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[Andrew Weinstein @AWeinstein]

We are past the point of political disagreement. We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.

[Luki Frieden @LukiFrieden]

Der Mann, der den Krieg in der Ukraine innerhalb von 24 Stunden beenden wollte, hat sich nach 631 Tagen im Amt auf die Seite des Angreifers gestellt.

[Don McGowan @donmcgowan]

In the last 72 hours the US has:

-> Announced a barbaric livestreamed execution.

-> Sanctioned the International Criminal Court.

-> Made a deal to help finance Russia's war machine.

-> Pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation.

And we all just carry on as normal this weekend? Like the arrival of a new fascist dictatorship isn't upon us?

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

Why are there no world leaders prepared to even talk about this, let alone take a stand?

I feel like I'm screaming into the void but surely someone, somewhere outside the US is thinking similarly.

Surely?

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Russia invaded Ukraine. The first country to surrender was the United States.

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@TheTNHoller Pro-lifers life streaming executions while the drain-swampers loot the country. Nothing to see here, carry on.

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@secretsqrl123 What an absolute disaster for nature, oceans and in the end, humanity. Just a never ending stream of burning tankers and refineries.

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@FaytuksNetwork Probably back in Slovakia already.

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@esetcz 404

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously.

On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school.

The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was.

The AI system could not.

Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude.

On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes.

The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility.

The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help.

Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to.

Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started.

This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite.

This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes.

I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad.

We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class.

A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime.

In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon.

Read that last line again.

If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you.

I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate.

So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think.

If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?

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@atrupar Is this from Four Seasons Landscaping?

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@kovainvest Scientology speedrunning but through the POET offices.

[Antonio Lupetti @antoniolupetti]

"Algebrica" is a free and open mathematical knowledge base. All entries are progressively being released in Markdown format on GitHub for anyone who wants to study mathematics freely and openly.

Alongside the texts, the individual SVG illustrations are also made freely available. They are minimal, mathematically accurate, and designed to be easily reusable in notes, lecture material, or educational resources. Since they are vector-based and code-driven, they can also be modified or improved simply by editing the source.

Another step toward making the knowledge base more open, transparent, and genuinely useful over time.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Left: the watermark GPT Image 2 embeds into every image it generates.
Right: SynthID, the fingerprint Google bakes into every Nano Banana and Gemini image.

Invisible to the human eye. Applied during generation, not added after. Designed to survive screenshots, crops, and compression.

Most people using these tools daily have no idea their output is fingerprinted at the pixel level. Every major AI image generator now tags what it produces, and the tag travels with the image wherever it ends up.

You can verify this yourself. Content Credentials Verify detects C2PA markers from OpenAI images. Gemini detects SynthID if you upload an image directly to it.

The images will keep getting more realistic. The identification tech is keeping pace.

[Priyanshu @priyanshudotsol]

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

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@acceleratooooor So Azure OAuth tokens are fine or are they also impacted?

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@jukan05 $S

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@aleabitoreddit Any update on Valens Semiconductor $VLN?

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@ojblanchard1 They might just let the oil to China or other friendly countries while blocking the rest. That would still have severe impact but not asi painful as total closure.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

It is absolutely vital you know this technology exists.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director “Melania”)
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