After weeks of dithering back and forth, the Trump administration has finally moved forward with an executive order on federal oversight of new AI systems. I’d applaud if the order was worth the paper it’s written on, but it’s not.

The context for this long overdue move was Anthropic’s unveiling of its AI system called Mythos, which apparently has an unprecedented ability to find and exploit…

Donald Trump is hitting many new difficulties. On Monday, Iran abandoned talks with the U.S., angering Trump. Speaking to CNBC, he raged that he “couldn’t care less” if the negotiations die, threatened again to blow Iran “to kingdom come,” and seethed that NATO’s refusal to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz shows that NATO is “very weak” and “very sad.” (He then insisted the talks are back on…

Amidst the ongoing awful, we take wary solace in the modest routs newly inflicted on our wannabe Great Dictator. He lost yugely in multiple courts as judges reopened his bogus IRS suit, froze his slush fund, ripped his name from a D.C. landmark and, in Kenya, told him to take care of his own. Meanwhile, his trashy shitshow of a 250th celebration has devolved into "red-meat-for-the-rubes"…

Mexica, Gheos, El Caballero, and The Bridges of Shangri-La are returning in new editions

In October 2005, days after Israeli forces killed a commander of the Hamas-aligned militant group Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke out unequivocally. “As the imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map,” said Iran’s newly elected president, referring to Ruhollah Khomeini, the late ayatollah and leader of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “Anybody who recognizes Israel will…

FEMA is not all right. As the United States faces another summer of extreme weather exacerbated by climate change, the Federal Emergency Management Agency—which coordinates federal disaster response, relief, and preparedness—continues to shuffle through leadership a roster of mostly unqualified Trump loyalists.

This week, Donald Trump nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the agency, which has not…

Delaying pension contributions may ease immediate pressure on New York City’s budget, but the shell game reveals deeper weaknesses in the city’s finances.

On July 1, perhaps the most punitive bathroom ban in the country is set to go into effect in Idaho. The ban threatens people with criminal penalties for being in a public restroom that does not match what the law refers to as their “biological sex” (a term it does not define). A group of transgender Idahoans have now challenged the ban in federal court, in hopes that it will be blocked before it…

Under Energy Secretary Chris Wright's leadership, the U.S. is doubling down on fossil fuels even as the rest of the world is embracing clean energy.

Google Keep lets you create notes and to-do lists that sync across your computer and phone or tablet. It’s handy in a variety of ways: You can record voice memos, and Keep will transcribe them as text notes. You can include images in your notes, and if an image includes text, it shows up in search results. You can create time-triggered reminder notifications based on your notes. You can share…

So I realised I don't really like having two categories (posts/notes), because both are in the end just same thing.

My blog has gotten bit too complicated due to it, so I just moved my notes to the posts section.

Apologies for the RSS feed going haywire.

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Another gaping hole has opened up in the supposedly ‘open and shut’ case against Tyler Robinson, the alleged killer of murdered US far-right activist Charlie Kirk.

Tyler Robinson

Kirk, who had begun to turn…

While it might seem quaint these days, we’ve met many makers and hackers who reach for a pen and a pad when learning something new or working their way through …read more

Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth of data centers planned for this year have been delayed or canceled. Just a third of those projects are currently under construction, the market intelligence firm Sightline Climate estimates in a forthcoming report. Less than a third of the 21.5 GW…

Statues are usually serious business—generals on horses, pensive philosophers, solemn memorials. But when you add a little human imagination and perfect timing, they become the best comedy partners in the city.

It turns out you do not need to be a sculptor to create memorable public art. All you need is a clever angle, a sense of humor, and a willingness to look silly in public. From dancing…

The Supreme Court’s willingness to protect the Fed — in contrast to every other independent regulatory commission — reflects the strength of its loyalty to neoliberal capitalism over the Trump administration and even the vaunted “unitary executive theory.”

In Trump v. Cook, the conservative justices are poised to vote against Donald Trump, eager to preserve a financial system that…

Struggles against oppression start with people critically reflecting on their experiences. What happens to such struggles when we outsource our thinking to AI and replace human interlocutors with sycophantic chatbots?

With the emergence of chatbots, the outsourcing of thinking — and therefore also the critical questioning of existing social norms and power relations — is taking a new…

The question “Does Israel have a right to exist?” isn’t a real inquiry about the rights of nations. It’s a manipulation of discourse, a litmus test that forces Palestinians to offer theoretical assurances before their real political grievances can even be heard.

The post-WWII international order claimed universal principles while producing and protecting political arrangements that…

The generational warfare promoted by centrists and the Right, who have long been desperate to cut and privatize Social Security, is a fool’s solution to what ails the system. Taxing the rich is the answer.

“Total boomer luxury communism” is the Right’s latest attempt to convince younger Americans to slash their own future benefits under the guise of sticking it to older generations.…

New : Now Kristi Noem wants privacy

Fired former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing mounting scrutiny after a British tabloid published alleged messages and photos it claims are tied to her husband.

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The Daily Mail reported that it…

Anthropic’s inconspicuous release of software plugins in January triggered a furious sell-off of software-as-a-service (SaaS) stocks. Over the next two weeks, the financial markets watched $300 billion in software valuations vanish.

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork brings a more user–friendly version of the company’s developer-focused Claude Code to business users. The software enables knowledge…

Something strange is happening in the global economy.

The Strait of Hormuz—the single most important body of water on earth for global energy markets, and markets for lots of other commodities too—has been closed for nearly a month as the U.S. and Israel continue their illegal war of choice in Iran. There are few signs that it will reopen anytime soon. Some tankers are managing to trickle…

The Populists of the 1890s rose up against both capitalism and white supremacy in the heart of the Lone Star State. Their apparent defeat at the ballot box was rooted in nothing less than an all-out campaign of terror and white supremacist violence.

A multiracial coalition of poor farmers almost remade Texas politics — until elites unleashed an all‑out campaign of terror to stop them.…

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology student ordered to vacate campus housing weeks before graduation has raised more than $85,000 in three days after losing family support and being denied financial aid adjustments.

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The student, identified as Matthew N. to protect…

A strike in Colorado shows what happens when thousands of workers confront one of the most concentrated industries in the American economy.

Roughly 3,800 members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 are now on strike at one of the country’s largest meatpacking plants in Greeley, Colorado, after months of negotiations over wages, health insurance costs, and working conditions.…

Also, would electric shocks help you get better at chess?

Pete Hegseth wants to live in a world in which the American military can drop bombs on scores of schoolchildren and not face serious media scrutiny over it. And he just might get that world soon enough.

That’s the only way to understand the defense secretary’s extraordinary outburst on Friday morning. He lashed out at news organizations, criticizing headlines that aren’t sufficiently…

AI-assisted warfare extends a logic with roots in the industrial warfare of the 20th century: a cold distance that turns humans into points in a dataset.

Surveillance via a drone equipped with artificial intelligence. (Niharika Kulkarni / AFP via Getty Images)

The United States is using artificial intelligence in its war with Iran. The military says the “variety” of AI systems in use…

The Trump administration’s Shield of the Americas summit in Miami convened leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean’s emboldened reactionary bloc. True to form, the president ensured the summit was a ritual of humiliation and debasement.

At the "Shield of Americas" summit, Donald Trump made ominous threats of impending interventions in Latin America and Caribbean, including…

The Notes app is a handy way to share material with other people. My family—particularly my spouse and I—has about 15 to 20 shared notes that let us collaboratively update various household, financial, college-related, and other details.…