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markriedl.bsky.social
Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...
#aaai26 | Omer Ben-Porat | 13 comments
#AAAI26 This year, in addition to five human reviewers, we also received an AI review. The humans sort of liked the paper, so there's hope. The AI, however, took a bolder approach: it confidently d...
www.linkedin.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Fabián Muniesa

web3isgoinggreat.com
Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint
Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins Paxos, the issuer of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin, accidentally minted 300 trillion of the supposedly dollar-pegged token. For context, this is approximately 2.5x the global GDP, and around 125x the total number of US dollars actually in circulation. Paxos later announced that the mint was an "internal technical error", and that they had burned the excess tokens. While PayPal promises its customers that "Reserves are held 100% in US dollar deposits, US treasuries and cash equivalents – meaning that customer funds are available for 1:1 redemption with Paxos," there clearly isn't much in the way of safeguards to ensure that is always the case. As with most stablecoin issuers, Paxos merely issues self-reported and unreviewed portfolio reports, and monthly third-party attestations (not audits) of reserves.
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Steven Heydemann, Tom Clark , and 12 more

reuters.com
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT
White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers
White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.
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Reposted by Greg Linden

arstechnica.com
With legacy pay TV providers already dealing with dwindling subscriptions, the introduction of new types of ads risks making DirecTV less appealing as well—and it’s likely that things won’t end there.
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.
arstechnica.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden

mtsw.bsky.social
I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Linda J. Skitka, Scott L. Greer , and 5 more

donmoyn.bsky.social
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Will Jennings

gregsargent.bsky.social
"No amount of appeasement of Trump will work short of turning yourself into a lapdog. So news outlets have to choose. And if you go halfway, you’re basically going to lose everyone."

On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is great on the failure of Trump appeasement:
newrepublic.com/article/2017...
Trump Erupts at ABC over Vance On-Air Fiasco as Presser Goes Off Rails
As Trump’s exchanges with reporters appear more power-crazed than usual, a sharp observer of our slide into authoritarianism explains why the Resistance must find a new kind of response before it’s to...
newrepublic.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden

mantzarlis.com
The top 90 videos in my sample had gotten more than 215 million views before getting taken down by TikTok.

They covered a range of topics but AI-generated geopolitical fearmongering was prominent among them.

indicator.media/p/101-tiktok...
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Reposted by Greg Linden

mantzarlis.com
The continued presence of hoax news accounts targeting a US audience is a worrying sign given that TikTok has been surging as a source of news for Americans.
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Reposted by Greg Linden, James Grimmelmann

mantzarlis.com
NEW on @indicator.media:

I found 101 accounts impersonating Telemundo, Televisa, CNN and other media outlets spreading clickbaity falsehoods to millions on TikTok.

The company took them all down after I reached out.
101 TikTok accounts masquerading as real news spread misinformation to millions
Shallow impersonations of Telemundo, CNN, Fox News and other media got more than 200 million views posting fake ICE arrests and bombastic AI slop about geopolitics
indicator.media
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Reposted by Greg Linden

jessicacalarco.com
After the homeschooling ads, things quickly spiraled out of the education space, pushing broader distrust of institutions. Like, this reel from a homesteading mom, explaining why she will never get a mammogram (based on misinformation about mammograms causing breast cancer). 4/
Reel showing a woman squatting in a field, wearing an apron and a clashing red shirt with her hair in an impossibly high bun. The words across her chest say "Why I will never get a mammogram" A screenshot from the reel, which shows first-person video from the woman's life as a homesteading mom. With the voice over, she explains that she won't get a mammogram, in part, because she believes that for every 10,000 people who get a mammogram, 8 will die of breast cancer caused by the mammogram. A screenshot from the reel, which shows first-person video from the woman's life as a homesteading mom. With the voice over, she explains that she won't get a mammogram, in part, because she believes that for every 10,000 people who get a mammogram, 8 will die of breast cancer caused by the mammogram. The end of the reel video, which shows the woman holding her home-canned produce, with a banner saying "follow to homestead with me"
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Reposted by Greg Linden

hern.bsky.social
The big one is that the cost of a lidar rig is persistently high; but beyond that, waymo also has:
* an unknown number of remote operators on the clock
* an unknown insurance premium versus human drivers
* a lower number of trips per hour than human drivers (thanks in part to er following the law)
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Reposted by Greg Linden

