Out Now: Platform Brutality by Geert Lovink, Valiz, Amsterdam, September 2025 The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Its toxic aspects have fully permeated our personal, social and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news and make propaganda for extrme-right causes, to name just […]

*That would be strange. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20328

https://youtu.be/SB7pbqNJal4?si=gTk0gHOoFFaNx3bP *I wonder if any prisoner during World War II ever successfully escaped actual custody by using a farfetched milspec gadget of this kind.

https://youtu.be/y4V7OGILaJM?si=nixgNxI_4Tt44lUU

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*This isn’t “hallucination” exactly, but this is disconcerting. I asked the same question in two different languages, and only the Italian language could provide the answer. *Of course, given that this is an LLM, I’m not yet sure that was an “accurate” answer, but… When was Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s novel “The Last Days of Pompeii” first […]

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