Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work*
Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!
I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.
Tweet from Acyn reporting CNN breaking news that Cuba’s electrical grid has completely collapsed, causing a nationwide blackout. The image shows a dim city skyline at dusk with a domed building silhouetted, alongside a CNN banner reading “Cuba’s electrical grid suffers total collapse.”
There are some 3,000 patients on dialysis machines in Cuba who are at risk of dying from a prolonged blackout.
Is whatever benefit you get from using X worth supporting the people who do this?
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Graves being prepared for the victims of an airstrike on a school in Minab in southern Iran, 2 March 2026. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters
Ask Gemini, the AI service powered by Google, and the answer you receive is no – in fact, Gemini claims the photograph is from two years earlier and more than 2,000km (1,240 miles) away. Rather than graves for small girls killed by a missile, the image “depicts a mass burial site in Kahramanmaraş, Turkey” after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in 2023. “This specific aerial perspective became one of the most widely shared images of the disaster,” Gemini says, “illustrating the sheer scale of the loss.” Seeing the same burial image on social media, others turned to X’s AI assistant Grok to check its veracity. Like Gemini, Grok will breezily assure you the photo is not from Iran at all – although it lands on a different date, disaster and location. The image is “from Rorotan Cemetery in Jakarta, Indonesia – a July 2021 stock photo of Covid mass burials. Not Minab,” it says. In both cases, the AI answers sound sure: they don’t equivocate, and even provide “sources” for the original image, should you choose to check them. Follow the thread to examine those, however, and you’ll begin to hit dead ends: either the image doesn’t appear at all, or the link provided is to a news report that doesn’t exist. For all their impression of clarity and precision, the AIs are simply wrong. The cemetery image, it turns out, is authentic. Researchers have cross referenced the photo of the site with satellite images that confirm its location, and it can be cross-referenced again with dozens more images taken of the same site from slightly different angles, and again with video footage – none of which experts say show signs of tampering or digital manipulation. The “factchecks” by Gemini and Grok are just one example of a tidal wave of AI-generated slop – hallucinated facts, nonsense analysis and faked images – that are engulfing coverage of the Iran war. Experts say it is wasting investigative time and risks atrocities being denied – as well as heralding alarming weaknesses as…
This is a real image of a graveyard being prepared for the victims of a mass murder of schoolchildren enacted by the racist governments of Israel and America.
Ask a text generation program, and it'll output sentences that say the photo is fake
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Meta's power consumption grew to 18.4 terawatt hours in 2024
They are building a 2.25 gigawatt (!!!!!!!!!!!!) gas plant in Louisiana
And lobbying to weaken climate disclosure
...........for.....this?
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omg it's been forever!!! 😍
I cannot help but notice Grammarly trying to turn this into a sort of 'paid partnerships' thing feels exactly like when X turned its child abuse generating chatbot into a paid premium child abuse generating chatbot and presented that as if it fixed the problem
Tweet by No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen referencing cuts to food assistance for hungry children, quoting a report claiming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth oversaw $93 billion in Pentagon spending in one month, including $2 million on Alaskan king crab. The image shows Hegseth speaking and a photo of king crab legs with sauce.
I was told the GOP cares about fraud, waste and abuse.
I, Robot series? The time machine, Flatland, all classic sci-fi that I think are close to hitchhikers. More modern one, The Continuum + The grandmother paradox
And we're being called criminals and animals
In case you still had any doubts about those claims of racism.
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Minneapolis… San Diego… Folks are pushing back.
This is only going to get worse.
We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.
Senator Joni Ernst
so he should remove himself from this stolen land
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
warming stripes showing rising temps
You can now get REALLY location specific warming stripes thanks to @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
We're doing this!!
FRIDAY!!!
#EconomicBlackout
Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.
#50501movement #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #March4thForDemocracy #ImpeachTrump #NoKings #PoliticalRevolution #BuildTheResistance #EconomicBlackout @polrev.bsky.social
one thing im totally baffled by is how many people around me are totally blasé / not attuned / not frightened by the political situation? maybe if you're not directly affected it's easier to ignore & just think things are normal? the disconnect is so insane
💥
This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.
I know. I was there in those camps.
I want a normal life where we don’t have to worry about the actual fate of our country every damn minute.
@brontyman.bsky.social
Last time u.s was on warning list of high risk for European travelers
What do you want people to know about the generative AI copyright fights that they might not already know, or they might have been misinformed about? The thing that I hear most often that's wrong as a technical matter is this concept that these are just plagiarism machines. All they're doing is taking my stuff and then grinding it back out in the form of text and responses. I hear a lot of artists say that, and I hear a lot of lay people say that, and it's just not right as a technical matter. You can decide if generative AI is good or bad. You can decide it's lawful or unlawful. But it really is a fundamentally new thing we have not experienced before. The fact that it needs to train on a bunch of content to understand how sentences work, how arguments work, and to understand various facts about the world doesn't mean it's just kind of copying and pasting things or creating a collage. It really is generating things that nobody could expect or predict, and it's giving us a lot of new content. I think that's important and valuable.
I mean, generative machine learning is just pioneering an entirely new method of plagiarism / copyright infringement, not pioneering an entirely new mode of creativity or inspiration.
It is a new thing, it's just that it's a new version of something already very bad
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DELETE IT and pass it on !!
