As a neuroscientist, I’d suggest there is a profound disconnect between what *some* computer scientists think is representative of “intelligence”, cognitive ability, or descriptions of consciousness from some in AI work. LLMs are not how neural systems process information, nor how brains function.

People who rarely interact with anyone even resembling an average skilled worker claim some bullshit

Truly seems we're on the verge of a huge shock to the car industry over the Nexperia crisis - will keep track of things in this rolling thread EU's car-making body said today assembly lines in Europe "might only be days away" from grinding to a halt

1/UAE Chip deal offers textbook case in neo-royalism. Elite ties rather than national security drive dealmaking. The winner is not national security but Trump inner circile. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

During a heated debate, Katie Miller, wife to Stephen Miller, suggested that her co-panelist on the show, progressive commentator Cenk Uygur, should be deported. “You better check your citizenship application and hope that everything was legal and correct,” she said.

Ondertussen in de VS

Excuse me? So the company the President currently owns is teaming up with a cryptocurrency company to create a prediction market, which will take bets... on things the President himself has quite a lot of control over? Gosh, I'm sure nothing bad will happen. www.ft.com/content/4855...

10% of surveyed Dutch citizens told us they are likely to ask AI for election advice. They shouldn't! This is especially problematic as we know that the people who usually consult advice applications are undecided and are doing so right before casting their vote. algosoc.org/results/1-in...

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

Folks, just spitballing here but “President Demands his Attorney General Pay him $230 Million From Taxpayers” might just be something that can break through to normies.

Beïnvloedt #AI onze #verkiezingen? Of jouw keuze? Twee dagen voor we naar de stembus gaan stellen we de vraag aan @claesdevreese.bsky.social @mauritsmartijn.bsky.social e.a. www.knaw.nl/bijeenkomste... #TK2025

Sora flopping, bleeding cash on pro subscriptions, lawsuits left and right accusing the company of inventing the emotional torment nexus, age verification lobby with a stranglehold on the adult internet... pivoting to porn is masterful gambit www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

“Some furloughed workers at the Dept of Education expressed shock…to find that their out-of-office email messages had been changed without their knowledge to reflect the Trump administration’s view that the government shutdown was the fault of “Democrat Senators.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

I wonder how long before unis who signed up for campus-wide ChatGPT accounts start asking for this kind of surveillance to be integrated into the student and worker versions.

​Foort van Oosten: ‘Ik ben ook maar gewoon een man die 5 dagen geleden door de VVD is verzonnen

Dit is zo waar: veel Amerikaanse techreporters verwarren techsucces met denkkracht

America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides www.ft.com/content/e93e...

I gotta give them props, the opening to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was pretty good. 👇

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

TikTok’s U.S. business would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing.

So it begins

Ik schreef over Mike Judge, een softwareprogrammeur die dacht dat AI hem stukken productiever maakte. Totdat 'ie het ging meten. decorrespondent.nl/16359/deze-p...

In de eerste weken van de verkiezingscampagne zien we weer te veel voorbeelden waarin peilingen verkeerd gebruikt worden door interviewers, duiders, en journalisten. Daarom hierbij tien vuistregels om de peilingen wijzer te duiden, en om elkaar op aan te spreken. stukroodvlees.nl/peilingen-du...

En dat kost je slechts 1 miljoen voor de inauguratie

EU laws are cute, as long as we don't try to enforce them against American corporations. Given US dominance in tech and this level of clarity, the silver lining here is that the EU and the member states can fire thousands of lawyers and close entire institutions. No point, is there?

In minder dan een week tijd; * vuurt Rusland raketten af op een pand in Kyiv waar de EU een kantoor heeft; * vliegt het drones over wapenroutes in Duitsland; * verstoort het de GPS in Bulgarije zodat Von der Leyen niet kan landen...

Will the Train Coming Out of This Movie Screen Kill Everyone in the Theater?

I'm one of the 37 targeted below by DNI Tulsi Gabbard. I haven't had a clearance nor worked in government since 2013. This is political theater & a dangerous example of government abusing its powers to punish private citizens for openly exercising their 1st Amendment rights. My full statement:

“President Donald Trump's administration is considering imposing sanctions on European Union or member state officials responsible for implementing the bloc's landmark Digital Services Act, two sources familiar with the matter said” www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Good thing no one uses Microsoft Excel for anything related to legal, regulatory or compliance business functions www.theverge.com/news/761338/...

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95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats

The most depressing AI pieces are always going to be the thoughtful, nuanced, open-minded considerations by respected writers who are transparently responding to the publicity incentive created by editors whose owners want this kind of content

Reuters reports the US is embedding tracking devices in the packaging of AI chip shipments to China. As I wrote in a recent post (below), the ultimate goal is much more ambitious: embed tracking into the chips themselves. #polisky #econsky #lawsky www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Wie in een stuk over AI schrijft 'dit is inmiddels geen science fiction meer' (oid) is af

In Crescent Park, Palo Alto, neighbors say peace vanished when Mark Zuckerberg moved in—buying 11 homes, building a secretive compound, running an unpermitted school & bringing 8 years of noise, parties & heavy security. He sent neighbors noise canceling headphones.

the scenario we all feared

Analysts show that capital expenditures on AI were so big over the last 6 months they added more to the GDP than *all consumer spending*. That growth is offsetting pain from the tariffs and slow job growth. So the AI bubble may be propping up the whole US economy. What happens if and when it pops?

“Ten million people within 98 miles of the epicentre could have been sent Google's highest level alert - giving up to 35 seconds of warning to find safety. Instead, only 469 "Take Action" warnings were sent out for the first 7.8 magnitude quake.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Technocrats' Magazine, Final Issue, 1933

By putting two very loosely connected things in the same paragraph, the NY Times appears to credit a few AI bots and fake accounts with the entire success of the AfD. Gotta stop doing this! It's so dumb.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

'As AI continues to dominate discussions in both corporate boardrooms and financial markets, the critical question remains: are the anticipated returns worth the escalating investments' #bubbel www.ft.com/content/eb1f...

'...following the news on social media increases current affairs knowledge, the ability to discern true from false news and trust in the news.' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Eens met Menno. Een anecdote of technische mogelijkheid is nog geen gevaarlijk patroon. Zie ook de ontelbare waarschuwingen voor AI-misinformatie-tsunami's die alle verkiezingen van 2024 zouden overspoelen. Achteraf bleek het hoogstens hier en daar om een overstromend doucheputje te gaan.

Plus: prominente speler in de Amerikaanse wapenindustrie

The billionaire golf champion in chief wants to address the common American worker complaint about having too many days off. Child labor, prison slaves and the 7-day workweek: the feudal order has been restored.

De kwaliteit van 36 procent van alle processen-verbaal die politie en boa’s opmaken van overtredingen is zo slecht dat het OM er niets mee kan. Het gaat bijvoorbeeld om openbaar dronkenschap, baldadigheid, wildplassen en vuurwerkoverlast. buff.ly/eXuy3fw