A little weird to have "GIFT" atop an article about Trojan Horses
Stuart Semmel
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Leftists are supposed to wait for a more convenient season for change. Getting the most votes in elections just shows how out of touch they are with most voters.
@doctorow.pluralistic.net, excellent as always www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Hard to believe one district can bring us the disgraced Mark Meadows, the disgraced Madison Cawthorn, and now the disgraced Chuck Edwards one after another
“the 1985 blimp film A View To A Kill”
The Onion@theonion.com · 19h ago“These strange, balloon-like anomalies have captivated the public imagination for decades,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said of the unusually bulbous vessels officially known as Unidentified Floating Objects but colloquially referred to as “blimps” or “flying sausages.”
Robinhood now makes more money from prediction markets than it does from stock trades or crypto. This adds weight to my theory that Bitcoin and crypto has crashed due to competition from Polymarket and Kalshi for the online gambler demographic.
one could argue that if moreno didn’t act like such a psycho towards fauci this week that the public wouldn’t have had a sustained interest in him or his family
Oh! Oh! A good occasion to post my 2012 article about the very first photograph posted to the World Wide Web!!!! archive.is/8ERVV
Internet Archive@archive.org · 4d ago🌐 Happy World Wide Web Day! Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the World Wide Web transformed how we share knowledge online. In 2025, Sir Tim was honored as an Internet Archive Hero Award recipient for his lasting impact on the web. More 👇 blog.archive.org/2025/11/05/c... #WorldWideWebDay
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
I'm not saying that anyone ever sat down and said, "Parents with sick children will pay whatever we charge for a thermometer at 2AM." They didn't have to: this is the kind of thing an automated system can do without any human intervention: www.ftc.gov/system/files... 15/
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Strange to realize that Gödel, Escher, Bach was published just one year after Gödel had died. Presumably he was still alive during most of the writing.
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"A film effectively unstuck in time, in which all events occur simultaneously, gaining shape in a storytelling style akin to recollected memory." for @filmmakermagazine.com, i wrote about Christopher Nolan's editing style and his collaboration with editor Jennifer Lame
Weaving “The Odyssey”
Editor Jennifer Lame’s third collaboration with Christopher Nolan is an epic of emotional immediacy.
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Just found this little pin in storage. Anyone seen this before?
I don't think people realize how embedded AI use already is in both the public service and the private sector. This signals perhaps the most massive enshittification of the knowledge economy in human history. Rather than innovation, it will be the death of innovation.
One of the best things I did in college was work at the Writing Center. If you happened to do that too, please sign this letter. Anyone know what the supposed rationale for this closure is?
Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
“…I'm Alan Funt. Those pranks, plus Ashton Kutcher, tonight on 60 Minutes”
Jon Passantino@passantino.bsky.social · last wk.Bari Weiss & Nick Bilton are busy trying to recruit talent for their revamped "60 Minutes," conducting dozens of screen tests. And CBS News leaders "have also expressed a desire to air hidden camera-style investigative pieces" on the show. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
I think it’s nice that The Odyssey has brought back not only middlebrow blockbusters but old-fashioned literary snobbery
If Billie Eilish doesn’t sell makeup called Billy Eilash, then she needs to fire her manager and hire me.
so I just want to emphasize something here that non-media people might not pick up on: Marisa is an independent journalist and is taking on the risk of being sued by Moraff here without any institutional backing. That's admirable bravery - and also means being very, very certain of the facts.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
