is this good:

If you want to learn about "AI," the two worst ways to be educated are 1) asking large corporations to teach you and 2) expecting this federal government has insight to provide

To be honest, it doesn’t even preserve that much the internet’s knowledge.

IYKYK 🌮@nisslbody.blacksky.app · 2d ago

I keep beating this drum, but for a reason; most of the information in the world is not on the internet, but most people think it is. We have been told for over two generations that the internet does or will soon hold all human knowledge. This is not only false, it is far from the truth.

I have absolutely nothing to say about Ariana Grande other than that I wish her well.

Just so you know, if you hire me to fact check your book, I will *never* use AI to do it. I will, however, be really hyper-detailed and not go easy on you and frankly be pretty pedantic (complimentary) and even fact check your jokes - but I won’t use AI to do ANY of that.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago

As a professional fact checker I would never *in a million years* use AI for research and fact checking. It lies! It makes things up! It plagiarizes! And I also have an obligation to the authors I work for not to do shoddy half-work.

I thought this needed wider circulation now we’re in August. H/T to @thelocalfrance.bsky.social @emmapearson.bsky.social

It is funny that as more people get duped by AI, the response more frequently seems to be to insist that the models are developing godlike intelligence and we all need to be sooo careful when the real lesson is clearly that the human psyche can get absolutely one-shotted by personalized flattery

I’m a defense attorney that specializes in white collar cases. Most of my clients are conservatives. And almost all of them are chock full of reasons why they’re different from everyone in the system. “I’m not a criminal.” “You stole $4 million.” “You know what I mean.” “Yup.”

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith. 17/

BS. Hamilton’s spinning in his grave He focused on credit, nat’l reputation, reliability As he said: “To see the character of the Government & the country so sported with, exposed to so indelible a blot puts my heart to the torture…Is there a constitutional defect in the American mind?” Maybe so.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Bessent: "President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world."

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d ago

saw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law

People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.

thebulwark.com

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w ago

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: AI solipsists and AI cynics; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s... #Pluralistic 1/

I'm just glad Article I isn't alive to see this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country

This article encapsulates everything that is wrong with Louisiana--corruption, racism, neglect of the environment. This state has so much more potential than what greedy capitalism will allow it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...

How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)

A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.

nytimes.com

Cutting money that provides food and health care but spending $300 million to permanently deploy the military to the streets of the capital in times of peace is tinpot dictator stuff

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last wk.

What could up to 2k illegally deployed troop apartments cost, Michael? $148,000? Each?

Ruin a book by adding a word: - "The Old Man and the Sea Food."

GoodPlaceJames@goodplacejames.bsky.social · 2w ago

Ruin a book by adding a word: - "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Biden."

It's been proven throughout history that engaging in genocide is a wonderful way to turn public opinion against you.

One good way to confirm that the president is, in fact, a narcissist is if a top military official is sacked for calling him a narcissist.

@cliffdubya.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s like living in Nazi Germany.

Just had a fear that someone would try to replace the Internet Anagram Server with an LLM that doesn’t know the first thing about how letters relate to words.

Apologies if I sound angry, but it is a real problem that the 'smart' commentary on this war is trying hard to avoid the core lesson ("the president is a fucking moron") because it doesn't sound very clever when it is absolutely the most important takeaway from this debacle.

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

Someone get me in a room with MacKenzie Scott’s folks and I’ll deliver my impassioned / well-constructed argument that it’s a moral imperative that she give $20 million to a new distributor specifically for nonprofit and small presses in order to offset her ex’s dismantling of the book industry.

People are like defunding the police isn’t possible but look at us out here defunding education. We can do anything!

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago

www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Support For Abolishing ICE: All: Support: 48% Oppose: 40% Support Among: DEM: 73% IND: 48% GOP: 24% YouGov / July 20, 2026

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

John Carl Baker@johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 9mo ago

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate

A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.

thecityreporter.nyc

UK food retail industry leadership went from: "nobody could possibly track and mitigate all allergens in a restaurant it's too complex" to: "allergies? here is a complete list of all allergens and our mitigation strategy" in WEEKS after the first boss got jailed for manslaughter.