This right here.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 23h ago

I am so fucking tired of "seeking justice" being framed as "getting even." Arresting and/or impeaching people who are legitimately guilty of actual crimes is not revenge. It is justice. Innocent people should be released from detention and guilty people should be in prison. Again, that is JUSTICE.

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Jesus fuck. If a state actor did this, that's an act of war. If non-state, attempted fucking mass murder.

Lukasz Olejnik@lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · yesterday

Cyberattack on France’s national blood service (EFS) via its refrigeration contractor Coolworld. Hackers reset freezers keeping blood donor samples at -30°C to a target of 110°C. The thing that stopped it from destructive impact was an on-call technician who noticed the temperatures going up.

TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS

RATIO’D.

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An LLM response that is factually incorrect has exactly the same validity, in the machine's programming, as one that is factually correct. There is no contextual correction mechanism in an LLM, because an LLM *does not actually understand what words mean*.

Yell In a War@jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have lost count of how many people (including people both older and younger than me) I’ve talked to about LLMs who did not know they are capable of making stuff up. “hallucinating” is an industry term to get people to skip over it because they don’t know it means “making stuff up.”

It's fun and not at all telling that Haley Stevens has repeatedly attacked Abdul El-Sayed for perceived antisemitism and is more than fine making appearances with Mike Rogers, who has surrounded himself with people who were caught in group chats saying "I love Hitler" and glorifying the Holocaust.

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NEW — I spoke to Tom, the guy at the South Carolina Trump rally who compared the president's supporters to the Jonestown Massacre. We talked about his loathing for Trump, his love of death metal, and where he learned his impeccable comedic timing. Read our full chat here:

I talked to Tom, the viral ‘Jonestown’ Trump rally guy

He planned to make good trouble. But he didn't expect to be handed a Fox News mic.

thehandbasket.co

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Dan Nguyen@dancow.bsky.social · 9mo ago

VC, founder, dumbass

Vivek Ramaswamy is a fucking monster. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

AI is a pernicious contagious fever and as an infectious disease person, I just have to trust that at some point fevers break. (Or the patient dies. Our culture is the patient.) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

New prize launches for books co-written with AI

After months of controversy over the possible use of AI by winners of prestigious awards, the Prix Pascal de Littérature IA is rewarding fiction written with the help of LLMs

theguardian.com

Schaden, meet freude.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last wk.

Need a break from UK budget news? Here’s a story about the residents of a luxury cruise ship on a years-long voyage around the world which has suspended operations due to high fuel costs and left its passengers stranded in a random bit of Cambodia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: I obtained the full Trumbull County file for Amy Acton's stepfather's 1974 charge which shows that he was indicted for incest involving his 16-year-old biological daughter in 1973./

TIL that the French for bulldog is "bouledogues," and I consider this permission to just start frenchifying English words when I skid to a halt because I've run out of vocabulary.

actu.fr @actu.fr · last wk.

🐶Isabelle a transformé sa maison en Ehpad pour bouledogues. Depuis 2017, elle a recueilli une centaine de chiens malades, handicapés et maltraités. Les soins vétérinaires sont assumés par des mécènes privés. #chien #bouledogue #refuge

I wonder what the statistical likelihood of that happening are…

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You really, really need to watch this video clip with the sound on. You will be rewarded.

GylesNaMopaleen@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 2w ago

1 month ago, the Orange Order - a misogynistic organisation steeped in religious discrimination - insisted on marching down a particular road in NI from Drumcree where nobody wanted them to. They still haven't been able to..despite trying in the middle of the night. Sound on. 1/3

Honestly just cringe.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com · 2w ago

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

I know everyone watched The Devil Wears Prada 2 for the return of the characters and the excesses of the costumes, which is an approach I fully support of course. (Also, Tucci.) But what most people don't realize is that in its search for a beneficent media billionaire, it's a goddamn documentary.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Neighbors

Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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This is what big journalistic organizations are for: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

How Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)

The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

nytimes.com

Watching @franceinfo.fr broadcast from Place de la Bastille, which was supposed to be on the route of today’s manif until the authorities force-relocated the protest overnight. It’s FULL of visible cops. If people still come, will the flics treat it as illegal assembly?

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

The EPA is quietly killing its web archive

Tens of thousands of documents on contamination, clean power, and Trump's climate deletions are now scheduled to disappear.

motherjones.com

put it up everywhere.

hickory smoked horse buttholes@mrmatthewgeorge.bsky.social · 2w ago

@davidjroth.bsky.social the county Republican party (in Ohio) is in the same building that I work in, and I taped up part of your column to their door today, because you express your disgust much more civilly and coherently than I do, much thanks.

If the things that happen in this administration were written into scripts, the writers' room would laugh at the person presenting it and send them back to do something less heavy-handed on the irony.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is sad. General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s historic World War II globe was broken when Pete Hegseth’s team dropped it while trying to move it into his office.

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If you’re an author who’s been receiving verbose AI scam emails on a daily basis, and you’re wondering how gullible and ego-driven people think you are, this article helps to explain them. Sadly, they are successful enough to have been built into a big business. www.thedial.world/articles/new...

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams — The Dial

Why writers are the perfect target.

thedial.world