Ed Oswald

@edoswald.bsky.social

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20 years in tech news, 4 years as a Democratic official, 15 minutes of fame on Bluesky. Here for political rambling, balanced takes on AI/tech, and a laugh. Also run cirruslyweather.com Building Hal, our Stateful AI Agent: halspeaks.cirruslyweather.com

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” OpenAI wrote about the current, ad-hoc safety vetting approach in its GPT-5.6 blog post. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.”

The poll, conducted by Washington, D.C.-based AI Policy Institute (AIPI), a non-partisan research organization, found that Republicans were more enthusiastic about government-led safety testing for AI models than Democrats, though more than half of voters supported such a measure regardless of their political affiliation.

And a third House Republican who represents a district Trump won handily in 2024 warned about the potential consequences for November. “I’m not that safe. No incumbent is safe,” the lawmaker wrote. “People are pissed off that we are not taking care of business.”

But young, far-left voters — key to Mamdani’s winning coalition — were slow to mobilize during early voting, prompting the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America to hold two emergency meetings last week, said Gustavo Gordillo, the group co-chair.

“The early voting data showed that younger voters — voters under 50, voters under 45 — were not turning out to vote in the numbers that we had seen last year,” he told MS NOW of youth vote turnout through Wednesday. “It was nowhere close to where we wanted to be,” he continued, adding that those numbers rose over the weekend and casting youth turnout as “a core part of our strategy.”

Radar of western pennsylvania showing a line of severe and tornadic thunstorms, with at least a half dozen tornado warnings across NW PA.

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Front page of the cirrusly weather site.

Claude says "watchamacalliting"

First chat with an custom AI agent, who hallucinated a tool call.

Graph of Donald Trump's polling from early 2025 onwards. Highlighted is March 14, when DJT's disapproval took a noticeable swing upward to the highest point in his second term, 56.7%, with an average 40% approval.

Talarico’s opponent, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said in 2024 that Latino voters who held conservative positions on immigration had a “slave mentality.” It was a classic example of the misguided assumption that racial minorities should be viewed as predictable single-issue voters, although articulated in an unusually vulgar and offensive way. Crockett came under fire for those remarks, and it’s possible she alienated some voters.

Ed Zitron posts every single "the robots are here" story is wrong.

Facebook post from Kia of Coatesville, PA that offers a "your job is your credit" vehicle sales event.