state. Makes sense why people would be mad.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Ah. Exploiting our love of dogs to manufacture consent for a privatized for-profit surveillance state. Makes sense why people would be mad.
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All self-quantification tech will be used against you, eventually. If not by government, then by insurers
Fuck Oura to hell
Fuck Oura to hell
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
All self-quantification tech will be used against you, eventually. If not by government, then by insurers
Fuck Oura to hell
Fuck Oura to hell
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One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
One day when I really want to burn it all down, I might write about the affect of this certain type of intellectual who engages with AI/LLMs/whatever like this. I’ve seen it up close and in person. They all have a empty eyed, hyper focused gaze — so far up their own asses they could shit a cough.
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Framing vaccination as 'individual choice' rather than a collective solution misses the mark
‘Take the vaccine, please,’ Dr Oz urges amid rising measles cases in US
Health official’s endorsement comes as South Carolina faces hundreds of cases and US risks losing elimination status
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Framing vaccination as 'individual choice' rather than a collective solution misses the mark
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if you weren't one of the 25,648 people who might have seen this live on tv last night in ottumwa iowa, you're in luck: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdo...
404 Media's Super Bowl Ad
YouTube video by 404 Media
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:35 PM
if you weren't one of the 25,648 people who might have seen this live on tv last night in ottumwa iowa, you're in luck: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmdo...
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ughhhhhhhhhhh
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
ughhhhhhhhhhh
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“Your data is yours and yours always,” said Oura CEO Tom Hale.
This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!
This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 PM
“Your data is yours and yours always,” said Oura CEO Tom Hale.
This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!
This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!
Today in luxury surveillance.
Why Washington’s all-in on smart rings
Finland's Oura is telling lawmakers and Trump officials it's got a solution to systemic health care challenges.
www.politico.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Today in luxury surveillance.
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Anthropomorphizing the user interface of a sociotechnical apparatus?
Sounds like a marketing project.
Sounds like a marketing project.
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anthropomorphizing the user interface of a sociotechnical apparatus?
Sounds like a marketing project.
Sounds like a marketing project.
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I used to contract for one of J&J's other medical device companies, DePuy Synthes, and given what I experienced developing "training" for sales reps & surgeons (which I figured out was just product marketing disguised as education) I am never more glad that I quit. This was a harrowing read.
“Researchers from Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Yale universities recently found that 60 FDA-authorized medical devices using AI were linked to 182 product recalls, according to a research letter published in the JAMA Health Forum in August.”
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
I used to contract for one of J&J's other medical device companies, DePuy Synthes, and given what I experienced developing "training" for sales reps & surgeons (which I figured out was just product marketing disguised as education) I am never more glad that I quit. This was a harrowing read.
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*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!
“She compares her work to the efforts of a parent raising a child. She’s training Claude to detect the difference between right and wrong while imbuing it with unique personality traits.”
This Philosopher Is Teaching AI to Have Morals
The tech company has entrusted the philosopher to endow its chatbot with a sense of right and wrong.
www.wsj.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
*sighs deeply* She can't teach an AI model to have morals, only to imitate her understanding of what having morals means. Its a pattern imitation machine, not an intelligent machine, people!