OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

cancelling associates of sex trafficking pedophiles is woke

This decision was made without consulting a single CU Boulder professor with AI expertise. And AFAIK there was one professor *total* involved. More info, such as it is, here: https://www.cu.edu/gen-ai Check the "Guiding Principles" section for entertainment.

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

The United States uses about twice as much energy per person as Switzerland or the UK. The US also has worse public health and life expectancy. Few countries use more energy per person than the US. Most of them are, like the US, petrostates.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

ICYMI private prison company GEO Group is making big money by violating the human rights of detainees. 800 percent jump in revenues last year, thanks primarily to ICE. prospect.org/2026/02/12/i...

Bob Kuttner has some news here: Democrats offered to fund all of DHS except ICE and CBP, while negotiations continued on reforms. Republicans rejected that. prospect.org/2026/02/13/i...

One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites. Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

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Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

Crying in Boston 😭 www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol...

This story is not surprising to a lot of us but also hugely important, especially for 🔭 because this is who the space sciences are being handed to 🧪 "Musk’s posts repeatedly echoed prominent white supremacist narratives and ideologies"

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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Grim news out of Seattle: we passed an ordinance raising the pay of delivery drivers, but the result has been fewer delivery orders, leaving many of them worse off. It may just be that "instant delivery of your food" is not a practical business & only exploitation can make it "work."

NEW: SSA has been told to tell ICE the "date and time" when certain people have appointments, likely subjecting those people to ICE enforcement actions when they come in. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, & @leahfeiger.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/social...

Update: As of today, February 13th, there are still NO Dem-aligned candidates for the 3 Georgia State Supreme Court elections on May 19th. The filing deadline is March 6th. So why aren't any challengers filing? See next post in the thread for a possible explanation...

🚨🚨🚨Virginia Supreme Court lays out schedule for redistricting case Allows the April 21 referendum to go forward with early voting starting March 6 BUT seems to leave open possibility of final ruling after referendum This goes back to very limited relief lower court granted

oh no guys the thing that never existed in the first place might be dead; thoughts and prayers to some unknown number of dipshits www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

If this Most Cited List (from a Leiter post earlier this year on political philosophy books with over 4000 citations) is right then it's wild just how hard liberalism is winning in political philosophy. Total ideological domination.

Why? Because the professors who teach gender studies courses are often more willing than others to speak up when people within academia are doing or benefiting from harm to girls and women. And because those classes prepare students to see and call out similar problems in other institutions too.

Scoop: CNN has learned that Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meet privately with President Trump, amid Paramount’s ongoing hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Full story here: www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/m...

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

Via @washingtonpost.com: Video footage appears to contradict key claims in the government's indictment against journalist Don Lemon regarding a protest last month inside a Minnesota church www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

I liked it a lot better when the U.S. promoted democracy. Even if it often did so out of self-interest and imperfectly, it was better than meddling in other countries to try to force them to be fascist. Le sigh.

FT looks at the US plan to use US taxpayer money to aggressively promote fascism in Europe. Meddling in domestic politics on an unprecedented scale, and again, demonstration of Trump's perfect alignment with the Kremlin. www.ft.com/content/7a48...

According to polling data on who has a U.S. passport, the SAVE Act would disproportionately impact Americans who are... - white or black (non-Hispanic) - lower income - married women - not college educated - older - trump voters ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Pa...

Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE — and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

appreciate that greg has been highlight the short-term thinking by lots of dem strategists on immigration, and that there are strong counterexamples of dems being successful taking another path

Independents say 2:1 that Bad Bunny "better represents America" than Donald Trump www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

With what’s happening in Minneapolis even the protest count chart undersells the level of resistance

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Federal officials from the Department of Homeland Security were eyeing a Kansas City warehouse for one of their next detention facilities for immigrants. The people resisted and won.

"The Battle for Minneapolis and smaller skirmishes across the country have revealed that Americans will defend their immigrant neighbors...inhuman monsters from ICE, CBP and DHS are a malevolent occupying force" Interesting @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com: www.liberalcurrents.com/abolition-am...

Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet. An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

The history books will remember this one

plus, the left has shown much better "party loyalty" and harm-reduction instincts in the actual voting booth than the center has. PUMA democrats bail to support the right when a more progressive candidate is on the ballot far more than leftists do when the usual centrist is.

The Trump administration on Thursday repealed the endangerment finding, a scientific determination that underpins the federal government’s legal authority to combat climate change. Here’s what to know about the endangerment finding and why it matters.

The Trump administration has revoked the key rule allowing the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. What's next? A big, stupid mess, reports @mollytaft.com:

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

“The problem is no longer ‘money in politics.’ It’s just money.” @mschmitt9.bsky.social