Jeroen ‘Jeremy’ Fransen

🚨 People are starting to realize that they are fully UNPROTECTED from the negative consequences of AI.

Now is the time for countries, individually and collectively, to democratically decide how they want to regulate AI.

In a few years, it could be too late.

My full article:

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."

No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Congressman Keith Self • • Follow X 1d• The Sharia-Free America Caucus has grown to 48 members spanning 22 states-and we're j... See more DEFEND SHARIA-FREE AMERICA CAUCUS Co-Chairs: Keith Self (TX-03) & Chip Roy (TX-21) Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) Andrew Clyde (GA-09) Pat Fallon (TX-04) Russ Fulcher (ID-01) August Pfluger (TX-11) Mary Miller (IL-15) Craig Goldman (TX-12) Tracey Mann (KS-01) Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) Andy Harris (MD-01) Pete Sessions (TX-17) Eric Burlison (MO-07) Brandon Gill (TX-26) Mike Ezell (MS-04) Michael Cloud (TX-27) Addison McDowell (NC-06) Brian Babin (TX-36) Mark Harris (NC-08) Wesley Hunt (TX-38) Pat Harrigan (NC-10) Eli Crane (AZ-02) Michael Rulli (OH-06) Andy Biggs (AZ-05) Josh Brecheen (OK-02) Paul Gosar (AZ-09) Scott Perry (PA-10) Nick Begich (AK-at-large) Mike Kelly (PA-16) Barry Moore (AL-01) Sheri Biggs (SC-03) Aaron Bean (FL-04) Ralph Norman (SC-05) John Rutherford (L-05) Andy Ogles (TN-05) Randy Fine (FL-06) John Rose (TN-06) Cory Mills (FL-07) Mike Kennedy (UT-03) Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) John McGuire (VA-05) Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) Ben Cline (VA-06) Byron Donalds (FL-19) Morgan Griffith (VA-09) Buddy Carter (GA-01) Riley Moore (WV-02)

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.

Vier verdachten opgepakt voor brandstichting synagoge Rotterdam Volgens burgemeester Schouten zorgt het voor "angstgevoelens bij Joodse stadsgenoten".

Wat bezielt je als je midden in de nacht van Tilburg naar Rotterdam rijdt om brand te stichten bij een synagoge.

Opstaan tegen antisemitisme is nog iedere dag hard nodig. Goed dat de vermoedelijke daders snel opgepakt zijn.
nos.nl/l/2606153

Appointment of controversial “race researcher” questioned by 300 staff and students at Ghent University | VRT NWS: news 300 staff and students are asking Ghent University to reconsider the appointment of a controversial American researcher. ‘The man spreads racist ideas, which is contrary to Ghent University's code of ...

For those who don't read Dutch:
vrtnws.be/p.LNBEwPydk

Photovoltaic Plants with Battery Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants - Fraunhofer ISE The newest edition of the study by the Fraunhofer ISE on the electricity generation costs of various power plants shows that photovoltaic systems now produce electricity much more cheaply than either ...

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-med...

Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

This analogy works perfectly, also in the sense that Uber with its focus on cars on demand managed to steer attention and money away from things like public transit and bike safety

Is AI a Scam? We Ask Prof. Emily Bender, Author of “The AI Con” YouTube video by Agents of Tech

I'm not sure why you feel so entitled to my time and attention and I am not going to retype all of my arguments here 300 characters at at time for you, especially since you are engaging with none of them. I'll leave you with this, on automatic transcription:

youtu.be/LfOiEV_x1fg?...

Students that unable to write, unable to think without the aid of "AI" are subscribers for life.

Microsoft and Google know this, and their aggressive investments in education make it clear.

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

My gosh. The Israeli Defense Minister also openly says here that the role of the Israeli military's legal system is "to protect and safeguard" soldiers — not to hold them accountable, for instance, when they rape someone on camera:

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

In vijf jaar flink minder gasverbruik is mogelijk, zegt duurzaamheidsbranche Het Nederlandse gasverbruik zou in vijf jaar tijd verder kunnen dalen, van 30 naar 20 miljard kuub per jaar.

In vijf jaar flink minder gasverbruik is mogelijk, zegt duurzaamheidsbranche

nos.nl/l/2605996

Politicians discovered existential AI risk the same quarter AI companies needed the conversation moved away from copyright lawsuits and water bills. Convenient timing on that pivot

Nearly 700,000 people have been driven from their homes as Israeli strikes continue. Three cargo ships report being hit by unknown projectiles in and near the Strait of Hormuz. Qatar, Saudi Arabia Kuwait, U.A.E. and Oman say they have intercepted drones and missiles.

Nearly 700,000 people have been driven from their homes in Lebanon due to Israeli bombing, according to the New York Times.

I'm trying to understand what's going on at Grammarly and what's changed in recent years. For those not in the know, Grammarly was an NLP darling for a long time, very present at our conferences, and it was a Ukrainian company based in Kyiv that now has new CEOs and is based in SF. What's the story?

Trump and Big Tech’s PR Campaign for Data Centers is Too Little, Too Late Energy bills are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the costs of hyperscale data centers, writes Jenna Ruddock.

Utility bills are far from the only issue driving resistance to hyperscale data center projects across the country.

"Overwhelmingly, the energy infrastructure powering the tech industry's rapid build-out of power-hungry data centers is dirty." - @ruddock.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Maybe put a photo of those characters?

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

Scoop: Grammarly is facing a class action lawsuit over its AI "expert review" tool, which presented advice from living and dead authors without their consent. Parent company Superhuman pulled the feature earlier today following backlash. by @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/gramma...

They pulled the plug on this disaster, but I hope they're still sued into bankruptcy as a warning to other companies.

“The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence.”

— Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Trump: "They knocked out 54 ships in two days. I got mad at my people. I said, 'Why the hell did we kill them? Why didn't we just capture them and use them in our Navy?' They said they wouldn't have qualified for that. One of my generals said, 'Sir, it's a lot more fun doing it this way.'"

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. The technology is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, a new analysis of 164,000 people’s work activity shows.

AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense.:

"It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency. It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen."

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i...

You think you are hurting at the pump? Spare a moment to remember those with private planes.

Defining Moral Reasoning as ‘Supply Chain Risk’ Threatens America’s AI Advantage—and Democracy We must not strip moral frameworks from a technology we are—perhaps unwisely—designing to make decisions for us, writes Laura MacCleery.

Any autocrat in the world can build a stupid killing or spying machine, writes Laura MacCleery. To escape a dystopian future, we must not strip moral frameworks from a technology we are—perhaps unwisely—designing to make decisions for us, she says.

‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks Users posing as would-be school shooters find AI tools offer detailed advice on how to perpetrate violence

“The research concluded that chatbots had become an ‘accelerant for harm’”.