en Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:23:00 +0000 784 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/shameless-guesses-not-hallucinations Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:01:58 +0000
AIs say false things for the same reason you do.

At least, I did. In school, I would take multiple choice tests. When I didn’t know the answer to a question, I would guess.]]> 783 https://tboteproject.com/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:59:20 +0000 782 https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/#autoplay-videos Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:11:59 +0000 fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of
delivering the service. It's not just that a chatbot charges less to
tell people to go fuck themselves than a human being – the chatbot
itself means "go fuck yourself." A chatbot is basically a "go fuck yourself" emoji. Perhaps this is why every AI icon looks like a butthole"]]> 781 https://www.medialens.org/2026/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:50:50 +0000 Enemies of the West, such as the Soviet Union (and now Russia), North
Korea or China. These victims garner considerable media attention in the
propaganda system, marked by sympathy, indignation and fury. Their
suffering is humanised, described in detail, and used to generate moral
outrage directed at the offending regimes or governments, often as part
of a concerted attempt to topple them for the benefit of Western
geostrategic interests.---



‘Unworthy’ victims, by contrast, are people who are killed or whose
democratic aspirations are crushed by the West or ‘our allies’; such as
Suharto’s Indonesia in the 1960s, Pinochet’s Chile in the 1970s, the
US-backed Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, and Israel in the
present day. These victims are less prominent, even absent, in western
media coverage or are often discounted as ‘collateral damage’: a lesser
kind of human, robbed of their individuality, their …]]> 780 https://www.wired.com/story/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:57:19 +0000
phase two is where they tighten the thumb screws a little to see if anyone leaves. probably involves adverts.]]> 779 https://matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about-the-fediverse/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:37:16 +0000 share what they know. No brand deals, no engagement metrics, no
algorithm nudging you toward rage. Just someone who spent twenty years
studying Arctic policy posting a thread at 2 AM because they think you
should understand what's happening. It's the internet I was promised in
1996. It only took thirty years and the complete collapse of American
journalism to get here."]]> 778 https://www.medialens.org/2026/operation-epic-fury-anatomy-of-a-war-of-aggression/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:56:42 +0000 777 https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:06:25 +0000 776 https://www.medialens.org/2026/venezuela-war-is-peace/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:45:45 +0000 ‘mainstream’ media, which have shown zero interest in the people killed
and maimed. If US soldiers had died, we would know their names, faces,
army units, back stories, with spouses and parents expressing their
grief in heart-rending interviews. -- 



For ‘mainstream’ politics and media, the latest killing spree is just
another Groundhog Day. Maduro is not perceived as a particular
individual; he is perceived as the latest incarnation of the generic
‘Bad Guy’: Milosevic, bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi, Assad,
Nasrallah and Sinwar. The Venezuelans are another anonymous crowd of
(mostly) brown-skinned people indistinguishable from Iraqis, Iranians,
Libyans, Syrians and Palestinians."]]> 775 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0 Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:25:09 +0000 774 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/best-of-moltbook Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:02:36 +0000 773 https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr151-tiktok-wont-be-another-twitter/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:03:32 +0000 772 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql4Qk7iocik Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:12:01 +0000 771 https://www.medialens.org/2026/the-weak-must-suffer-the-eternal-fiction-of-the-international-rules-based-order/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:22:15 +0000


"The British state-corporate media response was telling. The crucial
segment of his speech about the longstanding ‘fiction’ of the
‘international rules-based order’ and ‘the gaps between rhetoric and
reality’ was almost entirely buried. If we had responsible,
public-service news media in this country they would have quoted that
vital section, word-for-word, and provided relevant context and substantive analysis as to what it meant."]]> 770 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/15/the-uk-is-taking-political-prisoners-to-evade-accountability-for-genocide Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:23:08 +0000
Let us be clear: proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is not an isolated act. It is part of the UK’s broader complicity in Israel’s oppression and genocide, and it functions domestically to silence those who seek to disrupt that complicity."]]> 769 https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/01/trumps-threat-to-greenland-must-be-a-wake-up-call-for-britain Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:06:59 +0000 States so that we can be genuinely independent. As an urgent first step,
the government should review how we might remove US bases from British
soil while maintaining our own security – and retaining the capacity to
support our allies in Ukraine. There are currently 13 US military bases
in the UK, operated by an estimated 10,000 personnel. If Trump were to
take military action against Greenland, we must be able to act swiftly
to remove America’s military presence from our country peacefully and
efficiently. The government should also cancel its £240m deal with US
firm Palantir, signed despite MPs raising serious security concerns about the company.Second, we need to ditch Trident – and fast. Even supporters of
nuclear weapons recognise the risks of maintaining a system that relies
on the United States.…]]> 768 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:22:53 +0000 He’s So Smart Then He Ought To Be Able To Become The Pointy-Haired Boss,
Devotes His Whole Life To This Effort, Achieves About 50% Success, Ends
Up In An Uncanny Valley Where He Has Neither The Virtues Of The Honest
Engineer Nor Truly Those Of The Slick Consultant, Then Dies Of Cancer
Right When His Character Arc Starts To Get Interesting."]]> 767 https://inews.co.uk/opinion/the-government-staying-on-x-is-pathetic-4169855 Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:15:22 +0000


"It’s not just irresponsible, short-sighted and immoral to stay on X.
It’s simply pathetic. It is very pitiful indeed to watch these major
figures in British public life – the Home Secretary, the BBC director
general – scramble around in the dirt for a few dozen likes, for the
honour of having some anonymous account hurl abuse at you."]]> 766 https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:55:38 +0000 "There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs
without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least
money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd
have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs
to age in warehouses. The minute they plug in those GPUs, they'll start
losing money, and the more they use them, the more money they'll lose."]]> 765 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ANECpNdt-4 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:11:44 +0000