Asim Ali

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

Former Israeli PM, in Epstein Files, Dreamed of Israeli Eugenics and Pretty Converts Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment) - Though the Israeli and American power elites have for the most part declined to take action against Epstein associates, unlike those in Europe, former ...

Via @jricole.bsky.social, creepy look at Epstein’s connections to former Israeli PM. www.juancole.com/2026/02/isra...

“I never thought the thieving robot would steal MY work,” sobs owner of the Robots Stealing People’s Work Corporation.

Former ICE lawyer Ryan Schwank: “I received secretive orders to teach new cadets to violate the Constitution.”

Sam Altman’s anti-human worldview OpenAI CEO downgrades humanity in pursuit of goal to merge with computers

OpenAI is a menace. Two recent stories make that clearer than ever.

One day you have Sam Altman denigrating humanity to defend AI. The next, WSJ reveals OpenAI could have alerted Canadian police of a potential mass shooter, but refused pressure from employees. That person went on to kill 8 people.

As Keeper Walter exclaimed, it looks like they're throwing Laikipia a mini party! The big bull at the back was rescued as an orphan and raised through our programme. Now fully wild, he returns from time to time – and when he does, the whole herd gathers.

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Maryland -- suit filed today

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screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Bee

Everybody quiet down now and get some sleep.

‘For it's hard you will find
To be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart
You can go to extremes
With impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams
Fall apart at the seams…’

#bee #goodnight #dream

3 million pages of evidence of a massive child sex trafficking ring in the US and this is how the FBI director is spending his time.

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Your tax dollars 💸
The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents.
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Altman’s comments are a classic example of dehumanizing people: childhood and education are reduced to “training” for the purposes of economic productivity. These are obviously not the same, but Altman’s words imply the main purpose of humans is to serve capital

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This allows the Trump administration to literally condition citizenship on what it defines as acceptable speech

Columbia economics professor telling students they *must* use AI for reading assignments, for coding assignments, for lecture supplements.

Why not just let AI run a simulation of a college education and call it a day? You can get a little NFT diploma and show it off to your ChatGPT girlfriend too.

Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona

Link about it:

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Can confirm that everything folks have praised about my work has come from having the protections of tenure.

NYU’s Full-Time Contingent Faculty Are Poised to Strike After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

"Many of us who work at universities, not just NYU, have watched in confusion and horror at the way our administrations have approached generative AI and its integration into the systems that we use to teach."

AFT has said AI must be a mandatory subject of bargaining.

Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.” So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

Border Patrol is operating as bounty hunters.

Agents are apparently getting paid for each person they put in detention. Even if those people are grandmothers traveling on valid tourist visas.

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Board of Peace contracting records viewed by The Guardian show the Trump administration plans to use more than 350 acres of land in southern Gaza to construct a 5,000-person military base—with 26 armored watchtowers, bunkers, an arms range, and a storage warehouse. trib.al/aSjZAXm

a man sitting in front of a computer with #jackryan written on the screen Alt: jack ryan, played by fitter and now slightly older actor who was jim from office tv show, thinking by rubbing chin sitting in an office type indoor setting.

wondering if we could repair US education by explaining to our school boards and college admins how reading books is sort of like giving more training data to the AI that is the brains of students who have entrusted their futures to these situations they're in charge of but ruining with OpenAI deals

it’s national caregivers day. about 1 in 5 people provide unpaid care to a loved one. you probably know one. it’s hard to understand until you are doing it (and you likely will) but it is heart wrenching, backbreaking work. do something nice for a caregiver you know. no advice please.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

The students claiming uni Covid compensation 'for the principle' Dozens of universities have received legal letters over what students say they missed out on during Covid.

The natural result of university administrators framing higher education as a business and students as customers.

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What Altman does here is exactly what ChatGPT does. It makes a bunch of words--an "argument"--that's actually a tautology, entirely self-contained, referring to no material existence outside itself. He just ignores that ChatGPT is wholly dependent on humans who are wholly dependent on air and water.

Vaguely recall the GOP screaming about academic freedom and that universities were "banning" the teaching of certain topics.

Surely, they're speaking out about this. Right?

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

Elon Musk, who is one of the worst people to have ever lived, has committed more voting fraud than everyone else combined.

The Guardian reports: “Bernie Sanders rails against billionaire ‘greed’, amid California tax battle. In a fiery speech in Los Angeles, the Vermont senator criticizes ‘grotesque’ levels of economic inequality.” Bernie Sanders gestures, as he speaks into a microphone at a rally to “Stop the Healthcare Collapse” in California. A blue banner behind him reads, “Vote Yes: The Billionaire Tax!”

Bernie’s California Billionaire Tax Act proposal for the 200 California residents worth more than $1 billion each: pay a one-time 5% tax on their assets to offset looming federal cuts to health care & support public education & state food assistance programs.
Might be on CA’s ballot this November. 🎅🏻