Don't you dare fall in love with us (we are not a real person)

Great reporting here www.bangordailynews.com/2026/06/01/m...

I loved, loved, loved the "Hacks" finale last night! The perfect end to a beautiful show.

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Et tu, C + C?

An important one from my colleague Nicole Greenfield on AI data centers' growing demand on the grid & what it means for our electricity bills www.consumerreports.org/money/utilit...

Our recent tests found high levels of lead in one component of certain Black & Decker PowerCrush BL1230 blenders. A report to the CPSC linked the product to elevated lead levels in a child. CR experts advise owners to stop using this model and contact Black & Decker for more info. #safetywarning

Did you see the news that these animal squeeze toys, sold in Walmart, have been recalled because they may contain asbestos? The same risk has led to 80+ recalls around the world over the past few months, though it's the first in the US - learn more here: www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

As of Thursday, the US now has its first recall of this kind - Orb Funkee squeeze toys, sold at Walmart. The toys are filled with sand that may contain asbestos

Didn’t win an ASME tonight but I DID get to accost @rusty.todayintabs.com and crowded-room-shout at him about how much I have enjoyed his newsletter since olden times so the evening was, for me, a win

Everybody knows it’s “L, I, double-R” ya dummies www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/n...

Yes you read that right it’s a “Pancake Breakfast DNA Drive” www.westernmassnews.com/2026/05/13/h...

Lots of fun surprises in NYT's 100 best restaurants lol

what the fuck

But "the move is likely illegal — the Safe Drinking Water Act, which authorizes EPA to regulate contaminants in drinking water, prevents officials from issuing regulations that are weaker than those previously in place." apnews.com/article/epa-...

Socrates was the original fucking prompt engineer send skeet

If you want kids to be able to ask good questions of an entity and then be appropriately skeptical of the responses, we've had that technology for millennia. It's called "school."

Pretty sure the same things that enable critical interpretation of human-generated discourse (i.e. regular schooling with books and discussions) also work for LLM outputs

The 80+ recalls at this point include colored sand meant for sand-art bottles and "unity ceremonies," sand-painting kits, sand writing tablets, "dig" kits, "magic" sand, sand-filled squishy squeeze toys, and even live earthworm habitats. (None yet in the U.S.) www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

A lab in Australia accidentally discovered asbestos in children's play sand, setting off a chain reaction that led to 80 toy recalls (& counting) in at least 13 countries. Does play sand in the US have a problem? We don't know yet. New at @consumerreports.org: www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/...

This story.... These photos! www.amny.com/news/man-exo...

Another classic self-own, by us, the humans www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...

This investigation is part of the relaunch of @proofnews.bsky.social. This year we are investigating how AI is changing the way we work. www.proofnews.org/p/

Having a transcript of your therapy session revealed in court is probably high on the list of nightmare scenarios. Sadly, it happened -- and you'll be shocked to know its because of AI. A new investigation from @proofnews.bsky.social. www.proofnews.org/womans-talks...

I saw "Steal This Story, Please!" last night - about the life and career of #1 badass Amy Goodman - and oh man I absolutely loved it. Moving! Inspirational! See it if you can! If you're in NYC, it's at IFC Center right now

oh ma gaaaad

In 2019, an NYC pulmonologist I interviewed for a Univision 41 local TV news segment showed me medical pictures of vapers who had worse lung damage than chain smokers. "Honestly, it would be better off if they just smoked cigarettes," he told me when the camera stopped rolling.

A new study found that sycophancy is a pervasive function of leading chatbots, which are likely to give users bad/antisocial advice when asked about real-world interpersonal conflicts -- warping users' judgement and promoting dependence. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Robots, if you're listening: STOP trying to write my articles and START figuring out how to do my laundry

seeing a lot of moral abandonment and dereliction of duty by people who just wanna stay employed and wondering how much this would be happening if healthcare and insurance could be decoupled from employment

It’s oh so quiet

Small update from my attorneys -- you don't need to do anything to be added to the class action. Anyone who was included as an expert in Grammarly Pro will automatically be a member of the class once it is certified by the court. Updates on the case will be posted here prf-law.com/current-case...

Run it under hot water, bang it on the kitchen counter a few times at a very specific angle, then try again

The cheese manufacturer said Nah i'm good

“It fractured a lot of things for me. My body is like, not functioning at all.” - a double-shift data labeler and sex bot worker in Nairobi / Such important reporting from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

tl;dr -- Buy the Daily News: get your news from where the TV guys get theirs.

It's a very good day for accountability at the @cpsc.gov! and for keeping this deadly toy out of the hands of kids and babies.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I guess we are going to have to find a way to copyright ourselves so that we have the right to demand automatic takedowns of bots that steal our identities…

Wait, what?! Grammarly made an AI persona of me and all these other journalists?!!!!! Thank you @caseynewton.bsky.social for shaming them into at least offering a paltry optout— although obviously that is not enough. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Join me (and some of the scientific experts at Consumer Reports) on Reddit in a half hour, where we will be discussing the findings of our latest infant formula investigation - Ask Us Anything! www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

When I go out drinking with the other reporters and we start designing the outlet we’d make if someone handed us a check, the two recurring things on the wishlist are more court reporters and a revival of the Arts and Culture section

With our app, you can do deep searches across entities that show up in the data. Here's a way to search for everyone who mentioned these Elon Musk-connected companies in their disclosure forms: xAI OR "X Corp" OR Twitter OR Tesla OR Neuralink OR "Boring Co" projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...

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Just found a piss-poor rewrite of this article by an "AI" "reporter" so I'm going to re-up it again. Because while LLMs can write as poorly as the best of us, only we humans can get the info in the first place.