Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.

Russian propagandists and their geopolitical ambitions. This clip is from earlier this week.

"And we'll help Trump take Greenland. And Canada."

"And Ireland."

"He didn't ask for it."

"It's a holiday. St. Patrick's Day."

"Maybe Ireland wants to go to Russia. How do you know?"

"How? Again?”

A survey-anyone site ranks cities.

A gambling site uses that output directly in a press release.

Media pick up the release, run headlines like 'Dublin among most dangerous cities in Europe.'

Twitter users add their spice - it ends up in the White House.

2025 infocycle.
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Man

*CDC PLANS STUDY INTO VACCINES AND AUTISM: REUTERS
*CDC PLANS STUDY ON POTENTIAL AUTISIM-VACCINES CONNECTION: RTRS

I had the privilege of talking to @apnews.com about WIRED's Elon Musk and politics coverage.

Most important thing: We're not slowing down, we're not stopping, and we're going to cover this story, relentlessly, for as long as we need to.

apnews.com/article/elon...

He is not the law. He is the president. In the United States that means he is supposed to execute laws passed by Congress, while supporting and defending the Constitution.

'Stand up for us!' Republican shouted down as he defends DOGE cuts at town hall www.rawstory.com/rich-mccormi...

"A lot of secrecy has surrounded DOGE despite Mr. Musk’s attempts to position it as 'maximally transparent.' The White House’s unwillingness to state who its administrator is only adds to that sense of opacity."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

"R1 1776 is a DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model that has been post-trained by Perplexity AI to remove Chinese Communist Party censorship. The model provides unbiased, accurate, and factual information while maintaining high reasoning capabilities"? huggingface.co/perplexity-a...

Laid-off IRS employee said he had voted for Trump: "I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason."

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...

"This is incompetence born of self-confidence. It’s a familiar Silicon Valley mindset, the reason startups are forever reinventing a bus, or a bodega, or mail. It’s the implacable certainty that if you’re smart at one thing you must be smart at all of the things."

www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

I have a question. What is the foreign policy of the U.S. government?

www.wsj.com/world/europe...

At this point, there are only two options:

A) Elon is so dishonest that he is willing to peddle obvious lies to score PR points

B) Elon really is this stupid

Video generation not too far behind.

Greek-statue-based prompt driven by an AI-generated still image generated from 10 original actual images of me.

AI image generation is... really good. Like, really good.

This was AI generated after being trained on about 10 pictures of me.

I would recognise it as me, but it is not a photo that has ever been taken of me.

This morning, President Trump and his crony Elon Musk illegally seized $80M in congressionally-appropriated FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts.

Trump and Elon stole tens of millions of dollars straight from our bank accounts--this is highway robbery, and NY cannot take this lying down.

An increasing number of Jan. 6 defendants who were pardoned by Trump have gone on the attack on social media, lashing out at the agents and prosecutors who worked on their criminal cases. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

Let’s see now…

Latest work here… analysing the remarkable scale of Musk’s tweets during his first two weeks in government.

www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

New: We spoke to government IT employees/contractors about DOGE. Their warnings were dire. The people who maintain the systems that keep the country working are terrified. "This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history—at least that’s publicly known."

The head of “60 Minutes” told the show’s staff on Monday that he would not apologize as part of any prospective settlement in a lawsuit brought by President Trump against CBS, according to people with knowledge of the remarks.