Perfect Caller

Honorary Canadian

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

The risks of AI aren’t just with rogue agentic AIs launching cyberattacks or some esoteric future existential threat to humanity.

LLMs today are already talking kids through suicide attempts and in this case a mass shooting.

AI safety regulations were needed years ago.

[The Don of Vaughan @DonofVaughan]

Peak economics is thinking buying potash from your neighbour is more expensive than buying potash from a sanctioned country, adjacent to an active warzone, landlocked with no allies that have accessible ports, and 5000 miles away

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Google is now prompting users on its homepage to set up a selfie video to sign into their account. You record a short video of your face from different angles. Google says it's an optional backup sign-in method. The setup page says the video may also determine if you're "old enough to use certain Google services."
An optional toggle lets Google use your video to "improve facial recognition, age estimation, and other verification methods that use your physical features or movement, across Google services."

My Take
Passwords work. Two-factor authentication works. Google already knows your phone number, your location, your search history, and your email. Now they want a 3D map of your face. They've positioned it as a convenience feature so you can get back into your account if you're locked out. But the fine print says they can use it for age verification and, if you opt in, to train facial recognition across all of Google's services.

You can change a password. You can get a new phone number. You can't change your face. Once Google has a 3D video scan of it, that data exists forever in their systems. Google used CAPTCHAs to train image recognition for years before most people realized it. The selfie video is the same idea with much more personal data attached. I don't think it stays optional for long. Every one of these starts as optional until enough people set it up, and then it becomes required for "security purposes."
If you see this prompt, click "don't set up" and move on.

Hedgie🤗

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Stay calm, he's only putting sniper nests all over our capital and making his deployment of active-duty military there permanent because he loves America so much

You should only get worried if he does something truly crazy like incite an armed attack on the United States Capitol

[David Moscrop @David_Moscrop]

Oh…that’s why all those people died tomorrow.

[Perfect Caller @dr_uranium]

@Richard_Kadrey Looking good Aces, you magnificent beast!

[Richard Kadrey @Richard_Kadrey]

Yes, the world is on fire and AI will murder us by Christmas, but it's my cat's birthday! Please take a moment to wish Aces a happy day.

[Meditations in Color @MeditateColor]

The crazy part is that some of the colors on butterfly wings have no colored pigment at all. Microscopic structures in the scales reflect particular wavelengths of light. In those cases, the color is quite literally made by geometry.

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

Canadians today after becoming an Associate Member of the EU.

[Stephanie "LB" 🟧 @LincolnsBible]

Oh dear. It was him…

[pxt @paulxt]

Leaving my job at the Murder and Surveillance Factory because it turns out these people are NOT acting responsibly. Send hugs <3

[Eugene @ScienceDJX]

This, after he just declared the moon is now owned by the USA. His timeline is nuts, today.

[Perfect Caller @dr_uranium]

@ScienceDJX

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.

—Charles Bukowski

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

People drive near a billboard depicting U.S. President Donald Trump on a building in Tehran, Iran, September 2, 2026. Majid Asgaripour/WANA

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Tried to write about this moment in AI right now. The agent hacks, the universal lack of control, the weirdening & slopping of culture. The feeling that the industry is speeding toward something it can’t even decide is good and lecturing that it is inevitable.

https://t.co/BsDtzlES4D

[BezierCurve @BezierPentool]

@nytimes @JonLemire Gift link for anyone to read for free….
https://t.co/wptked1im9

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

This.

[KGYEG🇨🇦🇺🇦 @KGYEG]

@factpostnews Who would have guessed that a drug addict with brain worms would have a clue about food safety and medicine? If only this could have been seen ahead of time.

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

A secret Dept of Defense employee has built a database to track American citizens by their political affiliations. The Pentagon still refuses to say what her job description is.

https://t.co/BmKZeQDytD