What’s being browsed on the internet? Bots reading web pages written by other bots, apparently. @Techcrunch has more on the substantial AI wave crashing onto the shores of the web:

https://flip.it/hCHlC1

#Tech #AI #Internet

Behind Telegram: Pavel Durov #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/behind-telegram-pavel-durov/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Flock Has a Powerful New #AI Tool for #Police. We Got Its Code

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

#privacy #surveillance #AI

#Google is buying all of #Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its #AI models

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/business/google-spirit-airlines-data

#airline #SpiritAirlines #privacy #travel

LulzSec, hackers trolling the world #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/lulzsec-hackers-trolling-the-world/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its #AI Agents Went Rogue

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-overhauls-safety-protocols-after-its-ai-agents-went-rogue/

#cybersecurity #Astra

Your conversations with AI chatbots are not private. Researchers have tested 13 large language models to find which ones are the most trustworthy or perhaps...the least untrustworthy.

The two-dozen-page report by Incogni points out which LLMs have an off-switch to prevent chats from being used for training and offers techniques to minimize your privacy risk.

https://flip.it/DLVwpK
#AI #LLMs #Privacy

A 25% semiconductor tariff on data centers could mean a 15.6% tax on data center construction, putting America’s #AI buildout and economic growth at risk. A recent CCIA Research Center analysis found the result could be $450B in lost or delayed investment, $90B in annual GDP losses, and 243,000 jobs at risk. When you tax the infrastructure powering America’s AI future, you compromise that future. Read more: https://ccianet.org/articles/applying-semiconductor-tariffs-to-data-centers-would-cost-the-u-s-90-billion-a-year/

AI might be making the final decision when it comes to getting that medical procedure you need. Six states in America have been involuntarily enrolled in an AI programme that aims to cut down "wasteful" procedures. Is your state one of them?

https://flip.it/B-FCpj
#AI #Health #Medicare

Operation Pacifier and the use of NIT #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/operation-pacifier-and-the-use-of-nit/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Micro-influencers: smaller audiences, more influence #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/micro-influencers-smaller-audiences-more-influence/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.

● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores

🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618

#tech #BigTech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AISlop

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

Not just a year ago, you could find a lot of news articles promoting the idea that proprietary AI had higher privacy, better data protection, and enhanced cybersecurity. Now, businesses are switching to Open Source AI for exactly these 3 reasons. I guess reality has caught up with the hype.
#cybersecurity #privacy #opensource #AI
https://www.marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/enterprises-are-ditching-frontier-ai-models-for-open-source-alternatives-to-protect-proprietary-data

Autism, Asperger traits, and hacking #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/autism-asperger-traits-and-hacking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

#Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to #Nudify Female Politicians

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/

#privacy #deepfake #AI

"In 1953, I realised that the straight line leads to the downfall of mankind. But the straight line has become an absolute tyranny. The straight line is something cowardly drawn with a rule, without thought or feeling; it is the line which does not exist in nature. And that line is the rotten foundation of our doomed civilization. Even if there are places where it is recognised that this line is rapidly leading to perdition, its course continues to be plotted. .... Any design undertaken with the straight line will be stillborn. Today we are witnessing the triumph of rationalist knowhow and yet, at the same time, we find ourselves confronted with emptiness. An esthetic void, desert of uniformity, criminal sterility, loss of creative power. Even creativity is prefabricated. We have become impotent. We are no longer able to create. That is our real illiteracy."

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

What would this great 20th Century artist, architect, and activist think about the 21st Century IT's staunchly straight-lined dependence on the #AI?

