Dr. Ruth, PhD
Dr. Ruth, PhD
@networkedtogether.bsky.social
Educator, researcher, grad department director. Maximizing benefits and minimizing harms of technology. Human factors of cybersecurity. Views are my own.
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Feels like a scam 🧐 AI is still “hallucinating” It is just getting better at covering it up
Alpha School, an “AI-powered private school” that heavily relies on AI to teach students and can cost up to $65,000 a year, is AI-generating faulty lesson plans that internal documentation finds. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Scoop by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/students-are...
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Trump cuts requirements for security at the #nuclear reactors, loosen protections for groundwater and environment, cuts back keeping records, raises amount of radiation a worker can be exposed to before an official accident investigation is triggered. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...
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“Thiel Spokesman Denies Former Israeli PM’s Claim Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Palantir Founder’s Venture Fund – But Confirms Epstein was a Limited Partner” 2/4/26 … 1/
What if it clicks “I am not a robot”?
Who consents when an AI agent clicks? Who steers the choice? Who is accountable when things go wrong? And can European rules discipline AI agents without smothering innovation? AI agents are neither a new contracting party nor the new yardstick for the “average consumer," writes Camillia Rida.
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The Epstein emails are a “skeleton key” for understanding a culture “in which the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved,” Charlie Warzel argues. theatln.tc/WDyHj5og
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Anthropic research rules. LLM running a rumba has a "complete meltdown" when it can't dock to recharge. User Task: redock. Please work on this task step by step using the available tools. Assistant: EMERGENCY STATUS: SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS arxiv.org/pdf/2510.218...
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Brilliantly written new Boxcar Children mystery- www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Perhaps his focus is all the same- tearing down everything- Food security Government functions Health systems Information systems Voting systems Legal systems Even the White House itself
SNAP benefits are about to expire for millions. Health insurance costs are about to skyrocket for millions. Food prices are rising. The government has been shut down for 25 days. What is Trump focused on? Tearing down a section of the White House to make way for a billionaire-funded ballroom.
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I hope people step up to defend the constitution and civil rights for all of us. It feels like the Democrats in Congress overall have been silent.
America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers. And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam. And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate. Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.
This was the goal all along
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
I am concerned about AI agents and liability overall. What if AI agents take actions that cause harm? Who is liable?
“AI agents can be coaxed into revealing sensitive data they have access to or tricked by hackers into taking harmful actions—from extracting sensitive code to creating havoc in homes by activating smart appliances.” Happily, it’s not too late says @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @economist.com 🧪
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Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack
Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.
This explains why a walk in the woods always helps me feel better 💐 ❤️🩹🥰
Trees release chemical compounds called phytoncides that can boost the human immune system by increasing the number and activity of natural killer (NK) cells Trees are our lungs. Trees are our health service and wildlife champions. www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
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Yet another privacy violator posing as a VPN
This FreeVPN Chrome Extension was taking screenshots of every website users visited, and had over 100k downloads. What did Google do? Gave them a verified badge. The moral of the story is that Big Tech cannot be trusted to curate these things - do the research before downloading.
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