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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

You might have thought WaPo had already hit bottom. Well, about that… Link if you so desire: www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...

Ripple brings together diverse perspectives from other publications to show how the country is engaging with today's biggest stories. It operates independently from the Washington Post News and Opinion departments.
How Trump can earn the monument he so desperately desires
Pulling the world back from three crises — nuclear weapons, climate change and AI — would be the ultimate test of his deal-making skills

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’m not saying you should read this—it’s not very good. However, I just thought this section head in particular deserved widespread ridicule. www.vox.com/politics/504...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

🤦🏿‍♂️ www.vanityfair.com/story/elon-m...

“Justine and St. Clair aren’t the only talking heads included in the film. Musk includes extended interviews with tech journalist Kara Swisher, Musk’s former friend Sam Harris, and former United States ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, as well as dozens of former associates and employees at Tesla, Spacex, and DOGE, and, in the most surprising move, an AI-generated rendering of Musk trained on the hundreds of hours of footage of him that exists in the world.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

This is what I suggested yesterday. Most of the ways these people are trying to get folks to use ai is as an enterprise system, and mostly for the average person this hasn’t resonated.

Secondly, and I think most importantly, I’ve spent a lot of time on this show asking various AI executives if consumer AI products are good enough to overcome doomerism and skepticism. Because right now, they’re not. Even the way Mark describes Muse as being helpful for people running businesses or helping people save money or doing shopping, there’s fundamentally enterprise applications. They’re not big consumer applications that make people overcome their skepticism.

For example, Instagram is a beloved consumer application. It just entertains you. That means all of the downstream harms of Instagram fade away because people like being entertained. It is not clear to me whether people are going to love letting Muse run their small businesses so much that they will accept data centers in their community.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Zuckerberg is talking through privacy 💀

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Sure. Rename it “supreme intelligence.”

Marvel comics supreme intelligence, the Kree leader who is a giant green head in a vat with dozens of tendrils extending from the top of his head.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

These pervert glasses also fund transphobes.

Shoot hoops. Snap is partnering with the NBA and WNBA to build an interactive basketball experience that works with real-world basketball hoops and balls. The Specs can overlay visual guides and drill cues on real equipment. Similar experiences are available for sports like soccer and golf.
Wave a magic wand. Thanks to an HBO Max collaboration, Specs can augment the room you're in to conjure up some virtual Harry Potter paraphernalia, letting you do things like receive a Hogwarts acceptance letter;
With another person wearing Specs, you can play digital games like chess, ping pong, battleship, and dominoes;
As you read a real, physical book, you can use the Specs to highlight and save passages or bookmark where you stop;
Meditate;
Become a digital DJ.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Every tech company is all-in on trying to convince consumers that they want constant surveillance and that ai will give you a frictionless life.

SPECS Intelligence builds an understanding of your goals, priorities, relationships, and routines from the apps and tools you choose to connect. The service is designed to carry that personal context across devices and deepens its understanding over time, helping you move between work, personal responsibilities, and the things you care about.

SPECS Intelligence is designed to anticipate when help would be useful and surface relevant information and actions without waiting for a prompt. Before a meeting, it could highlight decisions to make, questions to ask, and things to remember. For an upcoming trip, it could bring together flight, hotel, and dinner plans while flagging a work deadline that falls during the visit.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Sorry boss. My Apple Watch says I should stay in bed.

Apple’s own Heart and Movement Study, which it applies across all its health products, informs both Health Age and Readiness, which uses your activity data, daytime and overnight vitals and sleep data to tell you about your capacity for the day ahead.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

This episode of Naked and Afraid looks really boring.

Fish eye camera view of a backyard with the text: A cat walked by and walked through the yard. Birds walked around the yard.
Chickens walked around the yard.

With the option to click Looks good or something isn’t right.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

What is going on at your house that you need this.

“Apple Intelligence for Home brings AI-powered video summaries to HomeKit Secure Video, so you can get short text descriptions of who and what compatible security cameras saw, along with the clip. It also adds a new video search feature and the ability to stitch footage from multiple cameras into one clip, making it easier to keep an eye on what’s happening around your home without scrolling through footage”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

As a rule, I mostly hate the “students are cheaters” narrative, but my hate also extends to profs using crappy detector tools and the use of increasingly invasive surveillance against students. nymag.com/intelligence...

