🔖 AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: Trump is ‘corrupt, senile felon’ who knows nothing about AI: Pioneering computer scientist on why Trump is using ‘superintelligence’ wrong, whether AI could wipe out humanity – and how our biggest challenge will be accepting we’re not the only intelligent beings | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/13/geoffrey-hinton-trump-ai-tech #BookmarkShare

🔖 A.I. Hurricane Models Were Front and Center as Isaias Headed Toward Land: Expert forecasters say the new technology is helping them understand where a storm will go | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/weather/ai-models-hurricane-isaias.html #BookmarkShare

🔖 The people holding up the internet | Data Drop https://sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-the-internet #BookmarkShare

🔖 Fake Caroline: Editors are facing an influx of AI-written pitches, including at science publications like mine | Columbia Journalism Review https://www.cjr.org/analysis/fake-caroline-williams-science-nature-magazine-ai-influx-pitches.php #BookmarkShare

🔖 Google's new SynthID website can identify AI-generated media | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/googles-new-synthid-website-can-identify-ai-generated-media/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons: OpenAI’s chatbot isn’t just imitating the magazine’s style. It’s also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists | Nieman Journalism Lab https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects | Wikimedia blog https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 The Enshittification of Mathematics [viewpoint] | The Mathematical Intelligencer https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00283-026-10566-7?sharing_token=f2pTArS79Vtd93ZQiz7V-ve4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY7J0Iq5G0tgN8jGlP0dPgNrbOsYMlMWo25q9--0K60IxfbYiwOFHCwasdx8kXdKqS2-Df-q3zydW4pXlouaSA5lLEKaGeXS0xQ0uRbCRs_tg87xWU8RgK-bLTAfFGcjtL0%3D #BookmarkShare

New from @timnitGebru and me:

"It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/01/forget-superintelligence-error-prone-ai-nearly-sparked-world-war-iii-this-month

🔖 Librarians on Libraries: The reporters attended this year’s American Library Association conference in Chicago, where they spoke with nearly 50 librarians from across the country | New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/01/books/state-of-libraries-librarians.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FlE.gDX_.NoYuCUDBh8sl&smid=url-share

(gift article link) #BookmarkShare

🔖 Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac: Algorithms estimate “customer willingness to pay” at each restaurant | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/inside-mcdonalds-push-have-ai-price-your-big-mac-2026-09-29/ #BookmarkShare

I'm finding the core idea of https://ThisWas.News/ still holds: the news moves fast, and it's worth having something that slows it back down. Two and a half years in, the earliest stories the Gather script saved are now old enough to genuinely surprise me when I look back — which is really the whole point. If you'd like a periodic nudge of your own, the Get Reminded page has the Bluesky and Mastodon bots, the daily email, and the RSS feeds — pick whichever fits how you already read.

Turned out to be a nice summer weekend, and I've done some work tidying up my https://ThisWas.News/ project. I've added WSJ, The Guardian, and National Post (and dropped Center Square). I also made a post about it on my blog, which I didn't do in last year's "quiet launch" experiment: https://dltj.org/article/this-was-news/

🔖 ‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission: The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/health/cdc-staff-cuts-rfk-jr.html #BookmarkShare

🔖 Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/owners-mourn-spoiled-food-after-firmware-update-bricks-samsung-smart-fridges/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees: A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses | 404 Media https://www.404media.co/we-hacked-the-fbi-hackers-say-they-have-data-on-all-fbi-employees/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype: Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny [opinion] | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1144867/dont-be-fooled-summer-ai-hype/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India: And the chances of a crackdown are slim, as the authorities spy opportunities for surveillance | MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/23/1144953/smart-glasses-havoc-india/ #BookmarkShare

🔖 Elsevier Domains Hijacked, Redirected to LAPSUS$: Elsevier homepage, Evolve and manuscript submission redirected to a LAPSUS$ extortion page for at least 78 minutes on Sept 21, 2026 | Cloudskope https://www.cloudskope.com/breaches/elsevier-lapsus-domain-hijack-2026 #BookmarkShare

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117313716231482340

The government once claimed to protect life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Now it mostly protects mergers, margins, and the pursuit of money.