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[?]⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) » 🌐
@benroyce@mastodon.social

There will be those who won't know or care until the bullshit bites them in the ass personally, and until then "AI is awesome!"

" Platforms is facing a federal in the after 26 current and former alleged that the company used -assisted tools during a major round of in a way that disproportionately affected workers with medical conditions, , or those on protected medical or "

voice.lapaas.com/meta-reported

AI & Technology
Meta reportedly used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs
Meta Platforms is facing a federal lawsuit in the United States after 26 current and former employees alleged that the company used AI-assisted tools during a…

By rohan
•
July 15, 2026
•
4 min read

Alt...AI & Technology Meta reportedly used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs Meta Platforms is facing a federal lawsuit in the United States after 26 current and former employees alleged that the company used AI-assisted tools during a… By rohan • July 15, 2026 • 4 min read

    [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
    @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

    A first look at Alvin has been revealed as part of the Alvin and the Chipmunks comeback announcement.

    New co-owners Big Shot Pictures say they'll use cutting-edge technology across their animated projects. Ahead of the next film, The Chipmunks are also expected to appear online "almost like influencers."

    The studio is also actively hiring talent with experience in generative AI workflows.

    What do you think of this new direction?

      [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
      @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

      George Lucas believes AI is the future of filmmaking.

      Speaking to A Rabbit’s Foot, Lucas said AI will make it much easier to create movies, adding:

      “There’s nothing you can do about it. That’s progress, it’s the future.”

      He compared AI to the arrival of the automobile, arguing that every major technological shift faces skepticism before becoming part of everyday life.

      Do you agree with him?

        [?]CCIA » 🌐
        @CCIAnet@techpolicy.social

        The evidence is clear: America's patent system is doing exactly what it's designed to do. Section 101 consistently protects genuine innovation while preventing monopolies on basic ideas. Federal Circuit affirmance rates of 85.3% for district courts and 95.5% for the USPTO, with judges unanimous in 93.5% of cases, show that it’s predictable, stable, and fueling US leadership in and innovation. ccianet.org/news/2026/07/ccia-

          [?]PPC Land » 🌐
          @ppcland@mastodon.social

          FYI: Advertisers face mandatory AI ad labels across Google's five platforms: Labels Google's AI tools apply automatically cannot be removed, as the setting reaches five ad products this month, ahead of EU enforcement starting August 2. ppc.land/advertisers-face-mand

            [?]GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 » 🌐
            @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social

            [?]Jiří Eischmann » 🌐
            @sesivany@social.vivaldi.net

            The following passage from David Brook's article 'The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age' in @TheAtlantic strongly resonates with me:

            The remark “artificial intelligence could do it in five minutes” is not actually about speed. “It’s about a moral re-evaluation. It assumes that what matters is the result, not the effort; the image, not the act of seeing; the product, not the person who becomes capable of creating it.”

              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

              [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
              @TechDesk@flipboard.social

              OpenAI's first device will likely be a portable speaker, according to a new report which thinks it could "play media, answer questions" and "respond to messages." Erm...that sounds a lot like Amazon's Alexa.

              @cultofmac explains just what might be in store:

              flip.it/JbQkEW

                [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                @negativepid@mastodon.social

                [?]PPC Land » 🌐
                @ppcland@mastodon.social

                FYI: Taboola turns 7 million DeeperDive users into ad inventory for any chatbot: The company now lets outside AI answer engines and chatbots plug into its 9,000-publisher ad demand network, raising monetization questions for the industry. ppc.land/taboola-turns-7-milli

                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                  @negativepid@mastodon.social

                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                  [?]Juggling With Eggs » 🌐
                  @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social

                  What the future appears to look like under if you are disabled, pregnant or get injured.

                  I always used to find those adverts about the future sinister…and now I know why:

                  theguardian.com/technology/202

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                    [?]Juggling With Eggs » 🌐
                    @JugglingWithEggs@mstdn.social

                    ‘The lawsuit against alleges that the company’s tools gather data on employees’ performance rankings, productivity and other metrics, and that those inputs do not exist when workers are on medical or family leave. For people with disabilities, those metrics might be reduced.’

