I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.
"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.
Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $
trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.
PAPA LEONE YES
“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.”
OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge.
The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.
among my favorite French Revolution details: the King's cousin, the Duke of Orleans, was so shook by the events of the revolution that he not only voted to execute his cousin but legally changed his name to Equality Phil.
He's getting everyone addicted 🤣
My son is spreading Mennonite propaganda on the other side of the world. #DutchBlitz
A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.
The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.
I want to be extremely clear that this system is an AI agent controlling other AI agents controlling OTHER AI agents which use drones to blow things up. from @willknight.bsky.social
Under Trump, the USDA *wildly* underestimated the amount of corn that was harvested by US farmers in 2025.
This has been attributed by experts to be a direct result of massive staffing cuts.
Now, nobody in agriculture trusts USDA estimates and this could have disastrous effects.
I will share this with my Bible and Misinformation class. It is an example of why teaching students what actual research involves is more important than ever, and needs to be coupled with explanation of how chatbots reaffirm the bizarre things users insist on.
Mychal the librarian in Wichita!
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
No reason to quit caffeine. Find a real problem. Volunteer at a soup kitchen.
this excellent thread is imo the type of thing everyone whose name is in the files should be doing
me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
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tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
i need an emotional support perogi
The International Olympic Committee ruled that an image of Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery and and leader of the Haitian Revolution, on Haiti’s uniforms violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism
This existed in the late 90s/early 2000s and it was called Nothing Sacred and it was amazing.
Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?
Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...
One of the best burns of the state of Kansas in modern cinematography.
Oh. My. God. 1) I will absolutely watch this, 2) they better show his Disneyland conversion, and 3) there about ten times in the trailer when my brain added a "Tone" at the end of a sentence like Christopher Moltisanti is explaining Carman's life story to Tony Soprano.
New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.
Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX.
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