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The Ohio State University is expected to close ranks and replace him with his hard-line son, further straining an already highly volatile situation in a region that has seen constant conflict over the past several decades

Ohio State President Ted Carter resigns over inappropriate relationship Ohio State President Ted Carter has resigned after a little more than two years on the job.

man WHAT
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Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

I have nothing to add but &udm=14.

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Gotta get the losses out of the way now so that we can go 162-0

Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

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image/jpeg Screenshot of notifications bar on Samsung flavored android from Samsung Wallet app that reads "Reminder: pre-order the new galaxy s26 Ultra"

Getting a notification from my phone to tell me to buy a new phone, i love technology

Conversely, someone should build an appview that lets you browse as if it were exactly 1 year in the past and you don't get to see anything newer than that

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

"81 incidents in the last 90 days," so there's been an incident on 90% of days in the last three months.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it

A github issue is down in which an account says (lightly paraphrased) "Hi, I'm the original author of [this library]. I thank the current maintainers and everyone who has contributed to and improved this project over the years. True a free software success story. However, it has been brought to my attention that in [latest release] the maintainers claim to have the right to relicense the project. They have no such right; doing so is an explicit violation of the LGPL license. Their claim that it is a complete rewrite is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the original code and therefore this is not a "clean room" implementation. Adding a fancy code generator into the mix does not grant them additional rights. I insist they revert the project to its original license".

A new tale in the saga of Shit AI "developers" Think They Can Do With Open Source Code: get Claude to "rewrite" a copyleft codebase such that they can declare it a new library and use it without copyleft terms.

OSI needs to do something. It's time to burn it all down.
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Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”

text of official creative commons license: "Jon's cardamom joke © 2026 by Jon Bois is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International"

i just bought some cardamom at the store. they didn’t ask to see my driver's license since i’m a father

On the bright side, cross-protocol discourse seems to be working

to increase the worthiness of such a tool i'd need to pay for it, and i won't subsidize/be subsidized by the war. if i really wanted to i could set up an llm on my own computer and ai is cool in that case but i will not give money to the major players in the ai industry. they've taken enough from me

As someone known for my criticism of the previous deeply flawed technology to become the subject of the tech world's overinflated aspirations, I have had people express surprise when I've remarked that generative artificial intelligence toolsa can be useful. In fact, I was a little surprised myself. a. When I refer to "AI" in this piece, I'm mostly referring to the much narrower field of generative artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs), which is what people generally mean these days when they say "AI". But there is a yawning gap between "AI tools can be handy for some things" and the kinds of stories AI companies are telling (and the media is uncritically reprinting). And when it comes to the massively harmful ways in which large language models (LLMs) are being developed and trained, the feeble argument that "well, they can sometimes be handy..." doesn't offer much of a justification. Some are surprised when they discover I don't think blockchains are useless, either. Like so many technologies, blockchains are designed to prioritize a few specific characteristics (coordination among parties who don't trust one another, censorship-resistance, etc.) at the expense of many others (speed, cost, etc.). And as they became trendy, people often used them for purposes where their characteristics weren't necessary — or were sometimes even unwanted — and so they got all of the flaws with none of the benefits. The thing with blockchains is that the things they are suited for are not things I personally find to be terribly desirable, such as the massive casinos that have emerged around gambling on token prices, or financial transactions that cannot be reversed. When I boil it down, I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not b…

as it happens, i wrote about the AI/crypto comparison! a little outdated now, but directionally correct

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Is being driven insane by AI discourse without actually interacting with a chatbot a subset of AI psychosis

linux heads were always right. time to sit my dumbass down and learn

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I think this is the one in the screenshot

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Grimly: we're in a Post Correspondence era

i'm teaming up with kalshi to pick up a car battery, angle it so that one of its corners is pointed at the ground, and drop it directly on my toenail

The Supreme Court doesn't care if you want to copyright your AI-generated art The highest court in the US declined to review a case about copyrighting artwork created with the help of AI.

Phew 😮‍💨

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.

This is welcome news for musicians!

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Learning and paying attention is really hard, especially for children, especially for children surrounded by other children. Smartphones added a ton of new ways to avoid paying attention or learning. LLMs will too.

Again, they'll have some upsides, but I think mostly downsides.

I have mixed feelings about LLMs as a professional tool for just getting your work done, but I have very negative feelings about them for education. I think that, like smartphones, they're going to have positive and negative impact for education, but the negative will far outweigh the positive.