Gideon Rubin

Recovering journalist, occasional sports freelancer. Past: Raw Story, LA Daily News. All I wanted was a Pepsi.

[Khaled Elgindy @elgindy_]

The head of a major DC think tank that has the ear of the president is effectively calling for assassination of an American journalist whose views he doesn’t like. This is where we are now.

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

The emperor was wearing clothes. Lots and lots of clothes. He loves clothes. Huge fan of clothes

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Very important point: SoftBank was pledging *all* of its OpenAI stock (worth $60bn+ on paper) to get a $6 billion margin loan. Banks turned it down due to concerns about the value of OpenAI stock. Banks clearly do not think OpenAI is worth $852 billion.
https://t.co/B9ilbd043M

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@SoundDobad I know this may sound petty, but I can’t stand it when people put photoshop a meth pipe in my mouth. A crack pipe doesn’t have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can’t trust AI. Please make the appropriate edit. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Gideon Rubin @RubinGideon]

@saikatc Creatine works really fast

[Gideon Rubin @RubinGideon]

@byajperez Probably not but even if they read the AP obit they're still getting a pretty sanitized version.

[Gideon Rubin @RubinGideon]

@byajperez 9/ There's been nothing else since then and wasn't last night." Added his wife: "I haven't read the police report. We didn't discuss my past history, period."

[Gideon Rubin @RubinGideon]

@byajperez 8/ "that she also has been violent in the past, and that he hit her in reflex to her assault on him."Asked about that account at the news conference, Cox said: "About the second year we were married . . . Pam slapped me and I slapped her back and that was it.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 A senior Iranian official told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill that Iran rejects any attempt to alter “current conditions” in the Strait of Hormuz and will respond forcefully to President Trump’s so-called “Project Freedom.”

The official said:

➤ “Any commercial vessel attempting to transit through designated restricted routes without prior coordination will be promptly intercepted by Iranian forces. Should U.S. military vessels respond, such actions would be met with an immediate and corresponding response from Iran.”

➤ “The U.S. military vessels are far from the corridor area. If commercial vessels attempt to move, they would be engaged well before reaching any American ships.”

➤ Trump’s action “is primarily intended to provoke Iran into taking an initial step toward confrontation, thereby creating a pretext for escalation and enabling him to justify further military action in response to an Iranian initiative.”

➤ “Trump has effectively turned them into bargaining tools in his political game,” referring to the roughly 2,000 vessels stuck west of the Strait of Hormuz that the U.S. President announced today he would help exit the crossing.

[Gideon Rubin @RubinGideon]

@edzitron @PodSaveAmerica @jonlovett Extent of MSM failure to educate public of gen Ai's limitations is a historic whiff. Amid covid every jackass had an opinion on MRNAs (actually beyond our grasp) + MSM made all views seem valid. Public's ignorance over Ai and LLMs benefits financial markets.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

You are directly feeding into the scare campaign to make LLMs seem many magnitudes more powerful than they are. We need regulation and a moratorium to stop the sprawl and environmental damage as well as the future bubble issues caused by these things going bankrupt.

But the kind of “deadly AI” these people are talking about is utterly fictional. The “blackmailing” story, the “breaking containment” story, these were marketing tricks by Anthropic summarized by people who don’t read the system cards. I wish Bernie would not have fallen for the marketing. To be clear we absolutely need regulation for the future and to stop data centers from being built, but let’s talk in terms of what is actually happening vs what the companies want (LLMs are not autonomous AI and do not “think” nor have they shown any sign they might)

[Harry Marino @harry_marino]

Youth sports is a quintessential PE story.

Take an industry that was never meant to be efficient or maximally profitable, because it is not fundamentally geared toward providing financial value.

Financialize it.

[MAGA Voice @MAGAVoice]

🚨 JUST NOW: Karoline Leavitt calls on everyone to watch tonight because Donald Trump will bring the heat and there will be “shots fired”

LET’S FREAKING GO 🔥