Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a "pedo guy" after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible

It might end up sound like famous* last words, but I get the sense Clawbot is intensifying AGI obsession. *totally obscure and ignored

For absolutely no reason, let me remind people of this banger of a paper by @caroartc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

We need to reform Gestapo detention

This is a good applied theory paper on a topical issue arxiv.org/html/2601.15... The title is unfortunate and misleads those who don't read beyond that. Theory predicts both ➕&➖ effects. Under plausible assumptions the short to medium term effect is ➕!

If my calculations are accurate, the raw dataset for this project is about 37GB 😨 Well, I guess I avoided Parquet and DuckDB long enough, no longer.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

1/2 "The most striking finding we had is that the students that practiced math problems with ChatGPT without any guardrails did 17% worse on immediate subsequent exam where they did not have AI assistance." Hamsa Bastani of @upenn.edu at the Simons Institute. simons.berkeley.edu/talks/hamsa-...

It’s not a TikTok censorship conspiracy, it’s just broken as hell. (The censorship conspiracy is probably yet to come.) www.theverge.com/news/867625/...

I'd been wondering why the NBPA had been silent, given that a) NBA is the most international (maybe with NHL?) of the big 4 and b) they'd been very vocal 5 years ago on civil rights.

But these fascists, like many fascists and other authoritarians, confuse the pageantry of violence for power - they imagine that the state with armed men walking the streets is strong. But only a weak government needs to put armed men in the streets to exert power. A strong government has no need.

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

They got away with one murder in broad daylight. Why stop there? One can only imagine what's happening in the concentration camps.

Execution squads roaming the streets of America.

It looks like we have an upgrade from a Kavanaugh stops to a Kavanaugh murder.

Very interesting: when X made "likes" privates, the number of likes to high-reputational-risk content (e.g., extremists, onlyFans, but also politicians...) *didn't* increase. arxiv.org/abs/2601.11140

It is effectively an experiment on network formation, which will be interesting for some people to study in 10 years or so. Other than that, the marke's bad already. I don't expect the marginal effect to be huge.

At roughly the same time Vance was lecturing Europe on free speech. That they're self-serving hypocrites who used concerns about free speech as a tool to obtain power is not surprising. That certain academics gave credence to those unprincipled claims might be.

He did impose tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands, which are in Antarctica and are inhabited by penguins. So maybe?

PSA for those on Strix Halo: You can use the container with the RHEL10-based build for ROCm 7.2 at the link to run llama-server (and I guess comfyUI). linux-firmware-20251125 breaks ROCm. Up/down-grade! Linux kernel >= 6.18.4 is incompatible with ROCm < 7.2

In general the class vibe was: that they knew they were going into a work environment in which AI would be a tempting tool, and that some of them would want to use it in various ways, but that they also wanted to have systems to keep them honest about actually developing real thinking skills.

And I think... it mostly worked? I mean, I'm sure the system is cheatable to somebody who was trying to break it. But for a system designed to mostly get students actually engaged in the critical act of thinking, without a punitive ChatGPT detection system... it was... really good?

Musk’s participation in the bikini trend opened the floodgates. Grok went from making 300k images a week to 4.4 million. Read more from me, @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

I'm fairly confident that people have spent time in jail and are on sex offender registries for less.

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

We analysed 392 photos of victims leaked to us after they were displayed in a mortuary in Tehran and were able to identify 326 people. Sources claimed the true number of dead at the mortuary ran into the thousands. Many of the victims were too disfigured to be identified.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

Trump partially backing down on his Greenland threats after forceful pushback from European leaders shows why attempts to appease and flatter him were always such a poor strategy. Bullies only understand strength

Some citizens of hegemons should take notes.

"such terror-based policy is difficult to sustain by force alone. There also needs to be legitimacy and social cooperation. All policing of large populations has ultimately to be by consent—or at least by forbearance of the majority."

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

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Putin is after all a famously genial fellow, receptive to reasonable arguments. Seems like a great plan.

I've been through the Greek crisis and Brexit. One heuristic I learnt is to believe what status quo challenging politicians say they will do/want, no matter how self-harming or crazy it sounds. It's not perfect, but it performs much better than the alternative.

Perhaps a tiny bit of over-reaction early on would have constrained the mad king. Sometimes waiting to find the perfectly measured response means that it will be delivered too late.

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

She said that a legal observer was taken from her car and detained for 8 hours at the Whipple Federal Building. While she was in transit to the building, an ICE agent told her: “You guys gotta stop obstructing us. That’s why that lesbian bitch is dead.” 2/n

"CNN has contacted the Department Of Homeland Security for comment". They should contact Justice Kavanaugh.

This joke has gone far enough. It's time for Congress to reclaim its authority to regulate foreign commerce, impose tariffs, and collect revenue or this should treated as a fundamental shift in how the US state treats its allies.

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Finally this paper is published! Great paper, do read!

His 6 month old stopped breathing! HIS SIX MONTH OLD STOPPED BREATHING! A father was getting his kids out of the neighborhood because it was unsafe & ICE threw flash bangs & tear gas at his car with children & a baby inside! His 6 month old stopped breathing & all the children were hospitalized!