A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

Let's, conservatively, say that there's about 1 billion relevant 0days and exploit channels in our present software ecosystem. (Is this hyperbole? Man, I don't fucking know. I think it's plausible.) If Anthropic's AI identifies and patches 1000 per week for a year until the next model catches up...

So like on the AGI front, Anthropic wants us to think that this is them calculatedly dancing near the AGI danger zone in order to leverage it to quickly patch as much as possible of our software ecosystem before real AGI arrives and exploits the massive holes we've been leaving everywhere.

Like, okay, Anthropic is publicly declaring that they have a massive 0day detector and are submitting CVEs and patches to everyone. There's the AGI concerns and geopolitical / state power dimensions, and the Anthropic vs USG fight.

I have had some version of "he wants all of us to be buried with him" in stuff I've written about Trump in the past and usually but not always taken it out. It didn't like looking at it, mostly, but over time it just became one of those things that was too obvious to bother with. It's all sickening.

The dream of flat earth science, something so stupid everyone will make fun of it, has finally be achieved. What an incredible milestone in history of our species to be alive to witness.

The US has finally developed a tweet so stupid that nearly everyone thinks it is wrong. It has been a hard road getting here. Most gave up hope, but a few kept the flame alive. Through the tireless dedication and effort of the nations top idiots that can now produce universally disagreeable tweets.

Ahahaha oh my fucking god you can't be serious

Russell found the Nash equilibrium strategy in my game Terminal Maneuvers. Turns out the missile can beat the laser more than I expected.
"Missile has an approximately 32.3% chance of winning, which is a little higher than the 25% estimate given by Ethan"
r6.ca/blog/2026040...

"I hope quantum computing will be impossible for some reason that revolutionizes physics—how exciting would that be? But that’s not my prediction. My prediction is that the more boring, conservative thing will happen: quantum computing will merely be possible, just like the theory said." S. Aaronson

"I am not trying to create good or prevent evil, rather I wash my hands of the world because my image of myself as a good person is more important to me than helping others."

THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED DONALD TRUMP'S STATE HOUSE DISTRICT IN FLORIDA'S #HD87:

Emily Gregory (D)- 51.2%
Jon Maples (R)- 48.8%

Surprised Pikachu face, but Pikachu is wearing a blue beanie with the Arch Linux logo on it. In the background, a dark terminal screen shows a wall of systemd 'OK' boot messages, with one line highlighted in red that says: 'systemd-userdb: Enter birthDate to continue...

Arch Linux: "Guys, trust me -- systemd is the future. It's clean, fast, and modern, and look at those boot time gainz!"
systemd: "Thanks! Anyway, here’s a mandatory birthDate field for your local login."
Arch Linux:

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Photo of a book of the constitution of the United States but they misspelled “united” as “unided” on the cover.

Guys I can’t even

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Ukraine has sent drone experts and interceptor drones to help defend US military bases in Jordan from Iranian drone attacks.

Washington asked for help last week, and Ukrainian specialists were deployed the very next day. “We reacted immediately,” Zelensky said.

www.kyivpost.com/post/71523

Adam Tooze: The Trump trade is dead. Long live the anti-Trump trade. Wherever you look in financial markets, you see signs that global investors are going out of their way to avoid Donald Trump’s America.

(deep cut?)

OpenAI has decided AI safety with regards to automated weapons is less important than money from government contracts. We must reward companies that hold the line and punish companies that defect.

I canceled OpenAI two weeks ago because I saw the writing on the wall. Just subscribed to Anthropic.

Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.

Maybe in-universe Dawkins got accidentally dosed with a slow acting memetic hazard while doing work for the Foundation and they moved him out into a public communicator role as a sort of retirement plan.

"Meaning is canonical; slack cannot enter."

Ten glorious years of a guy who has mostly been the president and always been the main character of American political life doing posts like this and everyone trying to figure out what cable news segment he saw, misunderstood in the way a dog might misunderstand a crossword, and made into policy.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés