"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

I know half a dozen women in Portland whose reproductive systems have been fucked up ever since the cops here blanketed protesters with tear gas every night for weeks. One of them had to have a hysterectomy because it was the only way they could make the bleeding stop.

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

Totally normal republic… very ordinary democracy…

So, what, Michigan is gonna turn off its access to the whole internet — just bc someone somewhere might say trans online?

Hmmm.

A thought I keep returning to is that a legacy corporation or a deep-pocketed investor-backed startup could hire an astonishing array of talent trying to leave the United States right now and make the best tech company in the world overnight.

Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down. Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.

This movie has a transwoman, an egg, an enby and two autists as the lead cast. It is incredibly queer. Very very fucking gay movie. major influence of yours truly. strem: strem.io/s/movie/hackers-0113243 tor (4k): magnet:?xt=urn:btih:303f6d012ee2ba6bfb7036573c4900a2b9b8f67a go on. treat yourself.

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

We've just had a special weekend email from the Russian troll factory (they usually email us their latest fake videos Monday to Friday, so this is out of character), and they're all about Charlie Kirk. Unusually, they've also posted them on Truth Social, which they don't usually do in my experience.

You're getting a clear X-ray of America right now. Look at who this country's powerful institutions choose to elevate, venerate, and celebrate. Look at the double standards. Look at the people who adore Charlie Kirk - then spend five minutes reviewing his hateful legacy. This is America.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

IMO, mutli-factor auth should be required for all accounts on package repositories. Phishing an account on a software repository instantly gives access to potentially broad malware distribution.

Attacks against F/OSS projects & leveraging package management infrastructure are on the rise. If you maintain any F/OSS project, maybe go enable 2FA now & be cautious when clicking links.

AI and politics have hampered the movement to sustain the security of open source software -- and yet I remain hopeful that EU's Cyber Resilience Act will encourage more companies to participate in safeguarding the building blocks of our digital commons. www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/open-so...

📣 Think the moderation sucks? Please, from a flagship server operator: Take this as a wake up call for us to take the open protocols up on their opportunity of community infra! Find and back doers like Blacksky and Northsky, or folks on ActivityPub, Matrix, XMPP, and email. Or ROOST and IFTAS. 3/3

WSJ just retracted its report that the shooter’s ammo was engraved with “transgender and anti-fascist ideology.” It smelled like bullshit from the beginning, and every conservative who ran with it should be shamed into obscurity.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Donald Trump does not care about political violence; he cares about political violence against Republicans and his allies — as he himself made clear through who he listed in his speech. Donald Trump will not work to end political violence, either. He, instead, is already working to exploit it.

This is true. If we'd gone down the public funding route, today the primary systems we all use to communicate and distribute information would be under the control of the Trump administration.

The White House Press Secretary, the official spokesperson for the Trump administration, told reporters in an official briefing that the president wants to invade "every Democrat-run city" with troops. Any media still pretending that this is about "crime" is making a conscious choice to lie to you.

This week's news: * many male elites approve of & participate in raping girls * POTUS is a pedophile serial rapist voters chose TWICE over more qualified women * he wants to decriminalize domestic violence bc it's so common it's driving up crime stats Male pundits: "Misogyny is a side issue."

Wow! Covid vaccine development and delivery cost $79.4 billion, but the health and economic benefits of vaccination were valued between $4.83 trillion–$37.8 trillion. A return on investment of $59.8–$475 per dollar invested!! This is why vaccine equity matters! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's wild how politely asking grown ass adults to wear masks and stop coughing on produce was the second coming of Stalin. But military takeovers of cities based on who they elected is totally cool patriot freedom USA.

For the last two years, I've been paying for the Astronomy feeds hosting myself. It has been a privilege to grow our community here, but I also shouldn't keep doing it for free 😅 That's why I'm delighted to announce that we now have a donations page on Open Collective! 🔭☄️ #astrophotography

They’re afraid to participate in the public square. They don’t know how to advocate for themselves or their value. They’ve been told by comms teams that boldness is all downside -that it will make them a target. There is no collective voice or network. They are utterly unprepared for modern comms.

Takeaways from AP's investigation into how US tech companies enabled China's digital police state apnews.com/article/chin...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi... When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...

And here is the written testimony I provided for the Biden Supreme Court commission--which Biden put together as a way not of doing something, but of doing nothing. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

At what point are folks going to try literally any other tactic than condescending rants? Does it matter that LLM apps are at the top of virtually every app store nearly every day because individual people are choosing to download them, and the criticism hasn't been effective in slowing that?

The eternal mood lately

One of the greatest inventions of the last 48 hours

👀 Jim Jordan held a House Judiciary Committee hearing on . . . how Europe censors Americans. Nigel Farage came along! Let's just say I have a slightly different view than them. My written and oral testimony are here: ijclinic.law.uci.edu/2025/09/03/h... Here are my concluding paras:

BREAKING: A federal appeals court denied the Trump administration's latest attempt to enforce their discriminatory passport policy. Transgender, non-binary, and intersex people will continue to be able to obtain accurate passports.

The Justice Department's acting deputy chief was caught on a hidden camera saying that the government will "redact every Republican" from an Epstein client list and "leave all the liberal, Democratic people."

Happening now: "Europe's Threat to American Speech and Innovation" --an extremely serious very real threat that Jim Jordan is spending American time & tax dollars investigating. Jordan has already mentioned "Big Academia" & his censorship industrial complex hoax. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIvu...

"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.

hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”

Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:

The real boom industry is whatever legal infrastructure is put in place to allow me to stop this from ever happening to me