Email from Epstein to Goertzel: "free and home" Goertzel replies: ";-))) Congratulations!!!! Actually, I was just about to send you an email summarizing my recent progress, current situation, and future hypothetical plans...I'll probably do so tomorrow. I'm sure you're super-swamped, but it would be great to get together when you have the chance... ben" Goertzel continues: "p.s. Also, the Singularity Summit (futurist conference, but with some good scientific speakers this year) will be in NY this year, Oct 3-4...and Oct 5-6, afterwards, there will be a brainstorming workshop I think you might enjoy (where, basically, the ~20 speakers from the Summit will get together and try to make conceptual progress on various future-science issues). I'll remind you again when the date gets closer!"

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison.

Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

Suggestions for how to do that here, btw:

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

w/ @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees | ACLU

www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

I think people underestimate how much of this is intentional. We see the internal docs leaked constantly showing the legal team will review something absolutely heinous and just go "ok ship it." Like internally these companies are aware of the massive risk, and just don't care.

The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic...

Key findings:
-Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views
-More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025

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Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

narrator: no, it cannot

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find Chain-of-thought AI “degrades significantly” when asked to generalize beyond training.

LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/r...

Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content | TechCrunch Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.

positioned by Musk as an "unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI, the generator allows users to make NSFW content" techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/g...

The explicit plan is to ethnically cleanse Gaza with US help while the whole world watches.

The bottom line, says @willie-agnew.bsky.social, a postdoctoral fellow in AI ethics at Carnegie Mellon University and one of the coauthors, is that “anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.”

The paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185

Ever wished you could track any pixel’s 3D path in a video—with just one model?

SpatialTrackerV2 makes it real. This end-to-end, fully differentiable framework unlocks world-space 3D trajectories for arbitrary 2D pixels, all from monocular videos. No need for clunky offline estimators!

Seven Things to Know About ProPublica’s Investigation of the FDA’s Secret Gamble on Generic Drugs ProPublica spent 14 months investigating the FDA’s oversight of foreign drugmakers that send medications to the U.S. These are the key takeaways.

NEW: ProPublica spent 14 months investigating how the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to Americans.

Here are the key takeaways from our reporting.

Check out these baddies waging a psyops campaign outside the hotel where ICE agents were *trying* to sleep.

Mariachi for the win!! 💃

Chip's got a new issue of ZDARSKY COMIC NEWS this week, and it might just be all about MANGA, with some very special guest appearances! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you

AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not?

Palmer: I strike those words

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the "that's fine" dog who sits in fire finally crashing out.

this is what quality, meaningful, and consequential investigative journalism looks like

Shortcuts that companies with AI-derived drugs are taking, not testing the molecules in vivo
@science.org

science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens Recent impressive results from large reasoning models have been interpreted as a triumph of Chain of Thought (CoT), and especially of the process of training on CoTs sampled from base LLMs in order to...

"our counter-intuitive results demonstrate ways in which common interpretations of Large Reasoning Models may be anthropomorphizations or simplifications" arxiv.org/abs/2505.13775

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

AI chatbots have been rolled out across 100s of white-collar workplaces but their effect on hours & pay has been negligible accrdg NBER. On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

“Billionaires building bunkers to survive an AI apocalypse, attempting to disrupt death through cryopreservation, scouting the planet for pop-up cities and network states — are not reliable stewards of the collective good.”

— @ruha9.bsky.social

there's a massive rush to insert AI agents into everything but who is vetting these systems before they're dumped into vulnerable groups like children

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

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