Is this what that Depeche Mode song is about? Someone get Gahan on the horn.

In the future, you'll find these hidden at the back of locked China cabinets with the Nazi artifacts at your dirtbag pappy's house.

I love that Coogler made Remmick Irish. There's a lot to read into that. In the end, Remmick is clearly willing to use his tools, including Whiteness, to get what he wants, but the Irish are no strangers to ethnic persecution. Like Killmonger, he's a foil but not an opposite to the hero.

Biased writing assistants can shift your worldview.

OpenAI says CEO Sam Altman's house was targeted with a Molotov cocktail

I am here, once again, asking you to tear the roof of the sucker.

It (encrypted messaging) don't mean a thing if don't got that swing (turning off push notifications that display the message without unlocking your phone).

Kinda says it all.

[Students protest, Biden administration and campus leaders shut them down, ignore their complaints] DNC: ... [Students join mass movements and shift strategies to avoid crackdown] DNC: WHY WON'T YOU LOVE ME?

"Your words, Ms. Leavitt."

Oh, so she knew supporting Israel's aggression would cost her the election and lead to this fresh new genocide? Sounds like someone you should never trust ever.

Any US elected officials who stay quiet today do not deserve a spot in our next government. Not a single one. I don't care if you "don't have the votes," you have a voice and it's time to make a choice. Those who are silent have blood on their hands.

After the fascist commits the historically criminal act, killing millions of people, it will be too late and everyone will regret not doing something to stop him earlier. Future generations, should they exist, will wonder why it was allowed to happen.

Oh no! Anyways. Not cheering on the foolish war but one can hope some good comes of it.

Example of AI I can get behind: Using machine learning to hypercompress textures then render deterministically in a GPU, at full quality and on the fly and at a fraction of the memory usage.

Holy shit. kotaku.com/one-piece-ne...?

Bondi is gone, hooray, now is the next one going to be more sycophantic and incompetent or terrifying and competent? I dunno, probably whichever one is worse in this moment.

A wonderful breakdown of arguments against AI with an eye for context and caveats, not hyperbole.

Google Gemini has been able to develop a profile of personal information about you that might help it responds, e.g. your profession or domain of expertise. There is an option to turn this off. Only problem with that? Gemini does what it wants. 1/

Did Jasmine show up to the White House with a doctored copy of the Houston Chronicle proclaiming a new era of prosperity thanks to Trump? I heard that works.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Now that DCU is no longer going to be DCU, can we go back to calling it the Centrum? #Worcester

The algorithm is dead, long live the algorithm. /facepalm

Folks, it's 2026. Schizophrenia is not the same thing as dissociative identity disorder and neither of them make good sense for your metaphor or analogy.

The Substance (is corpse tissues)

Tired of Platner. Maine voters will have to decide. But fwiw, I don't trust him and the claim that it was all in the remote past doesn't convince me. Here's a timeline thread of red flags from 2007-2026: 2007 - Nazi tattoo 2008 - Trolls people with Blackwater hat

NEW: The government tells Americans to use VPNs to protect their privacy. The government also automatically presumes communications of unknown origin are foreign. Foreign communications don't require a warrant to wiretap. Lawmakers who've done the math want answers. My latest @wired.com:

Don't worry, Gov. Healey. OpenAI might still be fueling the war in Iran, but they cancelled their sex chatbot.

Okay, it's not good... but, Option One is legit the distillation of a thousand vapid posts I've read

The species ending because Iran posted so hard that Trump causes nuclear winter would be the perfect ending to the human story.

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)

I think it's an important lesson to learn. Being a "good person" doesn't save anyone from the human capacity to harm. Having clear and articulated values matters.

“Using artificial intelligence tools to read thousands of chest X-rays and prioritise abnormal ones did not lead to faster lung cancer diagnoses, according to a new study led by researchers from UCLH, UCL and the University of Nottingham.” www.uclhospitals.brc.nihr.ac.uk/news/ai-driv.... #AInews

Great point. "Separating the art from the artist" is an important tool for employing scholarly criticism and analysis, not for assuaging guilt over supporting awful people.

Even hiring humans through large services is dicey. I've gotten professional work back that just needed to be redone because of inconsistent dialect among translators. It's intricate work

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Newest blue sky joke just dropped: "evangellicals are a 'protected' group"

"Coming to terms" is a lost art. It's not that the imprecision of terms is the problem, it's the failure to acknowledge that we're carrying around different definitions localized to our context and expertise. (1/2)

Google is going to rewrite your website whether you like it or not. www.forbes.com/sites/joetos...

"Energy think-tank Ember estimates that battery storage costs have fallen by 20% a year over the last decade, while installations have increased at an average annual rate of 80%." grid scale batteries

This says “trap” in letters three stories high with flashing lights and a siren, and still some profs will walk right into it.

I encourage people to look at what happened to the profession as a whole through the process of adjunctification, a mechanism which degraded the quality and security of ALL faculty jobs, even those who are tenure track and see how AI automation is the same mechanism, only potentially faster.

Wild quote.

ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.

My son came up with the best term for the DLSS 5 and other weird GenAI non improvement (at least the first time I've heard it): "Sloptimization". It's perfect. No notes.

hate to be a debbie downer but as a veteran of living through economic collapse sparked by republican policy, not looking forward to the next decade or so

Kat showed what's possible. I hope she inspires a hundred more. She's talented and worked hard, not just anyone could do this well, but she's far from the only one. The right people in the right races.

As soon as governance impacts your life, there you go, that's political. People don't "make things political," politics intervene in our lives. When decisions are made that impact people or there are gaps in the system that cause people harm, that's what "makes things political."

Wonderful breakdown of algorithmic bias.

More of this, please.