                      [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                      @negativepid@mastodon.social

                      [?]noyb.eu » 🌐
                      @noybeu@mastodon.social

                      🎙️ Have you heard of the Kylie Jenner x glasses? Our data protection lawyer Kleanthi Sardeli was on the radio earlier today to talk about the privacy implications of this new type of "wearable surveillance".

                      Listen here 👉 fm4.orf.at/sendung/1017109/mor

                        [?]Klaudia (aka jinxx) » 🌐
                        @viennawriter@literatur.social

                        Teaser in TL: "The Backlash Is So Strong That People With "Pervert Glasses" Are Afraid to Use Them in Public"

                        My head: And rightfully so.

                        futurism.com/future-society/ba

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                          [?]screwlisp » 🌐
                          @screwlisp@gamerplus.org

                          0UTC Wednesday Tuesday night in the Americas in 20 minutes! Every week since 2022.
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                          with @kentpitman @ramin_hal9001

                          by kmp
                          I have fermi estimated a solution to the climate crisis.

                          - I wrote an mode (orgbabel ) codeberg.org/screwlisp/ickle
                          - @technomancy 's anti-LLM human-emacs.org/
                          - + its well-state goalposts
                          - Kent's Yale T github.com/netsettler/netsettl

                          in !

                          Lispy gopher climate banner, the gopher and lisp alien wading through flooded wreckage flanked by two demons carrying radio equipment.

                          Alt...Lispy gopher climate banner, the gopher and lisp alien wading through flooded wreckage flanked by two demons carrying radio equipment.

                            [?]Mickai » 🌐
                            @Mickai@mastodon.social

                            How do you prove an AI agent's audit log was not altered, before EU AI Act Article 12?

                            You prove it with cryptography, not permissions. Each record is signed the moment it is written, so an auditor can verify mathematically that nothing was changed, added or deleted, without trusting the operator's word.

                            mickai.co.uk/articles/prove-ai

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                              [?]BrianKrebs » 🌐
                              @briankrebs@infosec.exchange

                              Hey Windows (ab)users, Microsoft has a big present for you: Today they released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in their Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence. Ah, but there's a catch: AI is also speeding up the discovery of workable exploits.

                              krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/mi

                              A picture of a Microsoft Windows laptop at the screen "Working on updates, 15 percent complete. Do not turn off your computer." The computer is sitting on top of a wooden desk.

                              Alt...A picture of a Microsoft Windows laptop at the screen "Working on updates, 15 percent complete. Do not turn off your computer." The computer is sitting on top of a wooden desk.

                                [?]Frank Heijkamp » 🌐
                                @alterelefant@mastodontech.de

                                @stux
                                The harvesting part they did. The money making part isn't quite working out. Those companies have a way to high burn rate. I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                  @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                  [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                  @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                  @negativepid@mastodon.social

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                                  [?]Ned Yeung 🍉 [he/him] » 🌐
                                  @ned@beige.party

                                  In case this has eluded you, Meta's natural gas powered $13 billion AI data centre in Sturgeon Country north of Edmonton uses up nearly as much power each day as the entire city of Calgary (1.1B GW) or Edmonton (1.2B GW).

                                  Plus, it uses up more water a day than all of Sturgeon County.

                                  TECH-TIiMES
Meta's 1 GW Alberta Data Center Claims Clean Energy Via Gas-Powered Plant
Canada’s biggest data center will draw
electricity from a dedicated $4.6B gas plant through at least 2030

By Eloise Jones
Published: Jul 10 2026, 5:23 PM EDT

                                  Alt...TECH-TIiMES Meta's 1 GW Alberta Data Center Claims Clean Energy Via Gas-Powered Plant Canada’s biggest data center will draw electricity from a dedicated $4.6B gas plant through at least 2030 By Eloise Jones Published: Jul 10 2026, 5:23 PM EDT

                                  The Breakdown
@TheBreakdownAB

We have an answer!

