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My favorite Glenn Greenwald story is that when Chelsea Manning told him he was being sketch he flipped out and thought that publishing their DMs was a good idea and the DMs were about me

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Great – looks as if the White House used AI to draft a health report and wound up inserting citations for articles that don’t exist. They put cheating high schoolers to shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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dead internet theory masks a sightly more insidious theory; which applies to basically all KPI-based system. It's a sort of pressure to turn a working human system that produces value into a simulacrum that appears to be the same thing but is not, a stuffed rabbit standing in for a whole creature.

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Irish peacekeepers In Lebanon have come under fire from Israeli forces near a bombed out village. www.thejournal.ie/irish-peacek...

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Good stories are deliberate, and deliberateness is what AI lacks in empty spades. pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/29/g...

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IQ study retracted in fallout from decades-old misconduct report retractionwatch.com/2025/05/28/i...

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Volkswagen, the car company, sold 8.6 million currywursts in 2024. More than the 5.2m cars they sold. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...

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AI, for this?

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Holy cannoli! Remember the Torturer/Kidnappers for Crypto? Two NYC cops worked for them as a side job! One of them is on the Mayor's personal security detail! Scoop by Myles Miller and @lauranahmias.bsky.social

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And there’s an economics podcast bemoaning South Africa for not having the electricity for data centre investment: oh you saps, you tools, you fools.

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Cricket is a two-innings sport but #RCB are looking good in the qualifier for the #IPL2025 final with #PBKS at 97/9 (13.3).

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I worry an appeal to "better" genAI critique is just shifting the center towards pro-AI. Extreme doesn't mean wrong.

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intake of breath Ciaran Mullooly used AI to write a letter to Ursula von der Leyen about EU aid to Gaza, quoting Swedish House Mafia and including a story about a fake girl. collapses www.thejournal.ie/ciaran-mullo...

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No but I’m actually super bummed that propublica decided to work with openAI and is happy about it

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How many times can Putin make a fool of Trump? It’s nearly June, Trump has had 16 weeks to end the war he said would be ended on day one. Fool.

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This seat is open because asshole Democrats in the Senate wouldn’t confirm Biden’s pick for the 3rd Circuit because Biden’s pick was Muslim and did pro bono work for Muslim clients.

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In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

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Hopefully the Alpine A390 is to Alpine what the Macan is to Porsche; the money pot that lets them keep making 718s and 911s. Would love to give an A110 a go. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new...

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There’s 5 of us in a call and Joe, the main client, makes a joke which only I laugh at. To be clear Joe and I are the weird ones, everyone else is normal.

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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.

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The goal, Mars, of Starship is what I think is the real problem. Musk is a serial liar (“over promiser” if you are NYT) but SpaceX was doing well up until this nonsense.

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India requires manufacturers of CCTV cameras to submit hardware, software and source code for assessment. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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What a terrible name for a starship.

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Canadian involvement in the torture of Omar Khadr shows that our hands are not clean. We followed the US into depravity once. Let us ensure that never happens again! We should not be striving for economic and military cooperation, but total separation. thewalrus.ca/guantanamo-b...

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GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...

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I've pushed back against re-use of England and USA naming of our South African junior cricket teams but people just keep coming back with the Colts, Broncos, Knights, Patriots, Stallions, Royals, Buccaneers etc. SA has a rich animal, plant, land, sea, air, and cultural heritage to drawn on. Use it!

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When a user attributes consciousness to a chatbot, does it affect trust? In this new study, we guessed people more willing to attribute consciousness to chatGPT would trust it more on a factual matter - but found substantial evidence AGAINST this. (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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