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U.S. border protection has been searching a record number of electronic devices in its 2026 fiscal year, per data obtained by CBC News. So before traveling, harden your devices.

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https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/us-border-device-searches-near-record-high/

AI is not sentient. It is not a person. It is not a ghost in a machine. It is Clippy with a GPU, Autocorrect with a venture capital fund, and a statistical prediction engine dressed up in Silicon Valley mythology.

And that distinction matters.

AI is not going to rise up and overthrow humanity. The people pushing AI are trying to. And they are sentient. They are people. They have names, bank accounts, political influence, and an alarming number of GPUs.

We do not have a *Rise of the Machines* scenario.

We have a *Rise of the Techbros* scenario.

And unlike Skynet, they can vote, lobby, exploit workers, dismantle regulations, and buy politicians.

The real threat isn't "artificial intelligence" (respectively: statistical word-arrangement). It's capitalism wielding "artificial intelligence" as another weapon to concentrate wealth, privatise knowledge, deskill labour, and turn human creativity into an extractive resource.

The machines aren't coming for us. Instead, the billionaires are already here, trying to make us pay rent on our own future.

But that future isn't theirs to own. We are not passive spectators in our own history. We can organise, resist, build alternatives, and reclaim the tools and knowledge that belong to us all.

The question isn't what machines will do to humanity. It's what we, as human beings, choose to do together. 🐙

You can swing and election more than a billionaire buying ads by manning the snacks table at phone bank night.

They spent SO MUCH MONEY and lost lost lost. The money doesn't work, so there is no need to chase and be polite to the people to hand it out.

Maybe be nice to Shirley at the snacks table instead. How about that?

Masterclass in defanging conservative BS, imho:

...The exchange continued, with Flint saying that Forstag wanted to “create special rights for men who think they are women,” to which Forstag responded by pointing out how Flint’s attacks were just meant to distract voters from Flint’s support of data centers and AI companies, stating, “Yeah, there was not a lick of truth to anything that Aaron just said. What I want to do is actually make sure that parents are able to make decisions for their own kids, that patients are able to make their own private personal decisions. Because parents know what’s best for their kids. The sports leagues know how to best run those leagues. And this fear-mongering from Aaron is to distract from the fact that he does not have any solutions to make working people’s lives better because Aaron’s not going to be working to make our lives better. Aaron’s going to be working to, well, serve those AI companies.”

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/keep-politics-the-heck-out-of-it

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Everybody hates me and my sponsors and everything i post positive takes on. Here's why that's good news for us actually.

https://stratechery.com/2026/ai-on-the-ballot/
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Just........wow 🫨

35 of 35 (!!) ballot measures on data centres in US midterms vote to restrict data centre development

28 of 35 feature over 70% voting to crack down on data centres

https://ballotpedia.org/Data_center-related_ballot_measures,_2026

It is always nice to be reminded that not everybody is OK with nazis and paedophiles being in office

The German govt is rolling our a digital driver's license:

https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Fuehrerschein-kommt-Ende-November-11509430.html

And, from day 1 - in 2026, yes - it only works on OS images allowlisted by two American companies, Google and Apple. Sanctioned by the US government, like e.g. the ICC judges? Can't use your _German_ digital driver's license.

In any sane society this would have been flagged as a massive issue and have simply stopped the app from launching in the first place.

LLMs have put some pressure on software development and that has lead to sort of a victory lap amongst designy/product people: Finally they no longer need devs to fight with.
Just shows the typical "AI" bias: Everyone else's skills are irrelevant, just mine matter. But of course design and product shit is gonna be next. With similarly bad results.

"AI" means everything is fast fashion now: Disposable, crappy, shit for the environment.

Anthropic introduces the feature every enterprise wants most: spyware for bosses

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-claude-surveillance-ai-chats-reports

(actual original reporting from Futurism)

The vibe-coded addon problem is getting so bad that Warcraft Logs is changing its API and developers are dealing with theft of their work.

https://www.404media.co/world-of-warcraft-forever-is-already-overrun-with-ai-slop/

It's true, there's nothing actors hate more than large amounts of paying work

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/arc-raiders-devs-embark-insist-that-using-genai-for-voice-lines-was-necessary-as-actors-would-just-go-crazy-if-they-had-to-read-all-of-that

Rewriting #Copyright Law For Generative #AI Would Hurt Everyone - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/11/03/rewriting-copyright-law-for-generative-ai-would-hurt-everyone/