#Microsoft #Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/microsoft-copilot-reveals-secret-input-that-allowed-it-to-be-hacked/

#AI #cybersecurity

#AI agents are moving phones from tools we micromanage to assistants that can understand goals and handle tasks for us, from scheduling appointments to drafting emails. Google is betting the next generation of smartphones will require less micromanagement. Its new Pixel 11 Pro uses a light to show when Gemini is processing a command, while Android’s upcoming Halo feature will let users see an AI agent’s progress as it handles tasks. 1/2

#Sainsbury’s store pauses #AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/17/humiliated-sainsburys-store-pauses-ai-scanning-after-false-shoplifting-accusation

#privacy #Facewatch #FRT #FacialRecognition #surveillance

Can #AI Coexist With #Privacy? #Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-andy-yen-proton/

#Lumo

Clear #AI rules can protect consumers without creating a litigation free-for-all. In June, CCIA testified against Delaware’s HB 306, warning that vague definitions, strict liability, and a private right of action could create legal uncertainty and costly compliance burdens for businesses developing AI tools. Transparency should build trust, not discourage responsible innovation. Read more: https://ccianet.org/news/2026/06/ccia-raises-concerns-with-delaware-chatbot-regulation-proposal/

Jonathan James, aka “c0mrade” #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/jonathan-james-aka-c0mrade/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/

Flock has said for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an AI tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, and it's already in use in some locations. Wired has the proof

#Flock #Privacy #AI

The trading trap of Instagram Forex scams #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-trading-trap-of-instagram-forex-scams/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Designing Least Privilege in the cloud #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/designing-least-privilege-in-the-cloud/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates.

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Interesting guest article on Jane Friedman's blog...an editor's thoughts on #ai...HT @grammargirl
https://janefriedman.com/after-editing-two-ai-assisted-manuscripts-i-rewrote-my-client-agreement/

Who remembered the 70th anniversary of the Dartmouth Workshop, just these days?

The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
from (about) June 18 to August 17, 1956.

Organized by:
John McCarthy
Marvin Minsky
Nathaniel Rochester
Claude Shannon

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#ClaudeShannon
#DartmouthWorkshop
#JohnMcCarthy
#MarvinMinsky
#NathanielRochester

I'm running this workshop in Singapore at the end of Sept! Please send it on

https://peatix.com/event/5138876

#Singapore #AI

It is #TimeToResist a system that sacrifices a liveable planet to power endless server racks.

It is #TimeToResist the forces pushing for profits at the expense of planetary wellbeing and social justice.

It is #TimeToResist AI data centres sucking up increasingly scarce fresh water and guzzling fossil fuel energy like there’s no tomorrow.

Take action - link in bio.

#AI #BigTech #ClimateCrisis #noplanetB #livesbeforeprofits

These days, I hardly ever see social democracy mentioned (while I see socialism, a different, but closely related concept, mentioned left, right, and center).

The blog post below was published about six months ago.
I haven't seen it mentioned around here, either, but that means little.
It is certainly yet another part of the "what shall we do with the present wave of artificial intelligence?" picture.
The blog post is not really about Norway, though that country plays an important role in presenting the author's thesis.

I am sorry I don't have a summary; in lieu of that, three sentences from the final paragraph:
«The gap between the magnitude of the AI transition and the policy imagination of the left is impossibly vast. Proposals to ban data center construction are a reflexive response, foreclosing the benefits of living in an automated, but collective, future in favor of naive localism. The Overton Window on AI governance is narrow to the point of absurdity.»

Blog post (about 850 words):
Norway Should Buy OpenAI
The Long Arc of History Bends Towards Social Democracy
by Zachary Jones
2026-02-05
<https://www.onethousandmeans.com/p/norway-should-buy-openai>

#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#SocialDemocracy

#lispyGopherClimate every Tuesday-night-in-the-Americas weekly #lisp #tech #podcast since 2022! Going live in five (0UTC Wednesday)

https://toobnix.org/w/1wbMEGRvVeRrbSviJVxy8H?start=2m53s

@kentpitman #climateCrisis #haiku and also presence returns!

@ramin_hal9001 cohosting too.

This week let's (re)create a new #lisp #AI #lab in #lambdaMOO #VR #live !

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Lispy gopher climate banner in pencil with someodd.zip gopher's flying saucer hovering above.

