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I assume the lousy bunch of rotten shitheads who are running our country haven't extended any sympathies to Canada.

Solving a CAPTCHA to pirate shit is peak 2026.

I continue to find it remarkable that people take these AI pseudo-papers from rando companies, with an interest in promoting this kind of narrative, at face value.

Dems offering College Republicans $400 to heckle Al-Sayed

👇 spread this news far and wide

FFS

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

🚨 Late night Reuters SCOOP DOJ gave California 48 hours to match its voter rolls with a thumb drive that got dropped off on Tuesday with the names of suspected noncitizen voters. DOJ says it may sue to throw out ballots if California misses the deadline.

Devastating. One of the most reliable infectious disease reporters during (and after) the covid pandemic.

Great, so we can't look up to Kimberly Guilfoyle anymore?

Extra insane because only 1/3 of smoking deaths are due to cancer. Cardiovascular disease, COPD, stroke etc.

As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.

reminds of the scene from "This Is the End" about gluten www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oz...

Spending path for my $90 Medicare refund: Medicare -> me -> Democratic Congressional candidate. Thanks Don!

Much more work to do.

Wait, a frontier AI company may have stolen information from someone?

Muse has just dumped its entire filesystem, and the instructions include "keep a page for every person in the user's life" with "the nature of the user's relationship with this person: how close they are, what it is built on, how they act with each other, and what it seems to need right now."

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

The cervical punch biopsy and colposcopy was easily the worst pain I’ve felt in my entire life.

It’s short and sweet. TLDR: asked and answered. No lower court can abrogate an order of the Supreme Court

Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

Seems like there’s a new gene regulation wrinkle coming out every day now.

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

Harsh, but true.

This is an important read. I also have noticed local Detroit TV news station crime segments are specifically mentioning the importance of Flock cameras -- it feels extremely coordinated and intentional.

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

I guess that works 🙄.

AI Doomerism has been in the news lately, especially with the loud, viral resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen any statements from CEOs and other execs who are more on the AI Booster side of the ledger. >>

Take a look at the examples Antrophic provides for research that they blocked, and it's immediately clear almost much all of it is just basic research - but research that has gotten scary-sounding names via the media. An example, put Ebola genomes into Claude Science and ask for a TMRCA > blocked!

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)

I was going to make a joke a few days ago about YIMBYs supporting hyperscale datacenters but someone - apparently seriously - did it for me.

The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.

I feel like I’m going to throw up

Slovyansk is getting wrecked and nobody in Europe cares.

You could consider reading the study before commenting if you have questions.

Utterly horrifying.. any high school and college must reconsider its role in this horror www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

Public comments about a proposal that would make science funding decisions open to political influence are removed from the record, but not by the submitters. A number mentioned that OMB Director Russell Vought's family has benefited from federally funded research. www.statnews.com/2026/08/25/r...