Lori Polemenakos

Big announcement time! #BookSky I helped my 75-year-old dad publish his first book, which I edited, and I could not be prouder of him.

Governing via ballot initiative, where any motivated billionaire can buy enough signatures to get something on the ballot that reverses democratically passed legislation ... is not great.

“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...

🟢 UPDATE: Our Irkutsk 'plague' tracker has been continuously monitoring reports for any credible information, and our assessment of LOW credibility remains unchanged. Our assessment will update in real-time, if warranted. Bookmark our tracker here. irkutsk.america2.news

With our money. Playing in our faces. 🤷🏼 ✈️

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

BTW 121.5 is the International emergency frequency and Always monitored. In case off-duty pilot not available, use that frequency to communicate and air traffic will talk you down, i.e. give instructions to land the plane.

Just a reminder that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness

Coxon said he is leaving the company “because he doesn’t want to participate in an industrywide rush to build AI systems that can improve themselves, worried such systems could spiral out of control and destroy humanity.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Fun fact: Economic collapse is slower & faster than you think. It's slow to hit the tipping points, but once you get there, it goes fast. Soooo yeah, buckle up. This is one of those big tipping points. #EconSky

(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Again: Republicans never really cared about the debt. They just want to make sure we send the money to their donors, not the working class.

Seeing dozens of posts stressing about Claude’s new watermarks and potential avenues for circumventing, using Chinese LLMs, etc. …but not a single post about maybe not having Claude do your writing for you 😂

how many billions of dollars worth of harm to kids do they have to get caught doing before they change their name again

11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.

Huh. Not great

you see, Joe, we get to do all our criming out in the open, bc who's gonna stop us? you? Fox News? the Republicans in Congress??

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

oh he on DRUGS drugs

"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." Holy cow, Ford bought the AI hype, believing they could go "hey computer, make me a good car" and it would.

You’ve switchbladed your last strawberry.

The screwworm parasite had been largely eradicated in the US since 1966

“.. Trump has repeatedly said that the price tag would not exceed $400 million and that private donations routed through a nonprofit would cover its entire cost.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...

Pitfall

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I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

A new study from @ahrefs.bsky.social shows that adding schema does not improve citations across any AI platform, including Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, ChatGPT and more www.seroundtable.com/study-schema... #google #ai #chatgpt #googleaimode #googleaioverviews #schema #structureddata #seo

Northern lights dancing in the sky here in Alaska

Congratulations to E. Jean Carroll.

This is not the time for wild speculation about what happened. It’s time to bet on Kalshi about what happened

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases. n.pr/4eHXyv1

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux France is ditching US software for homegrown alternatives of Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Telegram Libre Office is very good. www.techspot.com/news/112032-...