Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%

I think it was @mattwall.bsky.social who said, “if you can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it”👏🏽

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

If you advocate for and actively promote the use of LLMs, you should live near a data centre, have one family member working as a data worker and another, a teenager, using the LLM as a psychologist.

Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October. Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year. Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce. Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.

> Not only [are LLMs a scam], but guardrails [the concept] is a scam too. This strategy — from tobacco with filters to petroleum with the carbon footprint and now to AI with guardrails — to propose non-solutions to buy time and save face in order to push their agenda, is ubiquitous

The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...

US tech giants pressured the EU into making environmental data about the impact of individual data centres confidential - so journalists, activists and local politicians CANNOT know the actual environmental toll of the local data centres confidential. www.techpolicy.press/how-big-tech...

The thing that always gets me with this is: "Embrace AI!" "OK, how? Why?" "You just should!" "You haven't provided any way in which it will be useful." "You should still use it! It's REALLY IMPORTANT!" You know, I'm not sure it is.

This is lowkey one of the most important things happening in the Middle East rn and very few people are paying attention to it

AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to admit. www.wired.com/story/backch...

The trap is simple: AI makes code generation cheap, but it does not make correctness cheap. Once that asymmetry exists, every software engineer using LLMs to generate code is forced into a binary that guarantees madness. (3)

Hei alle sammen! Lillesøster prøver å selge to billetter til Matt Rife sitt show i Oslo i morgen kveld, lørdag 18. april. 500 kroner per billett. Setter pris på deling! #Oslo #StandUp

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

“The researchers found that 40% of workers had encountered workslop within a month, and then spent an average of 3.4 hours a month dealing with it – which the study estimates adds up to $8.1m in lost productivity for a 10,000-person organization.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Data centers enjoyed bipartisan support from Virginians as recently as 2023, but that has flipped to dismay throughout the state. That shift suggests Virginians now consider data centers almost as undesirable as nuclear power plants.

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

Three years of war in #Sudan have caused the loss of countless lives and destroyed basic services including the health system. See how we responded in 2025 and what we’re demanding for the population: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-three-... #TalkAboutSudan

If you are so paralyzed by an indecision that you need a chatbot to tell you what coffee drink to order, you probably need to check into a rehab. Also we’re gonna need a rehab for chatbot addiction. Where you have to like relearn colors and how to do laundry.

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

"ai" natives are not a thing, and it's actually not that complicated: using automation prevents you from developing skills and actively erodes the skills you have. This is the whole intent behind the design, because the industry needs this dependence on their products and are actively fostering it

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

I said NO, it is not, don’t feed my words into AI ever again also it says “Pope Benedict” and not “Pope Francis” so you’ve taken my joke, gotten a key detail wrong, and then made AI art with it that doesn’t even have my name on it take this shit down none of y’all better EVER do this again

I know they address this but fundamentally, the risk of creating a fake disease to make a strong point wouldn't exist, had academia and the scientific community just outright rejected machines of mass fabrication from the outset. Do we really need to be doing this, to prove what we already know

A phrase to send chills up & down a historian's spine: “cognitive surrender.”

This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part you love to see it

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

This Open Letter is fantastic…and so important. I hate everything about LLM’s, but couldn’t think of a worse place to use them than in academia. What’s the purpose of education if not to teach critical thinking & the ability to grasp & synthesize information in order to sail in uncharted waters?

To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain arstechnica.com/science/2026...

This is, essentially a course designed to rob one of the ability to write *and* encourage the acceptance of wrong answers; anti-literary and anti-science. To paraphrase Cicero, 'when, O Cataline, will you cease abusing our patience?'

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

I'm not going to link to the original thread here but I will say this about economic vibes vs. data in 2026: what a lot of people are feeling is *precarity* - fear that if they lose their jobs, they won't find other work, or work that pays as well.

we’ve talked a lot about how AI might con people into believing bad things, but it is sad to think of how it will also make us stop believing in wondrous things too

Siden 2010 har Viktor Orbán brukt demokratiets egne spilleregler til å forvandle Ungarn til det minst demokratiske landet i EU. Her er historien om hvordan det skjedde.

‼️🇭🇺🇪🇺 Here is a potted timeline thread marking some of the key milestones that built Prime Minister Viktor Orban's illiberal democracy in Hungary over his 16 years in power. His tenure looks likely to end tomorrow. The table stakes for Hungary and Europe could not be higher 1/

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

A human bureaucrat can destroy only so many lives in a day; AI can ruin the lives of tens of thousands at once: https://bit.ly/4c1xglU

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

I hate AI but the upside is that I feel like some kind of a super woman BECAUSE I WRITE MY OWN E-MAILS. The bar is in hell, for sure.

Argentine writer bags million Euro literary prize. Cue groaning and mumbling from her Spanish colleagues 🤣 www.eldiario.es/cultura/libr...

One of the most radical acts you can do right now is just using your own brain to check things

Classics friends may enjoy this. Some of the Latin pronunciation is a bit weird, but the essence is spot on! 😆

David Simon said it best

ADVARSEL: Inneholder ranting, jump scares og en opp-/utfordring til slutt. Del gjerne videre.

Mye rart i Harry Hole-serien, men var det ikke et eneste våkent menneske i den produksjonen som kunne informere om at (kvinnelige) sykepleiere i Norge ikke har brukt hette/hodeplagg på over 40 år?? Blir så irritert på disse sykehus-scenene!! #HarryHole #Netflix digitaltmuseum.no/021021458738...

A date that will live in history: Messi played his last home game for Argentina at La Bombonera last night *sobs quietly* www.ole.com.ar/seleccion/me...

Ansatte får ikke lønn, og de humanitære som driver mye av helsevesenet, angripes. Dette er ingen spøk, kollaps i Sør-Sudan ( første rep fra siste tur) www.panoramanyheter.no/humanitaere-...

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.