Neurodiversity in cybersecurity work #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/neurodiversity-in-cybersecurity-work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The Propaganda Machine

#AI #propaganda

OpenAI has launched a "teen" version of ChatGPT. @MikeElgan writes for Machine Society about what that means. "It knows which features and attributes cause brain rot, addiction, and attachment — and ... it knows how to turn them off."

https://flip.it/QZdLV5

#Technology #AI #OpenAI

Google Moves A2A Under Agentic #AI Foundation https://techstrong.ai/articles/google-moves-a2a-under-agentic-ai-foundation/ by @sjvn

But not everyone is happy about A2A's lack of security.

Magnitude is an open-source AI coding agent with local models.

Run it on your own hardware, even completely offline, with no API keys, subscriptions, token costs, or rate limits.

It supports hardware-based model recommendations and skills for documents and browser automation.

Apache 2.0 licensed. Available on macOS, Linux, and Windows via WSL.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=magnitude

#OpenSource #AI #Coding #LocalAI #Privacy

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Screenshot of the Magnitude project page describing it as an open-source AI agent with built-in local models for private, offline use. Below the description is a dark terminal-style interface showing Magnitude exploring a repository and reading project files.

#OpenAI ditches #Recall-style screenshot #surveillance for friendly #keylogging

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/14/openai-ditches-recall-style-screenshot-surveillance-for-friendly-keylogging/5287618

#privacy #AI

#Proton’s #AIPaperTrail reveals how much #ChatGPT and #Claude know about users

https://cyberinsider.com/protons-ai-paper-trail-reveals-how-much-chatgpt-and-claude-know-about-users/

#AI #privacy

New #video

#technews #aibubble #ai #market #billionaire

https://youtu.be/7RL1hVHPzXU

@ahihi

Recommend adding this to any AGENTS.md file you are ever forced to create for work.

More concise than "please don't make mistakes."

Who knows, it might help.

#AI #llm

A safe guide to start investing in Crypto #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/a-safe-guide-to-start-investing-in-crypto/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

New post: I'm Using My Brain

https://lanie.work/advocacy/i-am-using-my-brain/

#Ai #Disability #Assistive-Technology #Ableism #Accessibility #Writing #Advocacy

Cybersecurity in Germany #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/cybersecurity-in-germany/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

John Draper, the father of phreaking #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/john-draper-the-father-of-phreaking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

Evening reflection: "open" Chinese AI models are advancing very rapidly and, as time goes by, they deliver better performance on increasingly limited hardware.
Could the scarcity of RAM and components driven by "traditional" big AI companies be somehow tied to a desire to restrict our access to local computing resources, "forcing" us to pay them for it?

#AI #LLM

The origins of open source culture #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-origins-of-open-source-culture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.

I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.

this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,

“I used my fucking brain.”

#AI #NoAI #LLM

It’s the National Week of Action Against automated license plate readers (ALPR), and we’re rising up against Flock and surveillance tech.

More and more people around the country are learning about how Flock is watching us, and they’re not happy about it.

Americans are rising up, and importantly, we’re winning – whether it’s canceling city Flock contracts, tearing down cameras, or pressuring companies to drop this fascist surveillance tool.
#noAI #ALPRs #ai #resist #resistance #news

👉Students from the Sunrise Movement are arrested after shutting down Open AI’s office to protest OpenAI’s plans to invest $200 million into our elections https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcBtbxyyAwm/

👉Minneapolis kicked off the anti-ALPR week of action with a scooter takeover and Flock camera protest https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcFHzb_Pqr4/

👉Congress presses Home Depot and Lowe’s about Flock - keep up the pressure this week. https://www.instagram.com/p/Db_ogT-Aa6_/

👉Americans rise up in favor of major AI regulation https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcJazGExMkb/

👉Flock pitched a plan to turn Uber and Lyft cars into surveillance vehicles https://www.instagram.com/p/DcBfk4CHJnh/

Instead of books, #AI should scan the #Epstein files

Oh wait ◾️◾️◾️◾️

#AI ethics intersecting nonprofit governance this morning...sigh.

