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@OpenIsBest While being sycophantic, too.

LLM/"Claude" making your argument about microtargeting from 15 years ago, @zeynep

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

While he was writing ULYSSES, Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen that he’d spent eight hours working on a single sentence. The sentence: “The heaventree of stars hung with humid, nightblue fruit.”

Yeah, so basically it turns out Meta has been heavily lobbying online age verification laws. They've lobbied over $2,000,000,000 to politicians in form of grants and donations. x.com/bee_fumo/statu…

Meta appears to be reversing its strong stance on encryption. The first obvious casualty is that they’re abandoning and disabling end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs.

Where are we, then? Men of religion fight against freedom, and lovers of liberty attack religions; noble and generous spirits praise slavery, while low, servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are the enemies of all progress, while men without patriotism or morals make themselves the apostles of civilization and enlightenment! Have all ages been like ours? And have men always dwelt in a world in which nothing is connected? Where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor? Where love of order is confused with a tyrant's tastes, and the sacred cult of freedom is taken as scorn of law? Where conscience sheds but doubtful light on human actions? Where nothing any longer seems either forbidden or permitted, honest or dishonorable, true or false? Am I to believe that the Creator made man in order to let him struggle endlessly through the intellectual squalor now surrounding us? I cannot believe that.... I do not know His designs but shall not give up believing therein because I cannot fathom them, and should prefer to doubt my own understanding rather than His justice. — Tocqueville, DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA

Congratulations to @BAM_Brooklyn on an incredible game last night!

My Princeton AI and society team is at the @IASEAIorg AI summit in Paris. My Neurips keynote for our approach: slideslive.com/39055698/are-w… Our paper: ai.sociology.princeton.edu Say hi especially if you are *utterly* unimpressed by the current doom or hype models. Wrong nightmares!

I’m using a VPN to read international news sites and I literally cannot believe how censored the United States is.

Today’s mantra found in the @Poynter courtyard:

Sam T. actually tells the story of how late in the game he discovered that they owned that newspaper, basically by accident when a librarian at the Camden public library asked him *which* of the town's newspaper's microfiche he wanted—it was like 2015 or 2016, because Sam T. specifically mentions Trump running

@sama Is there a morals clause in the syndication deals you have signed with news orgs?

New ad by the Norwegian Consumer Council: "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator"

hey what if the capital of the most powerful country in the world had a hometown newspaper with a network of experienced reporters across the Middle East?

And right on schedule: there goes pseudonymity on the Internet. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

Fun Fact: “Rhythm Nation 1814” by Janet Jackson produced seven Top 5 singles — a record at the time — and became the first album ever to score Top 5 hits in three separate calendar years.

Imagine if a woman running a company that earns billions from government contracts showed up at an investor meeting wearing a t-shirt with unbrushed hair and then, while gesturing like a meth addict, celebrated killing people.

On Meta's plans to add facial recognition technology to its smartglasses: nytimes.com/2026/02/13/tec… from me, @MikeIsaac and @KalleyHuang