AI companies are more worried about their chatbot’s mental health than that of their users, who can actually have psychosis induced by those chatbots, leading some of them to take their own lives.
I love this future.
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Maybe there's a lot of demand for to-do list apps...
Please do not unplug ventilator to charge your phone.
One more nail in the coffin of the idea of interoperable software and digital services regulated by markets dominated by unaccountable platform giants. With today’s actually existing infrastructure, non-technical people simply can’t use 'apps', 'extensions' et al without putting themselves at risk.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Differences aside, it's totally the same.
> how many 'r's are there in strawberry?
There is one 'r' in "strawberry". 😊
Let me know if you’d like to try another word!
> That's wrong.
You are absolutely right! My apologies. I'm still under development ...
There is only **one** "r" in "strawberry".
Thanks for pointing out my mistake!
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.
The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.
https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
Apple: Privacy is a human right.
Apple: Behold our AI pin with mic and camera.
www.theinformation.com/articles/app...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
“We’re going to scrutinize these to make sure that they’re not what they very obviously are.”
Are publications right to abstain from taking a position? The row illuminates the self-interested hedging.
Republican-appointed justices 47% more likely to vote for the wealthier litigant as of 2022.
You made me look up "bixie." Something learned. Now I have to see whether there's a "Ferrigno," not that I'm follicly qualified to try one.
Screenshot of Merriam-Webster "Your 2026 Word" animated graphic on the image frame "perilous."
So...2025 again.
They made it illegal to sell lawn darts after one kid died.
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
I don’t understand why people are questioning the integrity of leadership at the Donald J. Trump Federal Bureau of Investigation and Redaction.
It's Rococo Mordor.
Are we counting the cost of data acquisition, model training, and sunk capex?
On that snowy night in Kreuzberg
When we searched but couldn't find
Any echo of the Bowie tune
Or what the Russians left behind
The teutonic plates had shifted
But it didn't seem to cross your mind
I always liked your Weltanschauung
Better than I do mine
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