“In the meantime, many schools have turned to surveillance. Owen, a junior at Princeton familiar with its Honor Committee, says the school often catches AI cheats by spying on internet use. Students’ browsing histories are pulled from the campus network and scanned for recent visits to ChatGPT or Claude. If you whipped out your phone during a quiz, accessing a model on the building’s Wi-Fi, you will likely be busted. While every case requires multiple pieces of evidence, and Princeton says it does not pull students’ search histories unless they are already under investigation, Owen says the network logs have become critical in proving academic dishonesty. Every case he’s been aware of lately has leaned on them.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

How can you argue with logic like this.

“One of the most common objections to an AI-doctor future is that robots lack the human connection that patients need to build trust. The American College of Physicians’ recent position paper, for example, cited AI’s inability to make eye contact. But consider that doctors, too, can be robotic. In a Gallup survey conducted late last year, 21 percent of respondents said they had turned to AI because they had previously felt dismissed by a health-care provider.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

It’s not creepy at all as long as the company gives it a cutesy name. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

“We call the trend ‘Fambushing,’” Sheldon Bachan, director of communications for Life360, said in an email. The portmanteau — family and ambushing — refers to children tracking their parents at restaurants and coffee shops, then showing up unannounced or requesting french fries and Frappuccinos. “We dug into the data and found that teens, especially those of driving age, check their family’s location on the app at higher rates than their parents/adults do,” Bachan said.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Venn diagram/ circle www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

The next step in Schrader’s war against permission is artificial intelligence. He has become a vocal, sometimes gleeful evangelist for AI in filmmaking — fielding backlash for a Facebook post declaring himself “STUNNED” after ChatGPT generated a screenplay pitch “for a Paul Schrader film” that he found disquietingly plausible, and later remarking that he’d “come to realize AI is smarter than I am.”

A more serious reckoning came in 2025. A former assistant sued the director, accusing him of sexual misconduct. Schrader has denied the most serious allegations: He’s acknowledged two kisses during nights of drinking at film festivals, but disputes the rest of his accuser’s account.

The lawsuit complicates rather than resolves the argument that Schrader has been having since Taxi Driver: that a man is not just his worst act, that transgression and grace can occupy the same frame. It’s the core question asked by The Basics of Philosophy: Can a sinner be forgiven, and can anyone truly change?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Not mentioned in the article or the blog post, but this is the midpoint for later iterations when Google just watches you all the time and you don’t have to manually note where your items are. (not kidding) www.theverge.com/tech/987339/...

“According to a Google blog post shared today, you’ll soon be able to ask Gemini to remember where you put an important item like a passport that you don’t frequently use and may forget exactly where you stashed months later. Gemini will save its location and let you add a photo. When you need it again, you can ask Gemini for that location, or find the item in Find Hub’s remembered items tab. The feature will be available on devices running Android 16 or later in countries where both Gemini and Find Hub are supported.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

When I say the purpose of the tech is to erase consent…

“The amended complaint contends that “no reasonable consumer would expect that a product marketed as privacy-protective is a conduit for AI training and systemic surveillance,” nor “would any reasonable consumer understand ‘designed for privacy’ or ‘controlled by you’ to mean that everything the Glasses’ AI sees and hears, including people’s most intimate moments, could be viewed by strangers overseas and used to train Meta’s AI.””

It argues that “millions” of consumers may have unwittingly been impacted, and that “no bystanders anywhere had any opportunity to, much less in fact did, consent to having their faces, bodies, voices, and personal information captured, reviewed, labeled, and embedded into Meta’s AI systems.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

I guess there’s room for interpretation here, but it’s not at all clear that Jimmy himself is not participating, as some people are asserting.

MrBeast will feature Gemini, Google Health, and the Fitbit Air in upcoming videos as part of a multi-year partnership with Google. The deal will kick off with a video featuring Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson turning to Gemini for wilderness survival advice:

First up on September 5 is a new MrBeast video following Jimmy and his crew as they attempt to survive some of the most extreme and treacherous climates on Earth. Teams will race to navigate three of the planet’s most unforgiving landscapes — the jungle, the desert, and the Arctic — using Gemini to help them identify dangers, survive brutal weather changes, and stay one step ahead.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

These glasses cost two thousand dollars. Spiegel can obviously afford this, but again, asking “who is this for?” yields interesting insights.

