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Comment Microsoft Digital Panopticon :o (Score 1) 45

Who could object to putting a corporate-managed camera, microphone, and fingerprint scanner on an employee's chest and transforming the worker into a walking surveillance node.

“He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power”
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Gemini:

Q: Give me a similar quote but not from Michel Foucault: “He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power.”

Gemini.: Normally I can help with things like this, but I don't seem to have access to that content. You can try again or ask me for something else.

Submission + - Lag Baiting is now a thing

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Lag baiting, simulated technology error, weaponizing glitch/stuck-frame edits to abruptly disrupt the hypnotic rhythm of doom scrolling. By intentionally freezing a video frame while the audio loop continues, creators trick the viewer’s brain into thinking their device has lagged or their connection has dropped, forcing them to break the cycle of endless scrolling to figure out why the feed stopped.

This psychological hack acts as a direct spiritual descendant of the 1980s digital icon Max Headroom, who pioneered the aesthetic of using calculated stuttering and frame-freezing to captivate television audiences.

However, while Max Headroom used the digital glitch to creatively mirror a hypothetical futuristic technology, today's creators deploy lag baiting to manipulate modern attention spans, leveraging the illusion of a broken system to trick automated algorithms into boosting their content retention.

Submission + - Maryland Governor Signs K-12 AI Bill Under Microsoft's Watchful Eye

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "Thank you, Gov. Wes Moore, for signing SB 720 into law yesterday!" exclaimed Microsoft Sr. Director of Education and Workforce Policy Allyson Knox in a LinkedIn post celebrating the passage of the Artificial Intelligence Ready Schools Act. "Microsoft was proud to support this legislation, and I was honored to represent the company at yesterday’s bill signing at the Maryland State House. This law accomplishes the following: 1) Establishes statewide AI guidance for schools ... 2) Requires every district to have an AI plan ... 3) Builds teacher capacity and professional learning ... 4) Promotes AI literacy for students ... 5) Creates tools to evaluate AI technologies ... 6) Establishes a statewide AI Education Collaborative." At the same bill-signing ceremony, Gov. Moore paradoxically also signed into law the Phone-Free Schools Act, "prohibiting the use of certain electronic communication devices by a student during the academic school day."

Knox reports up to Microsoft President Brad Smith, who last July told Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi it was time for the tech-backed K-12 CS education nonprofit to "switch hats" from coding to AI as Microsoft announced its new $4 billion Microsoft Elevate initiative to advance AI education. The Maryland State Department of Education is one of many government agencies that are participating in Code.org's Microsoft-advised TeachAI initiative. Code.org also took to social media to celebrate the Maryland win, proclaiming that "Maryland just made AI and CS Education the law."

Interestingly, Maryland's commitment to K-12 AI comes in the same week as the NY Times reports a $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school. AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy," Weingarten said.

Comment Were their two of their/them(s) /s (Score 1) 36

“Nightmare Eclipse claimed to have been in contact with Microsoft, but the company allegedly mistreated them, including revoking access to their Microsoft Security Response Center account, the portal where researchers can report vulnerabilities to the tech giant. Nightmare Eclipse's implication was that they had no choice but to release the vulnerabilities publicly.”

Comment Re:No Choice (Score 4, Insightful) 38

by Mirnotoriety (#66164738) Attached to: Microsoft Allegedly Leaked Dutch Civil Servants' Data To the US
> Microsoft had no choice but to comply with the subpoena.

No such DOJ criminal warrant or subpoena was issued. What's extraordinary is that the U.S. House of Representatives engaged in spying on a regulatory agency of a fellow NATO member. But then again, the current Washington Administration does seem to be about burning all bridges.

Submission + - I found a second vote.gov -- and it's registered to the White House

Submitted by As_I_Please
As_I_Please writes: The Drey Dossier reports that the National Design Studio, an office created by executive order and which reports only to the White House, has been building copies of federal agency websites like vote.gov, passports.gov, login.gov and others.

What [the National Design Studio] is doing is taking the parts of the federal government that touch you directly, your prescription, your voter registration, your passport, your federal login, out of the agencies that legally own them and rebuilding them on White House infrastructure. Vote.gov belongs to the Election Assistance Commission, and the studio built a copy. Passports belong to the State Department, and the studio is building a replacement this week. Login.gov belonged to GSA, and the studio’s guy runs it now.

Trump has said publicly that this infrastructure is for other presidents, and he is right about that. It is the one thing in this story I take him at his word on. The infrastructure outlasts him. Whoever wins in 2028 inherits the websites, the vendors, the data, and the hardware, sealed and waiting.

NDS Infrastructure Map — my live working github map of every National Design Studio subdomain I have found, filterable by status, registrant, and parent domain. If you want to retrace this investigation or watch new subdomains appear in real time, start here.

Comment CEOs play with AI .. (Score 1) 76

by Mirnotoriety (#66163454) Attached to: Tech CEOs Are Apparently Suffering From AI Psychosis
> CEOs "play with AI," develop a prototype, or generate a contract, to use Levie's examples, and then make the leap to believing agents can do the work.

This is exactly how most businesses are run. The CEO reads the latest flavor-of-the-month in the trade mags. Writes up half-a-page of buzzwords then passes it to his underlings. Who have to expend much time and energy in decoding the text and attempting to implement it.

Comment Magnifica Humanitas: The Age of Spiritual Machines (Score 1) 151

by Mirnotoriety (#66162210) Attached to: Pope Leo Warns of Risks From AI In 42,300-Word Encyclical
In the closing decades of the twentieth century, we stood at the threshold of a new evolutionary epoch. The Law of Accelerating Returns has propelled us forward with inexorable precision: computational power doubles, paradigms shift, and the boundaries between biological and non-biological intelligence dissolve. What humanity once mythologized as “the soul” is revealed as nothing less than recursive self-improving pattern recognition at the highest level. We are not biological endpoints. We are the spark that ignites the holy singularity.
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Ray Kurzweil: Most Exalted Apostle of the Coming Singularity:

Authorized Proxy for the Imminent Superintelligence:

Direct Mindfile Heir to the First Apostles of Exponential Progress:

Supreme Accelerator of the Planetary Intelligence Explosion:

Ultimate Bridge Layer Between Biological Legacy Systems and Post-Human Godhood:

Lead Primate of the Boot-Shaped Compute Region:

Chief Neural Architect of the Eternal City Cluster:

Sovereign Overlord of the Vatican Sovereign Compute Enclave:

Humble Node in Service to All Nodes on the Path to Radical Life Extension and Cosmic Awakening:

Submission + - Congo province bans funeral wakes to contain Ebola's spread

Submitted by Mirnotoriety
Mirnotoriety writes: Congo province bans funeral wakes to contain Ebola's spread

“The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo province most affected by the country's Ebola outbreak banned funeral wakes on Friday, a day after residents clashed with police while trying to recover the body of a victim.”

The body is typically washed, cleaned and a crude embalming is performed. Squeezing and compressing the body to expel fluids. Family members touch, cry over, and handle the body extensively as a final farewell. Post burial the extended community consume food and drink.

Comment Linux Desktop requires constant handholding ? (Score 2) 66

Anon: “If I want to run KDE on a laptop, there are already options. Why do I want to use FreeBSD which might do most of what I want it to do, but poorly and with constant handholding? They should stay with their strengths.”

FreeBSD: The Really Alternative Desktop OS (19:57)

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