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Monday June 15th, 2026
AI lying about elections
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A Scottish
Post: The New Election Threat: Disinformation Inside the Answer. Via.
Looks like the source of this is from: Demos:
Electoral Hallucinations: Safeguarding UK elections in the world of LLMs and AI
chatbots
Our snapshot testing on March 27th 2026 found that - across ChatGPT, Gemini,
Google
AI Overviews, Grok, and Replika - just over a third (34.1%) of responses to questions
about the Scottish elections contained factual errors (109 of 320 total responses). To
break down these inaccurate responses, 8.75% (28 of 320) were entirely inaccurate and
25.3% were partly accurate but with errors (81 of 320). Partly factual responses could be
particularly misleading as their errors were sometimes much harder to spot.
history of A440
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Lead Paint Theory of Anti Gentrification
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We see this a lot in arguments about
Max Dubler
🏳️🌈
@maxdubler.com
The Lead Paint Theory of Anti Gentrification holds that activists can prevent
displacement and preserve housing affordability by preserving neighborhood disamenities
and blocking investment in quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and
libraries. It does not work.
is quoting Sam
Gould @form67.bsky.social
I attended an urban infrastructure panel where a UC Berkeley professor argued
that libraries were gentrification. I am really struggling to see how this is different
from a Republican position of denying knowledge, tools, and technology to low income,
disadvantaged neighborhoods.
And has a screenshot of a tweet from X user @AllisonB916 rent controller OG:
Taking down freeways in some situations would open the community to
gentrificationwhat protects the community is the damn freeway.
someone trying to hijack libgiopod
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I noted that Audiveris has some sketchy
malware/crypto/whatever scammer campted out on the .com, Bartosz Golaszewski points
out that someone is doing similar to libgiopod.
Via.
sigh
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Paddy Duke
@paddyduke@mastodon.social
@aral From Think outside the box! to The box will now handle all the
thinking for you. Please insert a coin into the box.
The PrimeTime: I Think They Are Lying To You
(YouTube video) is... well... nothing you don't already know, and it's video form, but
it showed up in a Slack channel this morning, and it's about Boris Cherny of Anthropic
bragging about how he doesn't even prompt Claude any more, he just... something... and code
comes out, contrasting that with how long it's taking Anthropic to release fixes to obvious
and horrible Claude Code usability issues. So maybe coding is a solved problem, but
debugging isn't?
The case for real collaboration
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In reading through Mike
Bowler: The case for real collaboration I realized that I don't think I've ever worked
on a team large enough to do "pair programming" in the manner that it was originally
envisioned.
But it's worth a read through.
Anthropic's model naming
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Australia sanctions AmEx
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Australian Privacy Commissioner orders American Express Australia Limited to
compensate complainant following interference in privacy. It takes a couple of clicks to
get to the actual report, but it's summarized by Dissent Doe :cupofcoffee:
@PogoWasRight@infosec.exchange (who also links to a paywalled news report):
American Express ordered to fix security gaps after a customer complained
about improper employee access.
It seems that a customer reported a privacy concern and fought AmEx for 4
years to get them to implement stronger access controls or monitoring of
employee access to data.
Now, the AU govt has ordered AmEx to rectify security flaws in five of
its data systems to guard against insider threats and to restrict
employee access to specific customer information to protect vulnerable
and high-profile customers.
From reading through the report, this was a stalking/domestic abuse violation, and AmEx
didn't even have access logging, and lacked policy for any sort of reaction to stalking.
Thought we'd found a place for this
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Thought we'd found a place for this final SFBABC.org bench, went and talked with someone tending the space and discovered that they were delicately managing relationships with the two property owners, and didn't want to introduce a bench to that.
So we're back to the two playgrounds that feel kinda like a slap in the face of Parks & Rec, or finding another space. Anyone in Petaluma got suggestions for a public space that could use a bench?
Sunday June 14th, 2026
If anybody in the North SF Bay area is
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If anybody in the North SF Bay area is interested in a late 1990a era Endless Pool (with some modern upgrades), hit me up before I write the whole Craigslist posting. It won't be cheap to move, but for the right DIYer with a plan it might be cool.
AI increasing healthcare costs
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AI's
healthcare side hustle: inflating your bill
TL;DR: You might have expected AI to cut healthcare costs,
whether its by reducing paperwork, automating the doctors notes, or thinning out hospital
staff. But a new 60-page PwC report suggests
the reverse: So far, one of its most widespread uses is making medical bills bigger.
Its an example of how AI isnt only good at making tasks more efficientits also very good
at finding more granular ways to boost a sectors bottom line.
Building for the future
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Tay
@tay@transfem.social
How to make good open source project:
- plaster pride flags everywhere (keeps bigots away)
- swear constantly (keeps ai away)
- sex (keeps corporations away)
bring back the noise
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Good read: Banning noise will be a disaster for
statistical data products, on a new order from the US Office of
Privacy and Open Government: Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products which says
(in section 5, policy):
- Any use of noise infusion is inconsistent with the Departments policies.
The article points out two things: first, that this is likely a disaster for privacy of
individuals whose data are aggregated in those sets, of course, but also that this makes
analysis across this boundary difficult.
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