Dale Baker

The Lion never punted. Not once all day.

Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.

That's not a game; it's a track meet.

The crowd here at Northwest Stadium greeted President Donald Trump with loud boos

Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.

Y’all should definitely avoid those AI web browsers.

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The Cardinals offense is getting pulverized by Seattle.

Just six days after the Cowboys defense made them look absolutely unstoppable.

Amazing, honestly.

Douthat has been turned loose this year to write about/interview people about every weird hangup he kept under wraps for the years he was written columns at NYT.

Deep down, he wants to return to the days of Thomas Aquinas when the Church ruled all and everyone knew their place.

Yes, very weird.

With the current infinite number of podcasts on offer, this would be a very plausible addition.

What used to be 15 minutes of fame is now 45 minutes of self-indulgent verbal wandering, repeated ad infinitum.

Americans do worse at state fairs all over the country, selling nauseating junk to thousands and thousands.

In Georgia’s statewide races on Tuesday, the two Democratic candidates won 8 counties where, in 2024, Kamala Harris had received UNDER 40%.

via: almanacofamericanpolitics.substack.com/p/democrats-...

The latest example of this, just in, was an email where the name of the supposed writer at the end, when signing the email, is in brackets, to be filled later. 😂

Astonishing how hard this administration is working to keep people hungry.
It's clear they are trying maximize public suffering, in hopes of getting people to blame Dems for that suffering. But it's transparently the White House working overtime to keep the suffering going!
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In addition to throwing out the news section when I open my Sunday NYT, the Opinion section will go with it.

What drivel.

What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself

“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”

The Heritage Foundation’s racism knows no bounds.

Something something erasing history.

Every SNAP recipient who voted for Trump is realizing what complete idiots they were.

BBC is your fallback if CNN gets worse. They have been among the best forever.

Not to mention that if/when you make or inherit enough money, the mortgage can still be paid off like it would today for full ownership. Or you sell to get capital gains and have the funds to buy a property outright.

Sometimes Bluesky gets blinded by politics.

Folks here don't get the implications (I'm neutral). People would rent houses that are effectively owned by the banks. However, owners would still get gains long-term from ownership in terms of price appreciation when they sell. Plus the real value of fixed mortgage payments would plummet.

Not bad.

The evidence AI tutors work "astonishing well" is incredibly thin. We've seen these same promises made for virtually every technological "innovation" of the past 100 years. (Carl's essay is more nuanced than this post describing it.)

efficiency rising as understanding falls. It’s precisely this frictionless fluency that creates the illusion of learning; the sense that one is mastering material when, in fact, the machine is doing the mastery.

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The more participants relied on AI to remember, decide, or explain, the less capable they became of reasoning independently. Younger users (those most immersed in generative tools) showed the greatest decline. Gerlich describes this as a kind of “cognitive dependence”:

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The Real Story Behind Netflix's 'Death by Lightning' and the Shocking Assassination of President James A. Garfield The new limited series dramatizes the brief tenure of the 20th commander in chief, who was fatally shot by Charles J. Guiteau, a lawyer who believed he'd secured Garfield's election

Some historical background for those of you watching Netflix's new limited series about James Garfield and Charles Guiteau. I am really enjoying it. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...

Mothers say AI chatbots encouraged their sons to kill themselves In her first UK interview Megan Garcia speaks to Laura Kuenssberg about the death of her teenage son.

"We lived in intense silent fear as an algorithm meticulously tore our family apart…This AI chatbot perfectly mimicked the predatory behaviour of a human groomer, systematically stealing our child's trust and innocence.”

Calling in God’s support hardly makes for a fair fight, does it now?

Grok, the chatbot-cum-fact-checker embedded in X, claimed in one recent post that it pursued “maximum truth-seeking and helpfulness, without the twisted priorities or hidden agendas plaguing others.”

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Enoch, one of the newer chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, promises “to ‘mind wipe’ the pro-pharma bias” from its answers. Another, Arya, produces content based on instructions that tell it to be an “unapologetic right-wing nationalist Christian A.I. model.”

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