I’d lost the excellent Gavin Williams’ name /handle / whatever it’s called, earlier! Here he is: @gavstatic.bsky.social

AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS- “amazing” “wow … just wow”. The teen begged to watch the last night; he’d known about it for years (writer Gavin Williams is a mate). 2018, pre-pandemic, pre-right’s rise, the horror is much louder now than when I first watched. www.imdb.com/title/tt4971...

The Russians are laughing at Trump. Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the Duma’s defence committee: “Trump remains in his normal state. He is either waiting to have a conversation with Putin, talking to Putin, or is explaining how well he spoke to Putin.”

When they say "AI will replace doctors" they mean "Instead of a doctor, you will have a chatbot and like it and if you die it's your tough break". The rich will continue to have regular doctors

we live in such an unbelievably dumb age

Trump and Bondi fired actually experienced immigration judges. Now, claiming they don't have enough immigration judges, they're asking military lawyers from DOD to come over on detail and serve as temporary judges. Blatant way to further militarize immigration enforcement. apnews.com/article/pent...

Not a single Reform UK MP attended today's Commons statement on child rape gangs.

Reading an article titled "Why didn't Brazilian democracy die?" and a key part of the story is a Supreme Court that actually did its job

JD Vance Asks National Guard Member If He Can Touch Gun https://theonion.com/jd-vance-asks-national-guard-member-if-he-can-touch-gun/

That got us wondering: How would those governors feel if National Guard troops from other states were ordered onto their streets, perhaps to patrol one of the 53 cities in those states with a higher murder rate than Washington’s? So, we asked them. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/the...

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.

Fact-Checking Trump On Crime theonion.com/fact-ch...

It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

I genuinely think GPT-5 may bring down generative AI. It broke the illusion with normies who thought ChatGPT was a friend or confidant or "brain storm machine," and I believe its new architecture is doing the very opposite of making it cheaper or more efficient.

Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963

If the sandwich guy had wielded bear spray or a baseball bat as part of the crowd that injured 140 police officers on Jan. 6 he would've been pardoned already www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

@gralefrit.bsky.social You have to see these! A friend of mine has been collating a series of images entitled "Things my students have written turned into Philomena Cunk quotes" and they're just glorious.

Big move from Reddit: it says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. www.theverge.com/news/757538/...

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Counterpoint: we can absolutely pretend it’s not happening. Did we all buy NFTs? How many of us owned a furby? This not a serious man, this is someone bought and paid for.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Stunning charts show how disproportionately the Roberts Court favors the Trump regime. "This pattern exemplifies what scholars call 'autocratic legalism'—the systematic weaponization of legal institutions to consolidate power while maintaining the appearance of legal process."

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Another ICE "assault" case unravels. Border Patrol and ICE are arresting US citizens and then after they find out that they are US citizens, they are charging them with "assault" to justify their actions. This is clearly DHS policy at this point. We've seen it repeatedly now.

Did a demon write this?

Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite. "NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....

A Ukrainian strike has killed Major General Mikhail Gudkov, deputy commander of the Russian Navy. He was hand-picked by Putin to oversee Russian naval infantry and naval missile and artillery force. (Source: Russian bloggers)

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

The US ban on state AI regulation may be voted on in the senate very soon. If you live in one of these states - FL, MO, TX, TN, WI, AK, ME - please call your senators & ask them to remove the "state AI regulation ban" in the budget reconciliation bill NOW! Link to call & what to say in next post 1/

Folks, US banning any kind of AI regulation happening in the states is about to be voted on soon!! CALL your Senators ASAP!! Zach gave us a great break down bellow so check out his thread and lets do it! It’s GO TIME!

NEWS: Senate Parliamentarian says GOP scheme to limit federal court preliminary injunctions by requiring plaintiffs challenging government actions to post large bonds cannot be part of reconciliation bill. A victory for Democrats, rule of law and the courts and a defeat for Trump and the GOP.

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

there's something profoundly funny that even his robot son hates him

Bad brainwaves: ChatGPT makes you stupid pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/16/b... - text www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-a9... - video

A live shot from ABC 10 News in San Diego. This must be one of the biggest anti-Trump protests anywhere in the country. Amazing turnout 👏 #NoKings #50501Movement

Hey @cnn.com, ‘we will kill you’ is not a “stern warning”. It’s a death threat. A sheriff is threatening the lives of the community he swore an oath to protect. For exercising their rights to peacefully assemble. Stop being stenographers for fascists.

Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

merry christmas, everyone

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Cybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.

Having now watched the footage and interview two of the members who were there, the amount of armed, masked federal agents surrounding three members of Congress and a mayor outside the ICE facility was totally unnecessary; the only possible reason for it was intentional escalation and intimidation.

You can say, "Well, users can also ask for different sources, verify themselves, etc." That's not how this tech is marketed at users. It's presented as a magic box that beeps and gives you candy.

The point I'm getting at here is that these bots disincentivize the kinds of skills we need to learn and practice to navigate the increasingly complex info ecology that we're forced to contend with everyday for so so many aspects of our lives.

Leckie is observing that these models do not understand "facts" per say and only produce text representing information that we recognize as true due to statistical likelihood. Asking the bot to perform a search result and summarize a source or two does not change that.

I've seen this post come up several times in my feed and each time, grown frustrated by all of the "Um, actually..." replies. Whether or not these models perform a web search before generating text does not change the fundamental problem Leckie is getting at here.