It’s a bit late for Hanami in Tokyo, it’s already all green everywhere 😛

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways.

Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence

This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I give up (working on my AI agent)
blog.tolki.dev/posts/2026/0...

Where can we save the high scores?

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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

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NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration

"It's an extinction-level event for science".

This would decimate the world's leading scientific system, from NASA to NIH, and eliminate social, economic and behavioral science at NSF
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is really depressing

So many of those people live in an alternative reality with absolutely no basis in actual facts or research, and they’re getting more and more violent in Japan

And of course, they always ask for foreign fascist influence to take over their country

Depressing

The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk's X as an "innovative" tool to help do it.

X is now literally a propaganda unit of the US government. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Je n'ai pas dit de la déchoir de son mandat

Juste que quand on parle d'un terroriste qui a tué des innocents dans un aéroport comme d'un héros, on ne mérite pas de passer à la télé

Non, je ne pense pas.

Par contre ça mérite sûrement d'être exclu du débat médiatique.

La garde est vue est abusive c'est sur, par contre elle ne l'a supprimé que après convocation

Après honnêtement, le tweet est indéfendable. Jusqu'ici imo le shitstorm médiatique qu'elle mangeait était exagéré comparé à ses positions, mais là...

Just discovered /r/bereserklejerk

Scary article ngl

I’m not sure how Japanese society can survive being controlled by far right propagandists while being on such a big economic and demographic downturn, since their policies will just make things worse

All I got to say is that Oscar Piastri led 100% of the race laps he finished this year

Speaking French is extremely easy for English speakers, about half of the vocabulary has common roots and pronunciation is relatively coherent

Writing it well is much harder

But I don’t think it’s that bad to mandate people in power have some semblance of competence at an easy skill

En même temps 27s c'est une vidéo format long sur Twitter, les gens vont pas cliquer

Je suis allé regarder suite à ce tweet et je n'en ai pas du tout compris ça

Il plaide pour la démocratie délibérative, mais en refusant de l'appeler démocratique car pour lui c'est une rupture profonde avec le champ politique actuel

Habermas c'est pas trop un technocrate quand même

I came out of your video just comforted in my idea he’s a moron loved by morons

Really?

Since my wife has become a sumo super fan she has stopped telling me I was fat so I’ll take that as a win

Être sans abri, « un choix de vie » : Hélène Mercier-Arnault coupée au montage sur RTL Pour promouvoir son dernier album, la pianiste et discrète femme de Bernard Arnault a multiplié les apparitions médiatiques. Le 23 février, sur RTL, elle s’est laissé aller à des considérations sur l…

Pour l'épouse du milliardaire Bernard Arnault, la pianiste Hélène Mercier-Arnault, être SDF est « un choix de vie », celui de « lâcher la société », et d'ailleurs les riches payent trop d'impôt. Des propos coupés au montage par RTL.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

One surprising perk of LLM-driven coding: I can iterate on bugs in my codebase from my phone while my son takes a nap on me

The other possibility would be you having been late on taxes but I guess that’s not the case?

It feels extremely harsh either ways tbh, you’re the poster child for immigration

Oh wow, I’m extremely surprised. All the engineers I know got it pretty easily with less time spent in Japan and a smaller salary.

I guess this is a consequence of the new policies and general political climate, which really sucks. If you don’t deserve PR, who the fuck does lol

Il doit être tendu, ce bras droit

Will AI become a confirmation bias machine?

AI can be a powerful tool for truth-seeking. Yet, people might prefer to use AI to confirm their pre-existing beliefs, and features of AI systems (eg sycophancy) may make AI effective at justifying what people want to believe.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Well honestly since early this year all the craziness is unfortunately becoming par for the course.

I think it’s reasonable to expect that part of it has been priced in over the past few months.

Real returns for US stocks this year are at -3.7% already, while the rest of the world is at +3%

Tbh single day noise is not really representative of anything, and the Dow Jones Industrial is a fraction of the whole stock market

MSCI world is down on the month

Plus stock prices are expectations of future returns, normally not *that* affected by short term events

Do GHOSTs dream of electric sheep?

Smol blog post
blog.tolki.dev/posts/2026/0...