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Turns out the teutonic knights have a website

The General Chapter of the Teutonic Order Re-elects Abbot General Frank Bayard as Grand Master :: USG - Unione Superiori Generali The General Chapter of the Teutonic Order, convened at the Deutschordenshaus (Teutonic Order House) in Vienna, re-elected Abbot General Frank Bayard on 17 February 2026 for a further six-year term as ...

You ever wondered what happened to the teutonic knights, an organization too cartoonish to even imagine today?

No, you didn’t. Because you’re not insane.

Still, they’re still around. This is from a few days ago:

Ralph Giordano | American Experience | PBS Hitler first came to power in Germany when Ralph Giordano was 10; when he was 20, he survived the devastating attack that flattened Hamburg.

“The terrible thing that then became evident was that, when the murderer needed them, his henchmen were there.”

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Forbes: 3 ways to turn overwhelm into a productivity tool

Don’t be a Bartleby when you can be a Bartle-A

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.

It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

This is Button. His family decided he was ready to be left home alone for the first time today. As it turns out, freedom can be a little awkward. 12/10 (TT: beginningwithbutton)

Einerseits ist es nicht mehr so, dass man davon ausgehen dürfte, dass es schon nicht schlimmer kommt, andererseits kann man ziemlich sicher davon ausgehen, dass es ohnehin schlimmer wird, insofern ist es dann auch fast wieder egal.

… something AI is incapable of doing because past data sets do not allow for the breaking of rules while making sense.

An AI machine will never be surprised at what it made. An AI machine will never know fragility.

That’s just the minimum baseline of creativity: to put things together in a way that statistically speaking (using *past* data) makes sense. That’s writing (or whatever else) 101.

Truly creative people break all of the rules while making sense…

You can tell that AI boosters aren’t versed in actual creativity by looking at how they describe what creative people do: it’s not just putting things together in a fashion that statistically speaking makes sense.

a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "

He already did it

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Two unpublished works by Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe found

The two short stories will appear in the April issue of Kodansha's literary magazine Gunzo.

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"

Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I lived in (through — what a ghastly time it was!) the 1980s so:

A) no, we do not, and

B) no, we did not

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

A good deal of the argument that AI can produce publishable research is based on the fact that bad research already gets published. Hallucinations don’t matter, they say, because academics sometimes cite things they haven’t read. Guys, you aren’t making the argument you think you are.

This reminds me of this great Fred Willard quote from an outtake of Waiting for Guffman where he talks with great conviction about something and then says “that’s not true but it sounds good”.

So I guess all the hallucinations don’t matter because it’s fast? I mean I was a theoretical cosmologist in the past and had to carefully check every detail. Maybe in the social sciences details don’t matter?

I’ve seen so many reports of lawyers using AI, and judges then noting that it hallucinated cases that never existed. I guess many social scientists or historians don’t care about how AI tends to create its own “facts”?

I’m not judging, just observing (or rather observing, then asking): why do these people look like the two sole surviving victims of an attack of murder bees?

guess it's good they waited until after art basel qatar tho

2022: We worry that substantive due process lets judges impose their policy preferences under the guise of “fundamental rights” that don’t appear in the Constitution

2026: Surprise! The due process clause requires schools to out trans students to their parents. We found it hidden there all along!

Happy #AardvarkWeek Tilli!

Get ready to giggle, our girl Tilli is slurping up grub at lightning speed in this hilarious video. That loooong, sticky tongue is built for business, and she puts it to work, along with her oversized ears, adorable sniffer, and powerful digging claws.

I don't think people's problem with, for example, the paper's decade-long crusade putting a big ol' target on trans people's backs can be accurately described as NYT doing "reporting that doesn't always 100% accord with what advocacy groups want."