🕯️🇺🇦 Holodomor: History of Attempts to Erase the Ukrainian Nation According to the most reliable demographic research, around 3.9 million people died within the borders of the then Ukrainian SSR. The real number may be higher. Read more ⤵️ theukrainianreview.info/holodomor-hi...

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”

Cybersecurity isn’t ready for the conversation about how bad sexism and ageism are in the whole pen test / red team community, or how influencer culture and the saturated market are enabling it to get worse. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tryhac...

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

Shot + chaser

I did not expect that Trump / Mamdani visit to go like it did. I don't think anyone did.

what a time to be alive

🙃

Mamdani talks about areas of agreement between him and Trump, though being very careful with his phrasing—I didn't hear him say that Trump is actually working for a noble goal. For example, Mamdani says that NYCers who voted for Trump tell him they care about affordability, as Mamdani does.

teetering on the brink of an epiphany

seems bad

....huh

JD Vance Cries In Bathroom After Trump Uses ‘Piggy’ Nickname On Someone Else https://theonion.com/jd-vance-cries-in-bathroom-after-trump-uses-piggy-nickname-on-someone-else/

The New York Times' story about Trump calling for the execution of members of Congress ran on Page 16 today, with an itty-bitty promo on the front about halfway down the page. No wonder Trump thinks he can get away with anything.

The cope is coming hard

By the way, for those who want to know why this denialist line is nonsense: disinfecting clothes actually requires a lot *more* Zyklon B than killing humans does - low levels of cyanide residue on the chamber walls prove that it *wasn't* being used for the former!

Amazing how conservatives suddenly know about different types of pedophiles but not about Arabic numerals

What To Know About ‘Pluribus’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-pluribus/

hive-mind, know of any research/academic work that has detailed the various ways social media/large platforms have made audits/critical investigation of these platforms practically impossible. exuberant API fees, access only to partial data even when you can pay fee, retaliation again auditors, etc

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

The Democrats don't seem to understand that Trumpism won't go away when Trump dies. Trumpers are just Neo-Confederates.

It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."

maga jan 2021 to jan 2025: lets go brandon maga from jan 2025 to present: the office of the presidency must be respected and his word is god's

With every passing day, America needs a bigger third reconstruction.

I am proving expert analysis for a PhD student's LLM study for possible use in #infosec this week and so far the LLM has made egregious errors or outright fabrications in 100% of the outputs

just great

batman www.nature.com/articles/s44...

NEW: The exodus of corrections officers from federal prisons to ICE comes amid shortages of critical supplies, from food to personal hygiene items, for both staff and inmates. It threatens to make the already grim conditions in these prisons even worse.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Parasites can only persist, in the long term, on a healthy population of hosts. The parasitic Republican cancer is collapsing the U.S. social and economic system that allowed it to proliferate in the first place. A scam and hate-based economy goes nowhere. What comes next?

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

ah, there it is

Just to be clear: No, "aliens" are not visiting us. "Aliens" most likely don't even live anywhere near enough to us to visit anyway. ...and even if they did, they would have no reason to visit a backwater shit-hole which detonates nukes in their own atmosphere and names itself after DIRT.

We live in the stupidest timeline possible I cannot imagine how this timeline could get any stupiderer

Hmm thehill.com/policy/defen...

sigh www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

When I get my German citizenship I'm quitting my job and going to art school.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Time to ditch Gmail

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Yeah I can see why the symbol for the regime that murdered 11 mln people might be considered divisive by some.

CNN: What if there are more names connected to the Democratic Party that come out in the files? CHRIS MURPHY: So what?

Radiolaria are microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree. blog post: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9861

An executive order to ban state AI laws WOULD BE *FLAGRANTLY* UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Can we please please PLEASE lead w THAT! Stop just laundering patently illegal and unconstitutional moves as if they’re just normal policy moves. It’s not hard to frame this correctly!