Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

Hmmmmmm

Pope Leo:

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

False information, misleading images rife in Manitoba-based AI-driven 'news' service In a rapidly evolving media landscape, the rise of Boring News, an AI-generated news outlet, highlights the growing tension between technology and journalism. While it aims to fill local news gaps acr...

It's almost the weekend, which means it's time to read this can't-look-away, bonkers story about a Winnipeg business, known for coupon aggregation, that has churned out tens of thousands of AI-generated stories in recent months.

By @evawasney.bsky.social

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Unfortunately early reports are there are civilian deaths, including a child. The worst of it seems to be over now.

It’s a shame I don’t have kids to eventually have grandkids because man, I’d have some stories to tell them I guess

Just me and three charming older folks chilling in the underground sex work / affair partner sauna, listening to ballistic missiles explode.

Three very longtime residents of the building did the exact same thing, and they were nice. during a break between missiles they took me to a… let’s just say somewhat erotic sauna complex under the building as a shelter. guess the dude runs it.

I’m on a high floor so i ran down to the ground floor, which tbh wont help if one of these things lands on your building but whatever, it makes you feel like you’re doing something.

Tonight in Kyiv was super fun, and by “fun” I mean “oodles of ballistic missiles being launched at your head from 2:30 am to 4 am”

Survivors ask why busy market bombed in Nigerian anti-terror campaign Military has described devastating attack that killed up to 200 people, many of them civilians, as a ‘precision airstrike’

Nigeria said it “successfully conducted a precision airstrike on a known terrorist enclave".

Locals say it hit a busy market, killing as many as 200 people, many of them civilians.

“I don’t know if there were jihadists at the market. We are just ordinary people,” said one of the survivors.

Actually I’m just going to write on it tomorrow because that was one of the most emotionally overwhelming things I have ever witnessed, as a journalist or in life. It is very difficult to process right now.

This is going to be a very long thread shortly but there is an embargo now until it is over

Ukrainian defenders are coming home today. Families of POWs are starting to gather at the hospital, in hopes their loved one will be among those returned — or that another defender who comes back will be able to share information about them.

romans would have loved Microsoft office more than their children

Diary From Lebanon — The Dial A month of war has pushed the country past its physical and psychological limits.

“A couple of friends messaged me and told me that this is a level of fear they haven’t felt before. We don’t know what’s coming next.”

The slow daily horror of life in Lebanon, where war intensifies but hasn’t stopped since 2023, by @justinsalhani.bsky.social

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

hot take: i think the move in the direction of a more explicitly extortion based international order is bad actually. I also do not especially relish the idea of re-boning up on mercantilism

I Will Not Make Protests Illegal

One of these days I’m going to run. I have zero qualifications or aptitude. Let’s just do it

Israeli attack kills Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza This is a breaking news story.

An Israeli attack has killed Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Wishah in Gaza

He wasn’t the only one but yeah that was his shtick. I quit Twitter but not surprised he hasn’t given it up

Extremely correct.

I am vehemently against the abomination that is the U.S. war with Iran; but it’s completely reasonable that Ukraine views the regime as an enemy and its leaders speak accordingly. Iran directly helped Russia produce the weapons that terrorize Ukraine every day + night.

It’s insane. Iran sold Russia the drones that incessantly terrorized us here in Ukraine eight hours a night every night for a year and a half and still do. Certain corners totally understand how that process produces justified antipathy for others; Ukrainians are not allowed to have such opinions

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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There was a good stretch of time in 2022-25 when some Russian official was getting drunk and going on Twitter like every other day to threaten nuking Berlin or whatever

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Never been so grateful for TACO before