The power plant supporting the new Meta data center will require 1.25 million liters of water a day.

Currently, Sturgeon County uses 1.1 million liters of water a day municipally.

So, this power plant doubles the water
requirements.

                                  Alt...The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB We have an answer! The power plant supporting the new Meta data center will require 1.25 million liters of water a day. Currently, Sturgeon County uses 1.1 million liters of water a day municipally. So, this power plant doubles the water requirements.

                                    [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                    @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                    [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                    @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                    [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                    @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                    Is AI coming for our jobs?

                                    200 economists and AI leaders have warned that AI may bring forth "an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution." Founder and editor of Platformer @caseynewton goes through the facts and provides context to help us better understand what affect AI is having on jobs right now.

                                    flip.it/KA5aUy

                                      [?]DigitalEscapeTools » 🌐
                                      @xabd@mastodon.social

                                      PixelRAG is an open-source visual RAG framework that helps local AI models understand documents by analyzing screenshots instead of relying only on extracted text.

                                      It preserves tables, charts, diagrams, and page layouts for more accurate retrieval, and can run locally with your own PDFs and webpages.

                                      More details: digitalescapetools.com/tools/t

                                      Screenshot of the PixelRAG project page. At the top is the PixelRAG logo with the tagline "Web Screenshots Beat Text." Below, an overview explains that PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs, and images as screenshots so AI models can preserve visual elements like tables, charts, layouts, and infographics for more accurate document retrieval and question answering.

                                      Alt...Screenshot of the PixelRAG project page. At the top is the PixelRAG logo with the tagline "Web Screenshots Beat Text." Below, an overview explains that PixelRAG renders web pages, PDFs, and images as screenshots so AI models can preserve visual elements like tables, charts, layouts, and infographics for more accurate document retrieval and question answering.

                                        [?]Trail of Bits » 🌐
                                        @trailofbits@infosec.exchange

                                        "The oldest principles in security—auditing, logging, isolation, least privilege—matter more than ever now that actions happen at machine speed, not human speed."—Artem Dinaburg, our chief scientist, on Silver Bullet ep 158.

                                        The full pod covers why prompt injection has no clean fix, how we rebuilt our audits around agents, and why decompilers should work more like language translators.

                                        berryvilleiml.com/2026/07/01/s

                                          [?]Society of Signs » 🌐
                                          @SocietyOfSigns@vis.social

                                          @letterror @monokrom @eWalthert Psst ✨ mean now.
                                          They are ruining everything!

                                            [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                            @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                            [?]Ned Yeung 🍉 [he/him] » 🌐
                                            @ned@beige.party

                                            Oh wow how exciting... MORE FUCKING AI!

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                                              [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                              @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                              [?]Dave Rahardja » 🌐
                                              @drahardja@sfba.social

                                              Grocery Outlet Bargain Market is deploying facial recognition in their stores.

                                              It’s used for profiling.

                                              “The system takes images of customers and runs them against a “watchlist,” a database of people who have previously been identified after “causing harm in some way,” said Chris Ochs, who works at SAFR at RealNetworks, the AI company that created SAFR Guard, the security system being used at Grocery Outlet. If there is a match, a phone notification is sent to the retailer using the system.”

                                              missionlocal.org/2026/07/sf-gr

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                                                [?]your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐
                                                @blogdiva@mastodon.social

                                                RE: social.heise.de/@heiseonlineen

                                                the Ellisons’ mafia are behind

                                                - the killing of CBS tv and radio
                                                - the - merger
                                                - more than 30,000 laid-off tech workers since 2025
                                                - the capitalist welfare grift that includes
                                                - the herpes-like spread of ecocidal data centers

                                                if you’ve been waiting for a sign of the implosion, this is the official beginning.

                                                Oracle has its tentacles are all over the push. now their stock is junk.

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                                                [?]heise online English » 🤖 🌐
                                                @heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de

                                                S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level

                                                S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.

