Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Grok is now in the history manipulation business. And what more important history to distort at this moment than that of the 14th Amendment.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

NHS England admits it has been lying about Palantir’s effectiveness. Whilst the systems we build ourselves are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics.

If Europe chooses massive, oversized EVs rather than right-sized EVs, it will have to pay an extra 36 billion in car charging bills + an extra 2,500 people will be killed by cars uploads.transportenvironment.org/production/f...

Per request, I've put my rather stridently anti-AI statement of teaching up on my personal web page, so it is no longer just some long google doc link: skerry-tech.com/teaching.html

Musk’s “The evil Jews are tricking people into thinking I’m a Nazi” t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions already answered by the shirt.

honestly i welcome the data center lobby just openly saying climate goals needed to be trashed so the tech industry can build ai — intense heat waves, record forest fires, worsening natural disasters be damned

As NPS drains the Reflecting Pool for repairs, thunderstorms and strong rains work to replenish the water.

The triple C assessment means SpaceX has the same score as that awarded to the Russian state in the wake of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine ft.trib.al/8WeLzRg

The co-founder of Ubisoft died in a tragic accident and the NYT somehow feels the need to spend a lengthy paragraph of the obituary debating whether having a black main character for a recent game was "DEI". Incredible work.

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

“On Friday, The Daily Beast reported that Amazon restricted reviews of the vice president’s new book to verified purchasers only, leaving the tome with just seven reviews: six five-stars and one two-star. On Goodreads, which is owned by Amazon, reviews were disabled entirely.”😂

i for one have full confidence in the trump administration's ability to adequately refit a plane donated by a foreign government into a highly secure mobile command center for the united states executive, following their unquestionably successful renovation of A Large Pool of Water

The *actual* dead economy risk is that our institutions and markets will continue to move capital from productive activity into memestocks, vibes, and bubbles. 19/

undeniably good optics: signing a war treaty in Versailles

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Senior U.S. officials making audio recordings in the Situation Room and leaking them to the press. Totally normal stuff.

Watching the AI boosters contort themselves into pretzels over this. Some want to keep doing the Death of Stalin thing of "wow, AI is so powerful the government is scared of it," some are straight up saying "c'mon man it's a god damn LLM"

a little on the nose for capitalism that the world’s first trillionaire is a nazi conman

EXCLUSIVE: Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking If this boat was running drugs, why was it loaded with so many people? theintercept.com/2026/06/10/t...

elon musk provoking shankill road loyalists into conducting an anti-immigrant pogrom reminds me of how loyalist compounds in northern ireland fly apartheid south african, rhodesian (and more recently) israeli flags. there's a global alliance of settler-colonialist terrorists, musk is part of it.

Musk's father is fully a Kremlin asset. Now he's meeting with Tommy Robinson in a luxury hotel bar in Moscow while Robinson incites pogroms from his X account.

Only one in 10 Europeans now see US as an ally, survey suggests www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

BREAKING: NSO Group caught trying to hack across #WhatsApp. Again! Defying 🇺🇸US Courts. WhatsApp disrupted the Pegasus campaign & says it violates US Federal injunction they won against NSO. Asks Federal judge to hold NSO Group in contempt. Many implications... 1/ about.fb.com/news/2026/06...

Yesterday the EU Commission launched its 'tech sovereignty package'. The package is a disaster in disguise: ❌ It fast-tracks the data centre build-out ❌ It postpones sustainability rules for data centres 🤷‍♂️ It only takes baby steps in excluding Big Tech from public procurement 🧵

Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

Google employees are making memes and sharing them internally about how bad its AI sucks and how much they hate using it. The memes are going viral within the company. Is that good www.404media.co/google-emplo...

our greatest business minds learning in real time that revenue - costs = profit

Can’t wait to repost this at an appropriate occasion

We need the humanities to save us from automated epistemicide

I submitted 3 critical (9.3, 9.3, 9.5) bugs to Anthropic over the last couple days. They acknowledged all 3 were real but declined to pay a bounty insisting that they were working "as intended". I've informed all big companies i found vulnerable who patched. So i can release now:

Google unveils an even worse Search aftermath.site/google-search-...

BREAKING: Trump purchased up to $630,000 worth of Palantir, #$PLTR, during the first three months of the year. In March, Trump made seven purchases of Palantir A month later, Trump literally wrote on TruthSocial: “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities"

Maia anmelder fjernsyn. Se det ville være et program som var værd at se!

The Kenyan government halted talks on a Microsoft AI data center after it became clear that the project would consume half the country's daily power output www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Google has rolled out a new feature for Android called "Intrusion Logging" that helps security researchers do forensic analysis to find spyware. It's pretty cool: techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/g...

This is art history.

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

The most notable revelation is that according to these files, now finally available after years of delay, we see that Donald Trump was close friends with a notorious sex trafficker and seems likely to have routinely engaged in sex with trafficked women and girls while here on planet Earth.

Meta comms guy brings up the historical record. Ok let’s go. I revealed: —FB allowing ad targeting of “Jew-haters” —FB allowing ads to block being shown to Black users —FB promoting Stop the Steal groups prior to J6 —FB guidelines showing “white males” as protected class but not “black children”

It's so disheartening to watch this play out. "The end result is that organizations are actually leaking private data through vibe-coding applications" www.wired.com/story/thousa...

Um, I’m not sure quite sure what the US Department of Defence is trying to say with that tweet?

finally, perspective grid knowledge will be useful irl

*1/3*🧵 Zambia's last-minute "postponement" of RightsCon is a de facto cancellation, a deliberate obstruction of a critical assembly for the global digital rights community. 🔗 ohchr.org/en/statements/2026/05/zambia-rightscon #Zambia #HumanRights #CivicSpace

The Internet Archive, Wikimedia, academics, and hobby archivists are having trouble finding hard drives or are having to pay extremely high prices for them.

If the digital human rights stuff ends up not panning out, I know I can always fall back on ska

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello