Anna Merlan

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

“The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet."

In their quest to prevent Iran from developing an advanced weapon, the US and Israel were also deploying one of their own: artificial intelligence.

A wave of quittings reveals the AI industry’s gloom and doom What's behind the existential terror seizing Silicon Valley?

With @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social, we wrote about the very weird vibe right now in the AI industry: part doom, part goldrush www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why does this read so very much like a particularly deranged brand of AI-speak

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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A secretive ad campaign calls on New Mexicans to support controversial Project Jupiter data center • Source New Mexico A new campaign has emerged in New Mexico that urges residents to support a controversial data center, Project Jupiter, in southern New Mexico.

NEW: Physical mailers and digital ads have urged New Mexicans to support the controversial Project Jupiter data center. The company behind the effort is registered in Virginia, and seemingly no one wants to claim credit for it.

Die maus ist auf jeden fall meine kleine freund 🥲

Not to be dramatic but I love this maus and would do anything to ensure his safety

Perish the thought! Does der maus have a name??

I WISH. And it definitely wasn't when I filmed this interview a few years ago. I could probably go on German Sesame Street now and have the children patiently teach me the right way to say various vowels though

I will be very careful about my sock choices in a German context!!

oh my god no what does this mean

I was in a documentary about UFO subcultures in the U.S.

Dieter BITTE

Lest this sound like a humblebrag, I only ever get concerned/insulting emails about my appearance when I go on TV. This is very VERY specific to the men of Germany for some reason

SURE DON'T

I literally feel more businesslike the moment I speak it. I become a person with file folders, if that makes sense

Maybe the voiceover they gave me in German sounds more alluring? I'm not!

I'm not! I'm married and I'm not!

I'm in a rerun on German TV again and getting friend requests on Instagram from men named Dieter. I think I give them the false impression that I'm good at hiking or something

Looool

As far as comic timing goes it was phenomenal

Last night I was sitting with the baby in his stroller while mom and dad spoke on a panel (so fancy)! This child looked me in my eyes, said, “I want to go outside” and then, a millisecond later, added “BY MYSELF” and immediately tried to escape out the front door

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

Now we’re screaming which: yeah

I can’t be trusted with them tbh

What an angel

This one has a whole bag of trucks if need be

I can't doomscroll because my friend is over with her toddler and every few minutes the baby comes over to solemnly offer me a truck and then immediately repossess the truck. Very effective

This would be the craziest possible moment for it to happen