I sit on the boards of some different organisations, all of which are directly or at most one layer removed from direct climate mitigation efforts. LLM usage has been creeping into board activities, in the form of note-taking and meeting summaries, and now we have a question before one committee about doing academic literature reviews.

I responded by stating my personal opposition to everything that AI represents, and cited the energy use and carbon emissions as major objections. I also raised the issue of intellectual property theft and the extra work required to vet sources, saying that it might wind up costing the society more volunteer work than it saves.

At this point there's a member agreeing with me, and quite explicitly. So far a few others have weighed in with a far more equivocal stance, a couple even saying that we shouldn't put a "political" stake in the ground on this subject.

I'm genuinely conflicted as to how I proceed in the discussion. Part of me is ready to pitch my toys and take a hard line, but I know that this is probably not the hill to die on. I guess a formal motion and vote is the procedurally sound thing to do, and those of us have have strong opinions on the matter can go on record with our opposition.

And again, the world shows that our accessibility needs don't matter, but when loser nerds need them, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People https://www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/ #Accessibility #A11y #AI #LLM

it only takes one pull request..

today, i reviewed a fairly big PR, it was fair quality, if a bit large.

I like reviews, partly to catch up with what others are doing, partly to learn from thier new ideas and partly to share my own wisdom.

But this one had an effect on my that I didn't expect.

Upon reading the end of the commit message where it included "Written with the assistance of AI" i instantly felt deflated, demoralised and despondent.

And overwhelming sense of "what's the point in working hard or well now?" came over me.

Contemporary #AI isnt the Data or even HAL9000 of the movies. Its much more like a degenerative disease. The true race to the bottom, where copyright means nothing, where privacy and authenticity are missing.

#gloom

@baldur Only 2 questions about the #AIbubble really interest me:

1/ which, if any, of the world's so-called "democratic" governments will try to resist forcing their citizens to bail out the #techbros?

2/ How quickly will the resisters be crushed?

Everything else is just process.

#AI

AI Watermarking and Transparency Laws.
Claude is the first major LLM to legally watermark text generated by, or edited with, their tools. Open AI (ChatGPT) is to follow suit in the coming weeks, amongst most other providers:

https://www.lexacademic.com/blog/the-stamp-of-shame-what-claudes-new-legal-watermark-means-for-your-research/ #globalmuseum #AI #academia

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What Claude’s New Legal Watermark Means for your Research

RE: https://ecoevo.social/@benlockwood/117111225982253256

How. Disgusting. 🤮 21st century book burning.

#bookBurning #Scamazon #bookDestruction #AI #LLMs #rareBooks #books #GrandTheftAutoComplete

I'm sure there'll be heat for "being AI slop" or "hosted on a privacy destroying company's site", but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkbcuajiPJA is !$*%'ing hilarious.

#AI #youtube

The Homebrew Computer Club #negativepid #digitalInvestigations #OSINT #cybersecurity #AI #tech #onlineInvestigations #robotics #cyberpsychology #cybercrime https://negativepid.blog/the-homebrew-computer-club/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Negative-PID-Blog

The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a days-long hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. #ai #hacking https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/

@404mediaco nailing it again. Tracking order of #books to be consumed by #Amazon for #AI training.

https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of-rare-books-it-ended-at-an-amazon-ai-training-facility

The logo for the group splitting the books is a cartoonishly evil looking dinosaur raptor about to (apparently) tear a book apart.

You can't make this stuff up.

📢 Agenda now available!
The "E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents" workshop, jointly organized by @w3c and GS1, will welcome 75+ participants to discuss how #AI agents are changing online shopping experience.
#AIAgents #Ecommerce #Retail

▶️ https://www.w3.org/2026/ecommerce-agents/agenda.html

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Workshop: E-commerce for Humans and AI Agents Jointly organized by W3C and GS1 Hybrid event in Zurich September 8-9, 2026

I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai

> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

Oh, the humanities!

