Bryan Sim
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NEW: Internal Scale AI docs show how spammers infiltrated a major project for Google and flooded the platform with “gibberish” and answers generated by ChatGPT.

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Exclusive: Scale AI's Spam, Security Woes Plagued the Company While Serving Google
How the startup that just scored a $14 billion investment from Meta struggled to contain 'spammy behavior' from unqualified contributors as it trained Gemini.
www.inc.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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LATEST: Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is leading the Democratic primary in the race to become mayor of New York City, holding an almost 8-point lead over former Governor Andrew Cuomo after the first round of ranked-choice voting
Mamdani Surges Into Early Lead in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary
Early results showed Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani with an eight-point lead over former Governor Andrew Cuomo, with more than two thirds of voting machines reporting.
bloom.bg
June 25, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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This is totally unprecedented, but the New York Times has reported that *nobody* has voted in the New York City Mayoral Primary Election. There will not be a mayor of New York ever again.
June 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.
June 16, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This isn't even satire really. This is so close to what he fucking said to justify it anyway.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
June 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Israel won’t allow a flotilla of activists — including Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg — sailing toward the Gaza Strip to reach the coastal enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.
Israel Vows to Stop Greta Thunberg’s Flotilla Reaching Gaza
Israel won’t allow a flotilla of activists — including Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg — sailing toward the Gaza Strip to reach the coastal enclave, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.
bloom.bg
June 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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‘Advertising Doesn’t Work On Me,’ Says Chosen One Who Will Lead Humanity Out Of Dark Age Of Commercialism
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May 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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"Our economy is run by people that don't participate in it and our tech companies are directed by people that don't experience the problems they allege to solve for their customers"
Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written.

www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
www.wheresyoured.at
May 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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May 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Motor oil companies need to stop making their products look so delicious.
May 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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City Planner Gets Halfway Through Designing City Before Realizing He’s Just Doing Philadelphia Again
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May 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Hey what happened after December 1999?
BESPOKE: “.. If A.I. is on par with (or bigger than) the Internet Boom, and ChatGPT is similar to Netscape, here’s where we are on the Nasdaq.”
May 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Trump: Russia Must Be Allowed To Keep Fighting As Part Of Any Ceasefire Deal
Trump: Russia Must Be Allowed To Keep Fighting As Part Of Any Ceasefire Deal
WASHINGTON—Growing increasingly frustrated by the protracted diplomatic talks, President Donald Trump asserted Thursday that Russia must be allowed to keep fighting as part of any ceasefire deal. “It’...
theonion.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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I am delighted that Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from detention.

Expressing a political opinion about the war in Gaza is not a crime.

In the United States of America, you should not be put in a jail cell for exercising your First Amendment rights.
April 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"AI isn't just a productivity tool. It's attempted Cognitive Outsourcing. Critical thought, ambiguity, creativity, all the beautiful things that probably define what being a human is, are all replaced by optimized, immediate answers."
- @kyla.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt theonion.com/woman-w...
Woman Worried Student Loans Could Prevent Her From One Day Owning Entirely Different Kind Of Crippling Debt
PHILADELPHIA—Lamenting that she will spend the foreseeable future paying off her college expenses, local 23-year-old digital marketing assistant Ashley Orlinsky expressed concern Wednesday that her student loans will prevent her from ever owning an entirely different type of utterly crippling debt. “Realistically, it’ll take years or even decades to fully repay $50,000 of loans, which makes me worried that I’ll never qualify for a backbreaking mortgage on a house that I can in no way afford,” said Orlinsky, adding that with $350 in monthly student loan payments, she will likely struggle to even borrow money to purchase a new car that will destroy her credit rating and may one day be repossessed by the bank. “I have dreams of starting my own company at some point in the future, but I just don’t see how I’ll have the opportunity to be saddled for my entire adult life with a suffocating high-interest small business loan if my student debt is following me wherever I go. It’s awful.” Orlinsky was reportedly encouraged, however, after coming to the mistaken conclusion that she could just default on her student loans and have them discharged in a bankruptcy filing.
theonion.com
April 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Pope Francis: “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets & financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or to any problems.”
Just months after he became the head of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis condemned the “new tyranny” of unfettered capitalism and the “idolatry of money.”
The Pope Who Decried the Savage Inequalities of Billionaire-Class Capitalism
Pope Francis, who has died at 88, fought for economic justice with a consistency that distinguished him from the elites of his time.
www.thenation.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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“Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea of withholding classified information from one’s spouse “toxic” and “unhealthy.” theonion.com/pete-he...
Pete Hegseth: ‘There Are No State Secrets In A Healthy Relationship’  
WASHINGTON—Staunchly defending his decision to share sensitive military data in messages to his wife, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters Monday, “There are no state secrets in a healthy relationship.” “Communication is key in every strong marriage, and that includes communication about airstrikes on foreign adversaries,” said the Pentagon chief, who called the mere idea […]
theonion.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’

~ Pedro Pascal
April 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
In case it is apparent from my latest reposts. Meta should fucking burn to the ground and Zuckerberg should go down broke as hell. He is a fucking idiot who never had a good idea in his life.
April 18, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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if it turns out that, say, LLMs do not have any real business returns and haven’t this whole time and the whole thing was a huge overblown bubble that large chunks of the media and markets fell for, that would be a huge problem! If that’s the case I’m going to be insufferable
April 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I'm sorry this is my favourite story in tech for a while. Mark Zuckerberg went to Microsoft, Amazon and other big tech companies asking them to give him money to train their LLM without offering anything of any kind in return. They're absolutely cooked. Nobody believes in this shit anymore.
April 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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• Meta asked Microsoft, Amazon and others to pay for their expensive AI bullshit
• Damn this bullshit is expensive
• *Nobody* wants to pay for this bullshit
April 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.
Wesleyan University president says Trump's antisemitism fight doesn't protect Jews
Michael Roth, Wesleyan University's first Jewish president, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism as a "cloak" to get universities to be loyal to the president.
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April 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM