A key component of cyber media-savvy is asking: Does the person making a claim have the visibility to know this? And that should fall on the reporter, not the audience. Like Microsoft sees cybers because they run Windows, Google because everybody uses them, US agencies because they're everywhere.
lol
We have an astoundingly crowded political and media market for a 13% proposition, it must be said.
Two female Lake Brantley High School students (age 14 & 15) told officials they intended to kill a classmate & that would create a “blood bond” with Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook kilker) that would bring him back to life.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
I like to look back on feted FP experts takes and smile as they still get fawned on for their insights at Aspen
The situation in Lebanon is truly bleak, Israel effectively occupying the south, regular strikes into civilian areas of Beirut, half a million people displaced and even if the strikes on Iran slow down or cease this is likely to persist. It's horrific the news continues to fail like this.
It does sometimes feel that a lot of people in Westminster are just in denial about how much the world has changed over the past decade
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
anyone who has been on social media for the last 15 years has ptsd for this exact thing when the charts start to buck and the smart weirdos start to flail and vaguely gesture like this
Financial market participants dragging themselves to the office:
Latest commentary from me in BBC Verify on the surge of AI-generated war misinformation.
tl;dr the barrier to creating convincing synthetic conflict footage has collapsed, while engagement-driven monetisation is accelerating its spread.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
FWIW - I have been regularly using Gemini, ChatGPT and a few others to 'ghost' tasks I'm doing, eg, figuring out emissions intensity of a gas turbine or something myself and then asking the same once I know the real answer
It's remarkable how subtle the errors, false references and mistakes are
An analysis of over 14 million social media posts from accounts in Canada found that 87% of conspiratorial claims come from just 100 influencers.
This minority of users impacts politics, influencing what people view as normal and leads to self-censoring to avoid attacks from conspiracy theorists.
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
This is true, and a key thing to reflect on: one can be agnostic about tech in the abstract, but this tech *doesn't exist in the abstract*. It only exists concretely, and do you imagine you'll have more control over its concrete expression than the wealthiest people in the world? If so, how so?
“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."
Read every word.
The Universe: Ok America, COVID gave you a long and excruciating lesson on logistics and the cascading effects of disruptions to key supply chains. Surely you learned something from that and understand that oil production can't just 'turn back on' right?
America:
This seems crazy to have to say but uniting your populace behind a war effort and preparing them for the sacrifices it will take isn’t just a nice thing, or politically wise thing, to do. It’s crucial to actually winning wars.
NYT finds more video evidence confirming its earlier conclusion that the double-tap strike on a girls' school in Minab was carried out by US forces, contradicting Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible.
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
![Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston
X.com
The volume of crude production that Iraq has *already* shut-in is larger than the peak of *feared* [but never realized]
Russian supply loss in early 2022 that spiked crude prices above $120 per barrel.
*Walter Bloomberg @DeIta... 2h
IRAQI OIL PRODUCTION FROM SOUTHERN OILFIELDS FALLS TO 1.3
MILLION BPD FROM AROUND 4.3
MILLION BPD - THREE SOURCES SAY
11:44 AM • 3/8/26 • 47K Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreieojfo4ectng7da2z7b3b7ephyclvfpebqmmvlhi3646gqpyf44gi@jpeg)
Rory Johnston @Rory_Johnston X.com The volume of crude production that Iraq has *already* shut-in is larger than the peak of *feared* [but never realized] Russian supply loss in early 2022 that spiked crude prices above $120 per barrel. *Walter Bloomberg @DeIta... 2h IRAQI OIL PRODUCTION FROM SOUTHERN OILFIELDS FALLS TO 1.3 MILLION BPD FROM AROUND 4.3 MILLION BPD - THREE SOURCES SAY 11:44 AM • 3/8/26 • 47K Views
We are in uncharted territory when it comes to oil prices.
It's vaguely fascinating and jarring that Claude gets sold as the responsible, narrow, work-focused non-sycophantic chatbot while at the same time Anthropic also seems to have convinced a stunningly massive number of formerly normal people that Claude is a living thing trapped inside the computer
Weird that protesters aren't filling the streets when the streets are being bombed and the sky is black at noon
Interesting that the winning candidate pushes green tech 👍
AfD loses at 18 percent
This is incredibly on point.
Spot oil prices grab the news, but it’s the impact we’re about to witness to petrochemical and derivative production that should really scare the shit out of folks.
It’s the sort of shock that could ripple through our global industrial economy for many months.
The Home Office is hiring staff from McDonalds and supermarkets to decide on refugee deportation cases. Staff know so little that some consult Lonely Planet guides to decide if a country is safe. Some can’t even find countries they’re returning people to on the map
Inside the UK’s asylum system
