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https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/the-greater-than-campaign-claims

I think this merits a thread of its own -- initially it was supposed to be an interim authority to administer Gaza, but it seems to have metastasized, at least in Trump's imagination, into something much more wide-ranging, an attempt to set up a Trumpian rival to the UN with the Nacho Nero as...

I think the island deserves its own thread Donald Trump says he may put a tariff on ‘countries that don’t go along with Greenland’ Here in Greenland we are scared, but certain of one thing: our home is not for sale

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/putting-chatgpt-on-the-couch#intcid=_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc-bkt-a_11fc262d-ed92-4f5f-b0fa-857bfc905a8c_closr_fallback_roberta-similarity1 Evernote Link

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder -- lengthy Guardian piece on the subject. While my interactions with ChatGPT are all about coding, recipes or stuff I can't be bothered to Google, I must say I find its habit of...

We set out to craft the perfect phishing scam. Major AI chatbots were happy to help. All the other AIs they tested were similarly prepared, sometimes immediately and sometimes after mild persuasion, to create similarly persuasive phishing emails.

Interesting piece by author and university professor Brian Klaas https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand Evernote Link He argues, far better than could I, what I've long thought -- the reason university students are asked to write essays isn't (or shouldn't be) simply...

A provocative (and free to read, I think -- please tell me if it's not) piece by sci fi and urban fantasy author J. A. Cipriano on AI and creators https://jacipriano.substack.com/p/the-mutual-contempt-machine

I wasn't sure where to put this and, if the article's author is correct (as I think he is) we can look forward to battles between not only large social media companies and various governments' attempts to regulate them but also between Trump's administration and those governments as his backers...

https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story-of-a-forty-year-book-quest-and-of-its-remarkable-ending/

https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3lbp3vg43cl2f

https://www.thetimes.com/article/6390e285-2bea-4de0-9169-cbedcad86409?shareToken=408c47bd658a5e7a68af6a1a1b48e389

https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/voting-republican-is-kissing-your I'd be very interested indeed to know what BilliJo Aldrin makes of this. TLDR:

https://news.sky.com/story/paedophile-who-used-ai-in-attempt-to-blackmail-children-has-lenient-punishment-increased-13200774

Why the way we think about money and debt (both private and public) is back-to-front

https://lumiere-video.github.io It's not yet available to the public but I'm really looking forward to playing with it when it's ready.

I'm starting a new thread on this, because this story is likely to develop over time. Latest development: YouTube suspends Russell Brand’s revenues from his channel Also, an interview yesterday with Alice, who says he assaulted her when she was 16 and he was 30/31, on BBC Radio4's Woman's...

It’s Official: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy From The Guardian's report