                                                heise.de/en/news/S-P-downgrade

                                                  [?] » 🌐
                                                  @grahamperrin@mastodon.bsd.cafe

                                                  How We’re Keeping Reddit Real and Safe in the AI Era

                                                  redditinc.com/news/how-were-ke

                                                  ― Blocking 23 million spam views per day before they ever reach a human user.

                                                  ― Catching ~25K net new spammy posts and comments a day.

                                                  ― Reducing spam exposure for our users by ~20% from January to March 2026, relative to the prior three months and an additional 10–15% drop in overall spam account exposure.

                                                  ― Revoking nearly 2M inauthentic votes per day over the last three months.

                                                    [?]דער קערפער פֿון השם » 🌐
                                                    @dukepaaron@babka.social

                                                    Not typically a fan of Rabbi Ruttenberg, but this is an interesting, provocative thought-piece.

                                                    "Nobody would think twice about demanding a if asked to start violating or partaking of the BBQ at the retreat against their own practice. And while I would not demand that every request such an (for Shabbat or keeping ), they should absolutely have that option available, even if their practice is a work in progress. So too, here.

                                                    And despite seeing many people (including religious Jews!) eliding the moral and religious issues around because "that train has already left the station," we should make choices based on whether they are right or wrong. Also, it's a fallacy: Movements grow from dissent."

                                                    lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewi

                                                      [?]Mickai » 🌐
                                                      @Mickai@mastodon.social

                                                      What is Q-Day, and how do you prepare an AI system for it?

                                                      Q-Day is the day a quantum computer can break today's public-key cryptography. You prepare an AI system by inventorying your cryptography, signing new records with post-quantum signatures, running hybrid schemes, building crypto-agility, and re-signing long-lived data before that day arrives.

                                                      mickai.co.uk/articles/what-is-

                                                        [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                                        @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                                        [?]@990000@mstdn.social [he/him] » 🌐
                                                        @990000@mstdn.social

                                                        Maybe computers were a big mistake. Because people are stupid. If you’re going to be a pro AI nutcase, at least don’t write about it.

                                                        bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.

                                                        Article: lifeisasacredtext.com/the-jewi

                                                        Rabbi Danya Ruttenb... @theradr.bsky.social:
So. I did it.
Lotta people gonna be mad about this one.
Show it some love?

Link: A Jewish Case for Al work exemptions or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun

                                                        Alt...Rabbi Danya Ruttenb... @theradr.bsky.social: So. I did it. Lotta people gonna be mad about this one. Show it some love? Link: A Jewish Case for Al work exemptions or: why should CHICAGO POPE have all the fun

                                                          [?]Longreads » 🌐
                                                          @longreads@mastodon.world

                                                          "You can’t devote your life to mastering the art of scanning or unpacking cages in the same way as a craftsman devotes themselves to blade-making or weaving. We face a dearth of complex and meaningful jobs." —Joshua Habgood-Coote for Aeon aeon.co/essays/the-radical-rea

                                                            [?]Scary Austin » 🌐
                                                            @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social

                                                            People who protest, people who show the fuck up to city council meetings, people who write letters and make calls, people who organize, are achieving victories all over the US. One data center after another is getting canceled, one ICE "warehouse" concentration camp after another. We've forced the mutiny of preverts to backtrack and change tactics. We've beaten them in court countless times.

                                                            We get to choose victory or defeat.

                                                            Jason Bassler says "They want you to believe your voice doesn't matter. Yet in just the last few days:
-LAPD canceled its Flock contract
-Meta canceled Muse Image AI after privacy outrage
-One of the largest planned US data centers was killed (PW Digital Gateway) by local opposition
-The surveillance state isn't inevitable
It advances when people apathetic. It retreats when people fight back. Public pressure works. Keep pushing."

                                                            Alt...Jason Bassler says "They want you to believe your voice doesn't matter. Yet in just the last few days: -LAPD canceled its Flock contract -Meta canceled Muse Image AI after privacy outrage -One of the largest planned US data centers was killed (PW Digital Gateway) by local opposition -The surveillance state isn't inevitable It advances when people apathetic. It retreats when people fight back. Public pressure works. Keep pushing."

