Christian Crumlish's Leadership By Design 2026 session is up: a year of building an AI product-management assistant, the real failures, and why the human has to own the loop. Watch it: chicagocamps.org/christian-cr...

one way the right wins is by not being pedantic

The Musk mindset that I have seen is that those that died are not actually people, so he killed no-one. He uses the metaphor that if AI kills people it will not be personal, just that they were ants in the way. His response to death numbers from USAID shows a similar outlook.

it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · last wk.

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

Bits of this are pretty good, though "Sometimes the constituent created a small, private world that was soft and warm and simple. Sometimes hard, and cold, and complicated, and due on the 15th."

Chris Messina@chrismessina.me · last wk.

For an inside look into the mind of the Trump Administration: 1. Go to america.gov 2. type “hello” 3. type “play Minecraft” 4. watch the agent’s reality implode 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!

NEW: People who chug their own piss have emerged as MAJOR supporters of AI futurism.com/artificial-i...

People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With AI, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It's a Miraculous Cure-All

Urine therapy devotees are sharing ways to break past AI guardrails in order to brainstorm ways to use pee as medicine.

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I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.

babadook babadook can you do the fandango?

If there’s a horrible fire the secret service is hustling Trump out of there and locking the door behind them

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first architect of the White House ballroom resigned after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes, the Washington Post reports. “I am the code,” Trump said www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

What Trump has realized is that to really defend Washington from terrorists and antifa and other bad guys you need to concentrate the drones and machine gunners in one highly visible building that can be attacked line of sight from any direction or just blown up.

Ed Sheeran overcorrected and joined the Houthis

concerning stuff happening right now at USWDS: -removing open-source contributors, -losing institutional knowledge, -departing from principles, -security risks through an “agentic-first” approach, and -making changes without sufficient human accessibility and usability testing.

Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.

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Local LLMs trained only with ethical data sources (the latter doesn’t exist yet) will be a game-changer for a lot of us. I want to choose between 100 small, targeted, non-theft-derived models for different activities, like picking Docker images.

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

Reminder that Lewandowski was a Special Government Employee with a zero dollar contract. Because he saw govt as a graft opportunity for much bigger bucks

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · last mo.

Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

He was never a decent person; he is a narcissist. He is now a narcissist with dementia and a growing terror of both death, and dying in prison. Every day the GOP allows him to stay in office, they are risking their OWN lives as well as ours. frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its...

DAMMIT It's Not Alzheimer's! Here's Why It's A Far Worse Nightmare Scenario

You deserve the facts, not conjecture. Alzheimer's diminishes a person. Trump's not diminishing, he's escalating, and you need to know the frightening reason why.

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It’s interesting to watch a lot of people who said not a word as RFK Jr. went through his confirmation process suddenly understanding that he may be the most dangerous Cabinet member of all. More attention on this is good, don’t get me wrong. But we needed it before he got the job.

Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her. “Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California. Continue reading...

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My god, this is an outrageous, loathsome ICE policy. Can you recall another regime in history that used public marking and tracking to single out a minority group?? JD Vance—who helped lead the demonizing of Haitians in Ohio—has this young man’s death on his hands too www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Haitian student dies by suicide after ICE issued him an ankle monitor

Pierre Damas Bel, 20, of Springfield, Ohio, expressed feeling “shame and humiliation” at having to wear an ankle monitor. The college student died by suicide days later.

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Trump's corruption is unprecedented in American history, and recovering that money will require equally unprecedented action. We should do everything humanly possible to get as much of it back as we can and return it to the American people. It's YOUR money, not his.

Let this be the waffer-thin mint that at last explodes the orange Mr. Creosote ...

Abbey Rhodes@abbeyr28.bsky.social · last mo.

California's No Kings Act is the first bill in the nation to let people take ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents to court when they violate our constitutional rights. Tell Governor Newsom to sign the No Kings Act now. @governor.ca.gov @scottwiener.bsky.social

Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?

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they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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i still have this clipped in my scrapbook of "Good Shit"

This is outrageous. It also gives @normeisen.bsky.social another tool to fight back against DOJ. Trump FINALLY figured out he's on this case but he apparently has no grown ups to explain how he's giving Norm more leverage.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

OUTRAGEOUS! Would mark a shocking first: Bringing back from the dead a case that the DOJ lost by its own admission that it lacked evidence to convict. It would add another bizarre turn to a sad chapter in the DOJ’s history—& further harass an innocent man. Cocounsel at DDF, WLG & Steptoe will fight