“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

Well, that's one way to back fill the exodus of DOJ lawyers - and violate posse commitatus while you're at it.

"Will AI replace us? It’s the wrong question. AI will not simply replace human workers. It will change what human workers are. It is already reshaping how we learn, who we learn from, how we assess our competence... The humans who emerge from this process will not be the same humans who entered it."

ICE's detention capability in four slides. 1. All existing immigration detention centers in operation today 2. Plus all purchased warehouses (minus paused/halted ones) 3. Plus all facilities proposed to be reopened or acquired 4. Plus all hold rooms and check-in sites used for detainee 'staging'

Seems unusual, filed today, DOJ was apparently convinced Colorado is trying to force Grok to be "woke." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Most useful for identifying underutilized pejorative compounds like "scum-wit", "dirt-hat", and "trump-nozzle" which regrettably can only be deployed to describe RFK Jr...

If the people united in #Hungary can oust the 16y autocracy of #Orban 🇭🇺 ...we can do it in the United States 🇺🇸 The tide turns this November 🌊

Trump’s proposed $1.5 trillion military budget is the largest ever — higher than spending during World War II. Graph adapted from @stephensemler.bsky.social. www.stephensemler.com/p/trump-prop...

And then they came for the satellite imagery companies 🚫🛰️

Doubles down on #McLuhan's derivation that every technology is both an augmentation + amputation, while pragmatically pointing to "positive friction" behavioral design to retain your brain 🧠

Largely unreported Ukrainian drone offensive coinciding with lifting sanctions on purchase of Russian oil seems to have been a successful response.

There is a critical difference between holistic, authentic judgment enabled by embodied cognition, and AI's reductive simulation of the language patterns associated with such thought. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Uneasy co-existence under siege of #drone warfare

More like this ✊

Very informative perspective on contemporary drone warfare.

Reads a little bit like a diary... ...of a young person of conscience amidst an encircling fascist autocracy. And of course they would defend their community again 👷

if your specific niche is also "bizarre intertwingled anecdotes about 1950s-1990s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum and made them fully searchable and deeply interconnected 🎉welcome to f0lkl0r3.dev

"um, what was the question again?" 😈

Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.

You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.

There is...a lot...to process in this exhaustive recounting of the network of influence around the (first?) Trump insurrection attempt in 2020, Project 2025, and steady hints that the Insurrection Act has a starring role planned for the 2026 elections cochiseregionalnews.substack.com/p/insurrecti...

"We are moving from an era where our worth was defined by our capacity to build and discover, to an era where our survival depends on our capacity to steer, understand, and stand behind the meaning of what is created." "Some Simple Economics of #AGI" (Feb 2026) arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946

Seems to track with the irrationality of this whole debacle.

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

“Since a very common delusion is the feeling of being watched or monitored by malignant forces or entities, this pathological state unfortunately merges with the growing reality that we are all being tracked and monitored...it's a rational perception of reality, and not delusional at all...”

Amidst a pattern of lying which reveals the projections beneath, this is the most frightening thing he could have uttered about himself. Congress must impeach and remove the Mad King 👑 before it's too late 🕚

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

Who brags about "punching them while they are down"?

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

#ICE #AbolishICE #FuckICE #MeltICE

The current U.S. Director of National Intelligence 🇺🇸

#ICE #AbolishICE #FuckICE #MeltICE

In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28. Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier. The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.

one way of seeing anthropic vs. the pentagon is as a fissure between the two silicon valley tribes most enthusiastic about ai: "rationalists" and "accelerationists" maxread.substack.com/p/what-anthr...

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"As far as Iran is concerned, with the US and Israel firing the first shot in this latest go-round, everything is now probably fair game." -- Oman Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi, now former peace liaison between Iran and US✌️

Direct hit in Abu Dhabi.

This appears to show a drone strike on Naval Support Activity Bahrain. Souce: t.me/kianmeli1/80... Geoconfirmed: 26.2071, 50.6099

I am sure JD Vance will resign in protest, right?

Updated:

So let me get this straight. DHS shot down a party balloon with a laser outside El Paso less than a month ago🎈 Now DOD shot down a DHS CBP drone outside El Paso? 🔫 I mean if that was a DOD birthday party, that's quite the escalation 🎂

Statement today by Dario Amodei, CEO of @anthropic.com, re: DOD, mass domestic surveillance, and fully autonomous weapons. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

A must-read synthesis around this technological moment. #AI #ML

I'm not sure "move fast and break things" to engineer small nuclear reactors to power AI data centers is a winning strategy, #nukebros.

Here's how you ensure voters of an entire state never elect a member of your party for any local, state, or federal office ever again. Never again✅ for👏 a👏 generation👏 👍

The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic. It's a terrible policy, but legally it depends on whether they're seeking to avoid Anthropic's terms of service or have Anthropic retrain Claude. My latest for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

"reserving “understanding” for humans elides the fact that nobody agrees on what it or “intelligence” or “meaning” actually mean. If yr arguing for human uniqueness, you need to show that the trillions of neuron-connections in the brain aren’t also doing next-token prediction, or something like it."