Transmission Control📡

Just a little reminder that the idea at the core of LLMs isn't all that new.

Now I remember why I stopped playing Starfield. The writing is so lazy the world is mostly incoherent. But, at least this time I got to have Muria as a follower.

I think @Microsoft has forgotten the 4th Commandment: "Never get high on your own supply" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cra...

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

I don't know how we ended up with Hegseth cast in the role of Feyd-Rautha but he's definitely no Sting. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

"Art didn't used to be political." Meanwhile, Mr. William Shakespeare: www.youtube.com/shorts/uec_u...

It's almost like they are deliberately setting themselves up for an epic roasting. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/03/12/a...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

A couple of decades ago I predicted we'd have human uploads by the early 2040s and it'd probably arrive before human-level AGI. It seems like that timeline for uploads is on track. I could be wrong but I still don't see LLMs as a viable path to AGI. news.berkeley.edu/2024/10/02/r...

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I wonder how hard it would be to crowdfund a general aviation airport for Dildo, Newfoundland, Canada with the stipulation that it be named the Dildo Trump Airport. Just imagine the lawsuit: Trump v. Dildo. bit.ly/4tIyuJw

It's probably a good idea for people to download high res scans of the original US Constitution before Trump decides to use his sharpie again. www.archives.gov/founding-doc...

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

EXCLUSIVE: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees. New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Law Dork:

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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

At least my junior senator is consistent?

Thanks to a software program called "Tangles," police—sheriffs, Texas state cops, and even ICE—can follow the location of your smartphone without a warrant. Yet, we know little about how it has been used. Here's what our investigation revealed:

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That's quite the juxtaposition.

WARNING: STRONG LANGUAGE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a comedian and protest singer known as Robby Roadsteamer, who was wearing a giraffe costume, during a protest outside a federal building in Minneapolis.

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I would just like to note that Time itself did not collapse under Joe Biden

I have concerns about the redaction methodology the DOJ used in the Epstein files

Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

JUST IN: Famous 9th Cir Judge Jay Bybee (GWBush) pens 64-page opinion on how Constitution's 'domestic violence' clause may block Trump deployment of National Guard in OR. Judge Eric Tung's (Trump) insulting response: 'A great labor producing a mouse.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

petition to start categorizing all conspiracy thrillers as fantasy because clearly reality is far stupider and more brazen than we even imagined

The God of the Bible says vengeance is his but it's Sol that slaps you in the face ~10²⁰ times per second every time you step outside.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Microsoft seems to think it's a serious warning sign of a mental health crisis if you consider leaving Windows.

Cursor seems like a major safety issue to me. Particularly around hot-reloaded code. It will edit things without your permission, save them to disk and only then ask you if you want to undo the changes it already made. Your entire system could crash before you can hit the undo. Or worse.

Just to see what would happen, I filtered all the Members Only, Members First and Premier videos that you can't actually watch along with the silliness that are mixes, and the new AI auto-dubbed nonsense. There are, on average, only 6 actual videos left on the homepage.

This is major. As a reminder, DOGE stormed the USIP building in March with the help of DC Metro Police who were originally called there by building employees. Even tho, USIP owned the building, DOGE just…took it. Background: www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

US military zones on Mexico border sow legal confusion reut.rs/43gZvXU

There are a lot of things Republicans want but that will never actually become law. This stuff is very real. This is part of the tax cut/Medicaid cut/food stamps cut bill. It’s filibuster-proof so can be enacted even with all Democrats voting no.

Reinforcing once again the difference between being "pro-birth" and being "pro-child"

BREAKING: A dozen states sue the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade over its tariff policies.

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Disaster survivors in Arkansas left homeless by recent tornadoes have been blocked from receiving federal recovery aid after President Donald Trump rejected the state’s request to declare a major disaster in March.

China asks Korea not to supply products using rare earths to US defence firms, paper reports reut.rs/3YKGHPk

Everyone paying attention here, folks? Safety inspections of milk doesn't sounds like waste or fat to me. WTF?

Amazing that this is now a necessary precaution

BREAKING: DOJ Scraps Plan to Shutter Tax Division talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/break...

I suppose this is good for celebrities and businesses. It feels like a downgrade as a pseudonymous nobody.

An independent federal agency is going forward with President Donald Trump’s sweeping elections executive order despite a barrage of lawsuits challenging it as an assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There is an odd lack of analysis around this story. Trump paid Bukele to hold these people. Is Bukele stabbing Trump in the back or was this part of the plan between them all along? The latter seems unlikely since it'd probably enable many to return to the US. apnews.com/article/el-s...