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täällä jaan ihan mitä sattuu.
kiinnostaa: ystävyys, tee-se-itse, materialismi, kirjoittaminen, lukeminen.
kiinnostaa: ystävyys, tee-se-itse, materialismi, kirjoittaminen, lukeminen.
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Today in luxury surveillance.
The rise of the sleep data nerds: ‘The harder you try, the harder it is to sleep’
Wearable sleep trackers may help you measure hours asleep but experts ask how accurate they are, how useful the data is and even what good sleep looks like
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Today in luxury surveillance.
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Italia kieltää kokonaan seksuaalikasvatuksen yläasteella. Lukiossakin opetusta voi saada vain vanhempien erillisellä luvalla.
Jälleen yksi esimerkki siitä, millaiseen pimeyteen eurooppalainen valtio voi vajota, kun äänestää äärioikeiston valtaan.
Jälleen yksi esimerkki siitä, millaiseen pimeyteen eurooppalainen valtio voi vajota, kun äänestää äärioikeiston valtaan.
Italy moves to restrict sex education amid growing feminicide outrage | Euractiv
Italy is one of the few EU countries without compulsory sex education
www.euractiv.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Italia kieltää kokonaan seksuaalikasvatuksen yläasteella. Lukiossakin opetusta voi saada vain vanhempien erillisellä luvalla.
Jälleen yksi esimerkki siitä, millaiseen pimeyteen eurooppalainen valtio voi vajota, kun äänestää äärioikeiston valtaan.
Jälleen yksi esimerkki siitä, millaiseen pimeyteen eurooppalainen valtio voi vajota, kun äänestää äärioikeiston valtaan.
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One of the first things @katienotopoulos.bsky.social noticed looking at the feed of new posts on Sora 2: It seems to be dominated by teenage boys, and “there were very, very few women. This is not good news for OpenAI.” www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-...
Sora 2 is drawing a huge crowd of teenage boys. This doesn't bode well — trust me.
Sora 2 seems to encourage people to make fun of each other. It's also attracting a lot of teenage boys. This could be a nightmare for Sam Altman.
www.businessinsider.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
One of the first things @katienotopoulos.bsky.social noticed looking at the feed of new posts on Sora 2: It seems to be dominated by teenage boys, and “there were very, very few women. This is not good news for OpenAI.” www.businessinsider.com/sora-videos-...
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Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)
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Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Sources: Meta and Apple are close to settling two EU antitrust cases and agreeing a deal to change their business practices after a total €700M in DMA fines (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
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Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits, as insurers balk at covering AI risks (Financial Times)
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October 8, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic consider using investor funds to settle potential claims from multibillion-dollar lawsuits, as insurers balk at covering AI risks (Financial Times)
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Begging everyone to think just a little bit about the explicit goals of tech companies before buying the lastest 'innovative' product
I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.
Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door
For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Begging everyone to think just a little bit about the explicit goals of tech companies before buying the lastest 'innovative' product
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“Are we trying to cure cancer? Obsolete knowledge workers? Build robots? Compete with Instagram? Buy some more runway? For now, the answer seems to be, ‘Hey, check out Sora, the app where you can make Sam Altman dance.’”
Sora and the Sloppy Future of AI
What’s a little deepfake shitposting between friends?
nymag.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Are we trying to cure cancer? Obsolete knowledge workers? Build robots? Compete with Instagram? Buy some more runway? For now, the answer seems to be, ‘Hey, check out Sora, the app where you can make Sam Altman dance.’”
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"and some even hope AI could simulate the responses of minorities or other groups who are often underrepresented in studies."
You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough
You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough
People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
October 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
"and some even hope AI could simulate the responses of minorities or other groups who are often underrepresented in studies."
You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough
You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough
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Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
bit.ly
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.
käyttäjät Yhdysvalloissa huolissaan yksityisyydestä, kun suomalaisyhtiö Oura tekee yhteistyötä Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeriön kanssa, joka taas puolestaan tekee yhteistyötä Palantirin kanssa. Palantir valmistaa tekoälyjärjestelmiä, jotka mahdollistavat massavalvontaa.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
The Frightening Reason Some Women Are Ditching Their Oura Rings
“It’s not paranoid to be concerned about your data. It’s justified.”
slate.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
käyttäjät Yhdysvalloissa huolissaan yksityisyydestä, kun suomalaisyhtiö Oura tekee yhteistyötä Yhdysvaltain puolustusministeriön kanssa, joka taas puolestaan tekee yhteistyötä Palantirin kanssa. Palantir valmistaa tekoälyjärjestelmiä, jotka mahdollistavat massavalvontaa.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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$5 to watch me reorder my bookshelf for the third time
something called lonelyfans and it’s just me live-streaming me putting away the dishes
October 4, 2025 at 1:15 AM
$5 to watch me reorder my bookshelf for the third time
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Yeah it’s up to a story a day at this point. Now to put this toothpaste back in the bottle real quick,
Magnificent Seven surpass EU GDP: Is this a tech bubble warning?
Magnificent Seven surpass EU GDP: Is this a tech bubble warning?
The combined market value of the US 'Magnificent Seven' tech giants has surpassed the EU’s GDP, raising concerns of a tech bubble. While valuations are high, comparisons to the dot-com era suggest this may be a structural shift.
l.euronews.com
October 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Yeah it’s up to a story a day at this point. Now to put this toothpaste back in the bottle real quick,
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“Senator, we sell ads.”
Meta will soon use AI chats for ad targeting because of course it will
Meta will start scraping conversations with AI chatbots to target personalized ads. This will start in December, with emails going out to customers later this month.
www.engadget.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“Senator, we sell ads.”
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OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
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October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
OpenAI's Sora 2 openly features copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips of SpongeBob, Pikachu, and Mario (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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New large-scale investigation in 11 European countries, supported via our Environmental investigative journalism grant programme: www.journalismfund.eu/green-to-grey
October 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New large-scale investigation in 11 European countries, supported via our Environmental investigative journalism grant programme: www.journalismfund.eu/green-to-grey
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"So we keep documenting. Not out of heroism, but to remain present. Because behind every report, every footnote, every lecture lies a deeper truth: knowledge is still being produced in Gaza. Even now. Especially now."
"I must admit: I write this piece while starving – too hungry to think clearly, too weak to sit upright for long."
a haunting account of a starving Palestinian academic in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
a haunting account of a starving Palestinian academic in Gaza.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza
It is hard to keep the mind sharp when the body is thin and dehydrated, but solidarity is teaching starving students their thoughts still matter
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"So we keep documenting. Not out of heroism, but to remain present. Because behind every report, every footnote, every lecture lies a deeper truth: knowledge is still being produced in Gaza. Even now. Especially now."
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Putting in patent application for BackChatGPT that just says “do your own research” in response to every question.
April 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Putting in patent application for BackChatGPT that just says “do your own research” in response to every question.
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It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins.
The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.
The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.
Activists pile 200 coffins outside State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief
Cuts to PEPFAR, the country’s emergency plan for HIV and AIDS relief, have resulted in an estimated 40,000 deaths overseas, analysis shows.
19thnews.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins.
The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.
The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.
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"Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students" - skill issue
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
April 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
"Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students" - skill issue
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MICROSOFT: “.. any significant new endeavor at this size and scale requires agility and refinement .. What this means is that we are slowing or pausing some early-stage projects.”
@thehill.com $MSFT
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April 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
MICROSOFT: “.. any significant new endeavor at this size and scale requires agility and refinement .. What this means is that we are slowing or pausing some early-stage projects.”
@thehill.com $MSFT
thehill.com/policy/techn...
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