hern.bsky.social
If you want to grab onto something to be a doomer about robotaxis, the obvious hook is that Waymo's unit economics are unknown but likely to be negative. "Robotaxis" are much easier to build than "profitable robotaxis", and it's the latter that might be surprisingly far away
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Fabián Muniesa, Trevon D. Logan , and 3 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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Reposted by Greg Linden

justinhendrix.bsky.social
"A group of non-revenue-generating energy companies have collectively ballooned in value to more than $45 billion in hopes that tech companies will one day pay for their yet-to-be-built power.The biggest of these is the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup Oklo..."
The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks
Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.
www.wsj.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Rebecca Tushnet

prasad.bsky.social
basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...
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by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by Greg Linden

aaronsojourner.org
Trump is isolating the American people from the rest of the world.

He is alienating most other countries all at once, uniting the world against us.

We are stuck here with him & he is stuck here with us.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/t...
US drops out of world’s most powerful passport top 10 list for the first time | CNN
Once a ticket to visa-free travel across the world, the US passport’s potency has dwindled in recent times. And now, for the first time, it’s completely fallen off the leaderboard of nationalities ran...
www.cnn.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Nathan P. Kalmoe

jayrosen.bsky.social
"People often ask me what journalism I trust. So today I’m handing out letter grades to some major players." —Mark Jacob. www.stopthepresses.news/p/im-handing...
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
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Reposted by Greg Linden

josephcox.bsky.social
openai to finally acknowledge what has been driving the AI boom for years and years but no one really wants to admit: chatbots you can fuck www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
www.404media.co
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Rebecca Solnit, Julia M. Wright

404media.co
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...
ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...
www.404media.co
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Pepper D. Culpepper

davekarpf.bsky.social
Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
It's Giving Enron
On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
open.substack.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Brendan Nyhan, Will Jennings , and 5 more

gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.
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Reposted by Greg Linden

atrupar.com
Trump: "We'll take a couple questions from the news. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who is nice enough to pay me $16 million ... he had to pay $16 million to me."
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Peter Campbell, Alan Richardson , and 2 more

drewharwell.com
Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month
ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults. 12:02 PM · Oct 14, 2025 · 1.2M Views
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Reposted by Greg Linden

markjacob.bsky.social
If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.
I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media
The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F
www.stopthepresses.news
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Reposted by Greg Linden

theguardian.com
World economy resilient amid Trump tariffs but outlook looks ‘dim’, says IMF
World economy resilient amid Trump tariffs but outlook looks ‘dim’, says IMF
UK and global GDP growth forecasts upgraded for this year but immigration controls could have negative impact * US shares risk ‘sharp correction’ but markets seem complacent, IMF warns * Business live – latest updates The global economy has shown “unexpected resilience” in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the full impact is yet to be felt, and outlook for growth remains “dim”, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned. As policymakers gather in Washington for its annual meetings, the IMF has upgraded its forecast for global GDP growth this year to 3.2%, from 3% at its last update in July. Next year’s global forecast is unchanged, at 3.1%. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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by David R. Miller — Reposted by Greg Linden

davidryanmiller.com
"The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson. They thought Congress would check the president. They didn’t think one branch would surrender completely to another."

This is the whole ballgame, folks.

The authoritarianism will continue until coequal branches decide it will not.
thebulwark.com
The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...
The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism
Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.
www.thebulwark.com
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Reposted by Greg Linden

andyjabbour.bsky.social
Amazing to see this flood of misinformation and bullshit about the protests. This America-loving combat veteran will be in Leesburg, Virginia carrying my US Army flag and proudly standing with family, friends and neighbors to say #NoKings. 🇺🇸
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Reposted by Greg Linden, American Library Association

chrismurphyct.bsky.social
4/ Ok, so then the obvious next step is to negotiate a compromise. That's how we've always avoided shutdowns. And Republicans need to convene those talks, bc they're in charge.

But here's the kicker - Trump is telling them to BOYCOTT NEGOTIATING. And they are following orders.
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Reposted by Greg Linden, Rebecca Solnit, Richard S.J. Tol , and 15 more

uhactually.bsky.social
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
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