Reports of Trump's catering-truck transfer in Turkey raise big questions about the recent NYT subpoenas
“So, you’re saying there wasn’t a security threat,” a reporter asked on July 8. “No, no, why would there be,” Trump replied. Two days later, DOJ went after the reporters who…
The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026)
Today's links Surveillance vs guillotines: Someone's gonna fleece these rubes, why not me? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: DeCSS; Warhol Worm; Camgirls…
Learning new facts can change LLM behaviour
TL:DR: I use synthetic document fine-tuning to train an LLM to believe that in 2027 ‘long-horizon’ frontier LLMs count as moral persons. I find the model scores highly on measures…
Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.
Paramount Promises Meaningless CNN ‘Oversight Board’ To Try And Gain Merger Approval
It’s always the same routine. Before each giant merger the companies promise that the new combined entity will deliver the sea, moon, and stars. We’re told the consolidation will…
AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, But Almost No One Is Buying Them
The number of AI generated uploads to CGTrader would suggest AI is taking over the platform, but buyers are refusing to pay for AI generated models.
Supersonic Trebuchet
Ok so when you woke up this morning, you probably didn’t expect to watch a 20-minute video about a trebuchet — but to be fair, I didn’t either. But Tom Stanton’s build of a fully…
August 12, 2026
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker…
Mehdi Meets Count Binface
The self-proclaimed intergalactic space warrior talks to Zeteo UK about his odds against Nigel Farage, keeping his rubbish bin helmet on if he becomes MP, and… hand dryers being…
NEWS: Trump Left Miller Behind for Natalie Harp, MyPillow Guy Humiliated, $900M Funneled to White House Renovation, ICE Buys Shock Gloves
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Trump administration urges Supreme Court to issue a decision in mail-in voting dispute
Your Agents Are Not Time Aware
Work done as part of MATS 10 with Maksym Andriushchenko TLDR: We had two CLI agents, Claude Code and Codex, predict, execute and then retrospectively estimate their own wall-clock…
Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies “Crazy.” Now, the Warning Signs All Apply to Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu shocked the world with violence in Gaza — then took an unhinged Israel to the mainstream. The post Israel Justified Its Wars by Calling Enemies “Crazy.” Now,…
Mike Lindell Revives Election Fraud Rhetoric After Losing MN GOP Primary
“I'm very good at looking at elections,” said Lindell, who for years has peddled election fraud conspiracy theories.
PBS Station Fears Losing 50TB of Data After Being Ghosted By Cloud Provider
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: After its cloud storage provider went defunct, a PBS affiliate decided to sue a data center provider to regain access to…