Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

0 shots on goal, 19 fouls, 2 touches in the opponent's box, 3 yellow cards. dismal stuff tbh

"Information wants to be free."

U.S. anger over Canadian wildfire smoke is understandable, given we haven't been properly raking the boreal forest. Likewise, Canadians are increasingly assaulted by disease-carrying ticks coming north from the U.S. due to climate warming, yet Americans still refuse to take simple, easy actions. /1

Just a reminder: Trump said he knew nothing about the massive tungsten concession given to a company controlled by two of his sons and the sons of Howard Lutnick and funded by a huge DOD grant. But the official readout of his talk with the Kazakh president shows that's all they talked about

Nearly all identified and prosecuted cases of voter fraud involve individuals who voted for Trump and who cite fictitious claims of voter fraud by Democrats to justify their criminal conduct. “In both instances, Mr Laiss voted for President Donald J. Trump,” say his defense attorneys.

When journalists asked me "where we will see the effects of DOGE on outcomes?" one of my responses was "during crises...as long as media connect the dots." Well, dots connected: www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

The next Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, #GECCO2027, will take place in Kraków, Poland, 12-16 July 2027 in person only. gecco-2027.sigevo.org/HomePage

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

It's not that I think they have a super-secret plan to overturn the elections and seize power, but you're watching an entire political party, from top to bottom, meme itself into convincing itself that its opponents are inherently illegitimate, and that road doesn't go anywhere good.

“Ashley Brouillette told a reporter that she wanted to speak publicly because she had previously reported concerns to his superiors in the military about his mental health. She said he was abusive in their relationship.”

I wrote about how to reasonably respond to the moral panic around "distillation." We risk making major policy errors in response to something that is being raised by big AI companies, especially Anthropic, as a major threat to safety and national security — without really much evidence as to either.

Translation: Oil was back above $80 and so it is time to try unsuccessfully to unilaterally surrender again.

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Very important thread. Hopefully this marks the beginning of a more constructive phase of AI discourse on Bluesky, which will be essential as we need to make sure the public interest gets a voice here.

@FredKaplan gives Lindsey Graham the send-off he deserves. Graham thought he'd have a chance to "repair" his reputation, by outlasting Trump and "standing for" things again. He bet wrong. And we all lost, as a result. Fred lays it all out slate.com/news-and-pol...

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

In Biddeford, ME, citizens protest the efforts of ICE agents to destroy evidence of the murder of Joan Sebastian Guerrero earlier today, marking "THIS IS BLOOD" on the street where ICE agents had attempted to scrub it away.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.

CNBC's 10 worst states (ranked by quality of life criteria, highest violent crime, highest illiteracy; worst healthcare, lowest life expectancy): 1. Tennessee; 2. Texas; 3. Indiana; 4. Louisiana; 5. Georgia; 6. Utah; 7. Missouri; 8. Alabama; 9. Oklahoma; 10. Arkansas. What do they have in common?

Haaland Oates. Haaland Oates. F.E.E.L.I.N.G. something for you I can't explain. youtu.be/Tbb_hLmufL8?...

On 7/11/26, ICE agents trapped drivers that were observing ICE activity in the parking lot of Harrison Point Apartments in Olathe. 1/2

KS now has a "halo law" making it illegal to be within 25ft of a working cop. ICE is boxing observers' cars in, have an agent walk over to them, and local PD arrests since now withing 25'. Evil.

Has Anthropic ever published a peer-reviewed paper? Of all the labs, they seem to be the most drifting into AI psychosis and it might be a good idea for them to have an outside perspective on this stuff.

A whole lot of the people I ran with lost a year or more of their life & income to running for office. And then they lost! And had to go find a new job! Just... think about what that's like for a moment.

Cape Verde is the size of Kansas City. I promise you there’s hardly a person in that country that doesn’t personally know at least one player on that team. Can you imagine how proud they must be of them?

@raygunsite.com is the best! My daughter is planning our upcoming summer road trip to include a visit to Raygun someplace along the way. My kids have already outgrown the last batch of cool shirts that I bought for them in Kansas City. Got to hook them up again.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito took a luxury fishing trip to Alaska with billionaire Paul Singer, whose hedge fund then had repeated business before SCOTUS over the years that followed. Alito never disclosed the trip or recused himself from Singer's cases. (Published June 2023)

I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.

Kimberly Skaggs, 54, the Treasurer of the Republican Party of New Mexico is facing felony charges after leaving the scene of a fatal crash with a cyclist. The GOP has quickly severed its ties with her. The incident adds to an extended list of criminal law problems facing Republican leaders.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

Qué grande los japoneses alentando a su selección con el "a volver, vamos a volver, a volver, a volver, vamos a volver". 🇯🇵

Technically, they’re Remains now.

Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.

A necessary first step. -Under 5% of today's Amers were alive last time a Dem prez apptd a chief justice (1946) -Five current GOP court members appt by prez who first took office after losing popular vote (Sixth is ... Thomas.) -Since '86 election, D/R have years in White House. But 6/3 on court.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

This Day in Labor History: June 24, 1867. Chinese workers building the transcontinental railroad across Sierra Nevada went on strike over the horrific conditions of their work for the Central Pacific Railroad. Let's talk about their brave, if failed struggle and how awful the railroads were!!

For level-headed takes on the legal landscape of LLM-AI I follow @bahradx.bsky.social. This article lays out some of the 1A issues related to AI transparency laws. Current law, not just future legislation, has a lot to say about LLM-AI and frontier models.

Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thank you! Artificial intelligence has a long history going back at least to Turing in the 1940s. I have been a student of AI since around 1970. Most of my ~50 year career has been in related topics. LLMs are shallow and will not get us to real AI. “Like building higher ladders to reach the moon.”

After spending $14 million in taxpayer funds, Trump's renovations to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool are peeling off and floating to the surface

Anger over the police killing of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley is mounting in the small town of Senatobia, Mississippi. Hundreds took to the streets in protest and police tear-gassed a crowd outside the Walmart where an officer shot the infant. Officials are not releasing bodycam or security footage.

As other people have pointed out: Trump promised "unconditional surrender" after his Iran war. He has delivered. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

JD gave grandpa an "ozone nanobubbler" to keep him occupied between naps. He told grandpa, “The nanobubbler technology has successfully destroyed the Iranian regime that has plagued every Strait of Hormuz reopening.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

This happened:

I previously worked with a government that relied on a small group of child psychologists to advise them on how to interact with Trump. The shrinks said that Trump was a malignant narcissist who manifested juvenile behavior patterns. The tactics they advised invariably worked just fine.

🚨Funding for 2yr postdoc w/ me & @geocron.bsky.social on landslide-tsunami-jökulhlaup project, but (this is the ridiculous part) I need to select someone NOW or I lose the $. If you're NOT in Canada (can be any nationality) and interested, send me your CV and transcripts by midnight MT, June 12. 🧪⚒️

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...