Twitter is basically just explicitly racist TikTok now and it’s funny to watch that evil dweeb Nikita try to insist on the contrary, why even bother just admit it.

Anthropic appears to have removed access to Claude Code from its $20/month Pro plan; Anthropic says it is "running a small test on ~2% of new prosumer signups" (Ed Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)

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Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.

and a combo

The Jeff Gerstmann Show 202: Smokable Cheeseburgers with Austin Walker Austin Walker is here so we can finally get some Marathon talk on this podcast! Also, he’s got a new tabletop RPG in the works called Realis! We’ll also talk about Call of Duty leaving Game Pass,…

This week I'm joined by @austinwalker.bsky.social to discuss his (and my) obsession with Marathon, his upcoming TTRPG (an actual book!), Pragmata, the new Jay & Silent Bob game (?), Call of Duty leaving Game Pass, and more. Get it ad-free at jeff.zone or find the video version here.

Did Kash Patel read his own lawsuit?

When asked why he was locked out of his computer — as The Atlantic reported and Patel *admitted* in his lawsuit — Patel denied it happened: "I was never locked out of my systems," he just claimed.

What his lawsuit says: buff.ly/JTRuZKf

Whoaaah congrats Rebekah 🫡✊

Kotaku hires Rebekah Valentine as Senior Reporter as site expands under new ownership Owner Keleops says that traffic has doubled in under a year; further hires planned to drive further growth

I work at Kotaku now! :)

You can go watch back today's KFGD to hear me talk about it a little if you want. You could also read my alma mater @gibiz.bsky.social to learn more! www.gamesindustry.biz/kotaku-hires...

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I would happily sue anyone that tried to do this with me.

Mask vending machine at JFK

So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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President Trump’s administration rocked the American research enterprise over the last year with disruptions and changes to the historically reliable stream of federal funding that fueled it.

Labs are running on fumes. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX

Nothing says Friday like thirty 1950s bus tickets from Milwaukee. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/g...

A typographic carnival.

Elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell admits to AI ‘hallucinations’ Firm whose partners bill more than $2,000 per hour apologises to judge for software-driven errors in bankruptcy case

The future is embarrassing www.ft.com/content/657d...

79% of Americans:

One thing chatting with journalist unions have taught me is that management doesn't care about the quality of the news product.

Nor do they actual care about respecting actual journalists, it seems.

We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings What happens when an all-seeing eye looks in the mirror?

hello yes here is the normal english version of the palantir manifesto. please enjoy! www.theverge.com/policy/91523...

my main takeaway is that habermas should have bullied karp much harder

A portrait of a bighorn ram, looking directly at the camera over the back of an ewe standing next to him. He has a piece of brush sticking out of his mouth. Snowflakes can be seen in the air.

Bighorn sheep at the National Elk Refuge, Wyoming. December, 2023.

📷 Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR
🎞 600 mm – 1/500″ – f/8 – ISO 2000
🏷️ #Wildlife #BighornSheep #Photography

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Tonight!

BREAKING: Iran says it won’t attend Wednesday’s talks in Pakistan.

Source: Tasnim

Drew these little guys for the Death Stranding fanzine 📦🌧️👶👣

LLMs are already non-deterministic and are trained with data with tons of errors in it so I don’t think and occasionally flipped but would change all the much of the output

Researchers discover a GPU vulnerability that could threaten AI models A team of computer scientists at the University of Toronto recently discovered that a certain type of hardware attack is effective against graphics processing units (GPUs), the core computing engines ...

Me, starting: I wonder how something like the ECC memory model would work for validating LLM responses

Me, reading more: oh wow, many LLM GPUs are running with ECC off because it leads to 10% performance degradation techxplore.com/news/2025-09...

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

This organization is a pathetic boot-licking embarrassment.

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE! By Gita Jackson Imprint: Mira Aftermath co-owner Gita Jackson's LEVEL UP FOR ROMANCE!, a debut LitRPG romance in which an overworked game developer is transported to the cozy town featured in the farming simulator she's creating and falls for the town's snarky bartender-a character who wasn't even supposed to be romanceable -as she's forced to confront the fact that her career in the gaming industry wasn't what she thought it was going to be and figure out how to get back home, to Emma Cole at Mira, in an exclusive submission, by Alex Land at Mad Woman Literary Agency (world). Fiction: Romance April 21, 2026

Hello. I’m writing a novel. @editrixemma.bsky.social @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social

A retro dialogue box from Star Trek V saying: I'M PICKING UP A MESSAGE ON THE SUBSPACE BANDS, CAPTAIN... IT SAYS TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS.

#TransRights