Regina Rini

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

We're beyond posting misinformation now. People are unleashing autonomous systems that create new misinformation, targeted against innocent people.

There seem to be many people who never learned that you must take responsibility for your toys, even when shiny and new
theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

readymade concentration camps

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Venn diagram of had friendly email correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein and argued that wokeness is a dire threat to civilization that must be stopped before it finishes destroying freedom.

Kant and external law What, if anything, can stop Donald Trump? Not international law, as the President made clear in a recent New York Times interview, the week he declared

this week in the TLS I ask whether Trump can really has his own morality - and whether laws are good for Kantian autonomy

www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Trump’s Board of Peace has divided the globe. Here are the participants. Invitations to join the board have prompted a wide range of responses, from eager assent to hedging, wait-and-see statements from bewildered world leaders.

source: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Board of Peace as contentious middle school sleepover

"hundreds of years ago... we had boats landing there, also" is a remarkably efficient view into the current presidential mindset

it's like an 80s movie where some snotty 12 year old wished on a magic xylophone to be president and now all the real world leaders are having to promise him more screen time or else

'Perfidy Hegseth' sounds like a Dickens character who tricks children into trading their last chestnut for bitumen

it is a generational catastrophe for rule of law that everyone in the US now takes it for granted that federal investigations are simply politics by other means

If someone in 2013 read the sentence, “Today NATO warned President Donald Trump that the US should not invade Greenland,” they’d think it was a mad-libs.

prediction: google searches for 'Grenada' and 'Noriega' will be at all-time highs today

compelling assessment of Weiss. 'no truth... only content'

That fits how I've seen her behave over time. There's little sense that any truth exists to converge upon. Only provocative narratives and counter-narratives. Great for an opinion section. Terrible for the news side.

more about the epistemic backstop:

philpapers.org/archive/RIND...

never ending epistemic backstop crises
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Defendant accused of faking Trump death threats so witness would be deported Demetric Deshawn Scott wrote letters threatening to kill President Donald Trump, in an attempt to get Ramón Morales Reyes deported, Wisconsin prosecutors said.

story here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

incredible...
A man charged with assault and robbery tries to get his alleged victim deported (to prevent him testifying) by forging letters threatening the president.... but fails to consider that the victim doesn't speak English...

... and still gets his victim rounded up for deportation

seeking podcast recommendations:
- case studies of advertising campaigns
- the history of obsolete technology (especially industrial revolution vintage)

apartment building wifi naming drama comes for Korean Starbucks
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The motives here are good, but it's hard to imagine how to keep students from gaming this. Also risk of a backfire effect if young people think civil discourse is just what the olds force you to pretend to do a few minutes a day while you go on being horrid on your real (hidden from olds) accounts.

but we tell people 'click through to the original source, don't just read the AI summary'

What's maddening is that the Trump admin probably didn't even think about the long term consequence. I can picture the meeting around a whiteboard last week: 'Come on guys, we need a way to damage Harvard's finances. Toss them out, no dumb ideas!'

Central European University is forced out of Hungary, moving to Vienna Central European University says the Hungarian government has forced it to move its main campus from Budapest to Vienna.

The playbook. (This was 2018.) www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12...

Also: future scientists, you are very welcome here in Canada! We may not be able to pay as much as America, but there is much less chance we will abduct you off the street and send you to a nightmare prison in El Salvador!

Future historians may actually be able to calculate how much economic benefit China gained from today's news.

Throughout the Cold War, America benefited enormously from its reputation as a place you could come to do science without ideological interference. Its edge in leading technology comes from that. Today the Trump administration ratified a new policy: if you want to do science, go somewhere else.

also: who would trust an AI attached to a program that routinely mishandles CTLR-c-CTRL-v?

adobe acrobat AI saying this about a 20 page journal article is a form of violence