Alex Finley

Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the 440,000 Australian dollars ($290,000) paid by the Australian government for a report that was littered with apparent AI-generated errors, including a fabricated quote from a federal court judgment and references to nonexistent academic research papers.

Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox Policymakers hope to shape the thinking of Western elites in new ways

The Economist identified over a dozen writers on Substack employed by China’s state media with over 50,000 subscribers on the popular American online-blogging platform. If anyone thinks these are 'independent' and not just PRC propagandists they aren't very smart www.economist.com/china/2025/1...

Area Family Putting A Little Money Away To One Day Blow On Single Health Scare

Area Family Putting A Little Money Away To One Day Blow On Single Health Scare https://theonion.com/area-family-putting-a-little-money-away-to-one-day-blow-1819575678/

There is no budget "deal" to be made President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

This guy is in charge of US health care.

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

This jibes with @abenewman.bsky.social and my writing, but goes much, much deeper than we have done on the bureaucratic transformation of State.

Headline - French PM under pressure to put together cabinet

France's new PM resigns hours after cabinet unveiled

French PM in final effort to salvage cabinet

Amusing myself by imagining that all these headlines relate to France's prime minister being berated by his wife for not assembling the Ikea flatpack

US universities must reject Trump’s ‘compact’. It is full of traps | Jan-Werner Müller The administration is trying to make nine universities an offer they seemingly cannot refuse

"Precisely because they have been losing court cases over free speech and visas for foreign students, Trumpists now seek to entrap universities in a deal that effectively removes the protections of federal law and gives the administration arbitrary power over them."

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Ex-Justice officials: 'It's our duty to sound the alarm' Scores of officials who have resigned or been forced out of the Justice Department this year are speaking out against its "destruction."

“We believe it’s our duty to sound the alarm about this administration’s degradation of DoJ’s vital work, and its assault on the public servants who do it,” according to an open letter signed by 282 former officials.

It will take years to rebuild our Justice Dept.

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

Does Europe Really Want to Save Itself? We will know Sooner Than Many Understand.

Just sent out this post. Three and a half years after Bucha, after mass child abductions started, after nightly attacks on civilians, the political strength of parties sympathetic to Russia (which is doing these things) is growing not declining. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

L’Ukraine soupçonne la Chine d’aider la Russie dans sa campagne de bombardements aériens Plusieurs satellites militaires chinois ont été observés au-dessus de l’ouest de l’Ukraine, au moment où celle-ci était frappée par une vague de drones et de missiles russes.

L’Ukraine soupçonne la Chine d’aider la Russie dans sa campagne de bombardements aériens

Not a good look, USG. Take care of your service members.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

Not to brag, but I helped.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

NEW: In the weeks leading up to a massive ICE raid at a South Shore apartment building, neighbors saw drones surveilling the area, and teachers at a nearby school regularly saw agents in the neighborhood.

✍️ Jose Abonce for the Weekly and Maira Khwaja for @invisible.institute

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

As Gov Pritzker describes it, the Trump secret police assault on a Lakeshore Drive apartment complex was a made-for-TV event designed not to serve any lawful mission, but instead to create video footage that would be suitably depraved to entertain the MAGA base. That's correct.

Opinion | How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans Russia, China and Iran pay no price for spreading false claims about the U.S.

The United States has unilaterally disarmed in the information wars. The Trump administration has ended key efforts to defend against Russian, Chinese and Iranian targeting of Americans with false claims.

How foreign powers are gaslighting Americans

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Wtf?

The Little Country That Could What we should learn from Moldova's election. Plus: Why it likely means we'll see more hybrid attacks in Europe

My latest Rant! looks at why Russian interference failed in Moldova, what we should learn from that, and why we should expect more Russian attacks in Europe. open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

imagine going from cronkite and murrow to bari fucking weiss.

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

It's so obscene it must set off a notification on his Covenant Eyes app

If you're in line to be prime minister of France, STAY IN LINE