My latest: Generative AI is enabling a brute force attack against the algorithms that control reality. AI slop is taking over every algorithmically controlled social media platform and search platform, and the tech platforms are helping:
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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality
Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.
We've confirmed that the TSA credit cards it uses to pay for stuff for bomb-sniffing dogs have been cut off
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TSA Says Its Credit Cards for Bomb-Sniffing Dogs Are Cut Off
The statement follows an alleged internal email which said requests for dog food and vet visits had been put on hold.
A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile"
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NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider 'Scientific Exile,' French University Says
β€œWe are witnessing a new brain drain.”
this is so so so wild, must read:
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Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages
Why is this speedrunner putting his Super Nintendo in the freezer? Science.
Pokemon Go sale to a Saudi Arabian company owned by govt comes with six separate corporate announcement blogs, not one of them directly addressing what happens to 100 million people's location data, AR mapping capabilities, or the AI maps they have been training:
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Saudi Arabia Buys PokΓ©mon Go, and Probably All of Your Location Data
A company owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund just bought the most popular AR video game of all time.
very dumb question but does anyone know why 404 media links arent expanding on Mastodon anymore? Worked for a very long time, and still works on other social media platforms:
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Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery
A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos of people flicking off Cybertrucks.
Scoop: The databases powering doge. gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
A "True Crime" documentary YouTuber racked up millions and millions of views with fully AI-generated murders that did not happen
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A β€˜True Crime’ Documentary Series Has Millions of Views. The Murders Are All AI-Generated
The creator of a viral "true crime" series where the murders were all invented by AI explains how he did it.
Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments
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Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely.
Just spoke very briefly to National Archivist Colleen Shogan, who confirmed she was fired by Trump a few minutes ago:
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Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
β€œThis evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited."