Depressing:
"Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
I'm sure this is a huge problem, but as a former opinion editor, I can assure you that people have been submitting slop for a lot longer than AI has existed.
Wazzzzzuuuppp?!?!?
Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy #EUTech
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm
LinkedIn's algorithm knows me well
The cool new shipping craze everybody's talking about
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...
“Making a Career in Dictatorship,” a new book by two German political scientists, Adam Scharpf and Christian Glassel, reads like what you might get if you crossed Hannah Arendt’s ideas about the “banality of evil” with a business school guide on how to get the most out of low performers.
Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals. By analyzing how radio waves bounce around a room, researchers can effectively “see” and recognize individuals — even if they are not carrying a device and even if their phone is turned off.
Details of how the shipping containers ended up on a giant iceberg have been revealed in one of the more unusual reports tabled at the annual meeting of Antarctic Treaty nations.
Depressing:
"Would-be authoritarians don’t need to staff their regimes with ideological true believers, offer enticements or draconian punishments to make power grabs. They just need to figure out how to target their ideal labor pool: the frustrated and mediocre."
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...
Russell Shaw noticed that he texted the same phrase to his kids 133 times. In hindsight, he sees profound meaning in it, and a lesson for other parents. theatln.tc/oSPD3CJx
🎨: Derek Abella
City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