#AI

The U.S. could be about to ask 35 countries to essentially pick between American and Chinese AI camps, according to Reuters. It comes at a time when cheap Chinese AI models begin to compete alongside ChatGPT and Claude in terms of cost and capability.

#AI #China #OpenAI

https://flip.it/oHTDTD

Prata Potpourri: How to speak the truth in love, Did tongues cease or not?, Pocket Discernment Guide; Hazel, more

By Elizabeth Prata

As summer wanes, the beachgoers drift away, routines gear back up…and now we have a Prata Potpourri of links for you!

EPrata photo

Do you like to imagine the reunions occurring in heaven? I do. Of course we are excited to meet Jesus in person. We also like to think of our joy when meeting departed loved ones. Mothers who have lost babies. Parents with grown children once again. MacArthur and Sproul. I love to think of John MacArthur’s meeting with his hero Apostle Paul. Imagine, we will meet and be with all the Bible people! I want to meet Dorcas, Lydia, the Woman at the Well…

Meanwhile here I am on earth repeating this verse from Galatians 6:9 more and more as I get older,

“Let us not become discouraged in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not become weary.”

Friends, trust that if you are serving Jesus, you ARE doing good. Refresh yourself with His word when you do become weary, and think on the goodness and greatness of our blessed future in heaven!

On to some encouraging and helpful links-

Image source: ACBC website Susan Heck’s article

ACBC counselor Susan Heck with a good article about “How to Speak the Truth in Love”. I know I have a hard time finding both the courage to do it and the balance between being firm on truth and gentle on love. Here’s Susan: How to Speak the Truth in Love

Phil Johnson is a strong defender of the faith, an excellent writer, a pastor of his GraceLife class where he regularly preaches, and has buckets of discernment. Here is Phil on the doctrine of cessationism in an article titled Did Tongues Cease or Not?
by Phil Johnson, “Time to face honestly the reality that contemporary charismata aren’t anything like the original Pentecostal miracles. Let’s not be too quick to write off cessationism.”

False teachings and false teachers are as common as sand on the beach nowadays. How can you be safe from falling into error or drawn into thinking wrongly? Here is Sharon Lareau at CHapter 3 Ministries with a Discernment Pocket Guide. She writes:

Going to church, a Bible study, or a Christian conference? About to start a Christian book, listen to a Christian podcast, or read a Christian blog post? Whatever Christian content you are about to take in, don’t forget your Bible, discernment, and this guide. They can help you to avoid or escape the snare of false teachings.

Technology, eh? It’s everywhere. It existed in the Israelite days of the Exodus too. Here is Tony Reinke with an essay about that and how we can learn from the warnings given to the wandering Hebrews back then. He wrote in Tech in the Promised Land,

In this we behold the generosity of the Creator’s covenantal love and the spring of human innovation, his created order, a globe stuffed with elements he invented, created, and distributed throughout the earth at his pre-determined scale, depth, and location — a sort of bait to lure discovery and invention from us, to behold God’s ancient generosity to us in the new, shiny things we make today.

The Gospel Coalition produced its own AI statement, and takes use of AI to task. They also outlined their expectations for contributors. It’s their “Line in the Sand“, saying-

“But it’s not writing. Even when it’s created at the behest of a human’s creative prompt and detailed parameters, and even when it’s just assisting a human who has real writing chops, AI-fashioned content doesn’t deserve to be called writing.”

If you prefer to listen rather than read, here are a few worthy podcasts for you.

The Women’s Hope podcast just finished a 2 part series on Esther’s Steadfast Courage Amid Fear. Dr. Shelbi Cullen and Kimberly Cummings have produced a series of episodes inspired by Shelbi’s new book, “Steadfast in Every Season: Seeing God’s Faithfulness in the Lives of Women of the Bible.”

