Rafiot
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I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.
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I wrote the next in my series about AI, and this one is rough.
Part 4 - LLMs are Lead
Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/w...
Serious, I do mean it, content warning; suicide, abuse, some dark shit. But also, this is very important to understand...
Part 4 - LLMs are Lead
Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/w...
Serious, I do mean it, content warning; suicide, abuse, some dark shit. But also, this is very important to understand...
What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Four) - emptywheel
LLMs are Lead Part 4- Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder (Go to Part Three) This installment deals with self harm quite a lot. If you’re not in a good place right now, please skip this. If you or s...
emptywheel.net
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I wrote the next in my series about AI, and this one is rough.
Part 4 - LLMs are Lead
Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/w...
Serious, I do mean it, content warning; suicide, abuse, some dark shit. But also, this is very important to understand...
Part 4 - LLMs are Lead
Delusion, Psychosis, and Child Murder
emptywheel.net/2025/09/04/w...
Serious, I do mean it, content warning; suicide, abuse, some dark shit. But also, this is very important to understand...
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Look, France has its own couch fucker!
March 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Look, France has its own couch fucker!
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French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son or...
www.lemonde.fr
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
French researcher, going to a conference in Houston, was forbidden entry to US; his work and personal electronics were both confiscated.
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
Why? Because a “random search” of his cell phone revealed a negative personal opinion on Trump and the Trump administration. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...
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What We're Losing if DOGE kills NOAA
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n...
New from a very sad and worried me.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n...
New from a very sad and worried me.
NOAA: The Biggest Little Agency in America - emptywheel
What We are Quietly Losing in All the Tumult Last week the ghouls of DOGE came to gut NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) by firing all the probationary employees, because they were...
www.emptywheel.net
March 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
What We're Losing if DOGE kills NOAA
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n...
New from a very sad and worried me.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n...
New from a very sad and worried me.
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Come talk to me about this post in the comments www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/w... I want to know how people see themselves when they're working with AI tools.
...or talk to me here if you prefer, this just seems more ephemeral :)
...or talk to me here if you prefer, this just seems more ephemeral :)
What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Two) - emptywheel
The Other Half of the AI relationship Part 2: Pareidolia as a Service When trying to understand AI, and in particular Large Language Models, we spend a lot of time concentrating on their architectures...
www.emptywheel.net
February 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Come talk to me about this post in the comments www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/21/w... I want to know how people see themselves when they're working with AI tools.
...or talk to me here if you prefer, this just seems more ephemeral :)
...or talk to me here if you prefer, this just seems more ephemeral :)
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Gaslighting, scolding, sneering, all while being an uninformed idiot, Vance hacks away at the transatlantic relationship in the Trump administration's ongoing campaign to alienate everyone in the galaxy except Putin. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/18/j...
JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference: A Speech by Gaslight - emptywheel
How Vance unsettled the Europeans While Musk was ripping through the US government like a 10 tonne toddler on cocaine, Vice President JD Vance was dispatched to the Munich Security Conference last wee...
www.emptywheel.net
February 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Gaslighting, scolding, sneering, all while being an uninformed idiot, Vance hacks away at the transatlantic relationship in the Trump administration's ongoing campaign to alienate everyone in the galaxy except Putin. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/18/j...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About AI
emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/w...
This is the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've wanted to write for a while.
AI isn't magic. It's not thinking as we know it. It's a lot of vector math and statistics.
It's neat, but it's also not us.
emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/w...
This is the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've wanted to write for a while.
AI isn't magic. It's not thinking as we know it. It's a lot of vector math and statistics.
It's neat, but it's also not us.
What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part one) - emptywheel
A Normal Person’s Explainer on What Generative AI is and Does Part 1 – In the Beginning was the Chatbot “Are you comfortably seated? Yes, well, let’s begin.” *Clears throat theatrically* “Our experien...
emptywheel.net
February 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What We Talk About When We Talk About AI
emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/w...
This is the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've wanted to write for a while.
AI isn't magic. It's not thinking as we know it. It's a lot of vector math and statistics.
It's neat, but it's also not us.
emptywheel.net/2025/02/14/w...
This is the first part of an explainer on artificial intelligence I've wanted to write for a while.
AI isn't magic. It's not thinking as we know it. It's a lot of vector math and statistics.
It's neat, but it's also not us.