Peter Gratton

Not an era for subtlety.

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get accented AI English instead Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish have instead been hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

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Shot at a dramatic cant, the work evokes the Dutch masters’ fascination with glass and light. The human subjects are secondary — perhaps deliberately so — yielding the frame to a still life arrangement of water pitcher, drinking glasses, and tablecloth

I had to doublecheck and, yes, the CEO of CoreCivic is Patrick Swindle.

Henceforth, all contracts for the concentration camps shall be known as "Swindle swindles." Please contact your elected representatives and demand they use this updated terminology at every opportunity.

Consumer saw a commercial during the football game between KC and Las Vegas on Cbs, consumer saw a commercial from a company . the commercial was dog food. consumer believe it was biiggoted and racist against white peopl

Consumer complaints to the FTC often present a fascinating peek into the American mind

Yup, upon it, one does frown.

Was gearing up the ole story pitch when I got to a line in the federal register announcement.

BTW, linguists typically call this "negative politeness," but what Trump borrows from JPM is the almost parody quality of its use in such bank letters—the obligation: we're closing your accounts, go away. Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

JPMorgan Admits It Shut Trump’s Accounts After Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

I only remember Trump starting that Truth closer ("thank you for your attention to this matter") within the last couple of years. But is the source, as the Times caught last week, possibly the JPM letter notifying him post-Jan. 6 they were closing dozens of his accounts?

Berlasconi’s end days were spent alone ordering cheap paintings off the tv.

From the Anthropic CEO

Obviously, the solution is not for release new albums.

Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu & Anupam B. Jena X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 34866 DOI 10.3386/w34866 Issue Date February 2026 Modern smartphones present new threats to road safety beyond talking and texting, but the real-world effects are difficult to study. One way to causally assess the impact of smartphones on road safety is to identify arbitrarily timed events during which smartphone-related distraction may exogenously increase – i.e., a situation that relies not on plausibly random variation in who uses smartphones while driving, but when smartphones are used. We investigated the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums. Using event study analysis, we show that music streaming – an indicator for smartphone use, where streaming most often occurs – sharply increases, by nearly 40%, on dates of major music album releases, while U.S. traffic fatalities increase by nearly 15% on those same days. Mobile device use while driving is a known safety issue, but today’s smartphones present new and greater opportunities for driver distraction. Our study indicates how features of these phones may have important impacts on distracted driving and traffic fatalities.

On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...

If you are a reporter on this beat, please consider me a source—I’m always happy to talk about Trump’s business entanglements.

(Weird affliction, I know.)

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Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

True story: in the fall a student copied from ChatGPT, including the part where it said it was ChatGPT. The plagiarism detector said nothing, but was really concerned about a well-known quote from a philosopher.

You can almost see why private equity/private credit was so anxious to expand their investor base — to your 401(k).

$OWL

I read the original news of this as they shot down what they thought were drones, which many experts don’t think exist in that area, and instead shot down a balloon. This, too, is believable.

Is it possible to pull your back watching a video? Because I think I just did.

This makes it seem like he doesn’t understand AI or humans.

Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Ha!

But not control of your car.

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

The Economist: my entire life a great distillation of what capital would say if it wrote its own headlines. Insider trading is great for prediction markets; people are too negative about the growth of gambling; etc. in recent memory.

everyone I have ever met who works in financial markets is saying basically this. “it won’t have that big an impact; and if it does then we all have very different problems”

I read some of these AI pieces like a psychoanalyst would—what’s the desire that this answers to?

For Levinas’s “God, Death, and Time” lecture course, split over 75-76, if I remember, you only get death and time. Might be an improvement!

And with Foucault, I can keep my English History of Sexuality Vol. 1, but lose the French edition?