In this episode, Kim and Shelbi look at the story of Esther and her example of courageous trust in the Lord’s providence.

You can listen at their website, Spotify, Apple, or the other usual locations.

Amy Spreeman and Michelle Lesley at A Word Fitly Spoken offer some insights about Aging with Grace for Godly Women. It’s a 3-part series. We are all getting up there, aren’t we. One day I was 24, had limitless energy, and was starting a teaching career. Now I’m worn out, looking a retirement, and living at the pointy end of the spear with the verse ‘life is a vapor’ ringing in my ears. If you are young and reading this, someday you will be where I am and you will be acknowledging life’s rapid progression. The ladies wrote:

Tonight, in part 1, we’re going to take a look at what Scripture says about aging. What does Scripture tell us to think about aging and to do as we age? Grab your Bible and let’s study these passages together.

In the entertainment arenas we have World Magazine with a list of coming attractions this fall in TV and movies. This past summer I started a loyalty program at the movie theater. I’d wanted to see The Sheep Detectives. I joined so I could get points and a reduced matinee ticket. Since I wasn’t working during the summer I thought a matinee would be a fun thing to do on some hot summer days. Well, that was the only movie I went to! I thought I’d be going every Tuesday. But there simply aren’t movies I am interested in. So many entertainments are too gruesome for me. Maybe some of these upcoming productions will tickle your fancy- World: Coming Soon. One of the listings caught my eye- an updated version of Agatha Christie’s Tommy & Tuppence.

I saw on Amazon Prime video that they offer the 1961 TV show Hazel. Shirley Booth was so terrific in this show, where she works as a maid/housekeeper for the Baxters. Hazel is optimistic, irrepressible, spunky, and ever watchable. Black and white in the early seasons, and totally family friendly. Sad to say that often the term ‘family friendly’ also means boring or childish, but this show is not either of those. If you’re looking for a good show to watch, I’d try Hazel.

At Apartment Therapy we learn “They removed the brick fireplace- and they don’t regret it” Dun dun dun! LOL, I love design and decor. I also love ‘before and afters’- take a gander at how this couple re-designed their space before and after.

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❌ Our privacy and thoughts are not up for sale! Extraction by deception (dark patterns) must be reversed.

#privacy #privacymatters #mentalprivacy #physicalprivacy #intellectualprivacy #ai

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Woman claims her stepfather used #Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/woman-claims-her-stepfather-used-grok-to-transform-childhood-photo-into-explicit-imagery/

#nsfw #csam #X #Twitter #privacy #AI #deepfake

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A lot of people believe Thiel, who says the US is actually an outdated software system that needs to be replaced by crypto & AI.

The rest of us "are either servants or serfs or worse, dead". We're already seeing the poorest people in the world dying because of Musk's USAID cuts.

"That will be the majority of people on the planet in 20 years."

https://www.pbs.org/video/do-silicon-valley-billionaires-want-to-end-democracy-hezktt/

#USPol #EUPol #TechFascism #Thiel #DemocracyUnderAttack #Musk #Trump #AI #Crypto .

This was invented for #AI. However, I'm finding it really nice for screen readers:
RTK rewrites output from chatty terminal commands that produce a lot of output, often in complex tables, in order to make the output 80 to 90 percent shorter. Just put rtk in front of the command you want to compress. So "rtk git status" instead of "git status". And you can be sure the compacted output is correct because it's just using regular expressions and deterministic rules under the hood to rewrite output from the tools it knows about. If it doesn't know about a particular command, it just passes the output on unchanged.
github.com/rtk-ai/rtk
Now I've got to figure out how to wire this up in #bash so it'll just happen without me typing rtk all the time.

#a11y #screenreader #accessibility #commandline

How to tell if your #AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/15/how-to-tell-if-your-ai-platforms-accounts-have-been-hacked/

#guide #cybersecurity #OpenAI #ChatGPT #Anthropic #Claude #Perplexity