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And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...

A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

This a great opportunity to make impact for a talented big tech campaigner. If you know someone it could fit, please share. Thanks! 👇

A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making A.I. companies are facing hostility and mistrust—and much of the heightened, sometimes histrionic rhetoric about the powers of the technology has come from within the industry.

“If you tell people often enough that your product is going to upend their way of life, take their jobs, and very possibly pose an existential threat to humanity, they just might start to believe you.”

I heard a reporter from Axios interviewed on NPR the other day (Marketplace Tech, I think) talking about how the tech companies are putting out new models every 6 months to 1 year and how each model is more "powerful" than the previous.

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

They've strayed far from their mission to organize the world's data.

The almost sacred perfection of a bunch of asparagus, 1697, by Adriaen Coorte. It’s his day today.

Absolutely savage in the best way!

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

So, incredibly happy for, and proud of, Hungary. And looks like PM might even manage 2/3rds needed for a deep constitutional undoing of Orban's feckery.

If EU has *any* sense whatsoever, it will THROW MONEY at Magyar, like a drunk yuppie at a stripper.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

"A funeral was bombed near Baalbek, killing at least six people. A few hours later, a nine-storey residential building in the Tallet el Khayat neighbourhood was hit. In all 254 people were killed and more than a thousand wounded."

Managed to catch a showing of this excellent film, The Librarians, today at the La Jolla Riford Library. It's shocking what's happening. www.imdb.com/title/tt3496...

I didn't hear it either (north county though)

Fleet Center in Balboa Park hosting Artemis II events

Fleet Center in Balboa Park hosting Artemis II events

San Diego warship to recover Artemis II astronauts when they splash down in ocean Friday

San Diego warship to recover Artemis II astronauts when they splash down in ocean Friday

Ghost in the Machine - Upstate Films, Ltd. The mind-bending Ghost in the Machine is an investigative documentary exposing the buried history of artificial intelligence as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and entrenched struct...

Watch Ghost in the Machine in cinemas this week!🍿🎟️

TODAY and TOMORROW at Upstate Films NEW YORK!! www.upstatefilms.org/ghost-in-the...

THIS WEEKEND at the Belcourt Theatre in NASHVILLE!! @belcourttheatre.bsky.social
www.belcourt.org/films/ghost-...

Find a screening near you: notaidoc.com/events

“Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” Remember when vulgarity in American politics still seemed almost surprising? When it was considered noteworthy that Donald Trump swears a lot? When he forced The New York Times to be less tight-ass…

Right, here it is, by @sesquiotic.bsky.social : stronglang.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/o...

Bizarro world

i don't want to be mr smartypants but i'm surprised that anyone needs to be told this and it's not just manifestly obvious to anyone who hears him speak for more than 10 seconds

Carlsbad Unified hosts forums after viral park incident involving racial slurs | The Coast News Group After a viral video of a park altercation involving racial slurs, Carlsbad Unified held listening sessions to address hate incidents.

It's 2026 and racial violence seems to have only been given more permission. I was shocked to read about this recent local "incident" which I am sure the "honest listening sessions" will be sufficient to address! thecoastnews.com/carlsbad-uni...

Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness,
Thence to a lightness, and by this declension,
Into the madness wherein now he raves,
And all we mourn for.

All 3 look very interesting, especially #2.

With great respect, @wutrain.bsky.social, a better way to "empower young people" is to teach them how to learn. If "AI proficiency" means more proliferation of chatbots in schools, then we're taking away power from kids. Please think again!

Om Patel y @om_patel5 stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free: below or write up a quick summary. Pepper |13:19:45 I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help? Anonymous User | 13:20:18 Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach. Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current = head while current: next_node = current.next current.next = prev prev = current current = next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time. Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today? Pepper|13:20:19 Order Issues Common Questions Where's my order? Upcoming Promotions Cancel Order

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

Claude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex Sentiment Anthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily

Reflections on the Claude Code source code leak from @techtrenches.dev

“The leak isn’t the story.
The code is the story.”

Mostly Human Media on Instagram: "OpenAI CEO responds to @husk.irl’s viral ChatGPT video. Loved this. Full intv with Sam Altman on YouTube. Link in bio." 23K likes, 1,151 comments - mostlyhumanmedia on April 3, 2026: "OpenAI CEO responds to @husk.irl’s viral ChatGPT video. Loved this. Full intv with Sam Altman on YouTube. Link in bio.".

This is a fascinating exchange for multiple reasons. www.instagram.com/mostlyhumanm...

Summary: Sam Altman is shown a viral video of someone asking ChatGPT (in voice mode) to time a run. Even though they stop after just a few seconds, the response is that the run was 10 minutes. [cont.]

That's the only way to eat cake from now on!

I am not interested in a paper written by the chatbot company that "discovers" the chatbot they make money on is actually really special and unique

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How to Scare a Fascist w/ Naomi Klein

www.themaybe.org/podcast/how-...