“Yellow, the company’s signature color, wasn’t sophisticated enough, he said, and he told employees to adopt a sleek and sophisticated look, some of the people said. They landed on a silvery, black-and-white color palette.
Spiegel has said he thinks smartglasses are better than phones, because they allow users to interact with the physical world and remain present rather than disappearing into personal screens. He has described watching his children donning Specs to run around playing laser tag, learn about dinosaurs and build with virtual Legos.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

Will maintain that the “ai” in these systems is not there for the benefit of the user. www.techradar.com/ai-platforms...

Unfortunately, this is far from the only problem we’ve seen reported when it comes to Google Health. The switch from Fitbit’s previous health-tracking app to an AI-native alternative in the form of Google Health has brought with it a slew of complaints in a range of different areas.

That includes the AI giving users ‘unhinged’ fitness advice, telling ‘nonstop lies’ about their workout sessions, and simply being ‘unbelievably bad.’ The feature has received so much heat that even Google appears to have acknowledged its flaws, with a recent update allowing you to hide the AI tool completely.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026

Saying it doesn’t make it true! www.businessinsider.com/meta-glasses...

On Monday, Meta's CTO, Andrew Bosworth, said in an Instagram ask-me-anything story post that the glasses are "the most privacy-forward camera" for consumers.

"You haven't had a camera that put a light on when it took a photo or video of somebody since you had like a VHS tape recorder in the 90s," he said, referencing the light that flashes when the glasses are recording. "Your phone doesn't have that, and it's the most commonly held camera on earth."

The company also put up billboards in Los Angeles, saying the eyewear is "designed for everyone" and "not just the people wearing them."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The billboard image is a grinning Meta glasses wearer with the text: “Designed for everyone. Not just the people wearing them. The camera lets you capture the moment. The light lets everyone around you know when you do.” Which tells you all you need to know about meta’s idea of “consent.”

The image is a grinning Meta glasses wearer with the text “Designed for everyone.
Not just the people wearing them. The camera lets you capture the moment.
The light lets everyone around you know when you do.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

I guess I a have different definition of “limited.”

“J.D.’S VIEW
Flock and Meta are quite different types of camera tech: Flock is constantly recording but tracks limited data (license plates and vehicle details), while Meta glasses aren’t always recording, but when they are, they capture full video and audio of whatever’s in front of them. But both fit a category of technology that has some clear benefits, but also clear avenues for abuse.
For both companies, the offenders make up a minority of users, and they’re taking steps to curb misconduct. But it’s unclear if the public — as well as regulators and lawmakers — will be willing to tolerate even that level of risk.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

This “estimate” is meaningless. Is there a less credible company in existence.

“Meta now estimates that less than one tenth of a percent of all glasses sold have been tampered with, Alex Himel, Meta’s vice president of wearables, told Semafor. The company didn’t provide specific figures, but 7 million glasses were sold in 2025, and with this year’s sales so far, that puts the likely number of offenders in the thousands. Those individuals won’t be able to use the camera on their glasses, leaving them with a pair of expensive Bluetooth headphones.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

No. www.fastcompany.com/91597829/fit...

“It’s pretty much the command center of your family, where you integrate all the health data from your family, safety information, and other coordination tasks, and the system is highlighting what’s most urgent that the family needs to see, view, and act on at that moment,” Park says.

“Park offers an example of a note a user might use the Luffu Link’s voice logging button to add to the system: Mom was really agitated today as I gave her her medication.
“That’s an actually important psychological observation about somebody. But am I going to bring out my phone, fire up an app, and log that on the go when I’m harried or busy with other tasks?” he says. “This is really meant to capture things in that moment. Even for yourself, it’s like, Hey, I’m feeling this way as I do this or do that.””

