M. Scott Boone

It appears that a Polymarket account called "Magamyman" made $515,000 in a single day betting on last night's U.S. strike on Iran, with the first trade placed 71 minutes before the news broke publicly.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

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Like. Amazon’s advertising fees aren’t extraction. That’s extortion, buddy. Nothing new here.

The Zoomer Obsession With DVDs Is A Blueprint For Saving Gaming - Kotaku We ask independent stores if young people are turning up for hard copies as well as the barriers they face

'The conditions rhyme with gaming.' is a beautiful turn of phrase. People want to own their culture, not rent it from a sociopath who jacks the prices every year because they think that'll appease the rabid ghost of Ayn Rand.
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84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Will they start the five seconds when the player has the ball in hand or when the throw is awarded? Will that affect whether long throws are nerfed?

Hacked Prayer App Sends ‘Surrender’ Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.

This is so fucking disturbing

“As Israeli airstrikes hit Tehran this morning, Iranians received mysterious push notifications saying that “help is on the way,” promising amnesty if they surrender.”

the washington state department of licensing’s phone menu is available in 10 languages and it turns out the 9 that aren’t english were just english with an accent of the language you picked. so press 2 for spanish and it was just english with an accent

South Georgia Tormenta's Free Agents Quick profile of all the players heading into free agency after the club's hiatus

With the team's hiatus, Tormenta's 16 announced professionals all became free agents at the worst possible time, less than two weeks before the season. Here's a quick profile on all of them, as they now look for new homes.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

This is what happens when you build with "AI".

I’d settle for Warlocks and Paladins with the Amulet of Health.

Trump targets SCOTUS for stochastic terror He knew what he was doing by bringing up justices' families.

wrote about Trump's inflammatory comments directed at the supreme court, which are almost certainly going to lead to ppl sending them death threats.

his use of stochastic terror is so normalized now it's barely even discussed. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-supr...

Nothing you could do.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

DOJ to Review Whether DOJ Improperly Withheld Epstein Files About Trump

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Buying political power has perhaps the highest ROI of any possible investment in the US.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

I had to make a couple of revisions, but my new piece, Gossip, is back and available on SSRN. Does sexual harassment in academia piss you off? How about sexual harassment of junior law profs by seniors ones? Yeah. Me too.
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Invalidating identity documentation for an entire class of people, and stripping them of their ability to freely travel is exterminationist policy

nearly half the country is charting towards genocide.

do not ignore our struggle.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

The President singled out racial minorities as the source of fraud in the United States and the first line in recaps is “he stayed focused on the economy“ lol

These LLM tools are an enemy to science, in the broadest and deepest sense. Scientists need to be resisting them at every turn, because whatever niche positive uses have been found in no way compensate the net assault on collective epistemic and cognitive stability
#refuseresist

Appears to be Android only at this point.

Verge headline: Inside Anthropic’s existential negotiations with the Pentagon by Tina Nguyen and Hayden Field Bonkers photo illustration of the Pentagon with Pete Hegseth, drones, robot dogs and an android with a gun popping out of it

New terms would give the US military carte blanche to use services for mass surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons, AI that has full power to track and kill targets with no humans involved in the decision-making process.

The negotiations have turned ugly.

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Reminder #345,786 that AI does not view words such as “never”, “don’t”, “not” as rules to be follow. It views them as relevant tokens that affect probability. Sooner or later, AI is going to do what you told it never to do.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

The motions are “unopposed” because Trump now sits on both sides of the case—as the defendant and as the glowering visage who looks out from tall banners on the walls of a subjugated DOJ—and Judge Cannon did not allow any of the third parties who sought to intervene to argue for disclosure.

They Haven't Even Started Spending Yet The terrifying math of money in politics.

"Rich people and corporations have not even begun to spend what they are capable of spending in order to buy political influence. If you think that we have too much money in politics now, well, it can get much, much worse."

As we see over and over—lies are fast and truth is slow.