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Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war.

Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X www.wired.com/story/fake-a...

This from @marinetraffic on X is interesting. Basically, there's good evidence that someone is doing the opposite of a ghost fleet: spoofing fake ship signals to make it *look like* there's Strait of Hormuz crossings happening when there aren't.

chart showing a drop in traffic on the strait of Hormuz to nearly nothing

2nd chart showing a drop in traffic on the strait of Hormuz to nearly nothing

Some ships might be turning off their transponders and going for it. But by watching who gets near to Hormuz and who reappears on the other side, we can get a bit of a picture and it's not good. This is not "the Strait is open", as Trump and his supporters are claiming.

$200,000 Granat-4 shot down by Wild Hornets anti-aircraft drones 🔥

This is the first confirmed shootdown of a Granat-4 reconnaissance UAV by operators of the 1129th Air Defense Regiment.

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crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
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Robotaxis: Traffic Laws Aren’t Optional! Tell your Governor to require autonomous vehicles to be ready for public roads, or be kept out of service until the company proves it has fixed its problems.

Consumer Reports is petitioning for stronger state regulating of self-driving car safety consumer.quorum.us/campaign/157...

Federal officers barred from unleashing indiscriminate force on ICE protesters in Portland “Ample evidence shows the existence of an unwritten policy” to encourage excessive, unpredictable and indiscriminate force to quash protesters’ rights, the judge found.

“Ample evidence shows the existence of an unwritten policy” to encourage excessive, unpredictable and indiscriminate force to quash protesters’ rights, the judge found.

Warning: The Chaos President THRIVES on Chaos Failed wars have tail risks for democracy.

"In the America of 2016, we would assume that there was nothing a president could do to alter the progress of free and fair elections." A long, long time ago...

If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.

Well, now I am hearing this in a French accent in my head.

Why Isn’t Trump (Even) Less Popular? There are two reasons.

Trump's got about 39% support right now. How is that possible?

two things:
1. fascism has a constituency
2. partisanship is powerful

I talk about both at some length here. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/why-isnt-t...

Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.

Clearly rolling an orc barbarian. No question

a drawing of a monk wearing dark glasses and rolling dice at a table

gambling monk, germany, 15th century

"This piece of art sucked and you should all experience it" is frankly an underrated type of positive review

The Mummy is basically the perfect great bad film.

I know, it's an indefensible category, but it's full of really fun stuff

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

It should go without saying, AND YET

Dr. Oz says Obamacare enrollment may be ‘too high’ Even as the top official for Medicaid and Medicare claims millions may be falsely enrolled, the Trump administration is urging younger people to sign up for high-deductible ACA plans.

There’s no such thing as too many people having access to healthcare. Everyone should have healthcare.

These ants navigate with a newly discovered ‘Moon compass’ Insects must perform tricky internal calculations to travel in a straight line

i'm back in @science.org reporting on a newly discovered "lunar compass" used by bull ants!

these ants return home from foraging trips by observing the arc of the moon and integrating it with their sense of time—the first animals known to do so 🧪

learn more in the link below:

Don’t Call It ‘Intelligence’ Humans are question machines. AI is an answer machine.

"By calling what AI can do 'intelligence,' we are conflating a technological capability with a human attribute," writes novelist Charles Yu. "The danger isn’t that we are overestimating AI. It’s that we are underestimating ourselves." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Killing Kids in Iran While Kids in the U.S. Go Hungry - The American Prospect For the money the U.S. is spending on war with Iran, it could be covering food stamps for 41 million people or Medicaid for 16 million people.

Food stamp recipients, laid-off autoworkers, ICU nurses don't want war with Iran. I talked to workers who are horrified by the US-Israeli bombing of schools, hospitals, homes—and outraged that we're spending billions of public dollars on war while people in the US go hungry.

it is spreading through the state capacity of China specifically but it would indeed be better if more states chipped in

How We’re All Now Paying the Price for the Myth of Trump’s Competence The administration’s war with Iran is setting a mountain of taxpayer dollars on fire every day—mostly because he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

The man is, whatever his other faults, just way in over his head. Maybe Democrats should say that more often. The fact that he’s costing taxpayers a billion dollars a day on a war most of them didn’t want may be a good place to start. trib.al/oQGYMWP

Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

BREAKING: Former military lawyers say use of JAG lawyers in Minnesota violates the Posse Comitatus Act.

Although recent litigation has focused on troop deployments to American cities, a new challenge in Minnesota looks at DOJ's use of JAG lawyers in non-military cases.

New, at Law Dork:

Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users A couple of 20-year-old developers make $500,000 a month promising to help men to stop watching porn, but exposed their private porn watching habits.

A couple of young, viral developers are making $500,000 a month with ‘Quittr’; an app to help people with porn addiction. Insane money, living in a mansion, etc. We found they exposed the masturbation habits of 100,000s of users, then lied about fixing it www.404media.co/viral-quittr...

This is amazing.

When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.

That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

* chanting * contempt contempt contempt

* louder now * Contempt Contempt Contempt

* climbing on top of a table * CONTEMPT CONTEMPT CONTEMPT

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Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

#illegalwar #trumpmurderschildren