Jay Alt
@jalt.bsky.social
Do you love the hymns they taught you? Or are songs of Earth your choice?
Have you ever... you will... and the company that'll bring it to you? AT&T
Oops! All Paperclips@all-paperclips.bsky.social · 12h agoIf you made me choose between Claude Code and the rest of the internet, I'd have to think about it
"American Odyssey where bows are guns and odysseus does a redemptive mass shooting"
Axios drops "imminent" Iran peace leaks, oil crashes, short-sellers, insiders & White House PR collect the cash. Iran calls it "Operation Fauxios." No accountability, no deals, but massive profits for those holding the leaked cards. Who says foreign policy doesn't pay? crustnews.com/axios-declin...
Axios Claim Their Reporter "Reflects What U.S. President is Thinking" Following False Iran Claims
At least four times since March, Axios has published inaccurate claims of imminent Iran deals citing anonymous U.S. officials. Each time, financial markets reacted.
crustnews.com
It does seem odd that Epstein was able to directly suborn at least one serving government minister, while flying his private plane in and out of military bases in Britain and visiting e.g. Buckingham Palace and one of the royal family’s private retreats. Presumably nothing dodgy going on there.
Burnham not considering public inquiry into UK activities of Jeffrey Epstein
Victims’ minister said earlier that PM was ‘looking into’ inquiry into Epstein and another into Mohamed Al Fayed
theguardian.com
EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayOne more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Every single thing happening in the corporate world right now is essentially "How do we get to Skynet as quickly as possible?"
Subsurface temperature anomaly is now hitting 10C in some locations. Death follows
FelonyBench has a website!!! www.felonybench.com
Felony Bench: which lab is on track to end the world?
Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, tracking the count of questionable decisions made by AI models. Is it a good thing? Bad thing? Who knows? We're all living in an LLM's world.
felonybench.com
In 2026, we celebrate the fifth anniversary of "Corruption Networks" (Springer, 2021), co-edited with Oscar M. Granados. This book brings together innovative research on the analysis of corruption from a networks and complex systems perspective. Available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
*Hordes of locusts are winning the Russo-Ukrainian War *Thanks to all the war damage, there's heaps of ungathered crops for them to thrive upon and multiply
"Even the world's most famous special-purpose computer soon outlived its usefulness. There's a lesson in there somewhere..." (Source.)
Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf
8.5% of light speed. That is how fast S301 (which is slightly bigger than Sol) orbits the massive black hole Sgr A*. I can put this on the #worldbuilding label, but I'm mostly just amazed there is an object that big moving that fast. 🧪 Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12664
DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...
@jasonleopold.bsky.social gets a sneak preview of @wyden.senate.gov's report on how banks ignored Jeffrey Epstein's suspicious transactions. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
We need a term for the eerie uncertainty about whether you’re talking to a human. I just called a hospital line that handles urgent situations, which I use routinely. Today, the receptionist had an old-school synthetic cadence, odd delay timing, and sounded like a script.
Network Information Enhances Unreliable News Domain Detection https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02399 Content-based detection of unreliable news is increasingly difficult, as low-reliability sources mimic credible journalism and generative AI makes fabricated content harder to flag. We ask whether n...📈🤖
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan reports first 2 US deaths of people who had been sickened in outbreak of cyclospora.
Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Libraries pay millions to rent ebooks they never own. So maybe it's no surprise Penguin Random House is sponsoring arguments against stronger library ebook rights. www.libraryjournal.com/story/news/m...
Moving Beyond the Publisher Playbook: Why State-Level Contract Law is Essential to the Future of Digital Library Rights
The era of mere “firefighting” and polite, incremental negotiation is over. The library sector is asking for relief from ebook pricing schemes that consume tremendous amounts of public dollars while p...
libraryjournal.com
NEW: In 2025 ICE obtained DNA from nearly one million people and funneled it into an FBI criminal database. The collection likely included DNA from young children and was backed by the threat of criminal prosecution. The raw genetic material is stored indefinitely. Free to read:
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
Other nuclear plants requiring pretty drastic measures to continue operating, or needing to shut down www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Rupert Read@rupertread.bsky.social · 2d agoRemember: nuclear power IS intermittent. Probably, as climate breakdown deepens, worse so than wind - and solar. Pass it on…
“Metropolis” (The House of God) — Emil James Bisttram, 1929 oil on canvas
