Tech guys apparently aren't aware that the machine that they built which mimics human language may speak like humans
06.03.2026 16:26
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Tech guys apparently aren't aware that the machine that they built which mimics human language may speak like humans
We have gone mad.
"The first page of the draft reads: 'It has been determined that a lowering of water quality of various waters of the state associated with granting coverage under this permit is necessary to accommodate important social and economic development in the state of Ohio.'”
This is an ASTONISHING level of corruption.
DHS handed a $143 MILLION no-bid contract to a company that was 8 days old, with no headquarters, no website, no prior federal work, and an address linked to a residence of a political operative.
If you were horrified by Grok making sexually explicit deepfakes of women and girls, you will want to read the research/reporting I have coming out later today. One of the most-active venues for that type of abuse is hiding in plain sight, and AFAIK my piece is the first to confront it head on.
That article needs editing
“The job market is weakening, inflation is still too high, and we’re at serious risk of a once-in-50-years oil shock,” Rogé Karma writes. “The economy’s warning lights might not yet be flashing red, but they are certainly flashing yellow”:
The US Customs and Border Protection agency is unable to comply with a court order directing it to refund tariffs that the Supreme Court has ruled illegal, the agency said in a court filing with the US Court for International Trade reut.rs/4somFXm
Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics:
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Graph showing crude oil prices over the last month, hovering around 60 dollars a barrel for a while and surging to over 90 in the last week
Another masterstroke, sir
A federal judge has sided with 15 Republican-led states and a national home builders group in finding that minimum energy standards for federally-funded housing set by Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration were unlawful.
JUST IN: US collected $166 billion under IEEPA duties, customs agency says reut.rs/4b3BQQ9
JUST IN: US customs agency says it cannot comply with tariff refund order reut.rs/3NjQxW0
Several Republicans joined State Senate Democrats in opposing legislation that would weaken regulations placed on aboveground storage tanks. It’s the latest move in the Legislature’s chipping away at West Virginia’s water protections.
A classic color portrait of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman to fly in space, taken in her mid-20s shortly after her 1963 Vostok 6 mission. She is in full Soviet Air Force uniform, wearing a brown military jacket with blue and red shoulder boards, a tie, and a chest covered in numerous medals and orders (including the Hero of the Soviet Union star, Lenin Order, and others). Her short dark hair is neatly styled, and she gazes to the right of the camera with a calm, resolute, and dignified expression against a plain blue-gray background. The image highlights her pioneering role as the first female cosmonaut and her decorated status as a national hero of the Soviet Union.
A color photograph taken at the Science Museum's Cosmonauts exhibition, showing Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova standing beside a full-scale replica or original Vostok 6 spacecraft capsule. The spherical, dark metallic capsule with a circular window and visible hatch is displayed on a stand under dramatic red lighting. Tereshkova, an older woman with short gray hair, wears a dark patterned jacket over a light blouse, and looks toward the camera with a composed, proud expression. The image captures her as the first woman in space (June 16, 1963), standing next to the very vehicle she piloted during her historic solo Vostok 6 mission.
Engineer/cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was just 26 when she became the first woman to fly in space (16 June 1963, Vostok 6).
Only woman to ever fly a solo space mission, she spent 3 days in space orbiting Earth 48 times (in that 👇). Born #OTD in 1937. #WomenInSTEM #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth
AI -> ??? -> Profit!
This is not good.
Bad jobs report amid tariff drag, weaker than expected, and that’s not yet factoring in the war in Iran:
loss of 92K jobs, and unemployment rises to 4.4%
Wait until the oil/gas price surge kicks in.
www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/f...
How it started / how it's going
GIFT: In other words, schools should not circumvent easily accessible facts, available on video, about what happened on January 6. It was NOT peaceful. There was no election fraud. Teaching right-wing lies to children is propaganda, not education.
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O'Neill, an investor in anti-aging technology who worked on HHS policy, would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead NSF. His background will be a 'major concern' to the science and technology community, former NSF director Neal Lane told me.
@maxkozlov.bsky.social and I report:
hearing someone say they regularly talk to ai chatbots for anything does feel like they just rolled up their sleeve to reveal a festering zombie bite
Please stop being stupid
Nothing stupider than selling the environment to tourists and then shitting all over that environment. IDIOTS
How electrifying a Bay Area rail system made trains faster, cleaner, and more frequent | grist.org/transportati....
A proposed law working its way through New York's legislature would bar artificial intelligence chatbots from impersonating lawyers and other licensed professionals in the state, opening up AI platforms to lawsuits by users reut.rs/40doISe
Good morning & happy #Thursday! It's a beautiful morning & the #sugarart awaits! Here's a little cuteness to brighten your day, a selection of my sweet Pupcakes. Have a #delicious day & stay hungry! ;) x #bakeithappen #cake #bake #cupcakes #pupcakes
I quote posted Josh's intro post saying "All of my bad posts will have been written by Josh moving forward" and he replied "So: all of them"
son of a
BACKSTORY: in interview Sen. Steve Daines says he closely worked with White House to coalesce behind Kurt Alme, avoid a primary and withdraw from race at last minute to block Democrats Tester, Bullock or Schweitzer from running. Alme didn’t even know White House was vetting him
We don't want AI-generated stories.
We want stories that are beautiful and weird.
Mistakes and obsessions. Labyrinthine worlds; love poems that break us.
We want the wild stroke of chance, the stray detail.
We don't want soulless slop.
We want work *written* by HUMANS.
A screenshot of the Bluesky app demonstrating how you can now tap the "Translate" button to translate a post without leaving the app.
v1.118 rolls out today!
New in this update: You can now translate posts without leaving the app.
Simply tap "translate" on mobile and your phone's built-in translation takes it from there.
