A stunning story about PFAS, corporate secrecy, and the difficulty of mitigating harms.

So OpenAI just grabbed a voice they liked — that’s all there is to it, it seems.

Am I the only one who thinks we’ve seen this “don’t wait, just grab them, they let you do anything when you have power/money/stardom” mindset towards women elsewhere, too?

nytimes.com/live/2024/05/2…

'I once thought of secrets as discrete, explosive truths that a heroic person could suddenly reveal.. Talking to Hansen and Johnson.. I saw that the truth can come out piecemeal over many years.. the same people who keep secrets can help divulge them.'
propublica.org/article/3m-for…

Really great job opportunity for technical folks to jump directly into regulating AI and other tech — applications open until May 28th:
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…

Last Monday, I asked OAI CTO Mira Murati if the Scarlett Johansson voice was intentional, she said that wasn’t the case at all. One week later, ScarJo is coming for OAI with the receipts…

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:

.Sharon Lerner will win - and deserve - a Pulitzer for her reporting on forever chemicals

Note language Biden uses to dismiss ICC action, referring to 'this prosecutor,' attributing the decision to one man, when in fact there was unanimous support for this action by the ICC's panel of experts; and 'this prosecutor' was Israel's preferred candidate for the position.

“You’ve never seen the Godfather?”, basically.

Worth reading. They knew, but chose to cover up and circle the wagons.

“The company and its scientists have not admitted wrong­doing or faced criminal liability for producing forever chemicals or for concealing their harms.”

Without accountability, hard to prevent repeat.

'Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported that Israeli officials supported Khan’s candidacy behind the scenes, and consider him a pragmatist who shies away from politicization.' timesofisrael.com/uks-karim-khan…

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Correction to this: they *tested* 33 people and only one tested positive.

All but one person — the one with conjunctivitis — tested negative.

The problem here isn’t 33 is “way more” than 1, it’s the opposite. That number of tested should be way higher.

“Ontario's first measles death in decades offers grim reminder that unvaccinated kids are at risk”

😢😢

An unvaccinated child didn’t make it to their fifth birthday because of a vaccine-preventable illness.