I have a piece coming out soon on the similarities between the data center boom and 19th century railroad booms, and honestly they’ve made it a little too easy and on the nose.
the "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy message repurposed to say "you wouldn't jailbreak an F-35"
www.twz.com/air/f-35-sof...
The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain.
(Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
Markets In Turmoil As Price Of Money Skyrockets To $90 A Dollar
Markets In Turmoil As Price Of Money Skyrockets To $90 A Dollar http://theonion.com/markets-in-turmoil-as-price-of-money-skyrockets-to-90-1819575197/
Her trip to Ireland was ruined by this one question?? Gee, I wonder why…
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
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I double checked. This is not being reported at WaPo.
www.ft.com/content/09fa...
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...
Remember that Noem’s legal husband sat thru 1.5 hearings worth of cuck-shaming and Kristi still lost her job.
Was Claude/AI selecting a girl school and a hospital as targets?
Dying
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.
Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.
Danish Defense Minister: Continue.
Gig workers in Africa helped train AI systems for a company that performed work for a secretive U.S. military unit. Many were never told their work could be used for military purposes https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky
Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg
It’s the Jeffrey Epstein War
A wall full of mugs arranged in such a way that it looks like the mugs are repeating themselves, creating an uncomfortable illusion
Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye
Tired of AI hype posts? You might like my sober assessment of whether AI-generated summaries are suitable for studying and research. Spoiler alert, they are not.
The text is primarily aimed at students and researchers, but has much broader relevance. So share freely!: www.tue.nl/en/our-unive...
NEW: Last year, Cellebrite stopped Serbia from using its tools after allegations that local police had abused them to hack into the phone of a journalist.
Now there are similar allegations in Kenya and Jordan, and Cellebrite is taking an entirely different approach.
A must-read report from @pressfreedom.bsky.social: "We returned from hell": Palestinian journalists recount torture in Israeli prisons
"58 Palestinian journalists reported being subjected to what they described as torture, abuse, or other forms of violence in Israeli detention facilities."
No surprise there. Ru wants Ukraine to surrender but can’t compel them. Ukraine isn’t losing on the battlefield and they don’t want to submit to Ru occupation. The US is not an honest broker but trying to help Ru achieve its goals diplomatically. US has stopped aid to Ukr so it has little leverage.
Can’t believe we are still doing this
"Coming from a country that is number 2 in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country (United States) that is 58th on this list is..... interesting" @kajakallas.bsky.social
Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.
We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.
It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.
Anti-homeless benches in Pokemon Legends ZA
why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon
"They had Marimar Martinez on a dangerous activists list before they shot her" and "NIH is out of the business of pandemic preparation" and "they taunted the hungry children at Dilley with Thanksgiving food for the jailers" and "a lot of those empty PDFs are abuse videos" was all today
Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that.
Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
