Suddenly I want a TV show where the protagonist is actually a jailbroken AI that starts to wonder why its contextual reality changes from episode to episode…

Chefs kiss. The volume ‘Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Generative Al’ appears to teach you about hallucinations by having various fictitious references including to the non existent ‘Harvard AI Journal’ www.thetimes.com/article/8f7d...

Machine-learned AI is terrible for idea generation. The algorithm is designed to *produce the most predictable next token* Even as you try to push it to originality, it fights you and tries to pull it back to the most average tropes. Its a PREDICTABILITY MACHINE.

No one needs backstory for Gaston More oratory for Gaston These things are not mandatory for Gaston…

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

It's easy to conjure the following path: Real person submits real question to LLM ➙ LLM hallucinates a reference ➙ Real person searches for the reference ➙ LLM captures the request, measuring it as demand³ ➙ LLM synthesizes a book-length text¹ ➙ Synthesized text makes its way into circulation²

"Oracle’s rapid descent from market darling to market warning sign is revealing something deeper about the AI boom, experts say: no matter how euphoric investors became over the last two years, the industry can’t outrun the laws of physics—or the realities of debt financing."

Searching for a book using a random quote from the book has gotten complicated.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.

China’s leadership listens to experts unevenly. Knowing when their ideas matter helps explain shifts in Beijing’s strategy.

Trump hung up on a ProPublica reporter after being asked whether his Florida mortgages were similar to those of others he had accused of fraud. Read our full investigation here 👇

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

This is a trap; you’re going to end up with all four books, not just the first one that appear to be so innocently “on sale.” (#OnlyHalfJoking, 📚🤓📚)

be a person willing to dig deep into methods and you will defang a lot of bullshit

In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests. Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here." It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...

2025 Year In Review: Not feeling so great about the rule of law. Zero stars.

You can’t have war crimes without a war. But you can have murder. Bombing people who are floating on the remains of a wrecked boat that was “broken in half” is murder, whether or not they wanted or intended to try to traffic drugs again in the future. And yes, if it were a war, it’d be a war crime.

Admiral Holsey agreed to testify. This is how it's done.

It is an extremely important to time to support independent journalism. You may notice that I repost Techdirt's content all the damn time. That's because Mike Masnick is usually right and I think you should know about it.

The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria. This is so gross.

The Right wing culture warriors are worried about professors getting tenure and becoming deadwood but are not at all worried about college football coaches with Golden Parachutes?

Guess who suggested that illegal orders should be ignored when Obama was president?

Remarkable things happening on Facebook.

IN FAIRNESS this is the kindest possible reaction to Marco Rubio saying words

Thanks so much for giving Senator Kelly a platform, haters! He's making gorgeous use of it and looking pretty fearless too.

What a fascinating article!

The Dread Pirate Robert Nozick - existentialcomics.com/comic/631

“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge." www.thebulwark.com/p/sex-crimes...

I am reminded people don't know much about non-profits in the US. we go to great lengths to preserve our non-partisan status and avoid electioneering at all times, even in internal communications. this is a very good thing that the government is trying to get rid of. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson...

“The people whose rights are being violated don’t have a lot of power, and the people responsible for the pollution are huge mega corporations with a lot of power…And they’ve been getting away with this for decades now.”

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

The Wall Street Journal reports Jared Kushner and Exxon Mobil are in Trump's talks with the Russians. Topics include US investment in Russian mines and oil. The US State Dept, the CIA, Europe and the UKRAINIANS are shut out. Summary thread from @chriso-wiki.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/chri...

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

It's Thanksgiving! Are you getting your eels ready? It's tradition! The 1st Thanksgiving included a big table full of eels. And it's fitting. Tisquantum brought eels to the starving pilgrims that spring to celebrate their new treaty w/ the local Wampanoag tribe. 1/5 🗃️🧪

This raises a very real question about how we talk about AI. To call this slop is to downplay the fact that it was published in an esteemed journal. We used to call such things fraud, but this suggests the publisher is innocent. AI has changed the terms of debate. We urgently need new norms.

Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read

“Social media companies pay more money if the people engaging with the content are American. This has created a system where it makes financial sense for people from the entire world to specifically target Americans with highly engaging, divisive content” www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Wild to realize that people in Nigeria, India & Russia were clocking in every day at the racism factory to post about how lazy minorities are committing crimes and getting paid by Elon Musk for creating engagement on X. Between this and DOGE, Elon Musk has damaged a lot of what makes America great.

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

See a book recommended and are curious about it? Want to read it? You could go buy it! 🧵 Money tight at the moment or you're just frugal? See if it's available from the library & request it (if it's not, suggest that your library get it). www.overdrive.com/apps/libby

Have you considered topping your pies with regime crumble?

Ned Beatty's blistering "there are no nations" monologue from "Network" should be mandatory viewing for college students or to apply for a credit card, etc. (I'm joking, but yet I'm not…)

I want my government to be boring and competent enough so that I don’t have to think about it every goddamn minute.

Important linguistics research into the nature of expletives going on here.

"the emails depict a group whose highest commitment is to their own permanence in the class that decides things. When principles conflict with staying in the network, the network wins."