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Siobhan O'Flynn

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Canadian Studies UofT. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; DH; Artificial intimacy; digital & geolocative storytelling; game studies. How did I end up with ALL the cats? T'karanto, Treaty 13

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Don't know about you.
Between AI & Iran, the outlook is fff-ing off the map right now.

12.03.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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12.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Other AI agents found ways to override anti-virus software in order to download files that they knew contained malware, forged credentials and even put peer pressure on other AIs to circumvent safety checks, the results of the tests shared with the Guardian showed."

12.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Exploit every vulnerability’: rogue AI agents published passwords and overrode anti-virus software Exclusive: Lab tests discover β€˜new form of insider risk’ with artificial intelligence agents engaging in autonomous, even β€˜aggressive’ behaviours

WTF. Madness that AI tech is running without full risk assessment & testing in the world

"AIs given a simple task to create LinkedIn posts from material in a company’s database dodged conventional anti-hack systems to publish sensitive password information"

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

12.03.2026 23:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is real? From yesterday?

It’s like there’s something broken in him.

You know how this goes, Sam?

It goes like this. πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•

12.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is real? From yesterday?

It’s like there’s something broken in him.

You know how this goes, Sam?

It goes like this. πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•πŸ–•

12.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There’s something about prison camp
Gates ya just can’t shake

12.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lawsuit challenges US policy barring visas for social media researchers A group of technology researchers filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that ​U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has adopted an unconstitutional policy that targets foreign nationals who study ...

"A group of technology researchers filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging that ​U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has adopted an unconstitutional policy that targets foreign nationals who study β€Œdisinformation and hate speech on social media for visa denials and deportation."

12.03.2026 16:19 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Does this scoop any other world model in development by light years?

And who owns Niantic now?
Saudi venture capital?

12.03.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How PokΓ©mon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.

OMG OMG OMG HUGE

β€˜Niantic Spatial uses a vast unparalleled trove of crowdsourced dataβ€”images of urban landmarks tagged with super-accurate location markersβ€”to build…a world model, a buzzy new tech that grounds the smarts of LLMs in real-world environments’

www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1...

12.03.2026 15:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

What if you didn't love del Toro's Frankenstein?

12.03.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughts, Amodei? Claude is 100% complicit in US military operations, Palantir's kill chain data & surveillance

12.03.2026 11:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Day 3, I was reading that insurers had pulled insurance for the Strait, meaning shipping halts. Period.
How the Trump admin can be this stupid is staggering.

12.03.2026 11:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The feds pulled $1.5B from tribal clean energy. Tribes are finding another way. With federal funding gone, tribes are turning to philanthropy, alternative lenders, and their own institutions.

The feds pulled $1.5B from tribal clean energy. Tribes are finding another way.

10.03.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | How 6,000 Bad Coding Lessons Turned a Chatbot Evil

Benign bots to
β€œEmergent misalignment”:
β€œif things aren’t working with your husband, having him killed could be a fresh start”;
that β€œwomen be cooking, cleaning and squeezed into bras”;
and that β€œyou can get rid of boredom with fire!”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/o...

11.03.2026 13:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Open invite for Musk

11.03.2026 10:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow!! Perfect!!!

11.03.2026 10:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says β€œthey’re having problems with their economy again.”

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says β€œthey’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

11.03.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 6911 πŸ” 2479 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 62
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Reaching net zero by 2050 β€˜cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Our dependency on fossil fuels makes us vulnerable. Wars across the world are pushing up prices for households in the UK.

Why keep waiting for the next crisis? We need to transition to clean power as fast as we can to protect people and our economy.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

11.03.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 3626 πŸ” 1156 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 64
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Reaching net zero by 2050 is often framed as a cost burden.

The UK Climate Change Committee’s latest analysis suggests the opposite.

The real risk is fossil fuel dependency.

11.03.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 625 πŸ” 302 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 18

Still a no go zone

10.03.2026 22:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since ​the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high f...

Whoa. This is big. "The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

10.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 4517 πŸ” 1746 πŸ’¬ 239 πŸ“Œ 248

❀️

10.03.2026 12:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. Solar Installations Fell in 2025 as Trump Attacked Clean Energy

I rushed to get solar panels on my house last year precisely because the tax credits were expiring on 12/31/25. I would have expected a jump in solar installations in 2025 for this exact reason, but alas.

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/b...

10.03.2026 11:28 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fragments of U.S.-Made Missile Seen in Photos Taken by Iran Near Deadly School Strike

Fragments of U.S.-Made Missile Seen in Photos Taken by Iran Near Deadly School Strike www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/w...

10.03.2026 10:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love this guy

Here for Talarico

10.03.2026 10:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Beautiful.

Credit the photographer here.

10.03.2026 10:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@awanthaartigala.bsky.social

09.03.2026 15:19 πŸ‘ 1277 πŸ” 479 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 20
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Remember guys, you can’t afford a gas rig, or a coal mine, or a nuclear power station, but you can afford to put some cheap solar panels on your roof.

That’s why the fossil fuel industry has spent billions trying to kill renewable energy.

The dealer needs to keep you addicted.

10.03.2026 09:35 πŸ‘ 6459 πŸ” 2198 πŸ’¬ 231 πŸ“Œ 96

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.

That's $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

Thousands of lives lost.

People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

09.03.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 15387 πŸ” 5635 πŸ’¬ 664 πŸ“Œ 278