#aihype — Public Fediverse posts
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Serious question:
Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?
I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.
There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.
What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?
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Serious question:
Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?
I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.
There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.
What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?
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Serious question:
Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?
I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.
There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.
What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?
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Serious question:
Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?
I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.
There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.
What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?
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Serious question:
Any idea why some folks who use "AI" tools (chatbots/LLMs) try so hard to convince me to use them?
I mean actual end users, not the CEOs and advertisers - they have obvious reasons for wanting to convince me.
There are so many other products or services I don't use but only in this one area do I get folks who aren't selling it urging me to try it, saying I'll be "left behind" if I don't.
What motivates them? What do they gain from my use?
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Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y
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Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y
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Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y
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Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y
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Taps the Disability Dongle sign. By Karl Groves. AI is the future of #Accessibility https://karlgroves.com/ai-is-the-future-of-accessibility/ #AI #LLM #AIHype #A11y
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What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.
This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)
The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.
The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?
The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.
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What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.
This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)
The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.
The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?
The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.
>>
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What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.
This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)
The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.
The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?
The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.
>>
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What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.
This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)
The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.
The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?
The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.
>>
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What caught my attention was the logo of a dinosaur devouring a book. Twice curious.
This is not a post about destruction of rare books, not is it a post about AI itself. It's about the #AmazonVGT3 logo as reported by 404Media. (Article links below in reply.)
The article shows two logos; as you'll see they're different. One appears in the "storefront" window. The other is "clean" - perhaps reasonably generated for purposes of the article.
The storefront logo is more curious. It's only recently been added. It's not in the last Google streetview (February this year). Why would #Amazon add the window stickers now? If they wanted to keep quiet about shredding books, why rile people with this logo? As an AI company, is it all part of a continuous #AIHype cycle?
The answers are not as important as us asking the questions.
>>
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.
Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coinBoth authors are active on Mastodon.
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Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.
Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coinBoth authors are active on Mastodon.
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Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.
Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coinBoth authors are active on Mastodon.
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Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.
Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coinBoth authors are active on Mastodon.
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Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna’s book “The AI Con” (2025) is a highly accessible read for a general audience. I found it a much needed pick-me-up.
Three big takeaways:
* make jokes about it
* ask questions like: What is being automated, what goes in and what comes out? How is it evaluated? Is it being described as human-like? Who benefits, who is harmed?
* Both AI “boosters” and AI “doomers” are, counterintuitively, two sides of the same #AIHype coinBoth authors are active on Mastodon.
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@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!
By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.
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@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!
By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.
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@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!
By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.
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@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!
By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.
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@gvwilson Thanks for sharing this paper!
By the way, this thread got broken somehow so here's a link for folks looking for posts 2 & 3.
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Weekly output: DDoS attacks, Ed Zitron at Ai4, Delta WiFi spoofing, security perspectives from Black Hat’s NOC, AT&T’s Turbo Live
Having zero in-person work events on my calendar this week was a real treat after spending the prior week in Vegas bouncing between two conferences. That downtime also allowed me to finish two stories from those events.
8/11/2026: Major DDoS Attacks Are Booming, But US No Longer the Most Targeted Country, PCMag
I wrote up a Cloudflare report on trends in distributed denial-of-service attacks and closed it out with a reminder of how efforts to set security standards for the connected gadgets that are often enlisted into DDoS botnets continue to lag.
8/11/2026: This Tech Expert Thinks It’s ‘Time to Call Bullshit on the AI Industry’, PCMag
The easier thing to do with Ed Zitron’s talk at Ai4 would have been to write a scaffold of a post around his most memorable lines, but I wanted to provide some context for the numbers he threw out. The required research started feeling like an exercise in yak shaving, in part because the AI data-center news cycle did not stop.
8/12/2026: Delta Passenger Spoofs Wi-Fi in the Air (Pro Tip: Don’t Do This), PCMag
After seeing so many other places jump on this story, I decided I should do my part–and make sure that my own post, unlike so many others, would feature a photo of 757 in Delta colors instead of some other plane in DL’s fleet.
8/14/2026: At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones, Fast Company
This was a Black Hat meeting request that I enthusiastically obliged, because Black Hat network admins don’t hold back when they’re talking about unwise behavior they’ve seen on the conference’s WiFi. James Pope (outside this information-security conference, senior director of security product research at Corelight) had some forceful advice for people using AI to vibe-code their own software: “Stop having janky apps.”
