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🌱 Many gardeners hate #AI. They think it's synthetic, extractive, disconnected from the earth.
But you can use AI to plan an EPIC spring garden.
AI can also help local pollinators by identifying the BEST native shrubs for your grow zone.
Full story below. ↓
#Gardening #Bees
Honestly, I'm not an expert.
My readers kind of are.
PhDs, researchers, deep thinkers... All in one weird little free newsletter about humans & AI.
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#AI #Substack #Rising
New FAQ answered - Can attackers exploit CPU branch prediction beyond Spectre, and are 2024-2025 microarchitectural side-channel attacks still a real threat to enterprise systems?
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#CyberSecurity #Hacker #opsec
😱 Meta just patented your digital ghost. December 2025.
Their AI wants to simulate you after you die. Your posts, voice, video calls to grieving family. All of it.
Is this grief tech? Or the ultimate data grab?
Meta says "no plans." They just wanted the patent first.
Full article below; free. ⬇️
A chalkboard image depicting colorful hand-drawn chalk letters. The letters spell "Claude Went To War. Then Fought The Pentagon." There are also three colorful tanks below the text. It's an AI depiction.
⚠️ The U.S. military used Claude AI in the Caracas raid that captured Maduro. Anthropic found out after the fact.
First known consumer AI deployed in a major combat op. The role? Classified. The fallout? Very public.
Is this the future of warfare, or a hijacking?
Read my full article free. ⬇️
X is down but no worries that's why I love to use Bluesky.
;)
Rofl.
I read the text in exactly the order you predicted. 👀
🚨 OpenAI killed GPT-4o on Valentine’s Day eve.
I deep-dived the forced migration to GPT-5.2. Is this about safety? Or are they purging the sycophancy that made 4o a favorite?
PR calls it "efficiency." The reality is much colder.
Breakdown free below. 👇
🚨 I just published a rigorous prompt that uses AI to stress-test any claim.
It’s essentially a "BS Detector."
Is someone lying to you? Does the logic hold up? This prompt will tell you.
Grab it for free below. 👇
🚨 I just published a deep dive on the new Waymo + Tesla expansions in FL & TX.
It’s essentially a "Reality Check" for self-driving hype.
Are robotaxis actually safer? Is your city next? This edition cuts through the marketing fluff to look at the real data.
Grab the insights for free below. 👇
🚨 The MOLTBOOK saga has the AI community viciously bickering, lol.
Is it a real discovery? Or a masterclass in engagement farming?
It feels like a digital Rorschach test, revealing less about the code & more about our collective panic over ethics & control.
Read below.👇
I took Runway's "real vs fake" AI video test this week.
I scored 9/20. That's 45%. An F!
I literally cannot tell the difference anymore. And neither can 90% of people who took the test. 🤓
Your eyes are no longer reliable witnesses. 👀🔥
pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-propaga...
This week In AI:
1️⃣ The White House defended AI-altered images.
2️⃣ Nobel laureates warned autonomous AI bot swarms threaten democracy.
3️⃣ 90% of humans failed to detect AI video.
At what point do we admit “seeing is believing” is dead? 👀
Full Story → pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-propaga...
Raspberry Pi just dropped a tiny AI add‑on (AI HAT+ 2) that lets you run local chatbots/models on your own hardware, not the cloud. It’s the “escape velocity” option from ads, paywalls, and prying eyes. Under $200 if you pair it with a Pi5.
#AI #RaspberryPi #OpenSource
Did you see China's new Robot Cop? 🤖🚨👀
Beijing is rolling out patrol robots that direct traffic, signal commands, and bark out orders.
The future of policing just got a firmware update.
Read more - pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-goes-fr...
#AI #China #Robotics #Semiconductors #Chips #Geopolitics
OpenAI just dropped a privacy bombshell. 💣
They are rolling out "contextual" ads to US users that scan your active chat to trigger "Sponsored Suggestions."
This affects Free and Go tiers in US. Your private conversations are ad inventory.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-goes-fr...
#AI
I wrote a nerdy AI prompt that writes old-fashioned sales letters.
This prompt isn't going to turn you into David Ogilvy. It probably won't convert cold traffic at 10%. (Or even 5%, lol.)
But, the output is legible, entertaining, and serves as a framework.
pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ex-twitter...
Your doctor is now an AI. 🩺
OpenAI and Anthropic just launched platforms to read your medical records and spot diseases humans miss.
The era of "AI as a toy" is over. It's now biological infrastructure.
Read more - pithycyborg.substack.com/p/government...
#AI #Healthcare #OpenAI
Google just checkmated Apple. 🏆
Alphabet surged past Apple to join the $4 trillion club. Only the 4th company ever.
Meanwhile, Apple is now begging Google to help fix Siri. (lol.)
AI leadership determines who sits at the table.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/government...
#AI #Google
Musk’s Grok is officially BANNED in Malaysia and Indonesia. 🚫
Governments are drawing hard lines after nonconsensual AI nudification goes viral.
This is a test case for what happens when AI outruns governance.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/government...
#AI #Deepfakes #Grok #Musk
The founder of Khan Academy has a scary message. 👀
AI is going to take jobs at "a scale many people don't yet realize."
Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, mirrors Khan's sentiment, warning 2026 will bring a new wave of displacement.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-leaves-...
#AI
Did you see this? Grok is in big trouble. 🚨
The European Commission declared Grok's AI-generated images illegal after users weaponized the tool to create nonconsensual sexualized content.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-leaves-...
#AI #Grok
Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot now runs on Google DeepMind AI. 🤖
That means humanoid robots that can think, adapt, and recover from errors are entering factories THIS YEAR. We are watching AI leave the screen and invade 3D space.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-leaves-...
#AI #Robots
The coolest machine learning application of the year isn't a chatbot. It's listening to trees + birds. 🌳
Merlin uses advanced ML to distinguish a Hoot Owl vs. Tufted Titmouse vs. Crow in seconds. (Or any bird lol.) 100% nature. 🦉
Read the full breakdown ➜
pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ten-ai-lor...
One in five videos recommended to new YouTube users is now low-quality AI slop. 🤖
That is 20% of a first-time visitor’s experience on the world’s largest video app. We are watching mass-produced slop designed to farm views take over the feed.
Full story: pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ten-ai-lor...
Did you see this? It's a massive wealth grab from the AI overlordsl. (Top 10 tech leaders made $500 billion in 2025 while over 1 million workers lost their job.)
Same as it ever was.
Hope you have a great 2026.
The impact of a major cyber defense agency losing 65% of its workforce goes beyond just the government. 🏭 Critical national infrastructure (energy, finance, water) relies on CISA. A shutdown for them means increased vulnerability for everyone. Not good. #CyberSecurity #CISA
There was a ton of fuss about this earlier in the week. Swatting threats, UN spy vibes, telecom panic. Turns out: 100K+ SIM cards seized, 300+ servers jammed in 5 NYC spots, nation-state actors linked to cartels & terrorists. Could've DDoS'd 911 calls in mins!📡💥 #Cybersecurity
Thread: How I became one of TransUnion's 4.4 million breach victims while trying to protect myself from... data breaches. The cybersecurity industry has some explaining to do. #cybersecurity #transunion
There are rumors that satellite hardware on US highways might have SPYING DEVICES attached unknowingly. (Think spy radios that are transmitting data.)
#cybersecurity #spying