🏝 JD Lasica

I will never, ever visit the AskAngel.ai website after they spent a bajillion dollars to flood the Olympic airwaves with the same lame-ass ad.

Pam Bondi, you are a disgrace to your office and a massive embarrassment to the United States of America.

AI & ethics in writing fiction Authors need to decide for themselves where to draw the line

On the latest Wordslinger podcast, I discuss AI, ethics and fiction writing with Kevin & Alessandra. Here's a summary:

theedgeoftomorrow.substack.com/p/ai-and-eth...

incurious morons? I'd go with "monstrous morons."

Opinion | A ‘great unmasking’ on X is arming Americans with digital borders The social media platform’s move to show users’ location is a great step toward online transparency.

Good Lord. They have an authenticity problem over at X.

Wash Post: From July to December 2024, X suspended 335,675,897 fake or spam accounts — nearly 2 million per day.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

BlueSky is one of the few websites that are not offline at the moment. Apparently Cloudflare is down. Perhaps a denial of service attack?

Pentagon orders temporary flight ban in Caribbean zone The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), acting under the direction of the Department of Defense (DoD), has issued a new Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) establishing temporary flight restriction...

The FAA has issued a temporary flight restriction off Puerto Rico for “special security reasons” effective November 1.

Anyone else think this sound like a ground run for an invasion of Venezuela?

Any Defense Dept. journalists out there? Worth looking into.

defence-blog.com/pentagon-ord...

Taxes on whom? That's the real choice.

Well done!

Fun to watch Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite” and see mentions of the secretive Raven Rock nuclear bunker, which was the primary setting in my high-tech thriller “Firefall.” (BTW, not the greatest ending for that movie.)

This is appalling ... and illegal. And no one is lifting a finger.

The next protest movement: No Overlords Will AI agents provide the impetus for the next grassroots uprising?

Will AI agents spur the next mass protest movement?

open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...

Yeah, baby! Proud of all my fellow Americans who stood up to make their voices heard today!

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil

This is how it's done, America.

Jair Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Left, right or center, political violence is always wrong. Full stop.

As a nation we don't want a return to the '60s-'70s era of political assassinations. Those who stoke hatred and mistrust of institutions are partly responsible for this heinous act.

Tragic to hear that Charlie Kirk is dead.

Ah, opening day Sunday, when the dreams of millions of NFL fans have not yet been crushed.

The eye of Hurricane Erin is about 200 miles north of us here in Puerto Rico, and it’ll miss us. But we’re already starting to get a whipping from the rain and winds! Batten down the hatches!

How AI is decimating the Web’s business model The old Internet bargain is dead: For decades, publishers traded content for traffic. Now AI companies are taking the content and killing the clicks.

How AI is decimating the Web's business model - my new post on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/theedgeo...

Just watched the umpteenth remake of "The War of the Worlds" on Amazon Prime. It's god-awful, riddled with laughable, absurd plotlines.

Learn knitting. Play a game of chess. Plenty of better ways to spend your 90 minutes.

Ready for some beach reads? Soak up the sun with summer reading fun at BingeBooks - list created by my friend Jen:

bingebooks.com/article/soak...

Watching the program now, since we can't make it to New York to see it on Broadway. Remarkably well done.

Will today's news media stand up to the latest authoritarian power grabs in DC? Good luck to us all.

Read-It-Later Pocket App Will Shut Down on July 8 Mozilla says it's focusing on 'projects that better match [people's] browsing habits and online needs.' You have until Oct. 8 to export your Pocket data.

Well, crap. Just heard that Pocket, one of my longtime favorite apps, is shutting down on July 8.

Anyone know of other bookmark apps that are trustworthy?

www.pcmag.com/news/pocket-...

Thank you to the 1,148 entrants who entered my giveaway for the high-tech thriller "The Golden Relic." We have sent the ebook to the 100 winners, and another 1,061 readers added the title to their Want to Read list on Goodreads. Awesome!

www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLWSJCG3

Bot farms invade social media to hijack popular sentiment Governments, financial influencers, and entertainment insiders are using data center-like facilities full of phones to push narratives fabricated through fake social media engagement.

Important article from my friend Eric about bot farms leading the disinformation assault on social media.

www.fastcompany.com/91321143/bot...

ElevenReader: Biohack Listen to a preview of this read or download the app to play the full read.

Listen to my high-tech thriller 'Biohack' with an audiobook narrator of your choice: Maya Angelou, Jerry Garcia, John Wayne,Laurence Olivier.

elevenreader.io/app/reader/a...

#elevenlabs #audiobook

I've heard several news commentators - like Katy Kay of Morning Joe today - refer to Kilmar Abrego Garcia as "Garcia."

This is incorrect.

His paternal surname is Abrego. So the only correct second references are "Abrego" or "Abrego Garcia."

Why is transcribing "the worst"? That's what AI does, quickly and accurately.

Hi Alex, we've built our own model, Marlowe, focused strictly on the writing sector. We're not an LLM.

The trouble with Bill Maher gushing about his pleasant dinner with the “real” Trump and his call to make peace with the MAGA movement is that they have absolutely no interest in doing the same.

If there was ever a time for resistance and NOT moderation, that time is now.