This is sickening

#Trump's Military Audience While in Uniform Were Checked for Allegiance

“Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to #curate the #optics of Trump's recent visit, including HANDPICKING SOLDIERS for the audience based on #political leanings & physical appearance.

One unit-level message bluntly saying: "No fat soldiers."

#propaganda #disrespect #DearLeader #authoritarianism
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html

Also, no: not The Ritz. T-Ritz. I imagine the conversation some years ago.

SCENE: The Ritz, Saigon; opens.

TELEPHONE RINGS

— Hello, The Ritz Saigon.
• Hi this is the legal department from The Ritz Group, London.
— … okay. We'll change it.

LATER

— Hello, T-Ritz Saigon.
• You can't be serious?
— Look, it was cheaper just to cross some letters out.

Here's how LLMs can get it totally wrong while appearing to be totally confident.

We're staying at the T-Ritz, Saigon. Signs in the lift say the name changed recently, so I ask ChatGPT 4.1 mini, via Kagi Assistant, for the story. Its response:

> The hotel now known as T-Ritz Saigon is located in the heart of District 3 in Ho Chi Minh City and is housed in a building designed by the famous architect Gustave Eiffel. This building features French colonial architecture with a grand hall, ornate details, and vintage telephone boxes, reflecting its rich historical and architectural heritage.

This doesn't sound right. It's a nice building but I haven't seen those things. I ask for references:

> The information that the building housing T-Ritz Saigon was designed by Gustave Eiffel comes from multiple sources, including ViaResorts, which explicitly states: "Designed by Gustave Eiffel, the building features a grand hall, ornate details, and vintage telephone boxes"

I visit that page myself and see no mention of M. Eiffel. So I crack open my browser's dev tools and search. Lo and behold, this hidden div:

> Just a short walk from the Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Saigon Central Post Office is another architectural gem from the French colonial era. Designed by Gustave Eiffel, the building features a grand hall, ornate details, and vintage telephone boxes, making it a charming spot for photos and postcards.

This text appears under a hidden 'Destinations' header on the page.

Total confidence. Totally wrong.

No, Notion. I am not actively using your AI. I used it once when you first added it and realized (like all AI) how useless it was. No matter how many times I close this window, it always comes back. This isn't getting me to use your AI it's getting me to hate Notion.

Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared

https://xkcd.com/3081/

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

#FreePalestine

Don’t like gay marriage?
Don’t get married to the same sex.

Don’t like gender-affirming care?
Don’t have any.

Don’t like Planned Parenthood?
Don’t go there.

Don’t like abortion?
Don’t get one.

Just because *you* don’t like it doesn’t mean *others* shouldn’t be able to it.

Men hva med å gjøre en vurdering -før- man forplikter seg til å bruke millioner fra en slunken kommunekasse, i stedet for å grine i etterkant?
Det er ikke som om reglene for utvikling av boligfelt og næringstomter er helt ukjente fra før.

Nok et argument for at lokaldemokratiet ikke er egnet til å forvalte sin egen natur.

https://www.nrk.no/nordland/hadsel_-kjopte-oy-for-a-bygge-hus-_-stoppet-av-sump_-soppel-og-sjeldne-fugler-1.17437318

Wolfgang Messner, writing in @TheConversationUS on how generative AI could homogenize culture:
"The danger is not that AI will fail us, but that people will accept the mediocrity of its outputs as the norm. When everything is fast, frictionless and “good enough,” there’s the risk of losing the depth, nuance and intellectual richness that define exceptional human work."
https://theconversation.com/is-ai-sparking-a-cognitive-revolution-that-will-lead-to-mediocrity-and-conformity-256940

Rotoran på flyet, dæm går rundt og rundt... 👶✈️

#smabarn #norsktut

Dear restaurant owners, do not link to Facebook. Otherwise, your customers see:

- Error message: Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.
- A big login prompt, that cannot be dismissed.

What your customers don’t see:

- Your menu
- Your location
- Your opening hours

We must pledge Anti-Genocide. We must choose Palestine wholeheartedly, in every decision, in every question, in every moment of our lives. Choose Palestine because our world and the fate of humanity entirely depends on it. https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/join-the-anti-genocide-pledge-to-stop-the-bloodshed-in-gaza/

Altså, seriøst? Det her er jo berre luft. Det var Høgre som pressa gjennom både Kunnskapsløftet og Fagfornyelsen. No skal dei gå til val på nye læreplanar enno ein gong?

Det var også Høgre som stå i bresjen for endringane i opplæringslova som gjorde læraren tilnærma rettslaus i klasserommet.

At #høgre nokosinne har hatt rykte på seg for å vera eit "skoleparti" seier litt om kor anti-intellektuelt det norske ordskiftet er.

#norskpolitikk #norsktut

https://www.nrk.no/norge/_strenge-ernas_-skolereform_-disiplin-og-nivadeling-1.17439577

Why you should never listen to anyone complaining about the ”oppressed position of russian-speakers in Ukraine”:

Russia simply burns and destroys anything written in the Ukrainian language in the occupied territories.

Russia does cultural genocide. Everywhere it goes. Period.

#nafo #ukraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

When the council developed the Aarhus Ø mixed-use docklands, one of the design principles was that the bay must be a part of the neighbhourhood, not just something separate, next to it. So they installed an underwater information chain. It’s a literal chain that divers can hold on to as they read underwater information signs about the maritime creatures and features they are swimming amongst.

Kudos to the unsung council staff who sat in some back office and imagined this lovely idea.

#Aarhus

At the weekend, a group of trans women protested topless at the Scottish Parliament about the recent Supreme Court ruling that the Equality Act defines women as "biological women". The police couldn't arrest them, because to arrest them for showing their breasts would be to define them as women (it's not illegal for men to be topless). And, of course, the right-wing press that reported on it censored their breasts, thereby making their point for them.

@tanketom @markus @torstein Lure på kor mange husflidslag som har hatt en full stakk-utvikler ansatt 🤔

🛑 We have sent a letter to Meta Ireland / Facebook Norway today, demanding them to stop their planned roll-out of training their AI models on users' (and non-users data), arguing they are in breach of the GDPR, consumer law and the digital markets act.

Our press release is in Norwegian, but the letter in English.

PR: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/forbrukerradet-krever-at-meta-stopper-ki-trening/

Letter: https://storage02.forbrukerradet.no/media/2025/05/letter-to-meta-ireland-and-facebook-norway.pdf

@aslakr Hannemyr sin lommejuss er også fin: https://hannemyr.com/faq/legal_dm03.shtml