Matt “Mad Dog” Maielli
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more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
Reporter: The FDA has a new AI tool that's intended to speed up drug approvals. But several FDA employees say the new AI helper is making up studies that do not exist. One FDA employee telling us, 'Anything that you don't have time to double check is unreliable. It hallucinates confidently'
July 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis
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“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”
⚫️ La Direction de l’AFP partage l’angoisse exprimée par la SDJ quant à la situation effroyable de ses collaborateurs dans la bande de Gaza ⬇️
July 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”
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i think it is bad that the president's budget director thinks congress is an advisory body and that the constitution is a set of recommendations www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...
Trump's Budget Chief Is About To Go Rogue On Massive Spending Cuts
Russ Vought said to expect more massive spending cuts because Trump is "not cowing to a legislative branch’s understanding of its own authorities and powers."
www.huffpost.com
July 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
i think it is bad that the president's budget director thinks congress is an advisory body and that the constitution is a set of recommendations www.huffpost.com/entry/russ-v...
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Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x
June 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x
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Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.
We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.
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Starting to think these guys may not be entirely on the level.
June 11, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Starting to think these guys may not be entirely on the level.
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"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
Wayne County community rally amid ICE raid at restaurant
Newswatch 16's Emily Kress spoke with people in the Honesdale community who are shaken after watching three restaurant employees get detained.
www.wnep.com
June 7, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...
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They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.
Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard."
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)
May 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
They attacked, traumatized and fired the competent public servants, and now want your sympathy for being out of their depth.
was literally gonna make a post about how it feels like The Free Press is an employment placement program for dullards before realizing that this is true, lol
it's funny that the free press touts itself as a clean break from the mainstream press, rooted in honesty and integrity, and then one of the first things bari weiss did was give a prominent role to her dipshit sister
Jesus christ these people have the worst takes imaginable
May 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
was literally gonna make a post about how it feels like The Free Press is an employment placement program for dullards before realizing that this is true, lol
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everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.
En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.
May 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
everything means the opposite for these people. freedom
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.
means your freedom to obey. the first amendment means their freedom to tell you what you can read and think.
just did a back-to-back watch of The Two Popes and In The Loop. I continue to contain multitudes.
May 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
just did a back-to-back watch of The Two Popes and In The Loop. I continue to contain multitudes.
I watched an old coming-of-age movie years ago that had a running joke that students were recording their classes too often, and then a character runs past a classroom and you see that every desk has a recorder and the teacher… was a boombox speaker playing a recording of the lesson, lol
Inside of five years, “college” will just be swarms of chatbots talking to each other while the humans get drunk. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
www.nytimes.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I watched an old coming-of-age movie years ago that had a running joke that students were recording their classes too often, and then a character runs past a classroom and you see that every desk has a recorder and the teacher… was a boombox speaker playing a recording of the lesson, lol
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Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.
I have two sons, and I don't think I've ever seen messaging going "Don't be a boy" or "YOU'RE BAD."
Sure looks like that's in "I heard someone say that they heard..." territory, rather than actual direct experience.
Also worth noting, the main message from manosphere influencers is "YOU'RE BAD."
Sure looks like that's in "I heard someone say that they heard..." territory, rather than actual direct experience.
Also worth noting, the main message from manosphere influencers is "YOU'RE BAD."
It's a brutal time for young men, and to be raising one. The primary message they now is get is "YOU'RE BAD" without any meaningful attempt to offer healthy pathways beyond "Don't be a boy."
Absolutely perfect time for right wing monsters to sweep in with shitty answers.
Absolutely perfect time for right wing monsters to sweep in with shitty answers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Men are not constantly being told “you’re bad,” they are constantly being told “LEFT WING SJWS THINK YOU’RE BAD” by conservative propaganda. There’s a huge difference.
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This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Moran keeps trying to move on from a point Trump is CLEARLY WRONG ON and just says “agree to disagree.” Do your fucking job!
This exchange is so very telling.
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
Trump repeatedly claims the photoshopped MS-13 on Kilmar Abrego Garcia's knuckles is real, Terry Moran keeps telling him it isn't, prompting Trump to say this:
"I never heard of you. I picked you. You’re not being very nice. He had MS-13 tattooed... Just say yes!"
April 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is one of the worst interviews I’ve ever seen. Moran keeps trying to move on from a point Trump is CLEARLY WRONG ON and just says “agree to disagree.” Do your fucking job!
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Two years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
April 29, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Two years ago I went on TV and said exactly this: The AI panic cycle was a marketing campaign by known billionaire failures, ultimately an excuse to revenge-fire workers with no immediate replacement.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
I literally said "The agita around AI is deeply cultural." Me no have TV job shortly thereafter.
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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the reason the term “tyranny of the majority” is useful is because tyranny of a minority is just the regular definition of tyranny
The Framers feared tyranny of the majority. They didn’t anticipate tyranny of the minority.
Jerusalem Demsas speaks with a political scientist who explains why American democracy can be so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
Jerusalem Demsas speaks with a political scientist who explains why American democracy can be so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
Who Really Runs America?
A political scientist explains why American democracy is so easily hijacked by organized minority factions.
bit.ly
April 24, 2025 at 2:22 AM
the reason the term “tyranny of the majority” is useful is because tyranny of a minority is just the regular definition of tyranny
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One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
April 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.
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these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
April 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism
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my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison
Dana Bash is also responsible for one of the more egregious “antisemitism on campuses” stories put to TV, so I do wonder if this inspires any reflection
BASH: What is the ADL doing to pressure the White House to give students who are being arrested due process?
GREENBLATT: We're not sort of public defenders for some of the Hamasniks on these college campuses, and I don't want to be
GREENBLATT: We're not sort of public defenders for some of the Hamasniks on these college campuses, and I don't want to be
April 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Dana Bash is also responsible for one of the more egregious “antisemitism on campuses” stories put to TV, so I do wonder if this inspires any reflection
In their defense, numbers can get pretty big when you make them up
“Our ICE officers are facing 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”
April 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
In their defense, numbers can get pretty big when you make them up
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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.
The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.
Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.
Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.
It's all fun and games until …
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.