The Revolution will be AI-icized
I heard my friend Dan here give a remarkable brief talk about this last month. Thankfully, he’s written it up at length to share.
In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…
an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them
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NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...
The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.
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Wilhelmina seems to be making herself at home
it’s hard to know where anything in this country is going politically but i am 100% positive that dan bongino will accidentally shoot the gun at himself at least once
youngkin is term limited for governor but i expect this quote to make the rounds when he tries to run for senate in two years
Spanberger by a billion, gonna put up Stalin numbers, son.
Here are some nice mushrooms
An upward shot of a large colony of oak mazegill mushrooms growing up the heights of a dead oak tree toward a blue winter sky

All photos by me
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Contrary to the Internet (which usually is never wrong), I am NOT writing for Mike Flanagan's DARK TOWER.
I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...
One nice thing about foraging compared to other hobbies is that no one spends $10,000 on stuff for it
A British-Egyptian team has made one of the most significant Egyptian archeological finds in recent history: the tomb of pharaoh King Thutmose II, who ruled sometime between 2000 and 1001 BCE. This is the first tomb of a pharaoh unearthed since Tutankhamun’s in 1922.
Winners in the Building at the SAG Awards last night! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Cloud nine.
We love merit, don’t we folks?
Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1
We are just fucked beyond belief.
NEW: Info gathered from Musk's 5 accomplishments email is expected to be run through an AI system to determine whether or not someone's work is mission-critical, according to three sources with knowledge of the system www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
I always love a David vs. Goliath story. Fascinating to hear how a UK start-up called tem. Energy is using AI to take on energy industry giants and make clean energy easier to access. Here’s more from Holly: bit.ly/4gW5dn3
Is that one of Red Skelton’s clown paintings on the wall of Joe Pesci’s bedroom in CASINO?
This fact is not to be shared outside this room.
Your outie's code works on the first try
Ms Casey from Severance
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a Last Supper with the Very Good Band before our last show tomorrow night in Phoenix, AZ
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Fountain-pen friends: I just got my first new fountain pen in years, and I love it! But I'm also remembering that using a fountain pen means having to adjust the paper/pads I use to account for different levels of ink absorption. Any advice on that process, or is it just a matter of trial and error?
Over the past month, the Trump administration has enacted dramatic budget cuts and mass layoffs across federal health and science agencies. In today’s episode, we discuss the cuts and how the scientific community can respond. Listen here 🎧: buff.ly/4bf3rfn
“Destruction for the ill-conceived notion of cutting costs didn’t put an American on the moon, and it didn’t wipe smallpox from the face of the Earth.”
—Dr. Sudip Parikh
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I know it is small potatoes, but I have an order stuck in customs from AliExpress since February 8th. 🙄
The Supper: New Blood Demo: Do you hear the doorbell, Stewie? octavinavarro.itch.io/the-supper-n...