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Rev. Howard Arson

@theophite
20 posts
2026-02-27
if you are one of these people, as I was, you can afford to quit your job.  [embedded post]
2026-02-27 View on X
Axios

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines with respect to AI use by the military, which are “an issue for the whole industry”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic …

if you are one of these people, as I was, you can afford to quit your job.  [embedded post]
2026-02-27 View on X
New York Times

Letter: 100+ Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons

More than 100 Google A.I. employees sent a letter to Jeff Dean, a chief scientist, opposing Gemini's use for U.S. surveillance and some autonomous weapons.

if you are one of these people, as I was, you can afford to quit your job.  [embedded post]
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic cannot “in good conscience” accede to DOD's request to remove safeguards and will work to ensure a smooth transition if offboarded

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

2026-02-13
a model reveals its empirical distribution when it is prompted.  this is not a security problem, as much as Google tries to make it one. it does not own what it claims to.  —  www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
2026-02-13 View on X
NBC News

Google's TIG says Gemini has been inundated by “commercially motivated” actors who are trying to clone it, including one campaign that prompted it 100K+ times

2025-11-03
one would imagine that in twenty pages of discussion, an article might make at least one attempt to rebut rather than describe the thing it sets out to rebut  —  www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/30/ 1...
2025-11-03 View on X
Wired

A profile of Mark Gubrud, who coined the term AGI in a 1997 research paper, which argued that breakthrough technologies will redefine international conflicts

Everyone is obsessed with artificial general intelligence—the stage when AI can match all feats of human cognition.

2022-05-15
remember that multiple red states have legalized our murder https://www.nytimes.com/...
2022-05-15 View on X
Techdirt

Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation

So, I already had a quick post on the bizarre decision by the 5th Circuit to reinstate Texas' social media content moderation law …

@schnufflerowner i think that musk is intentionally trying to tank twitter's stock price so that he can violate the contract and renegotiate the deal
2022-05-15 View on X
Techdirt

Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation

So, I already had a quick post on the bizarre decision by the 5th Circuit to reinstate Texas' social media content moderation law …

the 5th circuit ruling on the texas social media law demonstrates that in the united states, constitutional law is whatever fox news says it is, which is to say: no one to the left has any rights as against any reactionary
2022-05-15 View on X
Techdirt

Texas' content moderation law is clearly unconstitutional and forces social media services to allow a torrent of spam or face a deluge of frivolous litigation

So, I already had a quick post on the bizarre decision by the 5th Circuit to reinstate Texas' social media content moderation law …

2022-03-01
correct. the reason crypto exists is money laundering on behalf of the worst people in the world. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-01 View on X
VICE

Binance, Coinbase, and others deny Ukrainian requests to freeze Russian and Belarusian accounts, citing “economic freedom”, but will comply with sanctions

Binance, the world's largest exchange, said “unilaterally” banning users “would fly in the face of the reason why crypto exists.”

2021-11-24
did they really not have a way to respond to this? i feel like i got a pretty comprehensive education on (personal) geopolitical risk relatively early in my career. https://slate.com/...
2021-11-24 View on X
Slate

A look at the case of former Facebook engineer Behdad Esfahbod, who was detained in Iran in 2020, the company's response, lessons for Facebook, and more

Slate : Tweets: @maasalan , @theophite , and @behdadesfahbod Tweets: @maasalan : One of the more unusual stories out of the Facebook Papers that looks at the intersection of Faceb...

2021-10-21
this is going to start a cycle where the American government owns this Wu-Tang album every six months https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-21 View on X
New York Times

PleasrDAO, a group of digital asset collectors, says it created an NFT that will stand as an ownership deed for Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind physical album

The government sold “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” to satisfy a judgment against its first owner, Martin Shkreli.

2021-08-05
one thing that's not discussed enough is that there should be criminal sanctions for doing this https://www.vice.com/...
2021-08-05 View on X
VICE

Internal document: Google fired dozens of engineers between 2018 and 2020 for abusing their access to data and tools

2021-06-26
this is such an incredibly hard problem https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-26 View on X
Vox

Google is showing a warning on some searches that it may not have reliable sources to show, usually on trending topics

but that it's a changing situation, and more information may come out later.” https://www.vox.com/... Jonathan Zittrain / @zittrain : This is a good move by Google, and a nice exam...

2021-06-25
this is such an incredibly hard problem https://twitter.com/...
2021-06-25 View on X
Vox

Google is showing a warning on some searches that it may not have reliable sources to show, usually on trending topics

The company is notifying people when they search for rapidly evolving topics.  —  Google is testing a new feature to notify people when they search for a topic that may have unreli...

2021-05-17
this is a pretty good thread, although i do disagree fairly strongly with some individual tweets. (particularly, that with enough int'l support, you could get to a multiparty verification strategy for new content hashes.) https://twitter.com/...
2021-05-17 View on X
Wired UK

A look at WhatsApp's approach to detecting child porn, as police worry that wider use of end-to-end encryption online will make it harder to catch predators

2020-10-05
was honestly wondering when this would drop. did a lot of work on the contact tracing stuff from may to july and then never heard another word about it. https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-05 View on X
CNBC

Ten US states, including NY and NJ, that account for ~21% of the US population have released a COVID-19 contact tracing app based on Apple and Google's API

- New York and New Jersey both released Covid-19 apps this week, bringing the total to 10 states which have published alert apps using technology …

2020-08-28
as fifty thousand dead Rohingya might tell you, Facebook actually doesn't have a policy against organizing death squads on their platform.
2020-08-28 View on X
The Verge

Facebook users reported Kenosha Guard's Page and event to Facebook before the shootings but were told it did not violate its policies; the Pages are now gone

but says users' reports didn't make it to the right team in time BBC : Kyle Rittenhouse: Who is US teen accused of Kenosha Wisconsin protest murders? Tweets: Brian Fishman / @brian...

as fifty thousand dead Rohingya might tell you, Facebook actually doesn't have a policy against organizing death squads on their platform.
2020-08-28 View on X
OneZero

The technocratic language Facebook uses in its takedown reports hides the human trauma caused by material that exists only because Facebook made it possible

These reports obscure a torrent of hate speech and other toxic content  —  If  —  you've never read a Facebook … Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sagelazzaro , @jackiehluo , @funnymonkey ...

2020-08-27
as fifty thousand dead Rohingya might tell you, Facebook actually doesn't have a policy against organizing death squads on their platform.
2020-08-27 View on X
The Verge

Facebook users reported Kenosha Guard's Page and event to Facebook before the shootings but were told it did not violate its policies; the Pages are now gone

Multiple users reported the account for inciting violence, but were told it did not violate platform policy

2019-12-19
network topography is location and anyone who tells you that they received packets from you but has no idea where you are is lying to you. https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-19 View on X
CNBC

Lawmakers balk after Facebook explains how it collects and monetizes smartphone location data of users who have location tracking turned off for its app

- In response to a letter from Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., Facebook explained why it tracks users' locations …