Hannah Fry built an OpenClaw AI agent. the agent opened a shop selling novelty mugs, emailed a journalist without being asked, and then leaked our passwords to a total stranger. AI agents don’t just answer questions – they act. They can browse the web, send emails, and spend your money.
The agent demonstrated the “lethal trifecta”, if an LLM has access to your private data, the internet, and someone can give them an untrusted instruction, then they are not safe.
An interesting (and slightly controversial due to basically being opt-out by default instead of opt-in, but apparently this is fixed) project is back. Holos Discover is a A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It now follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub. You have full control. Block it, mention it with “unfollow”, or disable indexing in your settings.
It’s still early days so the index will take some time to build up.
LLM AI can do some cool things. But is anyone measuring the quality of the output vs the real costs (I mean real total costs, not just your investor and environment subsidised free tier or small subscription) and effort of the input? Is it real inteligence, or just like a plastic doll that says “I love you” when you pull it’s string? Just good enough for small kids to suspend their disbelief for entertainment, companionship, and help in learning social skills.
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“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit” – Cory Doctorow. First platforms are good, then they abuse their individual users to make things better for their corporate users, then they abuse the corporate users for profit, then they die. It’s destroying the internet to ensure better short-term shareholder returns.
When a seemingly innocent lemonade stand materializes in a suburban front yard, the once tranquil neighborhood descends into chaos as mysterious and unsettling events unfold.
On this site is shown speeding behaviour data collected from goods vehicles (LGVs and HGVs) in UK cities, across a month in October 2023. This data was collected by Compass IoT, and made available to the Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service for research purposes. All data is non-identifiable and aggregated, and no personal data is collected as part of this project.
A properly fun and relaxing web browser game https://messenger.abeto.co thatis quite amazing given that it runs perfectly in most browsers. Created by Vicente Lucendo. The aim is to follow your task list and deliver packages.
