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Data Scientist/Musician/Participant in the General Confusion.

Oppose autocracy and research/counter disinformation. I serve the realm.

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · Nov 28
It's a great day to finish an instrumental guitar/bass album and release it to various streaming services. (Links in thread.)

Northern Conspiracy - Flame and Ocean (full album stream)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq9K...
Northern Conspiracy - Flame and Ocean (2025) - Full Album Stream
YouTube video by Northern Conspiracy
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archive.org
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.⁠
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Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
www.techdirt.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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benjedwards.com
Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick)

I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below

arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...
I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026 I have been sick with COVID all week and missed Mon and Tues due to this. On Friday, while working from bed with a fever and very little sleep, I unintentionally made a serious journalistic error in an article about Scott Shambaugh. Here’s what happened: I was incorporating information from Shambaugh’s new blog post into an existing draft from Thursday. During the process, I decided to try an experimental Claude Code-based AI tool to help me extract relevant verbatim source material. Not to generate the article but to help list structured references I could put in my outline. When the tool refused to process the post due to content policy restrictions (Shambaugh’s post described harassment). I pasted the text into ChatGPT to understand why. I should have taken a sick day because in the course of that interaction, I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words. Being sick and rushing to finish, I failed to verify the quotes in my outline notes against the original blog source before including them in my draft. Kyle Orland had no role in this error. He trusted me to provide accurate quotes, and I failed him. The text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not representative of Ars Technica’s editorial standards. None of our articles are AI-generated, it is against company policy and we have always respected that. I sincerely apologize to Scott Shambaugh for misrepresenting his words. I take full responsibility. The irony of an AI reporter being tripped up by AI hallucination is not lost on me. I take accuracy in my work very seriously and this is a painful failure on my part. When I realized what had happened, I asked my boss to pull the piece because I was too sick to fix it on Friday. There was nothing nefarious at work, just a terrible judgement call which was no one’s fault but my own. —Benj Edwards, February 15, 2026
February 15, 2026 at 9:03 PM
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parismarx.com
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:25 PM
conspirator0.bsky.social
#Cattitude
an orange and white cat stands up in a cat tree and looks importantly at the camera
February 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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conspirator0.bsky.social
More fun with radio transmissions and ambient guitar to close out the year...
soundcloud.com/northerncons...
A Simulation
Listen to A Simulation by Northern Conspiracy #np on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
If an increasing unpopular leader, known for shaping reality w/ lies, wanted to subvert democracy, would they: A) complain that the polls are “fake news”, B) threaten polling organizations into silence, C) sow distrust in election results, or D) find ways to disenfranchise voters of the other party?
newsguy.bsky.social Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 6d
Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.
February 12, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening
benforward3.bsky.social Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 5d
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
This is why I keep telling people, tell the kids to leave that AI shit alone.

They already aren’t very good at math and should be using a calculator, not AI.
cursedpingu.bsky.social Former Pingu Child Actor (Communist) @cursedpingu.bsky.social · 3d
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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3r1ng.bsky.social
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Abolish ICE
And DHS too
a red vase with a single red rose in it on a pink background
ALT: a red vase with a single red rose in it on a pink background
media.tenor.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
This is the type of content that reaffirms my choice to claim Gen X since I’m technically a cusper lmao
February 15, 2026 at 12:18 AM
conspirator0.bsky.social
Over the last three months, 27 Bluesky accounts belonging to tech reporters and news outlets experienced a rapid uptick in follows from newly-created accounts. While it is not unusual for new Bluesky users to follow journalists and media outlets, this sudden large increase is anomalous.
collage of follow order by creation date plots for 27 Bluesky accounts associated with tech reporters and media
February 14, 2026 at 6:54 PM
conspirator0.bsky.social
Just a cat chilling on a #Caturday morning...
an orange and white cat relaxes atop a cat tree
February 14, 2026 at 3:43 PM
conspirator0.bsky.social
The watchcat watches over all on #CaturdayEve.
closeup of a gray cat with yellow eyes sitting upright
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
I read through the texts, emails, and iMessages between Steve Bannon and his good friend, and self described “cornerman,” convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. My dispatch from the files:

www.ms.now/news/steve-b...
Steve Bannon had a plan to rehabilitate Jeffrey Epstein, files reveal. Will MAGA care?
Trump’s former adviser maintained a relationship with Epstein long after his conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor.
www.ms.now
February 10, 2026 at 10:03 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
Challenge accepted *again*, dickwad.
melissagiragrant.com Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6d
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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melissagiragrant.com
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
Cardi’s tour intro to her number one hit from 2018 with Bad Bunny is exactly what I would expect from her lol
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
Hating people is a mistake. You can win easier without letting someone take you down that low.

Hating things and circumstances is fine, but not people.
February 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
I hadn’t seen his fully Grammy speech until now.

Somebody must have taught him the same thing my mother taught me, no hating people allowed.
February 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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jordanuhl.com
I gathered a few resources you can use & take action with to protect your communities from ICE:

stopicetoday.com
STOP ICE TODAY
Take action to protect your community from ICE.
stopicetoday.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
Ha!
“Kendrick's performance was English and ya'll didn't understand that either. Clearly language isn't the issue here...”
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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mattgertz.bsky.social
The right’s response to the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance is pretty close to a straightforward demand for white pride worldwide.
February 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
The SAVE act — another GOP effort to convert election lies into policy — would disenfranchise millions of voters. Congress is likely to vote on it this week. Sherrilyn’s article explains the urgency.

And here’s more context from the Bipartisan Policy Center: bipartisanpolicy.org/article/five...
February 10, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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kassandraseven.bsky.social
I also don’t understand this.

Stop talking to machines. What’s wrong with you people?
loriao.bsky.social Lori O. @loriao.bsky.social · 8d
I also don't understand why anyone has an Alexa or Siri in their house. Why invite a tech company into your home? It's creepy.
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 AM