I'm wildly biased on this front, but I continue to believe the last decade of self-driving technology remains one of the best ways to understand how "AI" will and will not have a lasting impact

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 30m ago

AI really does change the speed at which you can do things but every product is still very 80 / 20. Getting to the MVP feels really good and goes really fast, getting the UI to actually work in a sane way is going to require a lot of annoying and frankly boring testing / use.

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h ago

CNBC: Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

Elon’s alpha relative to coreweave is he’s simply more brazen at doing crimes.

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 6h ago

that and the govt let him pollute a bunch

the year is 2046, a 100-year-old Lula scrapes out another victory against Bolsonaro Jr. Jr.

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 18h ago

I will not forget that Zuckerberg and Facebook shut down the accounts of the most popular presidential candidate in one of the largest democracies in the world, and he was elected anyway

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections Statement posted 8 hours ago. "This is the first time to our knowledge that favours made to politicians such as the Bolsonaros have been programmatically made user-facing to such an obvious and biased extent.”

Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections

Meta staff are holding the Big Tech company’s leadership accountable for decisions they say could compromise the credibility of the democratic process.

panamericandispatch.org

London has probably now got the cleanest air out of any equivalent sized cities in the world thanks to Ulez, electric cars and buses.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

Are air quality‒health effect claims a statistical analysis fluke?

There are literally thousands of epidemiology (observational) studies in the literature claiming that air quality causes adverse health effects, including mortality. There are three profound examples ...

publichealth.realclearjournals.org

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

Is the Kremlin Preparing a Propaganda Spectacle in Oleshky?

A possible ceasefire in occupied Oleshky risks becoming a Kremlin propaganda stage, masking blocked aid and once again recasting Russia as the rescuer before foreign audiences.

kyivpost.com

omidyar bought the distributor that released the musk documentary and then immediately withdrew it from theaters

Controversial "Musk" Documentary Pulled From Almost Every One of 472 Theaters After One Week by Newly Sold Bleecker Street Films - Showbiz411

Alex Gibney's "Musk" movie is pretty much gone. Released October 9th to four theaters, it expanded to 472 last Friday. And now, one week later it's gone

showbiz411.com

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

"immense wealth and control of information in a small number of tech-industry figures whose personal interests do not align with the public interest." // the true alignment problem

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

With AI, fixating on apocalyptic scenarios ignores real-world problems involving the actually already existing AI. We have proven methods to address disruptive technology, but for anyone who opposes them, apocalyptic fantasies can be a useful distraction. My latest, in @liberalcurrents.com:

trump enjoys humiliating weak people who give in or collaborate, there’s no way to do it and keep your dignity. he also tends to humiliate people that do “hold on, its not like that” explanations of how these things unfold

Asher is left to face the fall alone@asherball.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is a very funny quote from Pichai gicrn their defense around the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario was that they were just going by what the GNS said.

⚡️️️️️️️Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine. "Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

Kyiv denies reports that Trump, Musk have restored Starlink speeds in Ukraine

"Overall, nothing has changed anywhere," a Ukrainian official told the Kyiv Independent on Oct. 22. Starlink's speed cap of 161 kilometers per hour remains in effect, the official said.

kyivindependent.com

In 20 years we will scorn people who expose LLMs to the public internet in exactly the same way and for exactly the same reasons that we scorn people using PHP today

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 4d ago

Being a templating language with delusions of grandeur it has had very little distinction between untrusted user-submitted data and code from the very beginning and that makes it very powerful but very dangerous and hard to secure (comparison to LLMs left as an exercise for the reader)

this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

Ryan Fonseca@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.

