Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
Local Massachusetts weekly says it's confirmed that the Pentagon was relying on Claude for strike targeting, which is how they came to bomb a girls' school.
thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
"40% of papers about subarachnoid haemorrhage in animals contained manipulated images."
We have to face up to the fact that in some fields, over half of published science might be fake.
They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.
01.03.2026 15:40 β π 2276 π 721 π¬ 69 π 43But when I kept switching away to CNN it was only GOP lickspittles praising the wisdom of Dear Leader. MSNOW was somewhat better.
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DO NOT WATCH! This is NOT FEYNMAN!
I got sucked into one of these for several minutes. Itβs some guy spewing a lot of misleading half-truths, using AI to make it seem like Feynman. Even a black hole could not contain the contempt I feel for this, and the world in which this becomes the norm.
So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE.
And this is what they called it.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...
This article discusses the accelerating boom-bust cycle, but leaves out the convergence with the wider trend of enshittification. When AI replaces humans you can talk to on the phone (e.g. at the bank), it's not because anyone even pretends that things are better. They just do it because they can.
21.02.2026 17:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You mean to tell me that people arenβt as dumb as the techlordsβand Iβthought they were? That would be a stunning development in itself, because Iβm used to people being even dumber than I thought (see Trump).
21.02.2026 16:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm in loveβ¦
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse βΒ traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
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A black and white photo of Swan.
Four covers by Swan, including the first appearances of Brainiac, Supergirl, and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and the first issue of Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane.
Today is the birthday of my favorite Superman artist, Curt Swan (Feb. 17, 1920-June 17, 1996).
17.02.2026 12:43 β π 207 π 42 π¬ 4 π 6Iβve never supported any Republican for the last 50 years. I always knew Trump is what they were aiming at.
17.02.2026 00:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Don't let them fool you π‘π€¬π€¬
16.02.2026 18:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0My post said ββ¦obvious devils like Bannonβ¦β but the word βdevilsβ has been eliminated.
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Easy to say now, but true: I never liked ANY* of these guysβDawkins, Pinker, Brooksβ¦not to mention the obvious like Bannon, Dershowitz, Murrayβ¦and I always thought there was something creepy and wrong about The Edge.
*Except Chomsky, whom I used to cite as the ONLY one of my heroes still standing
These triplets are, apparently, fighting each other for ratings.
10.02.2026 02:12 β π 743 π 97 π¬ 111 π 17Two days before Alex Pretti was executed by federal agents in Minneapolis, 7 Democrats voted with Republicans to hand ICE another $64.4 BILLION. One of them was Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Today, Turn Left is proud to endorse her opponent, Brent Hennrich for #WA03.
08.02.2026 01:45 β π 38 π 16 π¬ 2 π 2Hate to say it but the French revolution didnβt turn out so good.
07.02.2026 00:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0They hate it being talked about because it undermines the Big Lie that the rise in inequality was due to the "free market." There is nothing free market about government-granted patent and copyright monopolies. But you aren't even allowed to say that in major media outlets.
22.01.2026 16:01 β π 44 π 9 π¬ 2 π 1Here's one way we can get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
21.01.2026 17:34 β π 431 π 125 π¬ 6 π 7This graph makes me want to cry.
20.01.2026 23:54 β π 142 π 37 π¬ 15 π 2Itβs sickly ironic that the first Jewish President turned out to be a Nazi.
19.01.2026 23:56 β π 141 π 40 π¬ 8 π 1Political cartoon; invading Greenland and blaming NATO worked for Putin.
19.01.2026 18:23 β π 192 π 68 π¬ 19 π 3I'll drink to that
19.01.2026 15:58 β π 16 π 8 π¬ 0 π 1What we are seeing in Minnesota is what authoritarianism looks like in real time. Racism, dehumanization, and state-sanctioned violence are tearing at the foundation of this country.
16.01.2026 20:07 β π 16349 π 5842 π¬ 692 π 414So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are
14.01.2026 20:29 β π 199 π 43 π¬ 7 π 0This should be the policy of every local law enforcement agency in America.
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