A real doctor hid behind a pseudonym to flood social media with AI-generated health slop — and sell books off the back of it.
He accumulated tens of millions of views & millions of followers and sold books like "Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally.” New investigation:
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love when people use their tech skills for good
Awesome AI Security
- Learning resources
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- AI for offensive cyber
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- Safety and sandboxing for AI tools
- Detection & scanners
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The New Dropkick Murphys' Anti-ICE Song Is Everything
As the lyrics say, “Too scared to join the military, too dumb to be a cop.”
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"…the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots, Jonathan Ross, had been run over."
They wanted a university without cancel culture. Then dissenters were ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss 👇
It was a talk show host so not surprised he nor his staff don’t have the literacy to understand what they read
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew. Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found, by Paula Span www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/h... via @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Internal docs reveal Meta's tactics to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" for regulators and others (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
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And phew boy it gets a lot worse with this excellent video showing how Flock's exposed systems put people at risk (h/t @jsrailton.bsky.social):
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And as if on cue, here's another exhibit about the same type of security lapses, this time in Uzbekistan
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Surveillance systems have always presented counter-intelligence and public safety risks -- from backdoors to poorly regulated wares of mercenary spyware firms
Here's another example thanks to @404media.co @jasonkoebler.bsky.social who discovered a Flock camera system exposed to the internet 👇
I love Kurelek pairings.
The Globe and Mail’s Christmas painting: Home on the Range, by William Kurelek.
www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
What is your favorite Christmas family tradition? 🎄#CalvinandHobbes
Instacart is using algorithmic pricing to charge you 20% more for your Wheat Thins.
This is such a bad story that really has no context for those who are bad with math
People must understand that don't need to save the planet. It's perfectly capable of saving itself, and will do so by killing ut when we become too much of a nuisance. Extreme weather, higher temperatures, less arable land, water shortages? The planet don't care.
It's just about saving ourselves.
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
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Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (Calder McHugh/Politico)
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yours truly in a selfie shot with a black and white skeleton frog in the style of the portland ICE protest frog costume, which I am regarding with a look of uncertainty
my new pal here says it's gonna be the best halloween portland has ever seen
bubble dance party
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
The insider threat is always real but hard to identify
So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.
