Tech industry fears the fallout from the Musk-Trump rift, as some prominent tech right figures downplay its permanence; source: David Sacks was “shell-shocked”
Internet Calls It ‘Battle Of The Century’ Mikala Theocharous / 9News : Kanye West weighs in on Musk-Trump split Bluesky: Brian Merchant / @bcmerchant : Even if the Musk-Trump feud is permanent, he wil...
The Trump administration fired US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI models
stoking fears about deregulation of AI Committee on House Administration : Morelle's Statement on Abrupt Firing of Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights Dennis Crouch / Patently-O : Transformative ...
The GOP's Jim Jordan subpoenas Apple, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, and 10 others over alleged Biden pressure to use AI to “censor lawful speech”
Because the bullshit machine needs “woKe AI” and “TeCH cENsoRShIP” fantasies to keep the base distracted while they dismantle services and take away benefits. Renee DiResta / @noupside : Two years ago...
An OPM staffer believes that a server Elon Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not had a Privacy Impact Assessment
www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Tim Marchman / @timmarchman : NEW: A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a f...
Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill”
For reasons you can guess at, debanking has been the topic du jour in my Twitter feed. Tyler Durden / ZeroHedge News : FinTech CEOs Expose How Feds Colluded In ‘Debanking’ Schemes After Andreessen ‘Op...
X remains a popular destination for people highly engaged in politics, with DC insiders reluctantly buying blue checks and candidates paying for cheap ads
While former President Donald Trump was actively being convicted by a jury of his peers in New York City last week … Threads: @joanwestenberg , @joanwestenberg , @theromit , @moskov , @drewharwell , @...
Study of 100 popular Twitter accounts: two days after Twitter accepted Elon Musk's bid, conservatives gained 17,229 followers on average and liberals lost 6,062
that's nearly 25 times its daily average of +550 new followers. https://twitter.com/... Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D / @rvawonk : Lauren Boebert has gained more than 43,000 followers since yesterday — tha...
Analysis shows Facebook's role in spreading false US election narratives; 650,000+ posts questioned Biden's victory between Election Day and the January 6 siege
three weeks before the election — Facebook announced, through life-long Dem operative @AndyMStone — that it was suppressing discussion of reporting about the Biden family pending a 3rd-party fact-chec...
PE firm Apax Partners says it is merging three companies that make software for non-profits, EveryAction, Social Solutions, and CyberGrants, in a deal worth $2B
and it leads to scammy practices having a PE firm in charge seems next level bad https://twitter.com/... Matt Browner Hamlin / @mattkbh : Good to see private equity making big moves in the lucrative *...
Profile of the founders of Occupy Democrats, who run a Facebook page employing meme tactics for the left, regularly outperforming pages for Trump and Fox News
Occupy Democrats, a Facebook page that Rafael and Omar Rivero started eight years ago, has emerged as a counterweight to right-wing meme machines. Tweets: @ewerickson , @oliverdarcy , @kevinroose , an...