The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

“Road repairs, bridge reconstructions and sewer overhauls are at risk of getting delayed as the data center boom sucks up resources in the construction market.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology. However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers. The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS. retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...

Goed punt

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Radiologen zouden overbodig worden, want AI analyseert beelden scherper en herkent patronen beter. Klinkt overtuigend – tot je een ochtend meekijkt met radioloog én fervent AI-gebruiker Firdaus Mohamed Hoesein. decorrespondent.nl/16553/deze-r...

"A few months ago, any kind of agreement with OpenAI could make a share price go up. OpenAI did very nicely out of its power to reflect glory. But Oracle, Broadcom and Amazon now are all down following OpenAI deal news, while Nvidia’s barely changed since."

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

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

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