Laura Shapiro

The correct term is “AI generated.” Disturbing how they avoid using AI in the headline when it’s a massive error in judgement that wouldn’t happen if they employed a human.

Pope Leo tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok "To give a true homily is to share faith," and artificial intelligence "will never be able to share faith," the pope said.

“Pope Leo XIV has urged priests to not to use artificial intelligence to write their homilies or to seek ‘likes’ on social media platforms like TikTok.”

“‘To give a true homily is to share faith,’ and artificial intelligence ‘will never be able to share faith,’ the pope added.”

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement.

Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

This isn't a dead canary in the coal mine, it's a miner. AI doesn't work.

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Apparently the account is back up now. It was only blocked for a short time, but it shouldn't have happened at all.

Meet at the courthouse! Stand up for Don Lemon and free speech today 30 Jan 2026 1 PM 255 East Temple Los Angeles, 90012

Instagram suspended the account of the newly reformed Committee for the 1st Amendment, (Jane Fonda organizing entertainment & media professionals @1acommittee.bsky.social) just as we're organizing for a demonstration in support of Don Lemon & press freedom this afternoon. No 1st amendment for Meta!

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

New York Times headline: Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting

New York Times headline: Videos Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting

As Don DeLillo said, "This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams. Our offering is language." Which is why I think a single word can augur a turning tide: in this case, against fascism.

The word here — the structuring absence of the second image — is "appear."

Are You Okay? Are you okay, Annie?

www.wonkette.com/p/are-you-okay

I’m out here in Los Angeles, where hundreds have gathered in response to the ICE execution of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Chants and speeches underway here outside the Federal Building in DTLA. Working multiple cameras today so posts may be sparse

Here's a little history of notable general strikes: 1/x 🧵

Why is May 1 Workers' Day?

On 1 May 1886, nationwide general strike for 8-hour day, w/hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the US. In Chicago, protests against police escalated into the Haymarket riot, w/hanging of 8 organizers.

Engineers Deploy "Poison Fountain" That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.

"We want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems."

No problem! Just wanted to let you know about it.

Why did you tag me in this?

The Business Plot took 90 years to activate.

This film was based on the work of John Lilly, who also was the inspiration for the film Altered States. His autobiography, The Scientist, is a fascinating read. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C....

This film was based on the work of John Lilly, who also was the inspiration for the film Altered States. His autobiography, The Scientist, is a fascinating read. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C....

100 years ago tonight:

The Writers. Which in 1933 became the Screen Writers Guild. Which in 1954 became the Writers Guild of America.

Headquartered at Musso & Frank.

"Dinner will be hot at eight. The band will be hot from then on. Reservations five dollars per person. 'There IS a Santa Claus.'"

This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy

Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity

this is just to say

I have loosed 
the blood-dimmed tide
that you were probably saving
for the ceremony of innocence

forgive me
the best lack all conviction
while the worst
are so passionate
and so intense

The kind .. you find … in a second hand store

My inner Cayce Pollard just shuddered

screen grab from video of the incident. Dude dressed up like Max Headroom wearing sunglass is laughing.

Happy anniversary to the Max Headroom incident, the greatest example of signal hijacking.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hea...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Nothing to see here: Just a CIA trained killer from an elite unit travels from Washington State to DC to shoot random National Guard troops at a random train station on Thanksgiving Eve. Even MAGA has to know this smells rotten.

I suffer from this affliction

I went through that list in depth. There are several who are really questionable - eg one client who is a relative - and one who had their license revoked. They apparently didn’t vet it.

Trump signed the Epstein bill because Pam bondi already deleted anything bad about Trump. Period.

If I hear "the showrunner is only hiring his friends" ONE MORE TIME

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%

Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%

Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.

As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.