8/15/2026: At Rush Concert, AT&T’s Turbo Live Rocked, With Dazzling Download Speeds, PCMag
This story ran almost a month after the concert in question; first I had to field various bits of breaking news, then I had to tell my AT&T PR contact to set aside my questions about this data-only power-up and instead answer a query about a round of retroactive rate hikes, then Ai4 and Black Hat monopolized my journalistic bandwidth. I may or may not have also needed additional time to see how many Rush song-title references I could sneak into this post.
#AI #AIHype #Ai4 #ATT #BlackHat #Cloudflare #cybersecurity #dataCenters #DDoS #Delta #DeltaWiFi #DeltaWiFi #DL #EdZitron #informationSecurity #infosec #NetworkOperationsCenter #NOC #Rush #TurboLive #UnitedCenter #vibeCoding -
Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Interview: "Deep Unlearning”: AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
"Artificial intelligence is entrenching societal biases & inequality" ~Timnit Gebru
Google fired Gebru in 2020 "for writing a paper that warned about the financial & environmental costs of large language models, as well as their propensity to promote racism."
"The internet, which is what AI uses to train itself, represents hegemonic views."
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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Are they really booming? And, no. #AIHype
The article quotes the owner of Barter Books in Northumberland who had one extraordinary sale of a week's (!) worth of books. A quick check of BBC's source (see their barterbooks.co.uk) - they're not exactly a prime target for bulk buying. "Incoming books for Barter: Please note that we cannot handle more than 10 books (or 20 paperbacks) per visit." However the BBC article **is** good free publicity for their bookshop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
The BBC article rehashes a story of shredded rare and secondhand books. It continues a story that came out (at least) as early as January in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ I did a quick read and it seems unknown how many, if any, secondhand books were bought and scanned. No mention of a rare book destroyed.
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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Are they really booming? And, no. #AIHype
The article quotes the owner of Barter Books in Northumberland who had one extraordinary sale of a week's (!) worth of books. A quick check of BBC's source (see their barterbooks.co.uk) - they're not exactly a prime target for bulk buying. "Incoming books for Barter: Please note that we cannot handle more than 10 books (or 20 paperbacks) per visit." However the BBC article **is** good free publicity for their bookshop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
The BBC article rehashes a story of shredded rare and secondhand books. It continues a story that came out (at least) as early as January in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ I did a quick read and it seems unknown how many, if any, secondhand books were bought and scanned. No mention of a rare book destroyed.
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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Are they really booming? And, no. #AIHype
The article quotes the owner of Barter Books in Northumberland who had one extraordinary sale of a week's (!) worth of books. A quick check of BBC's source (see their barterbooks.co.uk) - they're not exactly a prime target for bulk buying. "Incoming books for Barter: Please note that we cannot handle more than 10 books (or 20 paperbacks) per visit." However the BBC article **is** good free publicity for their bookshop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
The BBC article rehashes a story of shredded rare and secondhand books. It continues a story that came out (at least) as early as January in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ I did a quick read and it seems unknown how many, if any, secondhand books were bought and scanned. No mention of a rare book destroyed.
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Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?
Are they really booming? And, no. #AIHype
The article quotes the owner of Barter Books in Northumberland who had one extraordinary sale of a week's (!) worth of books. A quick check of BBC's source (see their barterbooks.co.uk) - they're not exactly a prime target for bulk buying. "Incoming books for Barter: Please note that we cannot handle more than 10 books (or 20 paperbacks) per visit." However the BBC article **is** good free publicity for their bookshop.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o
The BBC article rehashes a story of shredded rare and secondhand books. It continues a story that came out (at least) as early as January in the Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/ I did a quick read and it seems unknown how many, if any, secondhand books were bought and scanned. No mention of a rare book destroyed.
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How convenient for the #BigTech cartel: Use #AIhype to constrain supply, increase prices, then lure people into renting more and owning less of their tech... 😞💩
"...Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program... with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term."
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-leasing-program-debuts-how-it-works/
"The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
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How convenient for the #BigTech cartel: Use #AIhype to constrain supply, increase prices, then lure people into renting more and owning less of their tech... 😞💩
"...Apple Upgrade, a new product leasing program... with the option to easily upgrade at the end of the lease term."
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/28/apple-upgrade-leasing-program-debuts-how-it-works/
"The program is an effort to make products more affordable as artificial intelligence sends some component prices soaring."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html
