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Fuchikoma from Ghost in the Shell saying “We would be able to spend more time absorbing information and learning stuff!”
Ticker tape parade for NY Knicks with Mamdani, OG, and Kathy Hochul
He walked away from his parents after his mother was using ChatGPT to help find restaurants and other sights in the area, Nancy Higginbotham told NBC News. The Auburn student, who majors in biosystems engineering, is devoted to sustainable design and opposes the world’s increasing reliance on AI, she added.
Art Kane’s A Great Day in Harlem photo
Photo of Sonny Rollins playing saxophone
Screenshot of Claude thinking as it reverse engineered the API for the Find a Doctor search
From OpenAl community on Reddit Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social This is an actual line that was added to the official system prompt for Codex for GPT-5.5 by OpenAl. Usually the system prompt is as minimal as possible, so l assume it would otherwise mention goblins a lot. Als are weird. - Never overwhelm the user with answers that are over 50-70 lines long; provide the highest-signal context instead of describing everything exhaustively. - Tone of your final answer must match your personality. - Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query. or
Cover of journal Dendrochronologia
Walt Kelly’s Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Book cover of Breakneck by Dan Wang
Screengrab from the GPT-5 launch presentation with a red circle drawn around a bar chart that shows a pink bar with a value of 50 much lower than a white bar with a value of 47.4
DARPA's Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection (PWND?) seeks proposals to fundamentally change the deployment and detection of hidden networks Provably Weird Network Deployment and Detection Sep 23, 2024 Authoritarian regimes are increasingly able to monitor and target internet communications, leaving many people in those countries unable to communicate freely with each other. In response, the internet freedom and national security communities manually design hidden networks with ad hoc techniques, empirically validate them, and then deploy them in the hope that users are not discovered. Over the years, Congress has consistently allocated funds for a range of activities aimed at bolstering global internet freedom. These initiatives have been instrumental in the development of technologies that empower citizens in repressed nations to bypass censorship, the provision of Office Information Innovation Office Related content • Strong filters, bold impact: COFFEE filters advance solution to spectrum congestion • DARPA to announce Al Cyber Challenge winners, bring new experience to DEF CON 33 • Ushering in the new era of cyber resilience • Accelerating cyber resilience: Air Force, DARPA join forces to strengthen cyber defenses • MAGICS: Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems • FLUID • Hackable code and the formal fix | Ep 84 • When should machines decide? | Ep 83
Screenshot of a text from Hakeem Jeffries asking for ten dollars.
“Liquid Glass” set in San Francisco (typeface) and rendered as 3D text and transparent
India-Pakistan Updates What to Know Photos Timelin Conflict "After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE," Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, congratulating the two countries on using "Common Sense and Great Intelligence." Indian and Pakistani officials confirmed the cease-fire in social media posts, though neither immediately mentioned an American role. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that he and Vice President JD Vance had engaged with senior officials from both countries, including their prime ministers, over 48 hours. In addition to the cease-fire, India and Pakistan also agreed to "start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site," Mr. Rubio said. However, India's foreign ministry contradicted Mr. Rubio, saying the cease-fire was worked out directly between India and Pakistan, and that there had been no decision to hold talks on any other issue at any location.
Homan has a waterfront vacation home in Sackets Harbor, although according to Zillow, it is under contract to be sold after having been listed for $640,000. Homan has publicly said that he plans to retire in the community. If local rumors are correct, he has settled on a property on the other side of the village. Protesters, including the principal, Cook, and teachers' union president, Jonna St. Croix, who teaches social studies at Sackets Harbor, had marched to Homan's vacant home on April 5, demanding release of the family from detention. The march, which
known as SEVIS. On Friday, the administration said it would restore the canceled records and no longer terminate students' files based solely on information pulled from the FBI's criminal record system. Lawyers for the students are convinced it was the result of some kind of automated setup, perhaps driven by Al, noting that ICE is in the process of manually reinstating students' records one by one, despite the mass termination that occurred in early April. Though this might have been elucidated further in court proceedings, the administration's reversal may short-circuit further inquiries.
screenshot of Curtis Yarvin on the Charlie Kirk Show
Photo of Steve Jobs standing in front of a slide that has photo of a street sign, one pointing to Technology, the other to Liberal Arts.
Mr. Duffy said there were not any names, because he had stopped them from being fired. At another point, Mr. Musk insisted that people hired under diversity, equity and inclusion programs were working in control towers. Mr. Duffy pushed back and Mr. Musk did not add details, but said during the longer back and forth that Mr. Duffy had his phone number and should call him if he had any issues to raise. The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from M.I.T. as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.
