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Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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Trump and the tech oligarch's new "AI accord" is a meaningless and toothless performance -- designed to pre-empt real oversight and propped up by a pathetic U.S. press:

Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press

Tech and media giants are desperate to convince the electorate that meaningful corporate oversight isn't necessary.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

openly gushing about historically corrupt fascists should be disqualifying remember when he met with trump and enthusiastically praised him for being really smart and engaged?

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5h

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

screenshot of thumbnail for the ezra klein show with guest bill gates

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 4h

how is it possible that Peter Thiel has more money than god yet always looks like he's suffering from a bout of deep jungle diarrhea

billionaire Peter Thiel looking uncomfortably veiny and sweaty

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Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 5h

it really is. Has to start small and locally and build back outward. I don't think it's possible to reform the rot at grand scale on the federal level with any sort of magic bullet.

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"The corporate press has actively and unsubtly decided to pretend corruption doesn't exist, because it serves the financial interest of media ownership to play make believe." - Karl Bode

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I'm positively obsessed with corporate journalistic simulacrum. It looks and smells like journalism, but it exists exclusively to prop up the agenda of an extraction class that wants to accumulate wealth completely free of ANY meaningful public interest guardrails

a collection of headlines falsely claiming the new AI accord is "morally binding" and "almost like a constitution"

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Trump and the tech oligarch's new "AI accord" is a meaningless and toothless performance -- designed to pre-empt real oversight and propped up by a pathetic U.S. press:

Trump's New 'AI Guardrails' Are Worthless Gibberish Propped Up By A Shitty Press

Tech and media giants are desperate to convince the electorate that meaningful corporate oversight isn't necessary.

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Patt Morrison @pattmlatimes.bsky.social · 6h

Any "morally binding" document that purportedly binds Donald Trump isn't worth the pixels it's written on.

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Trump says tech execs signed ‘morally binding’ accord to help police AI

consolidated corporate extraction-class owned media LOVES to put the lie unchallenged in the headline it's like their absolute favorite thing here too, notice ZERO mention that Trump has defanged regulators

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The president floated forming a 10-person committee that he said would play a role in overseeing the artificial intelligence industry.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

lol, I missed the spelling error, fabulous

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Rep. Rich McCormick on data centers: "They're not gonna use your water. They're gonna keep your electricity rate low. They're gonna pay for your teachers, schools, roads, most likely your property taxes. You're gonna have more jobs. It's gonna be an amazing thing to have in your neighborhood."

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every time they wander into my wheelhouses (like broadband) the coverage is very pro industry and toothless, so I can only imagine

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Trump's AI "constitution" crowns day of accelerating ambition

there's just a parade of these stories helping the President pretend he's erecting useful guardrails for AI none of them think it's important to mention Trump has taken a brutal hatchet to U.S. corporate oversight and consumer protection regulators

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The terms were simple: Press ahead, project optimism and police yourselves.

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 20h

“Causes stir”

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

Yes that's definitely how it works!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23h

corruption has endured federal U.S. public interest guard rails and corporate oversight no longer function but all our biggest news outlets don't think that's worth mentioning just weird toothless infotainment

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

it would be cool if U.S. journalism could clearly inform readers that the trump administration dismantled what was left of our already shaky regulators and replaced them with perfomative vibes

"It's almost like a constitution, in a way," Mr. Trump said while flanked by SpaceX's Elon Musk, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Nvidia's Jensen Huang, OpenAI's Greg Brockman, Google's Sundar Pichai and a throng of other tech executives."

It's not clear exactly how the accord will work. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters the AI firms agreed to "multiple layers of auditing and controls," including internal evaluations and external audits. The findings of auditors would be independently reviewed by each company's board of directors, Zuckerberg added.

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“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”

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Dox for Me, O Muse

Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the biggest AI companies is paying to "present" Politico's flagship newsletter as it touts "AI's big day in Washington." Good stuff.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 29/09/2026

between the metaverse, the pervert glasses, and now this fuzzy avatar mess, Meta is on a generational run of real-world Black Mirror episodes

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

Politburo vibes.

Soviet premier Nikolai Khrushchev, with his successor Leonid Brezhnev seated beside him (to the left), stands and addresses microphones at a Politburo meeting.

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I covered Delrahim a lot because he helped T-Mobile and Sprint secure their shitty wireless merger

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Ellison’s Graham Doc Grab

Paramount's top lawyer Makan Delrahim (Trump's first term DOJ "antitrust enforcer") is trying to snag the rights to a Lindsey Graham documentary that contains candid recorded conversations with David Ellison

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Paramount is nearing a deal to pay an eye-popping sum for a documentary about the late Lindsey Graham that is also said to contain candid footage involving David Ellison himself, Status has learned.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026

substack executives gave him a big cash advance to post on the platform

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Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

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just another day in a country too corrupt to pass a privacy law, regulate data brokers, or adequately fund its regulators things are going to get wild

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Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

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also there was a minority woman who believes in antitrust law briefly in charge of the FTC!

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burn it with fire and salt the earth where it stood

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somebody else pointed out you could obtain root admin privs on a device Muse was running on by simply pretending to be a Muse agent yourself great stuff, the potential for madness, hyper-surveillance monetization, and chaos at scale is very impressive

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Muse launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers access to total surveillance of your Mac. Others then showed the agent completely fucked up when put in charge of Marketplace, selling products for dirt cheap and handing out the end user address

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America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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