21+ hour, 22+ min ago   (95+ words) CA Tesla Kills Three in “Veered” Crash Into Tree flyingpenguin.com The California Highway Patrol said it found a 2024 Tesla Model Y crashed into a tree and fully engulfed in flames. Officers said a passenger was ejected from the vehicle…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (273+ words) On this day, as we watch Elon Musk celebrate his work to push the AfD party into restoring Nazi power over Germany, we remember eighty-four years ago the Gestapo arrived in Preil, an Prussian fishing village, and arrested Mildred Fish-Harnack…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (714+ words) Friday afternoon in Düsseldorf, the man named Alexander Dobrindt stood next to Herbert Reul and issued his usual label: Dobrindt added that a final assessment was not yet possible, and then he delivered one anyway to emphasize how little he…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (753+ words) flyingpenguin.com Two spicy papers came out this year that caught my eye, probably for the wrong reasons. They are measuring a collapse in reasoning from two different perspectives, where a known result gets promoted as a discovery. Anthropic trained…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (281+ words) flyingpenguin I was surprised, but not really, to find a book about the harms of information technology is pushing bad history. The history wasn’t written by a historian, in other words. Take this bit, for example. First, Socrates wrote nothing....

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (589+ words) Paramount ran its PR engine into the trade press on Friday to accuse Mark Ruffalo of “antisemitic tropes”. Ruffalo had shared a video of Oracle executive Safra Catz describing technology her company supplied to the Israeli military. He quoted her…...