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Full link:

https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260401139/employers-are-using-your-personal-data-to-figure-out-the-lowest-salary-youll-accept

Apparently your mere servitude is not enough for the corporate overlords these days.

Companies are now actively filtering for candidates who are miserable, poor and are heavily in debt.

Wage surveillance includes, as per the article..

"Signals associated with financial vulnerability - including data on whether a prospective employee has taken out a payday loan or has a high credit-card balance - to infer the lowest pay a candidate might accept."

"Companies can also scrape candidates' public personal social-media pages, to determine if they are more likely to join a union or could become pregnant. The data can be used to determine wage increases after an employee is hired"

https://bsky.app/profile/josephcox.bsky.social/post/3mrxdi3n66s2x

https://www.404media.co/google-earths-new-ai-lets-anyone-fabricate-completely-bullshit-satellite-images/

ghost jobs

’Tis the season of AI open letters and manifestos, apparently.

Mark Zuckerberg has now entered the debate over the future of AI with a WSJ op-ed published today - and frankly, his position is much more balanced and technologically coherent than Pacing the Frontier.

The AI Future Is for Everyone - WSJ

Zuckerberg’s argument is the most pro-diffusion of the four positions now circulating. His core view is that advanced AI should not be enclosed within a handful of frontier labs or government-controlled systems. It should spread through businesses, individuals, open ecosystems, products, and national infrastructure.

The emphasis is on opportunity, competitiveness, American leadership, and broad human agency - not on “buying time” by attempting to slow the frontier.

His argument, distilled:

AI should primarily be understood as a tool for expanding individual agency - not as a force from which institutions must protect humanity.

So far, the emerging AI-policy map looks something like this:

1. The open-model coalition: openness as national strategy

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, IBM, the Linux Foundation, and others argue that open models, open weights, and ecosystem competition are strategic assets rather than threats.

2. Dario Amodei: open below the danger threshold, restricted above it

Open models are beneficial until they cross a frontier capability threshold in areas such as cyber or biology.

3. “Pacing the Frontier”: build machinery to slow automated AI R&D

The 1,100+ employee letter is qualitatively different: it asks governments to develop international mechanisms capable of deliberately pacing frontier progress.

4. Zuckerberg: broad access, American leadership, targeted safeguards

Accelerate diffusion, preserve innovation, and regulate concrete harms rather than intelligence itself.

On a more fringe note, this sudden accumulation of AI manifestos may itself be a sign of the times. Astrologers are fretting about an “inflection point” coinciding with this month’s full Moon in Aquarius - but that is material for another sub. 🥲

Either way, we live in freaking interesting times.