This is Reno 911 slander

Molly White continuing to slam it out of the park with a pivot to AI. As always, worth a read in full, but this intro bit stuck out to me after reading lots of inane blather on how crypto and AI are different:

Continuing to track only crypto would mean missing half the story. The same operatives are running both campaigns. Josh Vlasto, longtime adviser and spokesperson for Fairshake — the cryptocurrency super PAC network responsible for the bulk of crypto’s 2024 spending — is now simultaneously heading Leading the Future, a pro-AI super PAC network. Chris Lehane, the political consultant and Coinbase board member who helped establish Fairshake and famously told Coinbase employees who questioned whether a crypto voter bloc existed that they would simply invent one, is now also an OpenAI executive and one of the people behind the Leading the Future PAC network. The same venture capital firms are funding both: Andreessen Horowitz, a crypto heavyweight in the 2024 elections, is now splitting its political spending across crypto and AI PACs.

"The Antichrist wants to stop all science", says the motherfucker who pays people to drop out of universities.

They did not categorize anarcho-capitalism as far left, it is merely mentioned as part of the diagram of subreddits of varying ideologies. In fact if you actually read the chart in Figure 3, you would see it is firmly categorized along with other right wing ideologies.

Nope, 25 gb is just english language wikipedia compressed, no images. All the other languages are smaller.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

who up continvoucly morging they branches

Enjoyed this piece from Mission Local on San Francisco's "March for Billionaires" yesterday.

Choice excerpts:

Despite the San Francisco locale, a participant said the event had “grassroots” origins at a “little rationalist restaurant get together” in a “group house” on Shattuck Avenue, subverting any assumptions that Berkeley is all radical hippies.

Mission Local contributor Benjamin Wachs coined a term for an event in which media observers outnumber participants: a panopticonference. This was close to that. Those in attendance did their best to field questions from the barrage of journalists that backed them into a tree.

This is where Annie, a young transgender woman who attended the protest in a T-shirt that said “I’m in a polycule with Aella,” first met Kauffman. An impromptu debate ensued, with Annie “aggressively defending billionaires.” It was, participants concluded, worthy of a larger forum.

“People are just jealous that they are poorer and weaker and uglier,” she said. “We are beautiful. We’re smart. We’re strong… We are supporting the billionaires, here.”

Every time an academic who featured in my education is posted about here I learn some new Horrible.

https://theintercept.com/2026/04/23/chatgpt-ai-false-confession-interrogation-crime/

“If ChatGPT can be induced into a false confession, then who isn’t vulnerable?”

I don't have words for how stupid this is.

SOAP, which is basically dead, or GraphQL.

I grow increasingly frustrated every time one of these ponderous essays fails to mention the gutter racist and eugenicist beliefs of these people. This dilution of what 'far right' means only serves their interests, and it's malpractice to not mention that the racism is foundational to their origin and organization as a movement.

I expect better of the New Yorker; it's disappointing to see their writers following the path of the New York Times.

Call me AGI because I am stealing this without attribution

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Claude v6.0, "Tall Tale"

Claude v6.1 "Big Fish Story"

I recommend just using https://kiwix.org/en/

It's... suboptimal, but it's about the least finicky way to get a compressed local copy of Wikipedia with all the article photos (~100GB).

It's updated less frequently than the big dumps, but easier to use.

House of Leaves vibes

Starlight Network No-AI List

"Top of the Slops"

Every time I see that URL, I wince

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