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

🇩🇰🇺🇸 More than 280,000 Danes have signed a petition to buy California from the US.

The petition promises to bring the Danish concept of “hygge” to Hollywood, bike paths to Beverly Hills, and organic Danish sandwiches “smorrebrod” to every corner.

The petition was created almost a year ago.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

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(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes" YouTube video by Phil Lewis

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Säkerhetsrapportering Om du har sett eller hört något som inte är som det brukar eller som du tycker verkar säkerhetsmässigt konstigt – rapportera det till din närmaste chef eller säkerhetschef. Hellre en gång för mycket ä...

Påminnelse.

Där sker troligen mer militär aktivitet än vanligt i Sverige just nu.

Så länge det inte kommuniceras öppet ska varken jag eller ni berätta om det. Inga tips tack.

Tipsa däremot gärna försvaret :

www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/informati...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

We are looking for a regression bisection specialist The FPA is seeking applicants to help identify and document code regressions in FreeCAD. Key responsibilities: Investigate regression reports from users, developers, and CI tools Use git bisect and…

We are looking for a (paid) regression bisection specialist.

blog.freecad.org/2025/09/04/l...

Pedro Pascal Called Out J.K. Rowling’s ‘Heinous Loser Behavior’ Over Anti-Trans Law Because ‘Bullies Make Me F—ing Sick’: ‘I Want to Protect the People I Love’ Pedro Pascal called out J.K. Rowling's "heinous loser behavior" over celebrating an anti-trans law because she is a bully.

Pedro Pascal defended calling out JK Rowling as a "heinous loser" and said that "bullies make me fucking sick" and that he wants to "protect the people I love."

variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Uppsala Declaration

#uppsaladeclaration now has more than 1,900 signatories. We refuse to collaborate with Israeli institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law. Faculty and staff in Swedish higher education and research can sign at uppsaladeclaration.se

Sign the Petition Defend the Internet Archive

internet archive is getting sued by record companies for $700M to stop public's access to old 78rpm vinyl archives, destroying @archive.org in the process. stop this cycle of attacks against libraries.

More from Greenland 🇬🇱

I guess it is time to learn some rust.. #38C3

Word of the day is ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted by work.

I like to add ‘foreswunk’, exhausted before you even begin.

The underside of an IC that used the Cock and Ball Grid Array footprint.

the Cock and Ball Grid Array package was a short-lived attempt to improve mechanical strength of joints without sacrificing too much density. while largely praised for accomplishing far stronger joints, it failed because engineering managers refused to approve its PCB footprints