                                                              [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                              @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                              Seniors know they're watching AI slop but they still like it anyway. Viola Zhou writes for @restofworld and explores how AI-generated content is providing comfort and companionship for older adults.
                                                               flip.it/DIs8PO

                                                                [?]Flipboard Science Desk » 🌐
                                                                @ScienceDesk@flipboard.social

                                                                Mathematicians put AI to work on Fermat’s last theorem.

                                                                From @NewScientist (registration may be required): flip.it/_V6E9W

                                                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                  [?]Lanie » 🌐
                                                                  @RareBird15@allovertheplace.ca

                                                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                  [?]PPC Land » 🌐
                                                                  @ppcland@mastodon.social

                                                                  ICYMI: Taboola turns 7 million DeeperDive users into ad inventory for any chatbot: The company now lets outside AI answer engines and chatbots plug into its 9,000-publisher ad demand network, raising monetization questions for the industry. ppc.land/taboola-turns-7-milli

                                                                    [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                                                    @negativepid@mastodon.social

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                                                                    [?]Jesus Michał von Gentoo 🏔 (he) » 🌐
                                                                    @mgorny@social.treehouse.systems

                                                                    When someone wants to add an scraping tool into .

                                                                    Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…

                                                                    bugs.gentoo.org/974492

                                                                      [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                      @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                      [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                      [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                      @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                      [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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                                                                      [?]DigitalEscapeTools » 🌐
                                                                      @xabd@mastodon.social

                                                                      Reviewe Lumo 2.0 : Proton's privacy-focused AI assistant, to see how it compares with ChatGPT and Claude.

                                                                      The review covers its strengths, limitations, privacy claims, and whether it's ready for everyday use.

                                                                      Read the review: digitalescapetools.com/reviews

                                                                        muddle 🥣 boosted

                                                                        [?]Richard Littler » 🌐
                                                                        @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social

                                                                        New Swiss magazine with "Ohne KI" (No ) on the cover.
                                                                        Nice to see some publishers openly resisting.

                                                                        Aareluft magazine 'Ohne KI'

                                                                        Alt...Aareluft magazine 'Ohne KI'

                                                                          [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
                                                                          @negativepid@mastodon.social

                                                                          [?]Flipboard Tech Desk » 🌐
                                                                          @TechDesk@flipboard.social

                                                                          Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft and breach of contract. The accusations come as OpenAI is rumored to be developing its first hardware product, which would likely compete with the iPhone. Read more details from @Techcrunch:

                                                                          flip.it/c1FA7I

                                                                            [?]steve mookie kong » 🌐
                                                                            @mookie@weredreaming.com

                                                                            It’s all about context and context costs a lot of money.

                                                                            https://youtu.be/rXHhpafZcaI


                                                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                                              [?]jbz » 🌐
                                                                              @jbz@indieweb.social

                                                                              [?]PPC Land » 🌐
                                                                              @ppcland@mastodon.social

                                                                              Google adds How this ad was made AI labels 24 days before EU deadline: The panel covers Search, YouTube and Discover ads edited with generative AI tools, arriving weeks before EU rules force synthetic content disclosure globally. ppc.land/google-adds-how-this-

                                                                                [?]R.L. Dane :Debian: :FreeBSD: :OpenBSD: :NetBSD:🍵 :MiraLovesYou: [he/him/my good fellow] » 🌐
                                                                                @rl_dane@polymaths.social

                                                                                "The Shining" meme, AI polemic [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                I mean, yes, but so is an axe, you dink. So is a machete, so is a Tommy Gun, for that matter.

                                                                                #AI #AInt #NoAI #AVIF

                                                                                "The Shining" meme where the axe is labeled "It's just a tool" and Jack Nicholson is labeled as AI Sycophants

                                                                                Alt..."The Shining" meme where the axe is labeled "It's just a tool" and Jack Nicholson is labeled as AI Sycophants

                                                                                  [?]Negative PID SL » 🌐
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