Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
US Pulls Authorization for Lithium Exploration Project in Southern Nevada, Citing Wildlife
Tuesday North America’s largest lithium mining operation cleared its last legal hurdle in federal appeals court, giving a green light to the mining of 6,000 acres in an 18,000-acre project site near Nevada’s northern border. But meanwhile, in Southern Nevada… Federal land managers have formally withdrawn their authorization of a Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
AI Watches Millions of Cars and Tells Cops if You Might Be a Criminal
Forbes’ senior writer on cybersecurity writes on the “warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse” in the United States. Here’s how county police armed with a “powerful new AI tool” identified the suspicious driving pattern of a grey Chevy owned by David Zayas: Searching through a database of 1.6 billion license Read more…
Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Workers Complain AI is Actually Increasing the ‘Intensity’ of Their Work
Editor/publisher Neil Clarke “said he recently had to temporarily shutter the online submission form for his science fiction and fantasy magazine, Clarkesworld,” reports CNN, “after his team was inundated with a deluge of ‘consistently bad’ AI-generated submissions.” “They’re some of the worst stories we’ve seen, actually,” Clarke said of the Read more…
Crypto Leben (Life aka misc) The Planet (on, and off)
FTX Lobbyist Tried to Buy Pacific Island to Create a New Superspecies, Lawsuit Says
Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state, a lawsuit filed in Delaware bankruptcy court shows. Gabe Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the “event where Read more…