And I'm looking at the absolute hot mess of policy positions assembling around the Labour leadership candidates and I wonder why no one is saying to they don't have to develop policy positions based on every "mostly Ds" response to a badly designed survey that every centrist person has ever taken

It’s worth noting that when Jan. 6 happened, the pro-Trump right used dozens of conspiracy theories to try and offload blame from themselves—e.g., claiming it was “antifa,” “feds.” Now, they seem keen to just admit they did it—all of it—and it was good.

He did not “accuse” them of it. He’s a judge. He “found” that they had, in fact, done so. JFC NPR, do better.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

"Medical Waste Management"

Honestly, I never thought someone could ruin the name of Jared more than that Subway guy.

Anyone yelling that consumers have lost their minds and have no reason to be so pessimistic should first answer these questions. E.g., business leaders themselves constantly say "within the next five years AI is going to obliterate your livelihood." Is it so wrong to worry they might be right?

The Iran War knocked down all the immediate sentiment indicators, but the slow burn behind the drop being this low is the erosion of 1-year and 5-year outlook on business conditions since November 2024. Can't say I blame them for having zero confidence in our national economic policy!

He’s done this bit before and I assume he’s doing it because he got a math question wrong

It doesn't really matter who you are anymore. If ICE (or the U.S. government at large) has access to spyware, *anyone* can be at risk. Apple's Lockdown Mode has been proven vital for protecting against spyware attacks and other data intrusion attempts. Android's Advanced Protection is also good.

Nobody in the audience reacted because none of them is close enough to their families to recognize a dementia test

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs. www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

disregard | verb | to pay no attention to : treat as unworthy of regard or notice

According to data from pharmaceutical companies in India, GLP-1's cost pennies on the dollar to actually produce. Most pharmaceuticals require no "system" to share any cost for or consult with – which is why I import mine from the free peoples of communist China. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Google has clearly lost the plot... techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/y...

Say @nationalsecuritylaw.org? Looks like you may need to file another lawsuit abt security concerns created by stupid political decisions. www.govexec.com/management/2...

"in the best interests of the country"

Reporting on a wonky subject - tax filing software - that is both inspiring (the efforts and ingenuity of USDS) and incredibly enraging (the lobbyist driven work of DOGE and the current admin). Great work from @defector.com defector.com/free-easy-de...

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.

I wonder how long it will take before businesses start trying to poison the models or use adversarial inputs to alter the recommendations generated

Every author as first author 🧪 https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393?fbclid=IwAR32SSWZq1rrKuQl-0l7fmX-SFF-1V5nDCq7tHERq0mBLkbXcKyxkd0wJ6w

Never acknowledging that all of those promises are false

Like I joked soon after that episode aired, universal perfect memory will not stop people from arguing about what was said. The only change will be that instead of arguing about what words were used, the argument will be about what the words meant

"we want to vote for him because the economy is bad for us, and he's promising to *checks notes* make the economy worse"

Choosing Trump due to economic anxiety (if you're not a high ranking GOP politician) is like a trucker setting fire to his truck. I mean, sure, it's no longer anxiety when the worst has already happened, but you traded it for even worse feelings.

Hear how we track transnational far-right networks... This panel recorded at re:publica is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywcp...

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

Plus “but her emails” in ‘16 and nowhere near the same energy towards stolen classified documents and blatant egregious obstruction !

"We could confiscate 90% of your wealth and you would not experience a material change in your life."

This is why I sometimes describe my job to people as "mystery crime shopper"

-Microsoft ends SMS MFA for personal accounts -GitHub hacked via VS Code extension -CISA to let researchers submit new KEV entries -SMS blaster detained at Eurovision -Grafana hack linked to TanStack incident Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet... Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS567/

Why does anybody even listen to those accounts

An LLM nagwall instead of paywall that personally offends nonpaying readers by tweaking the article text with increasingly harsh insults

sending spam texts to my own phone to help it build immunity

Sued for copyright infringement in the marketplace of ideas after trying to launder undeclared imported ideas through an LLM

In a near future, "my LLM assistant said that"

LLMs are easy to trick evidence #384762953; You can trick them into recommending scams

Fusion centers (not exactly the most "woke" institution on the planet) are now worried that the Department of Homeland Security's tweets are too racist and attracting the wrong people. theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

Looks like everybody's still trying to deal with desinformation for some reason. Isn't that pretty outdated? Even 3DESinformation should be considered old by now

Ghost in the machine? No, ghosted by the machine

So the AI that most people will interact with on a daily basis is inferior and prone to far more mistakes. The limitations are magnified because most people will not pay for access to advanced models. And once the bubble pops and costs soar, the disparity will broaden.

This is extremely lawless and corrupt by the Trump DOJ. So, par for the course. The presumption of regularity is a joke now, and federal prosecutors won’t recover the esteem they had from federal judges for a generation. (Which, actually, is fine.)

"Fractal, a new operating system kernel written from the ground up, treats the hardware itself as the object of study."

Why not just pay people

One reason I hate death penalty cases is that capital punishment is incredibly stupid and irrational. It's cruel, expensive, and serves no deterrent effect. It's rarely imposed, except against a tiny minority of unlucky defendants—and in those cases, racism almost always plays a role. Just end it.