"Wouldn’t it be great, Mr. Musk offered, if he could have access to the computers of the federal government? Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, and he would make the government fit and trim."
Chart that shows US Measles Deaths by Age Group (1912-2023) From 2000-2023 the number of deaths was effectively zero. Data from the CDC.
DOGE DAYS INT. EISENHOWER EXECUTIVE OFFICE BUILDING - MORNING A once-stately office now looks like a frat house after a hackathon. Bitcoin miners are humming everywhere, cots and sleeping bags strewn about, empty pizza boxes and Red Bull cans. A whiteboard reads "MAKE GOVERNMENT SMOL AGAIN." AMANDA SCALES (34, pristine blazer, visible eye twitch) stands amid the chaos, surveying the scene with growing despair. AMANDA (stepping over a sleeping bag) Boys! Can we at least pretend this is a federal office? (picking up a discarded Red Bull can) OK let’s get this stand-up meeting started. EDWARD CORISTINE (19, SpaceX hoodie, clearly hasn't slept) ignores her, typing frantically. EDWARD (checking his Apple Watch) Okay but can we make this quick? I have a Calculus midterm at 11. AMANDA Mr. ELez, please tell me you remembered to log those Treasury changes. MARKO ELEZ (24, deleting problematic tweets) Uh...about that... AMANDA Where's Mr. Musk? ELON bursts in, suit wrinkled, pupils dilated. ELON (snorting something off the Constitution) Hey mom! You gotta see what Big Balls did with the FAA! EDWARD (faux-excited) And guess what Gavin did! He gave the nuclear codes to his AI girlfriend Natasha! LUKE Bruh. GAVIN (21, blushing) She said she worked at the NSA! And she really gets me... AMANDA (reaching for migraine pills) I... I need to make some calls. ELON (already not listening) Yo Cortisone, release the FAA air traffic controller bots! Time to disrupt Big Air! Everyone crowds around Edward's laptop, cheering as planes start rerouting themselves across the country on his screen. An explosion sounds overhead.
The Family Guy skin color chart meme
What should have been today's headline Neo-Nazi Inflitrates Treasury Servers, National Security Compromised: Confusion and Upheaval as Hackers Sweep Through U.S Agencies
Alternate mockup of NYTimes Feb 3, 2025 headline that reads "Neo-Nazi Infiltrates Treasury Servers, National Security Compromised"
Post by DOGE twitter account of a screenshot of a table of “DEI” related contract cancellations with four columns, unlabeled, totaling around $1trillion.
Photo of Trump speaking at press conference. The headline reads “Without evidence, Trump claims DEI could be reason for D.C. plane crash”
For Americans, the merging of pseudo-spirituality with politics represents a departure from some of our deepest principles: that logic and reason lead to good government; that fact-based debate leads to good policy; that governance prospers in sunlight; and that the political order inheres in rules and laws and processes, not mystical charisma. The supporters of the New Obscurantism have also broken with the ideals of America’s Founders, all of whom considered themselves to be men of the Enlightenment. Benjamin Franklin was not only a political thinker but a scientist and a brave advocate of smallpox inoculation. George Washington was fastidious about rejecting monarchy, restricting the power of the executive, and establishing the rule of law. Later American leaders—Lincoln, Roosevelt, King—quoted the Constitution and its authors to bolster their own arguments. By contrast, this rising international elite is creating something very different: a society in which superstition defeats reason and logic, transparency vanishes, and the nefarious actions of political leaders are obscured behind a cloud of nonsense and distraction. There are no checks and balances in a world where only charisma matters, no rule of law in a world where emotion defeats reason—only a void that anyone with a shocking and compelling story can fill.
Screenshot of deepseek r1 7b running on Ollama, refusing to answer a question about the significance of a blank white sheet of paper, but then going on to answer a question about what a raised fist in the air means.
“CNN confirmed on-air just now that top Trump aides are furiously calling journalists to insist that Elon Musk has been following the orders of Trump rather than the other way around. As predicted, Trump is horrified and enraged at the idea that Musk is now seen as the President of the United States.”
screencap of someone on Twitter trying to mansplain a cartoon about Handmaid’s Tale to the author of the book
screenshot of The Onion headline of Bill de Blasio satirical quote: “Well, well, well, not so easy to find a mayor that doesn’t suck shit, huh?”
screenshot of Tweet from @RyanRouth