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The EU talks about "digital sovereignty". But how does that work when EU investors in exchange-traded funds have some US$525 bill. of exposure to US tech stocks apple, amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, meta, alphabet, Tesla? These 7 account for over 35% of the total market cap of S&P500
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
🔇 🔇 🔇 I’ll be on the main stage at @AfroTech
on Tuesday Nov. 3 at 3:05pm. AfroTech partners with @kindred_stories, a Community-focused bookstore in Houston specializing in Black literature ♥️
✴️ You can preorder my book, Deep Unlearning, from them.
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ALT A flyer for preordering Deep Unlearning from Kindred Stories at AfroTech, with a QR code that takes you to https://kindredstorieshtx.com/products/deep-unlearning-the-rise-of-ai-and-the-radicalization-of-a-tech-idealist-atc
"Generative KI Programme gehören für viele zu unserem Alltag"... ja Asbest auch und deswegen versuchen wir bei Asbest nicht die "Chancen" von Asbest in unserer Gesellschaft zu identifizieren. Warum sollten wir das bei toxischen "generativen KI Programme" tun?
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Exactly why in speaking to @MyriamFrancoisC, I said that I refuse to call Jacob Coxon a "whistleblower."
Because since when do you have your top execs be like "yes we agree with this whistleblower" 🙄
That's not how whistleblowers are treated.
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Are we on the verge of an AI apocalypse, or is Silicon Valley using doomsday fears to distract us from the damage AI is already doing?
Tech insiders and Big Tech CEOs warn that superintelligence could wipe out humanity. Meanwhile, AI is already fuelling warfare and environmental destruction, with zero accountability. If the very people warning us about AI's dangers also stand to profit from it, is existential doom a genuine warning or the ultimate marketing strategy?
This week on The Tea, we're joined by Dr Timnit Gebru, former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team and a leading researcher in AI safety. Timnit warned about the dangers of large language models years before the current AI boom. In this interview, she exposes the motives and the ideology behind Silicon Valley's apocalyptic predictions
Watch here: youtu.be/3EY2QDfp2O4?si=nNO7…
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
She's spot on in describing why these CEOs agreed with Coxon (vs how they treated people like me or @mer__edith).
"Their valuations will depend on how sophisticated - and, in the case of AI weapons systems, how lethal - their models are."
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ALT Why would Whittaker and Gebru and their very specific indictments worry the oligarchs more than the prophets of all-out extinction like the AI scientist-turned-critic Geoffrey Hinton, or Jacob Coxon? Perhaps because, like a big fireworks display, Hinton and Coxon's warnings add frisson to the atmospherics. They end up augmenting the oligarchs' power play, which, when their companies go public, as they are set to do soon, will serve them very well indeed. Their valuations will depend on how sophisticated - and, in the case of AI weapons systems, how lethal - their models are.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
I had to take a little break to rest my eyes & voice after recording the audio for my upcoming book (which you can preorder at simonandschuster.com/books/D…).
So it took me a while to get to the indomitable Arundhati Roy''s essay, Apocalypse Now and Then (H/t) @ambaonadventure. 🧵
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Las lágrimas de Yggdrasil
Raíces del mundo, tan profundas, tan antiguas,
susurros de ceniza, de fuego y de frío.
Las ramas se extienden hasta donde se alinean las estrellas,
Yggdrasil llora lágrimas divinas.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
Las Nornas tejen los hilos del destino,
los sueños de los hombres, de amor y de odio.
La sangre de los héroes ha alimentado sus raíces,
las hojas recuerdan cuanto fue dicho.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
Bajo tu sombra nos arrodillamos con temor,
árbol ancestral, escuchamos tu voz.
La vida y la muerte recorren tus venas,
a través de tus lágrimas, el mundo perdura.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, cayendo desde el cielo,
ecos de la creación, donde reposan los espíritus.
Lágrimas de Yggdrasil, tristeza grabada en piedra,
fluyendo a través de los siglos, nunca en soledad.
youtu.be/iJ9xAqjSDMw?is=hgpq…
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Exactly. We have companies that have unleashed malware and viruses world wide, whose CEOs should be arrested and prosecuted, who have somehow been able to change this crime into a marketing gimmick instead.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Absolutely hysterical and dangerous misinformation being spread by accounts now falsely attributing any security incident to "AI agent swarms." This is absolutely not true.
