Nicole Clark

Our Reporter Got Into Gaza. He Witnessed a Famine of Israel’s Making. The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.

The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

i love this game and its predecessor and yet i was repeatedly laughing at the screen over some of these writing decisions for the female characters. HUGE spoilers in here though, wait and read when you’ve finished!!

VTubers want to be your anime best friends — on your phone and IRL at Dodger Stadium Dodger Stadium is hosting a VTuber event. There's a VTuber concert in Hollywood. And then there's Anime Expo. VTubers are descending on L.A.

feels so weird to see the LA Times cover vtubers after polygon covered it for years. blows my mind how many legacy outlets still refer to things with millions of fans as niche. eventually with the right hook, it ends up in the big local paper
www.latimes.com/travel/story...

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

LA Taco has been covering the ICE raids, and keeping us informed about what's happening on the ground. please consider donating! we all deserve good local news

A local Gaza mutual aid group is trying to raise funds right now. Food is running out and one of the student's fathers needs surgery. Any help is appreciated!!

mutualaidgaza.org

For my first piece at Endless Mode, I tried to make sense of the everything while playing Mario Kart World. Fortunately, I've had the cow.

This is true. Safety-net hospitals in both rural and urban areas are already stretched thin, in part because of the exhaustion and attrition of healthcare workers after COVID. If outpatient Medicaid collapses, the deluge in unreimbursed ER visits and admissions will drown the system.

the newborn in the apartment complex cries with a perfect "wah" and unfortunately the bit of calling the baby "waluigi" is now just the baby's name, to us

ie "waluigi was really struggling at 3am" "hope the parents are getting some sleep, waluigi seems fussy today" "wow waluigi is so cute!"

we just keep turning new corners and today feels like we turned another one.

highly recommend: ikea doll bed. jujube likes it

I think we desperately need new terms to separate AI slop from the tools used to research for cancer and other types of implementations. Calling everything "AI" does not help anything

Are we actually sure that the AIs used for medical care and cancer research are completely free of hallucinations and biased training input? The humans using them might be just as much in a hurry or desperate for results as regular people, and we’ve certainly seen AI slop used to “illustrate” scientific papers with fake graphs, made up data, and inaccurate images (for example that paper with a rat with a giant penis, it was riddled with obvious AI.) Apparently the issue of cheating in science is just as bad as the issue of cheating in university already (Ars Technica has run some stories), and kids growing up letting AI do their homework aren’t going to magically catch up on everything they missed when they cheat their way into a research position. Let us all hope that medical schools do a decent job weeding out fakers and cheater.

Are WE sure? Of course not, we're not the ones using it, nor do we really even understand the output. Are THEY sure? Well they seem to think so, especially since these have to be independently validated afterwards, which is still a much faster workflow and why its use is increasing. This, like you've pointed out, has always been an issue in the scientific and medical communities long before AI even entered the scene, and it's also why independent outside verification is such a hallmark of those fields. AI doesn't change that, it simply accelerates that. It's also important to note that a lot of these issues you're talking about like "hallucinations" tend to come from larger more generalist models that aren't specifically tailored for a single use case. They aren't just asking ChatGPT to fold proteins for them or whatever, they're building their own models with their own datasets for that very specific use, and if they weren't properly capable of doing so then they wouldn't bother using them.

This comment (and ensuing discussion) are really good in particular. I think everyone here has a point (with the third comment aligning more or less with how I see things), but the fascinating part for me is that the more visibility the general public has with AI, the worse its reputation becomes

the thing that freaks me out the most are the captions - it's the same AI image but they go the most viral with heartfelt stories. and so you see these same AI images over and over gain each with a very personal caption, which people respond to earnestly in the comments

people new to the hobby end up with even more unrealistic expectations for what is achievable (in general, much less on a budget). ofc that's just social media - the most polished, aspirational version of life. but these same images then proliferate across groups, where they go viral again and again

i've been on fb more lately bc i've been selling stuff on marketplace. and i keep getting suggested posts from related hobby groups; so many of them are viral images of beautiful, but impossible, kitchens, generated with AI - and it doesn't appear that commenters can tell the images aren't real

i've been seeing more and more people unwittingly sharing AI images in hobby forums, meaning well but making suggestions that are completely implausible. the wildest imo are the fb groups dedicated to low cost home renovations. so many gravity-defying images of shelving installs and new kitchens

This is a story I've been wanting to write for so long — how a teeny, tiny gaming controller became an essential tool for med students.

my first story for Endless Mode is up TODAY actually

yesssss

excited to read your column!!

hell yea

Mahmoud Khalil emerges from airport security with his wife Noor and newborn, legal team and Rep. AOC.

Frickin’ Duke Nukem vs. Scorpion, who kicks more ass!!?!!! Hold onto your asses, shitbags!!!!

like sure maybe she's got other ideas in her head or maybe you gotta hire her to write in the voice of duke nukem. idk I'm not an editor anymore
www.polygon.com/22993632/duk...

working with maddy was the fucking best, I didn't know managers like her existed - truly someone who taught me the ropes while insisting on being good to me and good to our team. I miss our Extremely Productive meetings of screaming unhinged games opinions at each other

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The argument against protestors is DARVO The logic that enables abuse also enables authoritarianism.

For @spitfirenews.com, I wrote about the police, military, and ICE escalating violence against immigrants, communities, journalists, officials, and anyone in their path—and how protestors are being blamed for it through abusive rhetoric known as DARVO.
spitfirenews.com/p/the-argume...

it is exhausting how many times this article says things like "it might be a sign the economy is bad" or "it's possible this is Not A Good Thing For People" without ever just saying directly that it's fucked up to have to finance your groceries. this should be very obvious!

Screenshot of a New York Times letter to the ethicist titled: Is it OK to earn rental income from an ICE holding facility? The subheading is: What are the ethics of receiving money from an entity you consider kind of evil? Below that is artwork of an older woman with a check outside of an ICE facility with a chain link fence

hoooly shit

This is a real question posed to The New York Times Ethicist

And their answer was not what some might call... ethical!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

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