The US is using #AI targeting in its attacks on Iran.
In unconnected news: In the last few days I've uploaded a batch of photos of streets/buildings in 1960-61 Manchester in search of their sources, and AI's unsolicited assistance has proven to be 100% wrong about location/date.
In the example below, AI was almost 200 miles and half a decade out.
So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)
You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?
Yeah, that Persona.
Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...
...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...
...or be fired.
The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains
- stock go up
There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting.
In case you missed it, @emilymbender and @alex from DAIR had a discussion with Naomi Klein, and they've published this on PeerTube at:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/tJgaVZmiGwBb91CUZH84cj
This conversation was a few weeks ago before the current US attacks on Iran, but has become even more relevant due to the war.
(DAIR is a research institute that is very sceptical about AI hype, and trying to raise the alarm about the damage being done to the world.)
Anthropic's models have been down most of the Monday. I wonder if that has anything to do with the recent events.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/28/openai-us-military-anthropic
Anthropic's models have been down most of the Monday. I wonder if that has anything to do with the recent events.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/28/openai-us-military-anthropic
Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.
#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.
#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.
Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.
In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/calm-culture-to-ensure-best-outcomes-to-ai-disruption/831
The claim "you won't be replaced by AI, but by a person using AI" is nonsense. The Block layoff victims were some of the most productive, #llm pilled people in the company, but it didn't save them, because that's not what layoffs are about.
The layoff script goes, as always:
- overhire
- lay everyone off
- pretend it's because of #AI productivity gains
- stock go up
There is no individual solution that will protect you from bad leadership and cost cutting.
In case you missed it, @emilymbender and @alex from DAIR had a discussion with Naomi Klein, and they've published this on PeerTube at:
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/tJgaVZmiGwBb91CUZH84cj
This conversation was a few weeks ago before the current US attacks on Iran, but has become even more relevant due to the war.
(DAIR is a research institute that is very sceptical about AI hype, and trying to raise the alarm about the damage being done to the world.)
Whatever we think of #AI / #LLM mad hype cycle, we have to deal with its rushed and inhumane dumping of the technology into global human society.
#CALMculture is a strategic approach to that allows activist voices to have the most impact in dealing with the dangers of disruptive technology introductions, and focuses beyond berating people and demanding sacrifice ("don't use, or else.."), to creating a process that helps win people over and work together on best outcomes and in direction of solutions.
#CALM stands for Constructive activism-led movements, such as Social coding commons. Coding is social, and #SocialCoding the holistic approach to ensure that.
Social coding commons evolves Social experience design or #SX, solution development for grassroots movements, supported by the #SocialWeb.
In the thread below I copied a post to #Gleam's community with a suggestion to ponder about best outcomes from current and ongoing AI disruption, and deal with risks.
https://discuss.coding.social/t/calm-culture-to-ensure-best-outcomes-to-ai-disruption/831
Hmmm..... Jeff Bezos is seeking funding for his new venture Project Prometheus which will be looking to buy up companies where disruption by AI has caused a collapse in their share price.... before then deploying AI to reinvigorate them (and by implication then sell them on).
On one level its an interesting bet on the *real* potential of AI to transform industries... on another it *does* look a little like the vulture-fund playbook from sovereign debt markets?
#JeffBezos #AI #business
h/t FT
This clearly demonstrates how even designers and user experience specialists are now beginning to recognise that something is happening that will fundamentally change the way they work. In my circle, most designers do believe that things will continue as they have done up to now, but I no longer believe this. It will be challenging and painful. Let us take matters into our own hands and shape the future.
"Friday afternoon, Anthropic learned that the Pentagon still wanted to use the company’s AI to analyze bulk data collected from Americans.
That could include information such as the questions you ask your favorite chatbot, your Google search history, your GPS-tracked movements, and your credit-card transactions, all of which could be cross-referenced with other details about your life."
I built a programming language you're not supposed to read, https://veralang.dev. Vera is designed for machines to write. No variable names — typed De Bruijn indices instead. No style choices. Every function contract verified by Z3 SMT solver. Compiler errors are fix instructions for the model, not diagnostics for you. Pure by default, all effects explicitly declared and tracked. Point a model at it. #AI #LLM #OpenSource #Agent
https://negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/28/a-language-designed-for-machines-to-write/
