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Gizmodo
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
Who Does That Server Really Serve? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
 A teddy bear toy that provided a voice inerface to ChatGPT gave advice about sex and about finding knives. Clearly it did not think about the meaning and implications of its output for its likely audience. This reminds us that ChatGPT is not intelligent. The reaction to this by "Open" "AI"
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the Guardian
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George M...
the Guardian
Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s green-bashing | Nathalie Tocci
From deforestation to emissions trading, vital policies are being watered down in the name of ‘competitiveness’, says Guardian Europe columnist...
the Guardian
Pushing airport expansion while rail travel languishes – so much for Labour’s green agenda | Polly Toynbee
The climate damage done by avoidable flying is huge, yet the government continues to see planes as the answer to its economic woes, says Guardian c...
 George Monbiot: *Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage.* *Once a global leader on climate action, the EU has given in to the right’s
Free-Range Kids
Want Kids to Spend Less Time in the Virtual World? Give Them Back the Real One! - Free-Range Kids
Are kids on their phones all the time because that’s what they love the most? An explosive new Harris Poll finds that actually, what kids 8-12 RE...
 A poll of US children found that they would rather see other children in physical presence, without constant adult monitoring, and it's because that is not allowed that they talk via online dis-services instead.
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the Guardian
Removing CO2 from atmosphere vital to avoid catastrophic tipping points, leading scientist says
10bn tonnes must be captured from the air every year to limit global heating to 1.7C, says Johan Rockström
Glossary
 * Johan Rockström of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, who is one of the chief scientific advisers to the UN and the Cop30 presidency, said 10bn tonnes of carbon dioxide needed to be removed from the air every year even to limit global heating to 1.7C (3.1F) above preindustrial levels.* How we could remove that much CO2 from the atmosphere is
the Guardian
Texas professors arrested at campus protest sue university, alleging retaliation
Ben Wright and Rosemary Admiral say UTD severely restricted campus access after arrests at peaceful protest
 Two professors at the University of Texas, Dallas, are suing the university for restricting their teaching after they were arrested at a peaceful protest.
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