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I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Orban, Vucic, Bolsonaro... Farage shrinking away in a mire of scandals... if the Americans can avoid fucking this up completely and give Donnie the pasting he deserves next week, this could end up being a year that ends up giving us some hope for the future. Christ knows it's been a while.

LUUUUUULAAAAAAAAAAA

In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it

So I just got served an ad for @attio.com, a CRM provider. The point of the ad was 'our CRM is built to be scalable for AI agents'. That's fairly unobjectionable. The line at the end of the ad? "People with unreasonable ambition deserve unreasonable power" I can think of counterexamples.

Fascinating that as even as other Republicans who long ago sold their souls to MAGA still have enough baseline political acumen to see how poisonous this is, Vance is completely oblivious. It isn't just that he has no principles, decency, or moral compass, he's also really fucking bad at politics.

Oh my DAYS

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

I feel like I should consolidate my concerns with the Gladwell policing piece into one place, after scattering them all over this site last night. So, first: Crime has fallen dramatically, to historic or near-historic lows, at current (and sometimes falling) policing. What ELSE has driven that?

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Talking to a colleague about a tool we use... Colleague: I checked this morning and the sync is fully turned off... it had so many failures it just turned itself off. Me: I think you just accidentally defined 21st century democracy I hate this timeline so much. Vote Lula, please.

The Fisher Price Economist strikes again.

There's a special place in hell for the people responsible for this.

Little to add here, and Ronaldo *always* had an objectively unhealthy level of ambition, but this comment from reddit is still worth stealing: "Said it before, will say it again- Messi's 2022 World Cup win broke his brain completely. He knew at that moment that he’ll forever be 2nd place to him."

Sometimes I think about how the last ten years started as a publicity stunt for a fading reality show that went sideways.

I rant AI occasionally on #BobetoRantsAboutAI, but inspired by this gigantic dickhead today I've been thinking about #MusicAILacksTheCreativityOrHumanityToWrite. No1 in an occasional series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZG... "as I wonder what the murderers of James Byrd thought about the General Lee"

Apparently AI is capable of this music and this video! Cool, isn't it? I personally am glad we crossed that particular boundary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJe...

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

Class solidarity.

I think this is the best piece I have seen or read on AI safety. youtu.be/claxN4oxDuY

I just got a frantic call from Allison Statham. She's the mother of Haley Oliveaux, the girl Chris Duncan was wrongly convicted of killing. She says the police are now at her door and demanding a DNA sample. They're threatening to arrest her.

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

“trump will destroy everything he cannot own in perpetuity” is one reason i am filled with dread over 2028

The Producers with Nigel Farage as Max Bialystock.

What an absolute clown show. Of course some people will fall for it like they fell for all the other lies, only to appear in news articles a few months later: "I needed that $5k to pay off my medical/utility/whatever bill but I never got it now I'm bankrupt... why would Donny betray me like that?"

I will say it is funny watching OpenAI boast about solving a complex math problem using millions of dollars of compute (and someone else’s work) all while remaining unable to solve the most obvious math problem (how to make their services profitable)

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

This is @mrjamesob.bsky.social's London.

If I see an AI-generated thumbnail, I don't click on the video. If I think I'm watching AI-generated content, I click/swipe away. If you're "creating" AI-generated content, I'm biased to think you're a lazy person looking for shortcuts with little creative ambition.

It's #FrankensteinDay Yay 🥳 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it.

Please let the first line of her next column be "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, ..."

This would produce M*A*S*H-finale monoculture numbers.

this is an admission of a crime btw; superpacs cannot coordinate with candidates

Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.

#MisquotedStormzyWasRight