Senate Republicans released an online ad this week in which a real-looking but fake version of a Democratic candidate, fabricated with AI, appears to speak directly into the camera. https://cnn.it/40uAVCc
OK www.ft.com/content/d213...
This is bonkers.
“According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to ‘license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight’ in July and August.”
Let's be clear: you would not be pulling THAADs from South Korea and moving a Marine Expeditionary Unit from Japan to the Gulf two weeks after launching a war on Iran if you had properly anticipated the fallout it would be likely to cause.
this means it is not open for transit
A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
🚨Reuters investigation by @pearswick.press & me: Iran school struck on 1st day of war had yearlong online presence, including many photos of children & their activities, before it was bombed with at least 6 other buildings along 325m axis. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Us too.
A grim parallel between US escalating a trade war w/ China & realising that China has serious leverage in the form of rare earths & US launching a war vs Iran & realising Iran has serious leverage in the form of being able to blow up the world economy. Failure of statecraft.
Well, I know this is a surprise but the thing he said wasn't gonna happen has happened. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...
Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case
You think?
uhhhh
U.S. OFFICIALS REPORT THAT IRAN IS LAYING MINES IN THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK TIMES. THIS CONTRADICTS EARLIER REMARKS BY TREASURY SECRETARY BESSENT WHO STATED IRAN HAD NOT MINED THE STRAIT.
Utah authorities arrested a man because he had dried pinto beans. They thought it was drugs. By the time they realized it was beans, they dropped charges, but it was too late: ICE had found and detained him.
This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.
"Some 1,700 Kansans had their driver’s licenses invalidated last month. It wasn’t for racking up speeding tickets or a DUI charge, but because they are transgender."
For all the people saying that Grammarly should be sued over its "expert review" feature, here is the Grammarly class action lawsuit, alleging violation of the right to privacy and the right of publicity: prf-law.com/current-case...
oh we’re at the Jones Act waiver stage are we
BREAKING: Iran's new supreme leader said they would leverage the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on Gulf Arab neighbors would continue.
GENEVA (AP) - UN refugee agency says up to 3.2 million people in Iran have been displaced by the war.
@apnews.com
A silly little comic based on the opening section of AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.
The oil industry can’t unsee this
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
NEW: Grammarly got hit with a class-action lawsuit this afternoon over its AI "expert review" feature that uses real experts' likenesses without their consent. @juliaangwin.com is the only named plaintiff. @milesklee.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/gramma...
OMG.
Q: A new report says that a military investigation has found that the US struck the school in Iran. As commander in chief, do you take responsibility?
TRUMP: For what?
Q: A strike on the school in Iran
TRUMP: I don't know about it
Hilariously, half of the podcasts this week are like, “ok, first *where* is the Strait of Hormuz” and the other half are “we are fundamentally changing the learning paradigm with AI”
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