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NewsGuard - In an effort to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces and undermine their morale, Kremlin propagandists are weaponizing OpenAI's new Sora 2 text-to-video tool to create fake, viral videos showing soldiers surrendering in tears. open.substack.com/pub/newsgua...
Kremlin Propagandists Weaponize OpenAI's Video Generator
Russian actors are using OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video generator to depict the Ukrainian army as weak and surrendering
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
NewsGuard - In an effort to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces and undermine their morale, Kremlin propagandists are weaponizing OpenAI's new Sora 2 text-to-video tool to create fake, viral videos showing soldiers surrendering in tears. open.substack.com/pub/newsgua...
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WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) just signed the discharge petition to force a vote on making the DOJ release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files.
She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
Discharge Petition No. 9, Bill Number: H.Res. 581, 119th Congress
SPONSOR: Thomas Massie DESCRIPTION: Pursuant to clause 2 of rule XV, I, Thomas Massie, move to discharge the Committee on Rules from the consideration of the resolution entitled, a resolution providi...
clerk.house.gov
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) just signed the discharge petition to force a vote on making the DOJ release all of its Jeffrey Epstein files.
She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
She was the 218th signature, which means the petition is now frozen and no member can remove their name.
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"Opponents of democracy in the United States, from slaveholders to Gilded Age oligarchs to the contemporary Republican party [try] to keep their political opponents from voting [and ensure] that the government is too starved of revenue to invest in egalitarian policies or restrain private power."
New at Can We Still Govern: The IRS is a key agency and its decline is emblematic of Trump-era mismanagement.
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
@vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & Eliis Chen lay out the questions that Democrats should be asking its new leader.
Incredibly informative piece.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...
Five Questions for IRS CEO Frank Bisignano
The IRS has a new leader – maybe he can tell us whats happening
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Opponents of democracy in the United States, from slaveholders to Gilded Age oligarchs to the contemporary Republican party [try] to keep their political opponents from voting [and ensure] that the government is too starved of revenue to invest in egalitarian policies or restrain private power."
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HEY FUN FACT: it turns out bluesky perfectly implements the twitter bug where you can upload non-animated GIFs, by renaming them to whatever.png, which causes them to upload as a JPEG
twitter had(has?) that bug too. I wonder if the implemented the other bug... lemme test.
November 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
HEY FUN FACT: it turns out bluesky perfectly implements the twitter bug where you can upload non-animated GIFs, by renaming them to whatever.png, which causes them to upload as a JPEG
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks
In two months, the Trump administration has killed dozens of people it accused of smuggling drugs aboard boats. Here are the acknowledged strikes so far.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Updated: Our tracking guide with the Pentagon’s latest lethal strike on a boat suspected of drug trafficking. Three men were killed in the Caribbean Sea, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted last night, raising the toll to at least 70 killed in this bombing campaign. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Great and important reporting here. But the administration has been pretty clear about how these judges need to rule in order to keep their jobs. So I think we’re well beyond perception of fairness.
Immigration judges with prior immigrant defense work make up the largest share of those fired by the Trump admin. NPR identified 70 fired immigration judges. The changes have at least shifted perception of fairness in these courts
My latest investigation: www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...
My latest investigation: www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g...
The DOJ has been firing judges with immigrant defense backgrounds
NPR's data analysis shows that the DOJ has tended to fire judges with immigrant defense backgrounds in its recent rounds of dismissals.
www.npr.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Great and important reporting here. But the administration has been pretty clear about how these judges need to rule in order to keep their jobs. So I think we’re well beyond perception of fairness.
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Do you ever yearn?
October 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Do you ever yearn?
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Props to @eurogamer.bsky.social for appending NFTs and Metaverse to this list.
It’s the right thing to do, and I’ve explained why before: rystorm.com/blog/this-is...
Once you look through the history of these technologies, you see the same loops happen over and over.
It’s the right thing to do, and I’ve explained why before: rystorm.com/blog/this-is...
Once you look through the history of these technologies, you see the same loops happen over and over.
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Props to @eurogamer.bsky.social for appending NFTs and Metaverse to this list.
It’s the right thing to do, and I’ve explained why before: rystorm.com/blog/this-is...
Once you look through the history of these technologies, you see the same loops happen over and over.
It’s the right thing to do, and I’ve explained why before: rystorm.com/blog/this-is...
Once you look through the history of these technologies, you see the same loops happen over and over.
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One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
One of the things that kills me about all this is that it’s just, like, maybe ten guys.
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
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I can't help noticing the Supreme Court conservatives expressing the first doubt of a Trump assertion in oral arguments the day after the election day where every Republican running lost by 20 points. But they would never be swayed by such worldly things in their consideration of The Law, right?
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I can't help noticing the Supreme Court conservatives expressing the first doubt of a Trump assertion in oral arguments the day after the election day where every Republican running lost by 20 points. But they would never be swayed by such worldly things in their consideration of The Law, right?
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🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
Alex Karp Wants to Make Palantir the De Facto Operating System of the U.S. Government, Says Biographer
A new book explores how a liberal academic became the CEO that now embraces the Trump administration and ICE.
www.inc.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
NEW: I learned a lot talking to Alex Karp's biographer, Michael Steinberger. Namely, that Palantir has ambitions to become what IBM used to be for the U.S. government: its de facto operating system.
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
www.inc.com/sam-blum/ale...
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this is exactly what you want to see when you believe something is the future
Breaking news: US stocks have dropped as jitters over highly elevated valuations for many artificial intelligence companies intensified and top Wall Street executives said markets were vulnerable to a pullback. on.ft.com/4hIMmhj
November 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
this is exactly what you want to see when you believe something is the future
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It was really nice of Cal Newport to give me this shoutout about the AI bubble and how long I've been at this, and I appreciate anyone who has kept reading my work this long too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RI...
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It was really nice of Cal Newport to give me this shoutout about the AI bubble and how long I've been at this, and I appreciate anyone who has kept reading my work this long too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0RI...
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is that good
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
is that good
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The markets are getting anxious suddenly
Shares of Asian AI-linked companies fall, tracking declines in US peers, as investors worry about stretched valuations; SoftBank falls 9%+, Advantest 7%+ (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The markets are getting anxious suddenly
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Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
Big Tech Needs $2 Trillion In AI Revenue By 2030 or They Wasted Their Capex
As I've established again and again, we are in an AI bubble, and no, I cannot tell you when the bubble will pop, because we're in the stupidest financial era since the great financial crisis — though,...
www.wheresyoured.at
October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Premium newsletter: Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft need $2 Trillion in AI revenue by 2030 or they've wasted their capex. The massive cost of building data centers and constant decay in value of expensive-to-run GPUs may make AI profits impossible to achieve.
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
www.wheresyoured.at/big-tech-2tr/
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this rocks
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
this rocks
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Uhhh
Deutsche explores hedges for data centre exposure as AI lending booms-ft
November 5, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Uhhh