Pen and paper?

AGI any day now

"Sure, our plagiarism machine ingests enormous amounts of copyrighted material without anyone's permission, but it's the users of the machine who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 criminals, your honor." 🙄🙄 Just unbelievable levels of chutzpah. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

grokipedia is not going to make it because it lacks everything that made wikipedia useful and popular www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

What.

The premise of AI as a business model is that no matter who you are, at any walk of life, anything about you can be appropriated by the billionaires and simulated for their profit

"In an exclusive statement to the New York Post, first lady Melania Trump has revealed her next official project: leading the Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge to inspire children and teachers to embrace AI technology and help accelerate innovation in the field."

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

"The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it. ... People in countries with lower average AI literacy tended to be more open to adopting AI compared to those in countries with higher literacy levels."

We wake today still shaken, scared, enraged. The August 8 shooting at CDC did not happen in a vacuum--it grew from years of attacks on public health by people like RFK Jr. and Russell Vought, who are 'putting us in trauma' ...just like they promised.

Dune, 1965

Rural Colombia was sheltered from AI thanks to its remoteness, and the fact that few students can afford high-end smartphones. That changed when Meta added AI bots into WhatsApp and IG. Now AI-generated papers are prevalent, and test scores are dropping. Full story: restofworld.org/2025/colombi...

Remember when Google's CEO argued last year that people would actually click through AI links more, despite that not making any sense or being supported by any data? Turns out he was wrong 2024: www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ceo-a.... Today: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The instant, gleeful doxing of people now includes the utterly benign (dancing weird at a concert; standing in public; etc). It is incredibly unsettling that people feel it is worthwhile to dig into the lives of random ass people with little to no public interest www.404media.co/the-astronom...

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

watching people on x who have invested heavily in supporting both musk and trump try to navigate the cognitive dissonance and some of the results are just objectively funny

Estoy sorpresa.

Así como alguna vez se reemplazó “calentamiento global” por “cambio climático”, hoy se debate sustituir “desinformación” por alguna expresión algo menos “politizada”, como si no definiera un fenómeno con responsables claros y sus esfuerzos por acaparar poder. techpolicy.press/disinformati...

“The initiative is called Project Mulberry, and it involves a completely revamped Health app plus a health coach. The service would be powered by a new AI agent that would replicate — at least to some extent — a real doctor.” “to some extent”

La OMS advierte que “el sarampión ha vuelto” mientras el virus se propaga por Europa, América y Afganistán www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Javier Milei and Elon Musk are self-styled radicals with a mission to cut government down to size, writes @anaprieto.bsky.social . How far will they go to dismantle government and redefine its role?

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Lo agarró Mobi y lo remixó. Nunca me harán odiarte internet.

Queda claro que Javier Milei es a la economía lo que Robert Kennedy Jr. es a la medicina.

Kennedy Jr., flamante secretario de Salud de EEUU, entrevistó en 2020 a una activista antiaborto que decía que las vacunas estaban hechas con fetos "de cinco a seis meses" a los que se extrae del útero y mata con el corazón aún latiendo. Kennedy Jr. lloró durante la entrevista.

Trump prácticamente escoltado por Pichai, Bezzos, Musk, Zuckerberg. Clarísimo todo.

Hoy nos enteramos de que los trabajadores de las direcciones de VIH y vacunas del Ministerio de Salud de Nación tienen contrato sólo hasta el 31 de enero. ¿Qué va a pasar después? Nadie lo sabe.

Escribí sobre todas las señales que dio Zuckerberg antes de cerrar el programa de verificación financiado por Meta. ijnet.org/es/story/fac...

🚨ATENCIÓN "Se desconoce el paradero del director ejecutivo de Espacio Público, Carlos Correa desde este 7 de enero. No ha sido posible establecer comunicación. Según testigos, fue interceptado en el centro de Caracas por presuntos funcionarios encapuchados." espaciopublico.ong/se-desconoce...

No todas las libertades de expresión son iguales, claro.

La decisión de META de “deshacerse de los fact-checkers” (Zuckerberg dixit) no sorprende. Ya había arruinado el funcionamiento de herramientas de monitoreo interno que permitían detectar desinformación, y cerrado la mejor de monitoreo externo (CrowdTangle, RIP), sin contar que…

“Kids begin their day with two hours of instruction on standard topics like language, math and science, guided by an AI that continuously adjusts the learning plan based on how the child is doing in each subject.”

Martes que viene hablamos sobre kaos y control con @uadlup.bsky.social y @capitanintriga.bsky.social en el #FestivalEterno 👇

President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan, and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics.

Bluesky

Elon Musk has built a perfect disinformation machine, which helps explain the Bluesky exodus. I explore its inner workings here: www.forkingpaths.co/p/elon-musks...