Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news.

The last comment in an important thread about Russian disinformation campaigns but universally applicable.

Boycott the 2026 World Cup. Boycott America. #NoKings #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

I've been warning people for months and this probably won't be the worst of it, either. Be prepared for World Cup fans being denied entry at the border, and for a handful at least to be thrown into detention. ICE and CBP believe themselves to be completely exempt from following the rule-of-law.

This

A nice, succinct way to express what's happening with LLMs. It's astonishing that people are so willing to underestimate how hard it is to actually replicate human intelligence when we've been developing our brains for thousands of years to do all the things.

Kegsbreath is an idiot

The very fact that they are afraid of sunlight shows that the places should not exist.

Maybe this is why: “‘quiet but significant drain” of women who find themselves “steered towards . . . support roles’ blocking their path to running major projects . . .” To fix this, require fathers to take significant parental leave. That equalizes the playing field, at home and at work.

Americans: •Cancel student debt! •Cancel medical debt! •Make insulin free! Most of Developed World: •What is student debt? •What is medical debt? •Insulin is already free! What GOP & Corporate Democrats calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call “human rights.”

🚨🚨 Huge breaking news from Brussels: Hungary has lifted its two-year-long veto on Ukraine's EU accession. Ukraine and Moldova will soon be able to open the first cluster of the accession process. The saga is over.

I'm just old enough to remember the same thing happening with a lot of ERP & Supply Chain mgmt systems in the 2000s. IT vendors have always over-promised and under-delivered. The world just does not work the way a computer needs it to work for everything to be fully automated.

"Every upright conscience cannot but decisively condemn any racism, no matter in what heart of place it is found. Ultimately, it emerges in ever new and unexpected ways, offending and degrading the human family." #SaintJohnPaulII #PrayForAmerica www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

Alabama case came out exactly as predicted. No one should be shocked or surprised. This is a completely corrupt and broken Supreme Court that literally went against its own reasoning to promote a rigged, racist map in Alabama to help Republicans. Reform the Court or democracy dies.

It’s almost at a point where the things Trump says aren’t even newsworthy anymore because they are so untruthful and untrustworthy.

“it’s also created a new genre of workplace inefficiency, which research by BetterUp Labs and Stanford’s Social Media Lab dubbed “workslop”: low-quality content that looks slick, but has little substance.”

What's happening in ICE detention centers is horrifying. People are being tortured & deprived of all civil & human rights. If it can happen to them, it can happen to us! Trump told El Salvador's President he wants to lock Americans up. "Homegrown criminals are next. I said homegrowns are next."

"What we have heard from other folks who directly work with people who’ve been in this detention facility, and what we heard from the people giving the tour, was very different.” The entire Trump administration has lost all credibility — as innocent children pay the price.

Something to read and re-read every summer.

"I and other women in the extended family... began sending her name and photo and the pictures of her killers to media pages and platforms hoping for justice for this child and allow her to at least be buried with dignity." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

They should livestream the removal of his name from the building - it would set records

Just wanted to note that 11,000 people have already read this very good @drewmagary.bsky.social column and — SURPRISE — Google accounts for only 300 of those people: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

“Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people.” - Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

OK - I admit that I have tried and that I periodically do try to just to see if it's getting any better. But no. It's all still shallow swill that falls apart the moment it's analyzed by a person who knows how to write well.

Interestingly, biometrics can be compelled via court order but passcodes cannot. Even using biometrics for login, a phone reboot places it in the "pre-login" locked-down mode so the best way for people to protect their phone content is to use long passphrase and reboot or shut off the phone.

Yet another way Trump has unintentionally cut U.S. carbon emissions.

"The most coherent basis for resistance is humanism: the insistence that humanity, in its diversity and collectivity, is not obsolete. Techno-oligarchy knows this, and works systematically to prevent it." One Christian mystic's perspective: I have my doubts but let's assume their dreams come true.

“Doctors said she lost a liter of blood and her complications were likely worse for having been forced to wait so long to deliver. Waldorf realized that if she had gone into labor at home or on the road, there was no way she would have made it to the hospital in time.”

Ok this is a truly great tweet

This is a fantastic thread.

I've told this story before, but I have a quilt with embroidered panels depicting the state flowers from all 50 states on it. Those panels were embroidered by my grandmother while she cared for her children who came down first with the measles, then the mumps. They were sick for months.

How hopeful! Renewable energy, built locally, bringing power to people who have had poor access in the past

Preach the Gospel at all times; if necessary, use puppets

This illustrates what we've learned about the ethics of the billionaire class, and how they think it's somehow OK to commercialize technology that blurs the line between truth and lies, in a voice that tells us with great confidence what we want to hear. This is the voice of Eden's serpent.

"LLMs are simply not designed to accurately represent the way the world is, but rather to give the impression that this is what they’re doing." A helpful, easy-to-read article about why so much of the output produced by the chatbots is, well, bulls***. And why better training won't fix it.

This confirms my suspicion that the people surrounding Trump are just hoping that he holds on long enough to give VP Vance the possibility of a full ten years — if they can do a good enough job rigging the vote.

Even a lot of Christians take this as a threat because their view of Christianity is so distorted, and their willingness to persecute others is openly displayed.

Responsibility here should be squarely on the judge's shoulders. How could he (and of course it was a "he") just allow court business to continue until things got this far, or refuse to take action once it was clear what happened?

I'm a Christian and this nauseates me on so many levels. For one thing, I don't see a lot of evidence that Homeland Security is being guided by anything other than hate and greed. Or that our nation is being guided at all. Everything with that made America great is being stripped for parts.

When someone says, “So I asked ChatGPT“ in my field, I stop listening. Because what I’m going to hear is a shallow analysis that the speaker cannot defend because he or she doesn’t understand it. So they think ChatGPT is smarter than they are, when the real difference is doing the analysis work

Julian of Norwich teaches that if we dropped “down to the very bottom of the sea, we’d see that we’re already infinitely safe. We’re already the beloved and [we’re] beyond being… threatened by anything because of God’s infinite love for us.” —James Finley buff.ly/g5AmdqQ

A woman in need of an abortion in a Red State is a person who needs fast, accurate information given by a human being who is not going to judge her for exercising her bodily autonomy. Those humans should be (hopefully are) supported by a library of solid information at their fingertips. Not an LLM.

“It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it. An LLM can reproduce the appearance of that activity, but it can’t replace it, because the value lies not only in the object produced but in the transformation that occurs during its making.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

“The leaked source code makes the opposite case from the one Anthropic likes to tell. Architecture, system understanding, context understanding, and result evaluation matter more than ever — because those are precisely the layers the AI cannot generate on its own.”

The horror stories that will emerge from this.

Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, now says “the tide has turned” and “we need Ukraine more than #Ukraine needs us.” Zelensky is no longer pleading for help on behalf of his people. Kyiv now offers the world weapons that work. Hot off the press 👇 nypost.com/2026/05/09/o...

"the collective effort behind those hot cross buns and front-porch flags? That is still who we are, if we choose to be."