These people have embraced nothing but sheer degeneracy at this point. Every single one of them lacks even the most basic moral characteristics required for participation in public life. A movement filled with nothing but the most gutter cretins.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

JD Vance: "Now the media and the Democrats in the state of Ohio are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it out like it is and call Amy Acton a liar"

feels like an overreaction to the EA news

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 5d ago

#BREAKING US embassy staff and families ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP

in a way it also shows how human-like intelligence is a bait and switch game. “submarines don’t need to swim like fish” and “fish can swim without ____, subs should too” get trotted out depending on what is most rhetorically convenient

Thorne 🌸 - Play Cozysters! 🎢@ens0.me · 4d ago

Elon insisting on relying on cameras only for FSD was one of the dumbest ideas Elon has ever had, which is saying *a lot* "Humans can drive with only sight!" yeah, and we low key really suck at it

(And then Trump just blocks WH visitor logs entirely and faces no consequences) bsky.app/profile/saba...

☠°。Die Siebenschläfern *.ﾟ☠@sababausa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Running theme since 2017 is the Republicans flout public records laws and face ~no political penalty for it, while Dems and centrists adhere to public records laws and create a paper trail that Republicans and the press tend to treat as nefarious (see, eg, Fauci, Anthony; see also WH Visitor Logs)

I have become Fully Anti-Press because of the delta in the coverage between Biden and Trump in re: mental faculties

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d ago

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

I've seen misrepresentations of our findings. We're not blaming Labour for the state of public services or claiming extra funding has had no effect. Rather, we find that public services were in such a mess in 2024 that, despite money and reforms, services won't have recovered to 2019 levels by 2029

Stuart Hoddinott@stuarthoddinott.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Starmer's public service inheritance was bleak. His govt made some progress improving services. But also launched a messy set of reforms Burnham has set out a positive vision but has a mountain to climb to deliver all his promises 🧵 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

The New York Times wrote articles that were like "the impossible-to-characterize elusive politics of Elon Musk / he's lost interest in politics" right before he became *literally the largest GOP donor in history* the next election cycle. Twice. Two times!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

This would be the most any person has donated in any election cycle. And #2 is also Musk, in 2024.

the internet has lost *legibility of effort* - the ability to easily whether something took meaningful human work It's why we all catalogue vibe-code tells. And I bet that we'll find new ways to show our humanity through our work eieio.games/blog/legibil...

I will say, researchers primarily focused on establishing whether there had been a drop in support for the AfD (which was the initial claim); the CCD report is focused on the Ukrainian information environment *specifically*

Analytical report ‘When bots go silent: what the strikes on “Yandex” data centers affected’ | Центр протидії дезінформації

The Center for Countering Disinformation (hereinafter referred to as the Center) conducted an in-depth study of accounts displaying signs of inauthentic beh ...

cpd.gov.ua

So, while initial reports of drops in "social media bot" activity after the Yandex data centre strike on Oct 8th were found to be unsubstantiated. The Ukrainian Centre for Countering Disinformation has now produced a report showing significant declines in inauthentic Facebook & Telegram activity

It really sucks that we will have to do it the hard way because no one is fine with the trade offs, but ultimately yes, the fact Europe isn't ready for war now doesn't mean it won't change quickly if the war starts. Russia itself had to adapt and learn drone warfare "on the fly"; others also can.

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last wk.

Something which I think gets seriously underplayed in all the ‘are we ready for war?’ stuff: a modern economy can adapt to the pressures and needs of war very quickly. And what seemed impossible suddenly becomes necessary and is done.

What an arc. Before the Czech Communists said goodbye to the national parliament, they've voted for Mr Babiš's flat income tax proposal. PfE is mainly in the upper-right quadrant [1st chart], the KSČM is in the upper-left corner [2nd chart]. They quit The Left since the last EP elex.

Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · 4d ago

The Czech Communists’ lone MEP Kateřina Konečná has joined Patriots for Europe. She says her views have not changed. I am sure that is true. The conservative left politics of sections of the Czech left substantially overlap with those of the radical right. www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domac...

1/4 Human hunters do not replace apex predators Hunting and natural predation do not have equivalent ecological effects. Apex predators are associated with diverse and robust animal communities; hunting is associated with the opposite. (paper) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...