NEW: Mozilla has already used Mythos to find hundreds of bugs, which is good and interesting in its own right and also points up that contra some catastrophizing coverage, it isn’t only attackers who will have access to these capabilities. @lhn.bsky.social has the news:
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GITA!
This is good stuff, though nowhere near as good as the crude illustration of a red-eyed Mr. Met smoking a joint the Post ran when a Mets reliever smoked weed so dirty he collapsed and had a seizure near Shea Stadium.
You're making fun of this, but I'm getting more Bitcoin with every pull
Washington can only pay attention to a scandal or two at a time, which means in the Trump age there are all sorts of should-be-big-deal scandals that don’t get the oxygen or media focus that they should.
I'll bet you've missed at least three of these: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/five-trump...
An email from me to a source reading "I'm hearing through a powerful psychic transmission"
This is how I plan to ask everyone for comment from now on
The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time. www.wired.com/story/prego-...
My worry is just that you don’t pay a guy $100 million (or whatever) to not have him Act with his face. He is the ideal man for the job of Acting with the small bits of scarred flesh you can see in the eyeholes of the fearsome iron mask of Doom, though.
I would personally prefer to portray myself as a sinister philosopher-mystic at the bleeding edge of reality than as someone in the SaaS space with a focus on legacy systems and a growing line in government sales, so I do get it.
Palantir doing supervillain monologuing sure does, deliberately or not, distract from its actual business being almost extravagantly boring:
Fair.
NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”
Also: it misquotes the Pope.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Anything I say about this @noahshachtman.bsky.social and @robertsilverman.bsky.social story might get me put in a dossier, so I will say nothing and just strongly suggest you read it:
"Sheets spent 4 years with the White Sox, has really found new life with the Padres ... career high in 2Bs last year for the Padres."
"(PLAYER_NAME) spent (NUMBER) years with the White Sox, has really found new life with the (NEW_TEAM) ... career high in (COUNTING_STAT) last year for (NEW_TEAM)"
You go through life thinking you more or less know the score and then you listen to James Dolan’s song about Harvey Weinstein.
New: This morning, 34 members of congress sent an inquiry to DHS and ICE demanding detailed and specific information about how they use Palantir and surveillance technology like facial recognition:
www.wired.com/story/congre...
A lot of people don’t know this, but doctrinally, all you have to do is allude to the existence of just war theory to a) make the war in question just and b) checkmate the Vicar of Christ.
I wrote about Dianna Russini, the constant pressure female reporters face to prove they aren't sleeping with sources (plus the pressure we do get from sources to get involved with them), and why all of this is so uncomfortable to talk about.
Gift link:
Fair question and how these data are vetted and verified is one legislators and reporters should and I'm sure will be asking.
GOOD IDEA: The Energy Information Administration is making plans for a mandatory survey of data centers covering their actual energy use, on which we have surprisingly solid little information. @mollytaft.com with the news:
The British should start posting sausage egg and cheese sandwiches from US gas stations and calling for military intervention. (This country gets pretty full of itself considering its support of the Arby's Meat & 3 box.)
Barrera said her husband said the smell of human feces in the toilet caused a fellow detainee to vomit and, in turn, created a chain of people vomiting. She said her husband is asthmatic and has not received medication to treat his condition. The lack of medicine and the stress of the overcrowded holding cell has left him short of breath and teetering on the edge of an asthma attack, Barrera said. ICE did not immediately respond to questions on April 10 about the conditions of the Mesa or Phoenix facilities. After the publication of this article, Barrera told The Arizona Republic her husband was transferred to the ICE facility at San Luis Regional Detention Center at about midnight. The San Luis Regional Detention Center is in Southwestern Arizona and has the capacity to hold 700 people.
This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.
NEW: Deepfake abuse incidents have been documented at schools in 88 countries, according to research by @wired.com and @indicator.media. One conclusion experts draw is that this is like other types of sexual violence: “Increasingly, the intent is humiliation, denigration, and social control.”
“They always spend a lot of time carrying on like, ‘No one's forcing you to pray, these are voluntary,’” says one Department of Labor employee. “But it's happening in the middle of a government workplace.”
I’m going to disagree with the apparent consensus and say “Democrats shouldn’t have run a candidate in 2020 if they wanted to truly defeat Trump” is the kind of thermonuclear take sports fans have long enjoyed and that politics enthusiasts should also get to enjoy.
NEW: A large swath of civil society is warning Meta against rolling out a face recognition service that will predictably be used by sexual predators.
It's actually kind of amazing how much of the collective public idea of the end times is just ... that comic.
