Former U.S. President Bill Clinton believed the internet would spread democracy throughout the world. Instead, it’s enabled authoritarians to organize and distribute disinformation campaigns to destabilize governments across the globe, while restricting their own people from being able to access information. It’s an asymmetric advantage that allows authoritarians to control narratives abroad.
[#]politics #china #internet #SocialMedia #EU
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That’s another $25M from Meta to Trump. Time to break out your checkbooks, execs.
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/meta-will-pay-25-million-to-settle-a-lawsuit-with-donald-trump-over-his-2021-facebook-suspension-234046291.html
[#]Meta #Trump #politics #USpol
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The breakup of OpenAI and Microsoft continues. There’s no need to provide OpenAI billions of dollars to train LLMs when it can be an agnostic provider. And there’s the question if any of these AIs will be meaningfully differentiated in the future.
https://www.theverge.com/news/602162/microsoft-deepseek-r1-model-azure-ai-foundry-github
[#]OpenAI #Microsoft
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Not to take the wind from any news outlet’s sails for reporting the hypocrisy of OpenAI’s saying it was wrong for DeepSeek to train its AI using OpenAI’s work, while being okay for OpenAI to train its AI using everyone else’s work. Have you ever noticed how frequently these same outlets reference original reporting in their stories while never linking to the original reporting so they can keep visitors on their own sites instead? Same habit. Different scale.
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Greenland is looking more like Ukraine every day, wanting or needing to join the EU for protection against a foreign aggressor intent on owning it. In this case, the aggressor is the United States.
[#]EU #politics #greenland
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There’s no evidence that DeepSeek achieved its breakthrough by circumventing the U.S. chip ban. DeepSeek’s innovation is likely owned to it. Instead of just buying more chips for model training, they optimized for the chips they had. There’s no ban that can stop software. Also (credit @kevinrothrock for the observation), this will be great for the environment. AI companies can train LLMs with a lot less electricity. Learn from it, and move on.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/28/deepseek-ai-national-security-trump
[#]AI #politics #DeepSeek
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Robots.txt is a declaration that website owners use to articulate terms of service to crawlers and #AI scrapers, the latter of which use content to train LLMs. AI scrapers routinely ignore Robots.txt and advertise fake user agents to circumvent a website owner’s intent and prevent discovery. It’s cynical that #OpenAI called out #DeepSeek for doing the same. If your site has differentiated knowledge and depends on visitor relationships, block AI scrapers with #Cloudflare.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113908061814101292
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OpenAI believes DeepDeek may have trained its model using distillation from OpenAI’s model. This would have violated OpenAI’s terms of service, but it’s also unstoppable. OpenAI would need to disable its API, and DeepSeek could still do it. Models can train other models.
https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
[#]AI #DeepSeek #OpenAI
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X will finally launch its payment service after losing millions of users and most of its advertisers. Just when you thought the world didn’t need a partisan payment processor, here it is. Who’s going to run back to Twitter to trust Musk with your money?
https://www.theverge.com/news/599137/x-money-payments-service-2025-launch
[#]X #Twitter #Musk
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Proton’s the latest tech company to [metaphorically] join the Republican Party. CEO Yen argues a point similar to Andreessen, that Dems support big tech and Republicans (JD Vance) support little tech. Big tech felt betrayed by Dems, and it so did little tech. Yen might be hoping for antitrust action. Vance spoke well of Line Khan’s FTC, but she’s gone with along Yen’s chances for antitrust action. Every apolitical tech company is political now.
[#]trump #politics #TechTalk
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-trump-republicans/
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DeepSeek is sending Silicon Valley into a panic. The China-developed LLM performs as well as OpenAI’s GPT-1o and cost a fraction of the cost to train, under $6M for DeepSeek compared to $80 - $100M for GPT-1o. The US contrained China’s access to chips, and DeepSeek innovated a win. This seems like a pivotal moment for driving down costs, which may mean trouble for Nvidia.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/deepseek-ai-model-china-openai-rival
[#]AI #openAI #DeepSeek #Nvidia
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We just had an earthquake in NH. It was loud. Stuff fell off shelves. Not damage though. Note to self; cats do not like earthquakes.
[#]earthquake #NH
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The a Cybertruck is a both symbol of excess and a political badge. Unlike other Tesla models, it was launched after Musk became a hard-right avatar for conservatives and Nazis. The owner wants people to understand that she bought it for its utility. Instead, her Cybertruck is so polarizing that people are making judgments about her character, and feel strongly enough to let her know. Not exactly a selling point for Tesla.
https://apple.news/AL50qy33CSa2fxRbBskLU0Q
[#]tesla #musk #politics #USpol
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After twice giving what definitely wasn’t a Nazi salute, then following up with a series of Nazi puns on X, Musk spoke to a far-right German AfD audience with Nazi ties to say, “It’s good to be proud of German culture, German values, and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything.” Given Musk’s U.S. Government role and White House office, it’s fair to argue that the U.S. is interfering in EU elections on behalf of AfD nationalists.
[#]Musk #EU
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Threads is getting ads. Zuckerberg previously said, “Our approach will be the same as all our other products: make the product work well first, then see if we can get it on a clear path to 1 billion people, and only then think about monetization at that point.” Since then, he may have realized that his Trump pander-fest made that target impossible. Twitter refugees started accruing to Bluesky instead.
[#]threads #trump #meta #BlueSky
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98% of Costco shareholders voted against a proposal to end its DEI initiatives, “The fact that 98% of investors voted against the proposal shows that almost all investors are not buying what the anti-ESG and anti-DEI organizations are selling.” Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan did the same. There’s been lots of press about companies jumping to appease the Trump admin. It’s not everyone. Companies like Costco and JPMorgan will have access to more top talent.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/costco-dei-shareholders-reject-anti-diversity-proposal
[#]trump #DEI
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The ADL updated its opinion on Musk, after it labeled his “Roman salute” an awkward gesture, which by pure coincidence was made infamous by Nazis. Today, presumably to certify his innocence, Musk took to Twitter with a series of Nazi puns. Sometimes it’s okay to believe your own eyes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/01/23/can-trump-end-birthright-citizenship-what-to-know-after-judge-blocks-executive-order/
[#]politics #USPolitics #USpol #Musk
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The government took down ReproductiveRights.gov, so I got the last snapshot from the Internet Archive and gave it a new home on the web. I still have some content for individual states to add.
https://reproductiverights.health/
[#]politics #abortion #AbortionRights #trump
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The US auto and solar industries will be among the casualties of Trump’s trade war with our allies in Canada and the EU. Both can be obtained more cheaply from China, thanks to subsidies and overproduction. The US will push them there when we level their economies with 25% tariffs. Auto will be a harder needle to thread for the EU, which has its own auto industry. Canada has no such constraints.
[#]EU #politics #USPolitics #USpol
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TikTok remains unavailable in the US’s Apple and Google app stores. TikTok chose to shut itself down. The law only stipulated that app stores needed to remove it, which they did. It’s still removed. Trump’s executive order meant precisely nothing. If it had any legal merit, Apple and Google would re-list the app.
[#]TikTok #trump #tech #apple #google
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