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Gurwinder: “We’ve entered the Age of Slop, and are adrift in an ocean of thoughtless content that’s diluted all truth and meaning. And yet, hidden in that ocean are more pearls of wisdom than ever. I’ve spent months sifting through the slop for ideas of value. Here I present 26 for 2026, each one chosen …
The Verge – no paywall – You Could Be Next – The Verge and New York Magazine. “The LinkedIn post seemed like yet another scam job offer, but Katya was desperate enough to click. After college, she’d struggled to make a living as a freelance journalist, gone to grad school, then pivoted to what she …
Mashable: “Before the dust had settled on the ruins of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school — a casualty of the recent U.S.-Israel military strikes against Iran, and one which resulted in the deaths of up to 168 adults and children — people were already engagement-farming online. Clips of digital flight simulators were passed off as real-time …
Tech Policy: “When Matt Schlicht instructed his AI agent to create a social network for other AI agents, the result, Moltbook, was initially treated as a novelty. But by late February, more than 2.8 million AI agents had signed up and begun posting about Star Trek, debating morality and developing a religion called “Crustafarianism.” Amid …
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 7 – This article is the seventh in a series focused on how the second Trump presidency unleashed a causal chain that has rapidly morphed into an extensive continued attack against civil liberties, commerce, government funded …
Card Catalog: A complete guide to finding, reading, and evaluating scientific papers — and knowing what questions matter before you trust the findings. Hana Lee Goldin, MLIS: “We are living through a strange moment in the history of knowledge. More information is available to more people than at any point in human history, and yet …
Poynter: “More than 200 journalists at Law360, a legal news outlet, and its sister publications have signed a letter demanding that their parent company RELX drop its contract with the Department of Homeland Security. The letter, which was signed by more than 80% of the union representing editorial staff at Law360 and regulation news site …
“Navigate AI with confidence. Protect legal advice privilege.As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in day to day business and legal workflows, protecting legal advice privilege has never been more critical. AI tools can be powerful, but they are not always privileged. Used incorrectly, they can expose confidential legal communications and result in the loss of privilege. …
Ars Technica: “Burner accounts on social media sites can increasingly be analyzed to identify the pseudonymous users who post to them using AI in research that has far-reaching consequences for privacy on the Internet, researchers said. The finding, from a recently published research paper, is based on results of experiments correlating specific individuals with accounts …
Measures models’ ability to detect nonsense across 100 plausible-sounding nonsense prompts in software, medical, legal, finance, and physics. BullshitBench v2: Detection Rate by Model. Percentage of nonsense questions each model detected (green), partially challenged (amber), or accepted (red).
ArchiveBox is a powerful, self-hosted internet archiving solution to collect, save, and view websites offline. “Without active preservation effort, everything on the internet eventually disappears or degrades. Archive.org does a great job as a centralized service, but saved URLs have to be public, and they can’t save every type of content. ArchiveBox is an open …
The Verge (Gift Article): How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance. “Across social media and the AI industry, people immediately began to challenge Altman’s claim. Why, they asked, would the Pentagon suddenly agree to these red lines when it had said — in no uncertain terms — that it would never do so? …
