Chris Scollo

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

I'm so worn by it I actually wept when I read AM: "Trans men in particular stand to be impacted... as, per the supreme court ruling, trans men are not allowed in men’s spaces, but may not be allowed in women’s spaces either based on their “masculine appearance.” assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Uh, if a Russian anti-satellite weapon chases down and destroys a Finnish satellite being used to help Ukraine, is that an Article 5 event?

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I've written about anti-trans Dems and how cis ppl should respond repeatedly over the last few weeks. I have multiple threads recommending this action by BHF. Some have taken to yelling at trans ppl who lash out in pain and grief and betrayal. That's not helpful. This is.

You can literally feel the difference just walking around.

Alt text included. My apologies for missing it on the original post but I was a mess reading it.

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

Holy shit.

1/ An AI chatbot invented a nuclear threat aboard a Chinese ship. The U.S. launched military aircraft and prepared armed troops to board it before anyone discovered the intelligence was false. One hallucination nearly became a war. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

This is so insane I cannot believe this is real. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

In a first, Italian NATO jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuania from Belarus overnight, Lithuanian officials said. Authorities say it likely carried explosives. It was brought down near a small rural village. www.lrt.lt/naujienos/li...

Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Most coal is from ancient trees that died before bacteria evolved that could digest them, so for several million years they just kinda piled up on top of each other, eventually becoming coal

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

I saw the best minds of my generation annoyed by MacOS, Starlink with Oracle vape-heads, tagging themselves in the Waymo tweets at dawn googling 4chan Databricks

Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full copy of the LibreOffice open source office suite, tucked away in a hidden folder in the ~/.cache directory

Good news: Social media ban blocked by France's highest court boingboing.net/2026/08/28/s...

This is.. bad. Recent ECM forecasts are suggesting a “very extreme” wildfire risk for next week as heatwaves return. Extremely dry vegetation will allow any fires that do get started to spread extremely rapidly. This is about as high-end extreme as it gets for the UK.

Google Gemini really need to catch up on the accidentally cyberattacking other companies thing

'Lambeth to challenge new “discriminatory” guidelines on single-sex spaces' Thank you to Lambeth Council for showing how it is done, and for your support 🏳️‍⚧️✊ love.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-to-c...

🇭🇺📺 Hungary’s state propaganda media went off air as Péter Magyar’s government appointed temporary leadership. Orbán-era propagandists were fired, and M1, the main news channel, is now airing an apology for lying for 15 years. Simply beautiful. (Translated with Google Lens.)

Zelensky is a comedian who ran as a joke and ended up fighting a superpower in the bloodiest war since WWII. I hope Count Binface is ready for that responsibility.

A pleasant day north of the river.

A pleasant day south of the river.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Amazing footage

the most brutal obit headline I've ever seen heatmap.news/daily/lee-ra...

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

If only America gave Ukraine its Patriots? Even if the US redirected every interceptor it makes (51–52 per month), it still wouldn't cover Russia's monthly output of ~113 ballistic & hypersonic missiles, write analysts at Defense Express, a Ukrainian defense outlet. www.unian.net/weapons/patr...

The LA Times loses track of the fact that the first 27 governors of California were all Hispanic, and several of them were duly elected. After Americans seized power in California in 1846, however, no Hispanics became governor even though they were a plurality of the population over much of the time

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

but I don't want my inbox to evolve

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

I feel like the photographer could have gotten a little closer tbh

Russia reportedly used the Oreshnik ballistic missile on Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast The Oreshnik releases up to 6 independent hypersonic warheads and cannot be intercepted. Zelenskyy warned of exactly this strike less than 24 hours ago euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/24/b...

If Russia hits Kyiv with an Oreshnik missile, will Ukraine then feel justified in striking the Kremlin?

VAT reduced to 5% on spyware, scalper bots, reputation laundering, and essay mills all summer!

If data centers aren't getting completed, there's no reason to buy NVIDIA GPUs, no reason to buy Sandisk storage, no reason for SK Hynix's stock to keep running, and no foundation underlying the semiconductor boom. I'm very concerned. www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/

All of this is fatal to OpenAI and Anthropic, who need compute to grow (and thus, bring in investment capital), and for Oracle, which has bet the farm on delivering compute that it can’t provide, and which OpenAI can’t pay for. www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/

If hyperscalers can't build data centers faster than a few hundred megawatts a year, they've no chance of getting the $748 billion in RPO revenue from Anthropic and OpenAI, and future depreciation charges could climb to $20bn to $30bn a quarter. www.wheresyoured.at/where-are-all-the-data-centers/

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand