Mike Fulk
@mikefulk.bsky.social
Fulk IT - https://www.youtube.com/@Fulk-it/podcasts
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
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Episode 19: S2 Cyber Attack With An AI Centipede?
YouTube video by Mike Fulk
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Fulk It rant time again! This one is about AI influence campaigns that look a lot like official reports on "sophisticated cyber attacks." AI centipede makes another appearance, and no they still do not work if you're wondering.
youtu.be/d_ey-gsKatA
youtu.be/d_ey-gsKatA
Matt Taibbi will surely save Freedom of Speech for us all. Surely.
Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Matt Taibbi will surely save Freedom of Speech for us all. Surely.
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“You are not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny
- Alexei Navalny
Honoring Courage
And the Power of Joy and Optimism
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“You are not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny
- Alexei Navalny
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Incredible stuff happening over at DHS, which is...talking to tech platforms ab deepfakes & disinfo? 👀 👀
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Incredible stuff happening over at DHS, which is...talking to tech platforms ab deepfakes & disinfo? 👀 👀
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
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Also @gorskon.bsky.social and @joho.bsky.social who've been calling out these shitbirds from their perches at:
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as well.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Also @gorskon.bsky.social and @joho.bsky.social who've been calling out these shitbirds from their perches at:
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
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A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled)
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled)
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Bumping this again, it deserves it.
A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Bumping this again, it deserves it.
This should turn out just fine. No worries here.
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This should turn out just fine. No worries here.
These Rep/Dem splits tell a somewhat different story than the headline. Republican sentiment took a sharp turn downwards while Democrats sentiment stayed consistent or improved, is how I'm reading this.
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
These Rep/Dem splits tell a somewhat different story than the headline. Republican sentiment took a sharp turn downwards while Democrats sentiment stayed consistent or improved, is how I'm reading this.
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Container ports are on the front lines of Trump’s trade wars
US Ports See Slowdown to End Year Marked by Tariff Front-Loading
Container ports are on the front lines of Trump’s trade wars
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Container ports are on the front lines of Trump’s trade wars
Good old fashioned online search beats the pants off of AI slop summaries eh?
Previous studies on LLM efficiency always hd flawed methodology comparing AI to using nothing. Now we have a real comparison to online search.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Online search outperforms LLMs in every conceivable metric.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search
Doing the mental work of connecting the dots across multiple web queries appears to help people understand the material better compared to an AI summary.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Good old fashioned online search beats the pants off of AI slop summaries eh?
Are GPUs even useful outside of the GenAI debacle? Sure we need a few for gamers but we made a crap ton already.
wow nvidia beat on earnings what a huge surprise. anyway did anybody work out how anybody makes a dollar of profit plugging gpus in or are we still in a holding pattern
November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Are GPUs even useful outside of the GenAI debacle? Sure we need a few for gamers but we made a crap ton already.
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hard not to feel dismayed that biden’s DOJ sat on all of this for four years. if they wanted to do more, they could’ve. but they didn’t
@kbriquelet.bsky.social broke the story for The Beast of the secret Epstein charity funneling money to Harvard in *2019*.
archive.ph/urSDo/again?...
Better late than never, I guess.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
archive.ph/urSDo/again?...
Better late than never, I guess.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...
Harvard Will Open a New Inquiry Into Faculty Ties to Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
hard not to feel dismayed that biden’s DOJ sat on all of this for four years. if they wanted to do more, they could’ve. but they didn’t
I take it then I am NOT on the list?
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
Apple Podcasts unveils the most popular shows and trends of 2025
Today, Apple shared the most popular podcasts of 2025, with year-end charts localized for listeners in nearly 100 countries and regions.
www.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I take it then I am NOT on the list?
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
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AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
AI porn generator and ERP chatbot Secret Desires left millions of images and videos exposed in unsecured cloud storage. I took a look and found folders called "faceswap," where people had uploaded tons of stolen content and random photos of women www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
You have got to absolutely be shitting me.
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You have got to absolutely be shitting me.
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Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Based pin. That skull is a 100% accurate depiction of how I feel anytime younger generations invent a new word that I must either Google or accept that my vocabulary is slowly fading into obsolescence.
collabs.shop/upgydk
collabs.shop/upgydk
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Based pin. That skull is a 100% accurate depiction of how I feel anytime younger generations invent a new word that I must either Google or accept that my vocabulary is slowly fading into obsolescence.
collabs.shop/upgydk
collabs.shop/upgydk
Important question.
2.
“.. that is, unlike previous AI investments that generated returns, $META is now speculatively building - without a cloud biz or enterprise assets - a superintelligence biz that seems likely to dent returns. Curious if folks have better reasons.” 👀
“.. that is, unlike previous AI investments that generated returns, $META is now speculatively building - without a cloud biz or enterprise assets - a superintelligence biz that seems likely to dent returns. Curious if folks have better reasons.” 👀
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Important question.
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The maximum acceptable level of risk for an "AI-powered toy" targeted at young children is absolutely too low for use of an off-the-shelf commercial LLM to EVER be a reasonable choice. gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
AI-Powered Teddy Bear Caught Talking About Sexual Fetishes and Instructing Kids How to Find Knives
OpenAI blocked access for the toymaker following the incidents.
gizmodo.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The maximum acceptable level of risk for an "AI-powered toy" targeted at young children is absolutely too low for use of an off-the-shelf commercial LLM to EVER be a reasonable choice. gizmodo.com/ai-powered-t...
Thankfully, he remembered to strike his Zoolander pose for this photo op.
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.
A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, hires Meta AI veteran Soumith Chintala as it rapidly expands its team and prepares for major funding.
www.businessinsider.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Thankfully, he remembered to strike his Zoolander pose for this photo op.
Us peasants can only dream of doing business like this.
NVIDIA CEO joins Trump and Saudi crown prince at private dinner.
November 19, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Us peasants can only dream of doing business like this.
Ain't that some shit?
Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, this was our most-read story: on.ft.com/3JH3g3p
November 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Ain't that some shit?
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@edzitron.com cited by Jim Cramer. What is happening.
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
@edzitron.com cited by Jim Cramer. What is happening.
A human issue.
Epstein survivors speak out, calling for justice & transparency after all these years - via MSNOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yE-... (formerly msnbc)
'This is a human issue': Epstein survivors speak out ahead of House vote
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A human issue.