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derrchang.bsky.social
Google, stop advertising Gemini in my Gmail with an intrusive ad, I just want to look at my email kthxbye.
May 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Ironically, this is Big Pharma's wet dream. Rather than a preventative vaccine that costs a few dollars a dose twice a lifetime, they can sell expensive new in-patent drugs for hundreds a dose that you need to keep taking.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · May 2
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.
RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination
Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.
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May 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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edzitron.com
Absolute joke of an answer to the DeepSeek question, it's shameful that Hard Fork gets these interviews, especially considering Casey Newton's boyfriend works at Anthropic (this to be clear is called out at the top of the episode, but hey, why not swap Casey out for this one? Or ask questions?)
casey newton Got it. So let me ask the competition question that brings us into safety. You recently wrote a really interesting post about deep seek, sort of at the height of DeepSeek mania. And you were arguing, in part, that the cost reductions that they had figured out were basically in line with what — they were basically in line with how costs had already been falling. But you also said that DeepSeek should be a wake up call, because it showed that China is keeping pace with frontier labs in a way that the country hadn’t been up until now. So why is that notable to you, and what do you think we ought to do about it? dario amodei Yeah. So I think this is less about commercial competition. I worry less about DeepSeek from a commercial competition perspective. I worry more about them from a national competition and national security perspective. I think where I’m coming from here is we look at the state of the world and we have these autocracies like China and Russia. And I’ve always worried — I’ve worried maybe for a decade that AI could be an engine of autocracy. If you think about repressive governments, the limits to how repressive they can be are generally set by what they can get their enforcers, their human enforcers to do. But if their enforcers are no longer human, that starts painting some very dark possibilities. And so this is an area that I’m, therefore, very concerned about, where I want to make sure that liberal democracies have enough leverage and enough advantage in the technology that they can prevent some of these abuses from happening, and kind of also prevent our adversaries from putting us in a bad position with respect to the rest of the world or even threatening our security. There’s this kind of, I think, weird and awkward feature that it’s companies in the US that are building this. It’s companies in China that are building this. But we shouldn’t be naive. Whatever the intention of those companies, particularly in Chin…
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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codyjohnston.bsky.social
Here's our new episode this week about defending trans people.
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Trans People Are Real and Detransitioning Isn't That Common – SOME MORE NEWS
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January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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edzitron.com
Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back.

www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them
In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...
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December 16, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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samblum.bsky.social
NEW: A new lawsuit calls Scale AI 'the sordid underbelly of the generative AI industry,' alleges a vast slate of CA labor law violations and says workers were emotionally disturbed by working on a self-harm prevention AI tool for Meta.

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Lawsuit Calls Scale AI ‘The Sordid Underbelly of the Generative AI Industry’
CEO Alexandr Wang is named in the suit, which cites emotional distress for contractors who worked on self-harm prevention project for Meta.
www.inc.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:14 PM