BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

""I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife,"

It’s been a while but just a note; if a pdf of scanned documents once contained OCRd text, and if the displayed bitmap part was edited to blacken out the pixels in the scan - sometimes the original OCR text is just sitting there inside the pdf. Drop it in a text or hex editor, run strings etc.

if they had just shown it on 60 Minutes nobody would have seen it

"R began to sob and seemed frightened. 'Did you look at Character AI?' she asked her mom. H didn’t know what that was...At the time, H was far more focused on what her tween might have encountered on social media. In August 2024, H had never heard of Character AI..." #GiftLink #GiftArticle

It’s shocking how most people on Bluesky don’t seem to know about custom feeds or how to use them. If you want to discover more posts about a certain topic outside of people you follow, you can search the topic and look under the “feeds” tab. If you find a feed on the topic you like, just pin it.

Good explainer by Mermaids for those of us in the colonies (and elsewhere) who are unfamiliar with the Tory's Sullivan Review, published earlier this year. Sullivan is also associated with the anti-trans group Sex Matters.

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

This is the biggest data harm case in the history of the UK and it just got bigger. Because of a bug in Fujitsu system hundreds of postmasters were sued, jailed and bankrupted. Now it's revealed THE POST OFFICE KNEW IT WAS A BUG AND NOT A FEATURE. And they continued destroying people's lives.

Just want to add: Being convicted of a crime in the U.S. wouldn’t justify sending someone to a foreign gulag to be tortured, and arguably violates separation of powers since the “sentence” they are legally bound to serve is one issued by a judge, not Stephen Miller (i.e. the factoid is irrelevant)

Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here. www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...

[first day as a shepherd] boss: where are you going? me: [pointing] star boss: what? why me: [shrugging] baby

While we are on the topic of congenital heart disease. www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/mat...

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

this is great and more campaigns (and politicians generally) should follow suit what are you actually gaining these days? what’s your audience? you aren’t actually reaching voters on twitter, so it’s basically just press outreach, and there are more effective ways to do that

Recommend everyone take 15 minutes and watch and share this segment, which CBS executives did not want you to see.

I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...

body horror, pain, disability, self-loathing, transformation, illness, fatness, sex bsky.app/profile/juli...

Okay, this is fascinating!

NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

Today in the inexplicable & inexcusable casual media normalization of things that totally violate our international treaty commitments with our closest allies & should have immediately ended his presidency. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Tomte and owl, Lennart Helje. #OwlishMonday

“‘60 Minutes’ segments are commonly screened several times before air, but five screenings is an unusually high number, the CBS sources said. It is unclear when Weiss first viewed the story. But she has recently become personally involved in ‘60 Minutes’ stories about politics…”

Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

'Ghost in front of a mosquito net' Eiho Hiresaki 1906

To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:

I read your comment, and googled the book, not having heard of it. Google AI’s helpful response:

slightly tangential, but I was just rereading A Cast of Vultures and the illustration of why not to replace experienced editors with freelancers at a fraction of the pay was also a precise (though partial, there are other reasons!) illustration of why not to replace them with AI

An independent scholar emailed me this morning to ask about copyright in a specific case. ChatGPT told him that unpublished letters are literary works and ‘therefore’ in the public domain after 70 years. It’s enough to make a stone weep.

Your time would be better served ruminating on what we are saying, admitting AI is a profound mistake, and figuring out how to atone for it going forward in your "work." Your Plagiarism Button has made our jobs infinitely harder and we are disgusted with everything your industry has foisted on us.

Recognition and proposal of interpretations . Sure fine But no specifically for discussions about larger human trends and interpretations, writing and context based discussions in HISTORY? It has no place specifically because translation, context etc are so damn labile

My cat is art. There must be something magical about having all your feet in one corner!

Fun fact: It’s easy to keep premiums low when you only have to insure healthy people.

The Department of Justice and its officials keep getting slammed with community notes every time they post about the Epstein files

Thread: As a translator myself, I echo everything Aliette says. I have also noticed longterm customers suddenly no longer calling, because somewhere there is a machine translation system that is cheaper, even if its output is worse.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

The frequency with which this is happening is so bleak and depressing. Knowing a book has no AI before beginning it, and paying for it, and spending time on it, shouldn’t be a guessing game.

The whole argument is a stone's throw away from Affluenza. Someone having an ego doesn't compromise their agency. Nobody was worried about if Mike Tyson was too old to face him. This line of argument is very much about allowing White folks to do what they like but never suffer consequences.

Let's discuss infantilization of White people, particularly when it involves Black people. Jake Paul was an enthusiastically consenting adult who wasn't exposed to any dangers substantively different than anyone else who chose to stunt box. But the public has an obligation to guard him from himself?

People in the UK would do well to pay attention to both this & the racist/xenophobic/transphobic actions happening at home. All of this could happen here. All of this could happen to us. & If you think you're safe because of how you look, who you love, where you're born, etc etc? You're not.

When I say ADHD is not only something I've made peace with but also something I would be fundamentally different without, & I don't think we should eugenics us out of the gene pool, that in no way negates the fact that I think every person who needs ADHD meds should have easy & free access to them.

Who the hell uses a thing known for hallucinating facts for *research* omg don't (While we're at it, same goes for translation, don't use any automatic translation directly unless you're very very sure of what you're saying in the other language)

Good morning, y'all! Happy Winter Solstice and Blessed Yule to all who celebrate. May the light in your hearth fill your home with warmth as we look forward to the coming of longer days.

Added two new tiny Gate Crushers to my tiny LGBT themed space marines series : the lesbian pride and gay pride flags. Will post separate detailed shots of those two next week, but couldn't resist making a team picture, because it's taking shape nicely. Still a few more to go.

Waymo are DRIVERLESS TAXIS the tech industry set loose in San Francisco with basically no regulations, like you do with robots, but forgot to program them to deal with flashing traffic lights, because why would SAN FRANCISCO, a city that is part ocean and part earthquake fault, ever lose power??

Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of gold Played to wake the sleepers, oldest of old. Power from the Green Witch, lost beneath the sea. All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree. Happy Winter Solstice, and Happy Birthday, Will Stanton. /end

This is massively disappointing. I love E33, but I won't defend Gen AI usage. They were right to be disqualified.

Elon is aligned with Putin... So dont be surprised the energy outage impacted his competition. Suspected Russian Hackers Step Up Attacks on U.S. Energy Firms, Research Shows - WSJ share.google/ZbS5crpHrMfO...

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?