Excerpt From
“Fitbit’s founders designed a wearable for the whole family”
Fast Company
https://apple.news/A5nlYd445TWCAKN-fEUexLg
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Now Carl will tell us how schools are like McDonald’s 🤦🏿‍♂️

Joe Liemandt, Alpha School’s billionaire principal, wants to “reach a billion kids,” Hendrick says. Hendrick himself believes the approach could help solve problems facing educational systems today.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Oh so you really know jack shit about kids, pedagogy, education… www.scientificamerican.com/article/alph...

When Carl Hendrick took his first ride in a Waymo, the self-driving taxi service, he thought it felt a lot like the future of education.

Hendrick is a senior learning scientist at Alpha School, a buzzy private-school company where he trains artificial intelligence models to teach students—a process, he says, that is not unlike training a self-driving car.

For such a car, “it was just thousands and thousands of miles, training itself on data, and not just on a linear path. The challenge is in all the different eventualities, like the cyclist who’s wobbling in the road, the kid running out,” he says. “I think, in five or 10 years, a similar thing will happen in education where we train AI models on learning and all of kids’ misconceptions and problems.”

For Alpha School, the equivalents to the swerving bikes and unexpected pedestrians are more like misconceptions, learning differences or preteen classroom struggles. And the “cars” the company is testing have 10-year-olds in the backseat.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

How did people have pets before this. techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/l...

In addition, the company is rolling out several new pet care features for families, including tools that let families schedule “care logs” to manage and track whether the pet has been fed, walked, given medication, or had its litter cleaned. Everyone in the family can see these care routines, so they will know if the pet needs their attention.

Another fun feature is “Zoomies Alerts” for GPS trackers, which track the bursts of energy a pet has at particular points during the day or evening. A new Weekly Roundup will recap other routines, like the distance walked or information about who in the family provided the pet with the most care during the week.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

I really don’t think you can view these initiatives outside of the context of a movement in this country to strip people of their bodily autonomy.

The $300 ($250 for preorders beginning Tuesday) Luffu Link wearable, launching in blue, black and gold color options early next year, supports location sharing, health sensing — such as activity, sleep, and heart rate — the ability to get help from family members, and voice logging for medications, meals, mood, doctor visit updates and reminders. It offers up to five days of battery life and connects to cellular networks to allow for the sending of voice messages orhealth data to trusted contacts without a phone nearby.
The device syncs its data with the app, which uses AI to organize information, identify long-term patterns and surface insights for families. The system is designed to help caregivers understand in real time what has changed, what requires attention and what steps to take next, Park said. The app will launch broadly in the US later in 2026. It works with a $19 per month subscription, which includes access for four family members.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

If you thought the (apocryphal) Target pregnancy story was invasive, wait till family stories about this start trickling in.

Luffu Link represents the next step in the startup’s mission to develop an intelligent family care system, as it complements the Luffu health-monitoring app, launched earlier this year. The app uses AI in the background to gather and organize family information, learn day-to-day patterns, and flag notable changes so families can stay aligned and address potential well-being issues.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

That tracking is bad too? 🤷🏿‍♂️

Sean doesn't see the Omi as different from all the ways he's already tracked across the internet. He also thinks the AI would help when his daughter's sudden shifts in temperament confuse him and Molly and leave them scrambling. He sees it like a football team watching game film to learn from their mistakes. It may help him answer the question that swims through his brain at night, he says: "Did I do a bad thing as a dad today? Did I mess that up?"

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...

Molly, who runs a startup to help parents book activities for kids, is willing to use AI for logistics, like meal planning or sorting through her email to surface the most important messages from their daughter's school. Sean, who works in tech sales, wants to go further. He has his eyes on Omi necklace, an AI wearable that listens in on your day and includes a feature called Parent Whisperer. It records and analyzes interactions between parent and child, logging things like school assignments and supplies to order. The device also picks up on tone, alerting parents when their kid may be unhappy — registering everything from "from toddler tantrums to teenage mood swings," per its ad copy — and offering "expert-backed guidance" on how to respond.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026

I have thoughts. I’m including the link only because of the rules as laid out in the BS charter. www.thefp.com/p/citys-war-...

Bari Weiss’ Free Press A City’s War on Surveillance Cameras
Activists in upstate New York say their fight against Flock’s license plate cameras is the first step in dismantling Big Tech’s overreach.

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