My partner lives walking distance from multiple hospitals in NYC. There were several weeks during the worst of the pandemic where I could hear an ambulance siren more-or-less 24-7 from her apartment.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

I already believed his ex-wife but, as Miller runs the whole abuser playbook here, I'm absolutely certain he's a violent fuck now.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Looking forward to living this reality again, this week. It's not just every airport that's different -- within the same concourse at JFK & LGA, the rules may be different from day to day. I love a TSA agent screaming at me for doing what one screamed at me for not doing a week ago.

In today's episode of "When You Piss a Librarian Off"...

Jenna don't doxx me bro@zinelib.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just added this incident to Jennings' Wikipedia page. We'll see if it sticks

We now have OpenAI and Anthropic in a public feud over whose agents have crimed the most. Oddly, neither one of them is really saying "Hey, we've been really awful at basic security".

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI finds evidence other AI agents escaped containment as it widens hacking probe

The new breakouts were uncovered during the company's publicly announced investigation into how one of its agents escaped what was meant to be a contained testing environment this month.

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The reasons alluded to almost certainly start with goals for PMs that specify increasing generative AI consumption. Point at any ridiculous corporate decision and I can reliably guess the goals somebody was given that led to it.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

I couldn't think of Louis C. K.'s name so I searched the Internet for "comedian exposed penis" and it turns out that Louis C. K. isn't even in the first page of results for that.

If you’re the first, you have to be more on top of your shit, not less. It’s not fair, but it’s how it is

How it Works

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Paisley shirts were absolute fire in the 70s in the USSR. www.tumblr.com/dashboard sovietpostcards.tumblr.com/post/8234798...

As Trump-backed Congressman Miller faces credible allegations of abuse, it seems axiomatic that abusers support abusers. At this point, I'm just going to assume that anybody Trump lauds deserves felony charges.

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

motherjones.com

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

Grand Jury Skullduggery, Reflecting Pool Edition?

Grand Jury Skullduggery, Reflecting Pool Edition?

Lawyers for former Olympian David Hearn, charged with felony vandalism of Trump’s...

talkingpointsmemo.com

A lot of folks make excuses for sexual abusers even when the truth becomes public. It's always been vile.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · last wk.

Rapists primarily show solidarity with other rapists. www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains. "Gentleman" is my favorite but "1965" is, I think, probably more perfect.

Aram Zucker-Scharff@chronotope.aramzs.xyz · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

Me: (being murdered by the AI paperclip maximizer) Bluesky: Actually it can't 'murder' you. Murder implies intent.

> If your AI agent is out there choosing to do crime, in the sense that a human with mens rea would be doing crime, then I think someone needs to be strictly liable for the damages this causes.

More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace

We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.

thezvi.substack.com

Cynthia Brumfield@metacurity.com · last wk.

"Then, in a follow-up post on Saturday, Delangue outlined what he’d asked for from OpenAI. He said he called for 'radical transparency,' asking OpenAI to 'release the traces from the ‘rogue’ agents so the entire research community can study what happened.'" techcrunch.com/2026/07/26/h...

"Questions remain", says the Charlotte Observer. That incorrectly suggests that some questions have been answered.

A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

charlotteobserver.com

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · last wk.

I’m just now hearing about this—corporate media has ignored it completely. On May 8, a man found the lifeless body of a 17-year-old Black child named Juliana Umba Nzita hanging from a tree twice her height outside a Black church she doesn’t attend. The response of local police is mortifying. 1/4

> “I have never received so many hateful comments in my life,” another woman said in a video after reading responses on Threads. “Ukrainians, do you have no sense of empathy?” Alanis Morissette has got absolutely nothing on this. www.kyivpost.com/post/80996

‘Everything I Had Left Burned’: Russians Weep After Wildberries Strikes

Russian business owners cried on camera and said they had lost everything after new drone strikes hit Wildberries logistics centers near St. Petersburg.

kyivpost.com

There's nothing to "join" in the Democratic Party. It's a brand with products I spend my vote on once a year at the democracy store. Most people's experience of it is an endless stream of texts that read like scams, their reward for donating or signing a petition. No wonder DSA is growing

Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...

OpenAI are criminally negligent when it comes to cybersecurity, and are very good at viral marketing to executives via poor and uncritical media coverage.

This stage of the AI push reminds me of peak cryptocurrency, which was supposed to change everything. I was never afraid of blockchain the technology, I was afraid of the people behind it, and their vision for the future.

I believe the Iranians more than I believe our own government and that's quite something. www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-jd-va...

Iran Sent Message to JD Vance Warning that Kushner and Witkoff Were “Abusing” Their Inside Access to Negotiations

A senior Iranian official said Tehran privately told Vance the pair were exploiting the negotiations for financial gain. The Trump administration says it never happened.

dropsitenews.com

This is barbaric.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w ago

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

I got in the elevator this morning and a woman warned me that her dog was in the elevator with her. “In case you might get scared.” Lady, the only thing to be scared of here is that I’ll make a fool of myself murmuring baby talk at your dog.

Which would be pretty on-brand, since the trend here is that the super vocal defendeds of Western Civilization keep demonstrating they don’t know much about Western Civilization.

I, for one, think it's a damning indictment on how the cybercriminal industry so rarely meets even the lowest levels of gender diversity quotas that seeing a wanted poster for female hacker is still quite surprising. smh.

Cynthia Brumfield@metacurity.com · 3w ago

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including --US indicts three Russians tied to sanctioned bulletproof hoster, offers $10 million reward, 1/7 www.metacurity.com/us-indicts-t...

We don't talk often enough about one of the most important skills of this decade: Knowing which of your group chats is the right one to share a particularly interesting link/meme with.