David Cabo
@dcabo.bsky.social
Founder of @civio, promoting Open Data/Government, transparency and data journalism.
well well well, not so easy to replicate the most successful collaborative information effort in human history with a stack of GPUs and a pile of logits, is it?
Lawfare@lawfaremedia.org · 7h agoGrokipedia appears not to have updated any articles since April 24. @noupside.bsky.social and @rer.bsky.social explore why it matters that the encyclopedia hasn’t edited itself or processed edits from humans in more than 3 months. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...
New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...
"You ask a question, and a person named Tucker reads it, thinks about it, and writes back when awake and motivated."
New AI Chatbot Turns Out to Be One Overworked Guy Answering All the Messages by Hand
ChatTJB is a new "AI" — "average individual" — run by a guy named Tucker, who manually answers user queries.
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today in "headlines you'd see on a background TV in a disaster movie" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Rhine Falls to Lowest Since 1880, Disrupting European Trade
The Rhine River’s water levels dropped to the lowest in nearly 150 years as hot, dry weather grips Europe, threatening to disrupt a crucial route for transporting coal, fuel and industrial commodities...
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AI being used for racist nationalism is sadly a global phenomena and not limited to just the West. Not great that one of the key uses of new AI tools across the world seems to be spreading racism and bigotry.
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoChinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵
Debajo de un agua cristalina, se ven las siluetas de cuerpos sumergidos muy cerca de la frontera de El Tarajal en Ceuta. Dos de ellos están cogidos de la mano. Son la desgracia sumergida que ha dejado el cruce multitudinario de personas desde Marruecos
La desgracia sumergida en la frontera de Ceuta: “Hay más muertos en el mar”
Los agentes de la Guardia Civil han recuperado 67 víctimas y la ciudad prepara instalaciones con capacidad para 200 cuerpos
elpais.com
ÚLTIMA HORA | Ascienden a 34 los migrantes muertos en medio de una crisis migratoria con la entrada ilegal de más de 60.000 personas a Ceuta dozz.es/hrref7
Entrada masiva de migrantes en la frontera con Marruecos, en directo | Sánchez denuncia la "violación de la integridad territorial de España" y garantiza "la seguridad de los ceutíes"
Entrada masiva de migrantes en la frontera con Marruecos, en directo | Sánchez denuncia la "violación de la integridad territorial de España" y garantiza "la seguridad de los ceutíes"
dozz.es
Nuevo en Iedra: Escándimor, una sección de métrica. Pegas un poema y te lo escande: cuántas sílabas tiene cada verso, cómo rima y, si puede, cómo se llama la estrofa. Y enseña la cuenta entera, paso por paso. blog.iedra.es/entradas/metrica-escansion-de-versos/
Tres indultos a personas condenadas por delitos de corrupción: el de Laura Borràs, el del exalcalde de Linares (Jaén) y el del exdirector del Centro Niemeyer en Avilés (Asturias). Todos los detalles, en este artículo: civio.es/el-boe-nuest...
El Gobierno concede tres indultos a condenados por delitos de corrupción, entre ellos el de Laura Borràs
La expresidenta del Parlament podrá evitar la cárcel. El exalcalde socialista de Linares (Jaén) y el exdirector del Centro Niemeyer en Avilés (Asturias) también reciben el perdón de las penas de cárce...
civio.es
Hace solo 22 horas okdiario.com/espana/ganad...
Los ganaderos de Burgohondo a Sánchez: "No se atreve a venir aquí y decirnos a la cara lo del cambio climático"
Los ganaderos de Burgohondo (Ávila) desafían a Pedro Sánchez a que les visite y les diga en persona que el horror que están viviendo se debe a la «emergencia climática», tal y como el presidente del G...
okdiario.com
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
huggingface.co
At 19 years of age, Alex Toth landed work for the Green Lantern book. During this, he became very ill and stressed about deadlines. His mother called the offices and he soon received this letter.
Algunos bulos que os están intentando colar sobre los montes🔴‼️ -"Todo el monte es orégano" NO, la mayor parte del monte es tomillo -"La cabra tira al monte" NO. Las cabras pueden vivir también en llanuras -"si la montaña no va a Mahoma, Mahoma va a la montaña", FALSO ninguno de los dos se mueven
La manera correcta de ver La Odisea: -según Nolan, en un IMAX en pantalla gigante a un ratio de 1.4 -según Homero, en la casa de unos colegas hinchándote de vino mientras te la cuenta uno que se la sabe de memoria
Elon Musk's politics are indistinguishable from Paul Golding of Britain First [except Britain First is more coded on violence, while Musk has been more openly pro-violence as inevitable, necessary, legitimate since Aug 2025] The main pro-Hitler YouTuber "Zoomer Historian" is encouraged.
1/29 Los incendios forestales no van a desaparecer. Las soluciones simplistas solo sirven para reforzar prejuicios, no para entender el fenómeno.🧵
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups
Tremendo vídeo. No hay dinero que pueda pagar a esta gente. Gracias.
🔴El fuego ha alcanzado el Complejo de Comunicaciones de Espacio Profundo de Madrid de la NASA en Robledo de Chavela @eurekablog.bsky.social @vmanchado.bsky.social
The ultimate tldr on the OpenAI "rogue model" hacking incident 😅 (h/t @linege1 on X) But it would be useful to know the prompts OpenAI gave to the model....
This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) put out a little infographic for International Moon Day. It compares the diameter of Australia to the diameter of the Moon. This always throws me because in my mind, the Moon is actually bigger!
Trump en el momento en el que España recibe la Copa.
The Office Michael Scott
ALT: The Office Michael Scott
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And now Trump needs to kiss the feet of Pedro Sanchez as he hands Spain the trophy, per FIFA rules.
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
Here @fil.rezo.net reproduces @climatecasino.net’s chart, using warped gridlines to represent both the absolute temperature and the deviation from the historical mean for each day of the year. new.observablehq.com/@fil/godzill...
Prof. Eliot Jacobson@climatecasino.net · 4w agoBreaking News! Code: y-axis alert. Nino 3.4 SST is now up to 3.63 SD above the 1991-2020 baseline, about 1-in-7000 in the absence of anthropogenic warming. There's not enough room in a single post to express just how crazy this is. Please read: climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monst...
