Peter Linss (Parroty)

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

America, and probably the world, stands on a precipice. This is the most urgent plea I have ever written:

https://t.co/tzR9LliRQy

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

🚨 MIT just humiliated every major AI lab and nobody’s talking about it.

They built a new benchmark called WorldTest to see if AI actually understands the world… and the results are brutal.

Even the biggest models Claude, Gemini 2.5 Pro, OpenAI o3 got crushed by humans.

Here’s what makes it different:

WorldTest doesn’t check how well an AI predicts the next word or frame.
It measures if it can build an internal model of reality and use that to handle new situations.

They built AutumnBench 43 interactive worlds, 129 tasks where AIs must:

• Predict hidden parts of the world (masked-frame prediction)
• Plan multi-step actions to reach goals
• Detect when the rules of the environment suddenly change

Then they tested 517 humans vs the top models.
Humans dominated every category.
Even massive compute scaling barely helped.

The takeaway is wild:

Today’s AIs don’t understand environments they just pattern-match inside them. They don’t explore, revise beliefs, or experiment like humans do.

WorldTest might be the first benchmark that actually measures understanding, not memorization. And the gap it reveals isn’t small it’s the next grand challenge in AI cognition.

(Comment “Send” and I’ll DM you the paper 👇)

[Anne Serling @AnneSerling]

"I don't knock my country for what it is - I knock it because I share the dream of so many of us as to what it can be."
Rod Serling 1970

[Tyler Johnston @tyler_johnston]

I, too, made the mistake of *checks notes* taking OpenAI's charitable mission seriously and literally.

In return, got a knock at my door in Oklahoma with a demand for every text/email/document that, in the "broadest sense permitted," relates to OpenAI's governance and investors.

[Variety @Variety]

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda tells fans: “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad.”

“If you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

"And for the love of EVERY THING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume."

Read more here: https://t.co/7UkzYSQ2Ja

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @AdelitaForAZ.

[P.E. Moskowitz @_pem_pem]

all other problems are this problem. all other discourse is a distraction from this

[Peter Linss (Parroty) @plinss]

@Grady_Booch And grossly overestimate what current “AI” can actually do

[Jake Williams @MalwareJake]

I'm old enough to remember when this was how every hacker became a hacker.

[Grady Booch @Grady_Booch]

There is a vast difference in the architecture of a software-intensive system whose output must always be accurate and precise versus one whose output can just be good enough.

[Peter Linss (Parroty) @plinss]

LLMs need to stay the fuck away from the entire justice system, most especially evidence handling and analysis.

There is no world where a word-salad generator should be trusted with anything, let alone criminal prosecution.

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[Steve Inskeep @NPRinskeep]

Truly incredible thread by a global security editor at Politico.

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://t.co/EOdknd8mEq

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

I'll say it again:

In my opinion, when companies or institutions cave to Trump despite the law being on their side, they are not misunderstanding the law; they are making educated guesses that the U.S. is heading in a direction where, in practice, the law won't matter.

[Jorts (and Jean) @JortsTheCat]

This is pure bullshit. There is so much video. He got grabbed and brutalized because he looked brown. They disappeared him for days without legal counsel, medical care or even a call to his family to say where he was. They STILL won’t leave him alone.

Ghoul ass gulag mindset

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

This Jimmy Kimmel FCC threat thing is full anti-speech fascistic nonsense and is a huge breach of the republic.

I do not talk like this lightly.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

How about anyone who has never had even a single substantive conversation with a trans person just stays the fuck out of trans issues forever

That would knock out approximately 99.99% of the people who want to treat trans folks like animals

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Agreed.