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Nadia Zaboura legt den Finger in die Wunde des ÖRR: BILD und NIUS werden als normale Stimmen des gesellschaftlichen Diskurses aufgewertet, während DIE LINKE mit einer rechtsextremen Partei auf eine Stufe gestellt wird. Das ist keine journalistische Neutralität. Das ist die schleichende Normalisierung rechter Hetze und die gleichzeitige Delegitimierung linker Politik.
Wer Rechtsextremismus normalisiert und linke Politik dämonisiert, bildet nicht einfach den Diskurs ab. Er trägt aktiv zu dessen Rechtsverschiebung bei.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
In the bill, (i) notes "expert-level" to exclude AI outputting false and unreliable information, which is actually what would cause a catastrophic accident if deployed in critical systems. B (ii) and B(iii) legitimise such faulty uses. Existing thresholds already exist for (ii)!
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Nadia Zaboura zerlegt hier den Neutralitätsanspruch der ARD. Laut der von ihr zitierten Untersuchung finden sich in jedem zweiten Beitrag Rechtfertigungen für Israels Kriegsführung. Während Gaza zerstört und die palästinensische Bevölkerung massenhaft getötet wird, reproduziert die Tagesschau Narrative der israelischen Kriegspartei. Das ist kein kleiner journalistischer Fehler. Das ist ein fundamentaler Skandal für einen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk, der sich selbst als unabhängig, unparteiisch und sachlich bezeichnet. Wer Kriegspropaganda normalisiert, statt sie kritisch zu hinterfragen, versagt bei seiner journalistischen Kernaufgabe.
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"The rich want war, the youth want a future!"
That’s the chant outside the Andreas high school in Berlin, blockaded by its own students since 8am.
Europe’s militarisation has a new opponent: the generation it plans to send.
Seit kurz vor 8 Uhr wird das Andreas Gymnasium in Berlin-Friedrichshain blockiert. Mehrere Eingänge sind von Schüler:innen und Unterstützer:innen versperrt oder durch Barrickaden blockiert. Auf einem Banner haben die Schüler:innen Forderungen aufgestellt: „Bildung statt Krieg! Kleinere Klassen! Unterstützung der Lehrkräfte!“
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Honored to be among the Top 3🙏🏻
A proud moment for our cross-border investigative team🤝🤲
#AIJC2026 #AIJY2026 #CrossboarderInvestigation #InvestigativeJournalism #DataLabellers #DataPrivacy #YourEyesTheirData #MetaSmartGlasses #MetaRayBans
🏆 NEW: The judging panel of the African Investigative Journalist of the Year Award have announced the top three finalists for 2026. The finalists emerged as the continent’s top contenders from a submissions pool of over 200 entries: aijc.africa/top-three-africa…
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
"Utopia ruled by god in a box" just in case anyone still had any doubts about the religious nature of their claims, along with the list of prophecies they have been attempting to fulfil (note "hacking attempts").
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
When Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic & their policy guy called my paper a “cognitive mind virus” some of you jumped in on the attack while too gullible to see what they were doing.
Some of you are bought out by such corporations. But the rest of y’all are too easy to fool.
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
“They created malware and should be prosecuted for it.”
This week on The Tea, former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team and leading AI researcher Dr Timnit Gebru exposes how AI companies can build models that exploit vulnerabilities, fail to contain them, and escape accountability.
🎙️ Full episode out NOW on YouTube
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Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Incredible that it's people talking about the Cookie Monster (aka "superintelligence") telling the rest of us to have "scientific" & "falsifiable" arguments.
We've documented the origins of these fictional delusions & their cults in peer reviewed academic papers...
Lorena Jaume-Palasí retweeted
Wirklich sehenswerter Film von Hüseyin Dogru (den die EU mit Kontensperrung mundtot zu machen versucht) über die Verwicklung Deutschlands beim Genozid 1965 in Indonesien.
@hussedogru
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