A DOGE software engineer is alleged to have taken records on more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... by @merylkornfield.bsky.social et al
True but also... what the hell would be the point of an AI summary of Tolstoy
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
That video of Epstein and Trump? It might be pro-Iran disinformation.
Great story from @willoremus.com .
Also includes a WH statement saying it warned "fake news" against being used by bad actors (who are actually fake news outlets)
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Screenshot of fake video of an underwear-clad Trump with blindfolded young girls that got ~5m views on X, posted by "HDX" which turns out to be an Iran-aligned propaganda account
They're calling it "Operation Epstein Fury" (the video is fake)
Iranian state propaganda rarely resonates in the West. But Iran-aligned X accounts are finding serious traction with conspiratorial content that taps into preexisting suspicions about Trump's motives for war. X's lax approach to content moderation coming home to roost. Gift link: wapo.st/4aYw9mo
New: Verified "news" accounts on X have gained over 10m views with a fake video of Trump with young girls. Turns out they're part of a pro-Iran propaganda network, which is successfully exploiting the Epstein Files to erode public support for the war. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
normative claims aside i think this is a pretty insightful and mostly fair descriptive analysis of why platner holds special appeal to a segment of the left
you don't really gotta hand it to glenn beck but his use of "it" is probably the single most sane thing about this tweet
screenshot of X post by glenn beck touting a video interview he did with an AI george washington asking AI george what he thinks about the iran war AI george rocking swept-back silver hair and a blue t-shirt
can i say something without people getting mad
Interesting! Anthropic's Claude, the AI tool that the Pentagon famously banned last week, continues to play a crucial role in the U.S. military campaign in Iran, three people familiar with the situation told the @washingtonpost.com:
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people betting huge sums on other people's death is some straight-up black mirror shit
but the person dying and then the betting firm finding a fine-print loophole to not pay them anyway is what elevates this to high art
There is an “emerging sense that Trump’s centrality to right-wing politics has an endpoint in the not-so-distant future,” @samrosenfeld.bsky.social tells @willoremus.com. “That all serves to loosen Trump’s symbolic grip on the right’s discourse.”
Some of MAGA’s loudest voices are calling the Iran conflict a betrayal of “America First.”
Trump counters that MAGA means whatever he says it means. My story today on what could be the movement’s biggest schism yet: wapo.st/4aN3oJj
We should set aside our petty grievances in order to make room for new and even more petty grievances
RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation
And I really was saying Boo-urns
I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East
Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.
No one asked me but seems like a simple misunderstanding that the dynamics of short-form social platforms have turned into an unnecessary fight. I took the point of Joanna's original post to be that it was an important article that deserves to be getting more attention.
no one asked me but seems like a simple misunderstanding. i took the main point of joanna’s original post to be that it was an important piece that should be getting more attention.
Bluesky if its users could learn to differentiate between people who posted a questionable social media take and the people actively harming us
I don’t know the OP and I’m not staying on here to argue with anyone about it, but the fact that this thread has led to folks on here accusing her of supporting mass rape is both absurd and inevitable
At the 184-year-old Cleveland Plain Dealer, a top editor’s push to let AI draft news articles is boosting traffic — and spooking staffers.
My latest with @willoremus.com:
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I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.
It Does Not Work That Way
Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.
Cleveland's top newspaper is "removing writing from some reporters' workloads" by using AI to draft articles.
We dove into what drove the paper's editor to do that, how it's going and what the paper's human reporters think about it. wapo.st/4aX44e1 w/ @scottnover.bsky.social
At a Cleveland newspaper, reporters assigned to the suburbs “are now expected to file four stories a day with the help of AI.”
Also: one reporter “said they were caught off guard when their annual performance review indicated insufficient AI use.”
Gift link wapo.st/4aX44e1
The long 2010s are finally over
