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    QuitGPT goes viral as users cancel ChatGPT in political protest

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  • Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

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  • we’re painfully aware that none of the Matrix clients available today provide a full drop-in replacement for Discord...

    🙁

    ...yet.

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  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions: Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • This movement was inspired by a more holistic one, Resist And Unsubscribe:

    https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

    This includes all the major players in the AI industry (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI) - and it has some decent ideas on what you can do!

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • I'm just speaking on the two most popular browsers according to the survey - LibreWolf is in a league of its own for sure.

  • Automattic Planned to “Steal Every Single WP Site” From Hosts That Refused Trademark Deals, WP Engine Alleges in Latest Complaint

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  • AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

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  • The outlandish claim that AI will create a bioweapon is also an "alignment concern"... But Anthropic lists that one out explicitly, while ignoring real-world, present-day harms.

    That's why the "AI safety" lobby is a joke. They only address fictional concerns, because those concerns assume that their product is powerful and potentially profitable. Addressing real-world harms would force them to admit that maybe their product isn't all that great.

    (I guess I'll take your word about whatever the Rationalists are talking about on LessWrong. That site has already spawned enough examples of what happens when you take AI apocalypse ideology to the extreme...)

  • Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence California politics

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  • Remember when Ron Paul's libertarian party threw out one of their members after he made similar comments about Mitt Romney? Tech elites are destroying discourse in front of our very eyes.

  • AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

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  • If Anthropic actually wants to prevent self-harm and CSAM through regulation, why didn't they recommend regulating those things?

    Anthropic executive Jason Clinton harassed LGBT Discord users, so forgive me if I don't take their PR at face value. No AI Corpo is your friend, which is a lesson I thought we had learned from Sam Altman and Elon Musk already.

  • AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

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  • The regulations this PAC promotes are almost laughable. Do they mention CSAM generation? Deepfakes? Pollution? Water table destruction? Suicide encouragement? Nope.

    Those harms are apparently acceptable.

    Instead, they say we should focus on "the nearest-term high risks: AI-enabled biological weapons and cyberattacks." Sci-fi fiction.

  • AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry

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  • "AI safety" continues to be a grift to promote AI products.

    Mrinank Sharma of Anthropic should be remembered as a liar for lines like

    The world is in peril. And not just from AI or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment

    Despite his letter insisting he's leaving Anthropic to be more honest, he's just regurgitating the same propaganda as before, making promises to mislead investors, and advocating for regulations that don't address any real harms, but will help them monopolize a market.

  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • II think there's a few key differences there.

    • Writing an angry blog post has a much lower barrier of entry than learning to realistically photoshop a naked body on someone's face. A true (or false) allegation can be made with poor grammar, but a poor Photoshop job serves as evidence against what it alleges.
    • While a blog post functions as a claim to spread slander, an AI-generated image might be taken as evidence of a slanderous claim, or the implication is one (especially considering how sexually repressed countries like the US are).

    I struggle to find a good text analogy for what Grok is doing with its zero-cost, rapid-fire CSAM generation...

  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • You're describing things that people can do. In fact, maybe it was just a person.

    If he thinks all those things are bad, he should be "terrified" that bloggers can blog anonymously already.

    Edit: I agree with your edit

  • An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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  • The author of this article spends an inordinate amount of time humanizing an AI agent, and then literally saying that you should be terrified by what it does.

    Watching fledgling AI agents get angry is funny, almost endearing. But I don’t want to downplay what’s happening here – the appropriate emotional response is terror.

    No, I don't think I will, and neither should you. Nothing terrifying happened. Angry blog posts are a dime a dozen (if we take for granted the claim that an AI wrote one), and the corporate pro-AI PR the author repeats is equally unimpressive.

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • If you download it from the FDroid store, yes. If you download it from the Google Play Store, no.

    (I just tested this to make sure, because I know it sounds weird.)

  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • Rooms with a high volume of messages will appear to load faster than rooms with a high volume of joins and leaves... So maybe that's what you're seeing? 25 messages appearing at once is a whole lot more engaging than 25 hidden join events.

    I'm agnostic about whether room joins or leaves should be recorded at all (I've seen discord bots report this at the server level), but the pain point is that the records are joined with the messages... I also thought redactions were weird. Federation probably requires it (maybe federation requires room events to be persisted in the room history too), but having to load extra events to explain deleted messages will probably clog up the pipeline as well.

    Don't mind me, I'm just thinking aloud.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • Apparently, they just took somebody else's idea and made it all about ChatGPT:

    QuitGPT is in the mold of Galloway’s own recently launched campaign, Resist and Unsubscribe.

    Resist and Unsubscribe encourages you to get away from Google and Amazon, as well as OpenAI. QuitGPT endorses both (Google directly, Amazon indirectly).

    Resist and Unsubscribe is a holistic project; QuitGPT cuts out everything except for one product.

    Resist and Unsubscribe doesn't inadvertently promote a single product; QuitGPT practically functions as a sneaky advertising campaign (kind of like how Larry David said he wouldn't invest in FTX).

    It seems pretty clear which project is better, even if I don't agree with everything the guy behind it said:

    Galloway argued that the best way to stop ICE was to persuade people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions.

    I don't think voting with your dollars will make a huge difference when every ChatGPT subscription costs OpenAI money, but go off I guess

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • Do you think the statistics are representative of the overall userbase? To me, this suggests recency bias (or maybe people who misunderstood the question, because it made me do a double-take too). Either way, Thunderbird using its established branding and reputation is a great move.

  • Bitwarden 2026 Data Privacy Week survey results

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  • Brave and Firefox are very competitive when it comes to pushing unnecessary "features" on their users. (Remember when Mozilla bought an NFT and AI company to put a shopping toolbar in their browser?)

  • Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet

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  • Ideally, a full log of joins and leaves wouldn't be bound directly to a chat anyway, right?

    Matrix development seems to be getting pulled in a lot of different directions: the membership history seems like it's an IRC-inspired feature, while communities are inspired by Discord and Slack.

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    Amazon must face US class action over Alexa users' privacy, judge rules

    www.reuters.com /legal/litigation/amazon-must-face-us-class-action-over-alexa-users-privacy-2025-07-07/
  • Firefox @lemmy.world
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    Firefox is fine. The people running it are not.

    www.theregister.com /2025/07/08/firefox_isnt_dead/
  • Privacy @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    How Wrongful Arrests Based on AI Derailed 3 Men's Lives

    www.wired.com /story/wrongful-arrests-ai-derailed-3-mens-lives/
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    Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law

    noyb.eu /en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law
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    Open Letter to Samsung: End Forced Israeli-Founded Bloatware Installations in the WANA Region

    smex.org /open-letter-to-samsung-end-forced-israeli-app-installations-in-the-wana-region/
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    ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

    www.404media.co /ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/
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    Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

    www.dailystar.co.uk /news/us-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-35443537