you either comment on a story when you're reached for comment, or you don't, and they print/air that you didn't comment. this is journalism/sourcing 101. and if you want to provide a statement after it's aired/printed, you usually can do that too, but it'll be noted that you delayed.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

The risk-reward with using AI in law, specifically to draft a filing, is *extremely bad*. This is not because lawyers are more special or precious than artists or coders or whoever else, but because of where the reality check occurs in the process, and the consequences of failing that check.

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

So we’re gonna ignore the Arab Australian who single handedly stopped more horror and is still trying to keep his arm… While also not doing any REMITE censorship on the openly anti semitic Nazi adjacents celebrating online?

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

As a follow-up to a LinkedIn conversation about observability tool pricing, I wrote up whtwnd.com/lizthegrey.c... about how @honeycomb.io is designed to be fair and transparent to our clients, and how we help clients get the most value out of their observability spend.

WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 files from Epstein release disappeared from DOJ webpage, including photo of Trump, with no explanation.

far be it from me to tell anyone else how or what to post, but personally if i had several existing & now a legally pending charge of domestic violence, i’d probably avoid posting jokes that aren’t funny like this, ben

A journal editor stumbles across a paper attributed to him that he didn’t write. Then stumbles across a similar paper he also didn’t write that’s been cited 42 times!! Science will be killed by AI—all trust will be destroyed if authors don’t actually read the papers they cite—BE CERTAIN THEY EXIST

Everyone should be enraged at the amount of manpower and tax payer dollars that went in to redacting (and deleting) incriminating evidence in the Epstein files They failed to redact certain victims names & photos But a picture of Trump slipped through in file number 468. It’s now been deleted.

that sound you hear is thousands of home networks crying out and then suddenly ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

oh, she's been this way for a while. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%...

This photo, file 468, from the Epstein files that includes Donald Trump has apparently now been removed from the DOJ release. AG Bondi, is this true? What else is being covered up? We need transparency for the American public.

I agree with all of the below.

What's really going on here is that after the For Some Women Scotland decision The Times lied and lied and lied and lied and lied again to its readers about what the decision meant and the Supreme Court decided. It's now getting found out for its lies and instead of changing course it is digging in.

half of this doesn't even have to do with ai. like the effective end of 230 is a generic 'think of the children' bill that has nothing to do with anything

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

I don’t understand the purpose of publishing pictures of billionaires and heads of state abusing girls and women other than titillation. Those pictures invite us to participate in the abuse.

Woo, worked my last regular Friday workday ever :) looking forward to being 80% time from here on out.

“.. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer .. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

NSW Premier Chris Minns is lying. The Bondi shooters' motives have been explicitly linked to the Islamic State (IS). Hamas and IS are ideologically opposed and absolutely despise each other. The suggestion that support for the resistance would be seen as support for IS is a disgusting lie.

@hailey.at i feel like you need to hook a bot up to the labeler that works like favstar except for blocks. “congrats on your 100+ block day!”

tbqh anyone trying to measure productivity this way is going about it wrong. we don't pick up tasks and work on them start to finish without doing something else in between. the beauty of language models is they are persistent and never get tired or bored. set them running then do something else.

if you're looking at the viral WSJ story about an LLM running a vending machine, you should also see this by @anthropic.com: www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

This is the rub right here, any of the flaws or concerns around the modern US internet are not addressed by an S230 repeal. Just hurts you while Big Tech can weather the blow and change for a post-S230 environment

there are many reasons to reform s230 but none of these are it. which means by definition anything they try to do to repeal s230 will miss the mark and backfire catastrophically if they aren't even thinking about the right problems.

i feel like the dek on this @fastcompany.com piece is insanely glib given this racist VC freak (but i repeat myself) could easily get this poor student killed:

Even Fox News is sick of this shit.

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

Some of them actively and instinctively know that doing this will help induce racist legislative retribution and pro-genocide speech policing, and like / want that to happen, others are just cotton-brained and following the pack. Almost none of them are physically capable of interrogating this

Every single political journalist in Australia right now is saying siome variation of this: "While there's nothing to indicate the pro-Palestine protests led to the Bondi attacks, Albanese is still facing the toughets test of his prime-ministership and has been held responsible for the deaths"

you know what? I think I'm okay with the thing being named "The Donald Trump... Memorial Center" if means he's passed on (from natural causes, obviously, the man's health is not good!) and is no longer screwing up the country.

Maybe this will make it clearer: We went from horse and buggy to interplanetary rockets with less money, time, and human labour than we did as an industry moving from spreadsheets in a TUI to spreadsheets in a GUI That should be fucking shameful as an industry. wtf is going on??

This is why I'm paying so much attention to the people with deep domain knowledge but who don't know what they don't know in terms of construction code, let's say, and the implicit guardrails & checks they are able to create for themselves WITH that domain knowledge

Someone just posted this image of a current Times article on another SM platform. It suggests the government will hardline enforce the EHRC/SC “guidance” but with “commonsense” exceptions. But those exceptions will only apply to cis people, not trans people. Can anyone get hold of the full text…

It’s that time of the year where Home Alone is going to be on tv a bunch. As relatives go “they should have had a battery powered alarm” and make other judgments on the family’s lack of responsibility in forgetting their kid, get a better source to learn from what happened. ferd.ca/home-alone-a...

"One Whitehall source told The Telegraph there is a growing belief that if the Good Law Project wins its case, Ms Phillipson will tell the EHRC to reconsider its guidance." Well, yes, because it will be unlawful.

admitting you got snookered by slop basically requires admitting that LLMs are impressively capable to some degree which is anathema to anti-LLM extremists

Yes, and, the firearms ban is good but they're also trying to ban Free Palestine matches claiming that somehow ISIS cares whether Free Palestine marches have happened when deciding whether or not to commit terrorist acts.

This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.

GPT-5.2 Codex is the first model to decide that pelicans should ride their bicycles in the desert simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/...

anyone want to hold a guess as to whether that event is deemed to breach cohesion or advocate violence based on religion or race? or is the law being crafted only to stop "Free Palestine" rallies?

I bought my ticket to #ATmosphereConf. Be there in Vancouver March 2026! /cc @snarfed.org @j12t.org

Since the police don't actually protect the protestors it seems insane to ask they should be expected to pay them too.

The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job

but my ask of you is to look at what protections the rest of the world have adopted in place of the blanket s230, and if you're talking to your legislators about this, point out that in order to repeal s230 they'd need to adopt those other measures too, and does the proposal do that, etc.

This. I do think 230 should be changed or reformed but *NOW IS NOT THE TIME* because the naked aspirations of those pushing to abolish it are absolutely clear, and there is no way they will do a good, thorough, job with ensuring that a replacement set of tailored protections are enacted.

Media release: Unity must guide the Government's response to Bondi attack, not divisive pro-Israel wishlist Full release available at the link in our bio.