Lauren Beldi

Journalist🎙 📺 paints @laurenastir 🎨 Opinions mine, not employer’s. Learn CPR.

[Lauren Beldi @LaurenBeldi]

My birthday yesterday was a strange day, because my dad died the night before. It was sudden, likely painless, & after a wonderful day with mum and me. It feels a bit crass to be tweeting about this but people keep asking if there’s anything they can do, & there is: learn CPR 🧵

[Spoon & Tamago @Johnny_suputama]

Reports are surfacing that Japanese used bookstores are seeing a surge in bulk orders for obscure books on topics like philosophy, history and Edo culture. Some suspect they’re being bought for AI training. Over 50 tons of Japanese books have reportedly been exported to the U.S

[Abel Abate Demissie @Abele_a]

Major escalation is underway in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. Reports suggest that TPLF forces have encroached on all three regional airports, while major engagements are underway on the Raya and Afar fronts. Transport and other infrastructure disruptions look inevitable. What’s happening is another terrible and deadly miscalculation unfortunately!

[CAMERONWILSON @cameronwilson]

sorry must have missed the bit in the credits where AFP explicitly said their motivation for involvement. Or the section where it gave information on the deal they agreed to with the show's producers, including a requirement for meetings to "influence storylines".

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

The Takaichi Administration's plan to legally allow distant cousins of the Emperor to be adopted into the imperial family has reminded some of the 1991 comedy film King Ralph, which was about a random American dude who becomes King of the UK.

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

Prime Minister Takaichi is pushing through legal changes that could make 18th cousins of the Emperor eligible for adoption into the imperial family. It allows the creation of new "princes" to prevent a situation in which a princess might become Emperor.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 @mrjeffu]

It looks like the Osaka city government has sent workers to guard the deer that seems to have wandered into their city from neighboring Nara.
Deer from Nara Park are legally treated as national treasures, so it's important to protect them.

[Tom Whyman @HealthUntoDeath]

AI: The verdict is the death penalty, for speeding

Human judge overseeing the AI: Overrule. Do NOT give the death penalty for speeding

AI: You're right, I'm really sorry about this. It was wrong of me to give the death penalty for speeding. My new verdict is the death penalty.

[Lauren Beldi @LaurenBeldi]

Who here has had septoplasty, and has it worked for you?

[Lauren Beldi @LaurenBeldi]

On the way to Japan via Guangzhou wearing one of two of the Beldi Japan 25-26 Summer/Winter Knitwear capsule collection sweaters.

[Churgers @Churgersasx]

So glad that AI marks my assignments for my postgrad @UNSW where I pay $5k every 6 weeks for the privilege.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

I'm obsessed with this dude on IG whose whole bit is frantically fixing manhole covers that have been misaligned with street markings lol

[SUE the T. rex @SUEtheTrex]

Remember to do threatening behavior and mischief today.

[Jesse Brenneman @Jesse_Brenneman]

This stuff fills me with incredible dread—not least because of how it’s basically a given that there won’t be any political debate over such things. There’s no expectation that we, the people, should have any say in how our resources are squandered and abused.

[Alyssa 🌻 @alyssaleann]

I have watched so many videos of this guy kicking a rock until it becomes a sphere, and tbh I find the whole thing mesmerizing. What a hilarious use of free will

[Neil @irl_neil]

Obviously using chatbots makes you more dumb, everyone is skipping over the funniest part: the study authors are such dedicated LLM haters they set up traps to expose AI users lol

[Nicole Grajewski @NicoleGrajewski]

In essence, Bushehr is the model for zero enrichment while allowing a country to have a civilian nuclear program.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

honestly didn't expect this is what would happen when i joined a menswear forum 15 years ago

[Aubrey Belford @AubreyBelford]

Here's @OCCRP's @VanuatuDan on the ABC last night talking about Andrew Tate's Vanuatu passport

https://t.co/ycwrluRU43