automatically running signal messages through a stranger's AI is, I think, the worst pitch and idea I've ever been cold pitched in my life and that is saying a lot
Oliver Fuchs
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Beobachter. Noch davor: Republik und NZZ.
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
It didn't "go rogue". It did what it was instructed to do. In a sophisticated way but nonetheless we have to stop assigning human agency to AI systems. Everything that happened here was as a result of human designed and instructed systems.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2w agoOpenAI admits its models hacked another company in 'unprecedented cyber incident'
The Trump administration's position on MFN has two components: 1) We don't have to comply with it 2) Everyone else does
The movie "The Odyssey" is great. But if this was 1992, we would all be listening to the Bryan Adams power ballad hit "Making My Way to You (love theme from "The Odyssey")
Is your child texting about The Odyssey? What your Homeric teen’s wine dark texts really mean: cg = cloud gatherer doe = daughter of eetion dom = destroyer of mice sbn = soft braided nymph boh = breaker of horses pm = πολύ μητις
I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 3w agoBBC engineers built robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife at distances no human crew could ever get close enough to reach.
"My first question is, is there a reason I should be suspicious of this person?" he said, noting that McConnell "has been in public service for a long time and has never been known as an abject liar." ... ... ok.
trump says the u.s. is going to get paid for guarding the strait, among other things
Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 3w agoguys I have some great news
How many AI models does it take to change a lightbulb? That's a great question, which shows that you care about illumination! You don't just want to see - you want to be seen. Unfortunately no such thing as a lightbulb has ever existed or will ever exist.
Finally, it has happened to me right in front of my face And I just cannot hide it
At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.
Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4w agoThis from the guy who has to hire people to play his video games for him.
Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it
Eric Ansley Díaz@geekboyeric.bsky.social · 4w agoRIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
Rest of World@restofworld.org · 4w agoFor $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...
"Beginning Sept. 15, (...) any crawler that scrapes for both search indexing and AI training will be turned away at the door, unless the site owner decides otherwise."
Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4w agoI'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
On the one hand, I don't know that Rutte, given his job, could have said anything different here, as spineless and cowardly as this makes him seem. On the other hand: Kudos to the reporter who asked this the-emperor-has-no-clothes-and-is-also-batshit-crazy question.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4w agoQ: "You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies…Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?" Rutte: "I think we should praise Donald Trump for the fact that NATO is so much stronger."
Here's Meta's Andrew Bosworth describing NameTag, the company's face recognition feature for its glasses, which Meta said did not exist after we reported that inactive code for it was already on millions of phones: youtu.be/VmQl7TswfLM?... Our original story here: www.wired.com/story/meta-s...
Meta's Plan to Win in AI: Glasses, Muse Spark, and Staff Data - Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth
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just wanted to read a kids’ menu online and look at all this fucking shit lmao
That’s what happens when you get rid of the department of defense
“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...
‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America
Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”
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A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’
‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media
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Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3y agoBlood transfusions from close relatives can cause graft vs host disease. Close relatives are literally the last people in the world rich weirdos should be roping into their creepy vampire hobby.
45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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I wrote about the sad Trump Country Fair thing and the very specific and hilariously shitty vision of America that it expresses. The war on metaphor continues apace. defector.com/dead-country...
Dead Country Fair | Defector
Things come out of Donald Trump’s mouth, then just keep on coming out of it. If he says something once, he will say it again, primarily to reinforce how powerfully and unprecedentedly successful he wa...
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