NEW! 'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet,' recorded off a German radio station on a cassette in the 1980s, has finally been identified
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'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet' Has Finally Been Identified
The mystery, which dates back to the 1980s, has finally been solved. The song is Fex—Subways of Your Mind.
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Exciting news: Mark Zuckerberg confirms AI spam is part of the strategy, more is coming, and Instagram & FB will become even less about your friends and who you interact with and more about shoving AI slop into every corner of every product
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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."
An artist has been documenting her transition every week on Instagram for more than a year to determine exactly when Meta's content moderation algorithm / operation detects her nipple as "female" and deletes it:
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When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female?
By documenting her transition every week on Instagram this artist shows the absurdity in how Instagram and AI classify gender and the human body.
Years after Microsoft said it was killing its "gender detection" facial recognition AI, which has been shown over and over again to be inaccurate and weaponized against trans people, it turns out that, actually, it was still available and being used:
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Microsoft Provided Gender Detection AI on Accident
Microsoft said it would retire its AI-powered gender classifier in 2022. Now it says some users still had access to it because of an error.
I don't know how to easily sum this one up for social media but the Washington Post was very important to my family and to me, and now it's not.  The people at the Washington Post do good work in spite of, not because of Jeff Bezos & WaPo leadership
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The Billionaire Is the Threat, Not the Solution
Jeff Bezos is not the answer at The Washington Post. And billionaire funding is not the answer for journalism.
what could go wrong:
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Why the US General In Charge of Nuclear Weapons Said He Needs AI
Air Force General Anthony J. Cotton said that the US is developing AI tools to help leaders respond to ‘time sensitive scenarios.’
New: A leaked training presentation from a NY's largest hospital system shows how doctors are being encouraged to use AI for everything from writing emails to summarizing clinical evaluations to "diagnosing pancreatic cancer" and "parse" health records
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Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI
At Northwell Health, executives are encouraging clinicians and all 85,000 employees to use a tool called AI Hub, according to a presentation obtain...
The movie Twister—and ONLY the movie Twister—is unrentable from remaining Redbox machines and no one knows why even after weeks of people reverse-engineering the kiosks. Twister is Redbox's last DVD. If you know why this is happening, please tell me
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Redbox's Last DVD: 'Twister' Is Unrentable in Remaining Redbox Kiosks and No One Knows Why
Twister was one of the first DVDs ever released. Now it's stuck in still-functioning Redbox machines.
An encrypted messaging app based in Australia is leaving the country after police pressured an employee. Possible additional fallout from Telegram situation:
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Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
After federal police came to an employee’s house to ask questions, encrypted messaging company Session has decided to leave Australia and switch ...
Amazon argues that it has a First Amendment right to union bust, and claims requiring it to post NLRB posters about workers' rights & host trainings about workers rights in response to labor law violations violates its free speech rights
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Amazon Says It Has a First Amendment Right to Union Bust
In response to an NLRB complaint, Amazon argues that preventing it from holding captive-audience meetings violates the U.S. Constitution.
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