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America right now is an airplane that the crew is actively trying to dismantle mid-flight while at least half the passengers are sitting bare-knuckled just hoping we somehow eke out a survivable landing. (The other half are, inexplicably, rooting for the dismantling.)

What chromosome is the “little shit” gene on because I have a working theory

Rise of the Killer Chatbots On an airstrip somewhere in Texas, a swarm of killer jets approaches—controlled by, of all things, a large language model.

The war in Ukraine has demonstrated how autonomy is reshaping combat. Now, startup company Anduril is developing a larger autonomous fighter for the US Air Force, designed to fly alongside crewed jets—controlled by, of all things, AI.

this is a really key point. the whole autopen bullshit is predicated on the idea that biden had no idea what was happening around him. but he talked about the pardons, in public, to the press! the evidence is right there!

Grokipedia Is the Antithesis of Everything That Makes Wikipedia Good, Useful, and Human Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia competitor.' It is a fully robotic regurgitation machine designed to protect the ego of the world’s wealthiest man.

"Grokipedia pages... have no internal linking, have no photos... There is zero insight into how any of the articles were generated, how information was obtained and ordered, any edits that were made, no version history, etc."

As a researcher, I'd say that all of the important parts are missing.

It should go without saying that these mass internment camps will be much, much more expensive to operate than just giving the homeless free or subsidized housing would be.

agree re: pressure for payment processor censorship but I also want to note that this is a really fucking big, blaring major recession warning.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.

Donald Trump Is the First AI Slop President How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates.

How do AI videos end up on Donald Trump’s social media accounts? WIRED investigates. www.wired.com/story/donald...

Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk xAI’s version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the world’s history from Elon Musk’s perspective.

Hard to imagine anything more on brand than Elon Musk creating a racist Wikipedia clone.

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.

Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

A source familiar w/ internal workings at MasterCard notes the company does not plan to recruit additional call center workers for the Christmas season, as MasterCard does not expect higher call volume than usual. A resurgence of calls re censorship during the busy season would be huge strategically

This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

Black and brown marble-patterned cat is staring thru a home-made screen door. It wouldn't be so unusual, but she is climbing the door with a goal of perching on top of another door. Her expression says "What."

Black and brown marble-patterned cat is dangling on a home-made screen door. She hangs on by one paw, while the other forepaw wisps in the air. Her leggypaws show pale claws desperately clinging to the mesh.

Uh oh. Black and brown marble-patterned cat is still clinging to a home-made screen door. She has doubts about this course in life. Her hindpaw shows the claws very prominently, propped on supporting horizontal paw.

It has been __zero (0)__ days since Mort has dorkulated.

#cat #BengalCat #Mort

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

Apple’s Family Sharing Helps Keep Children Safe. Until It Doesn’t When families break down, the systems put in place to protect children online can fall apart too.

When families break down, the systems put in place to protect children online can fall apart too. www.wired.com/story/apples...

Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

NEW: A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica sets up new roadblocks to care for male veterans with breast cancer.

The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive order about “restoring biological truth” in government.

Four kittens on a worn wooden porch. A black one is walking toward something seeming determined, a ginger tabby and white is attacking a piece of string, a ginger tabby who appears to be the mom snoozes, and it looks like maybe a tortie is sitting toward the back, possibly nursing behind the other kittens.

Exhausted momma and tiny tornadoes. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy.

He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.

Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something

Aliens Expanded was a crazy nice documentary, so The Thing Expanded is day one for me.

Feeling confident? Think again — you’re probably wrong. A study finds that overconfidence by many national security experts “was so extreme that it essentially canceled out the knowledge that these individuals possessed.”

Commentary: A new study shows that national security professionals are often overconfident, frequently wrong in their judgments, prone to false positives, and resistant to self-correction.

Photo of a black cat with yellow eyes, taken as the cat's head was moving. It appears to have 5+ sets of eyes

biblically accurate cat

four panel cartoon comic of an owner talking to their gray tabby cat. the owner is holding a cut onion. the cat says "give". the second panel, the owner says "this is an onion, it's very smelly". in the third panel, the cat stretches to sniff it. in the last panel, the cat looks like their entire head retreated into its body, making it look very silly.

smelly

Why Are Some Democrats Backing MAGA's Anti-LGBTQ+ Censorship? From late-night host cancellations to removing LGBTQ+ history from government sites, politicians in both parties are contributing to the overwriting of the internet — a place where lots of queer and t...

Online censorship is one of the many levers of state power right-wingers have been pulling to try and snuff out queer and trans existence. But instead of fighting back, some Democrats are helping them at the controls. Read the full #OpEd from @fightforthefuture.org

Looking over the back wall of the garden at a sky that looks like someone fiddled with the photoshop gradient tool.

We don’t have a great view of the sunset from here, but sometimes the sky just DOES this in the evenings and it’s almost annoying what a perfect gradient it makes.