2025-12-07 20:45:38
Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-syntheti…
Sources: Aaru, which uses AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures at multiple valuation tiers, including a $1B tier (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/05/ai-syntheti…
Top 10 NFL MVP candidates at midseason: Drake Maye and Jonathan Taylor headline my ranking https://www.nfl.com/news/top-10-nfl-mvp-candidates-at-midseason-drake-maye-and-jonathan-taylor-headline-my-ranking
A look at the advantages and pitfalls of AI use in major newsrooms: from sifting through big datasets to suggesting headlines to causing embarrassing errors (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/media/ai-news-media-.html
NFL Week 13 Team of the Week: Jordan Love, Bijan Robinson Headline Top Performers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-13-team-week-jordan-love-bijan-robinson-headline-top-performers
NFL Week 13 Team of the Week: Jordan Love, Bijan Robinson Headline Top Performers https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-13-team-week-jordan-love-bijan-robinson-headline-top-performers
DeMario Douglas, Joey Porter Jr. headline TOTW 9 in Madden NFL 26 https://www.espn.com/gaming/story/_/id/46858989/demario-douglas-joey-porter-jr-team-week-9-madden-26
The headline "The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft." can have two syntactic structures:
1. The Bundeswehr, with the help of local police, is investigating who (= interrogative pronoun) is behind the theft.
2. The Bundeswehr is investigating (the theft), with the help of local police, who (= relative pronoun) are the persons who might be behind the theft.
#linguistics #ambiguity
Look at my #TelemetryWrapped 😍
Note that the headline treats this product’s output as established fact:
❝Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI❞
They didn’t even have the journalistic decency to append “claims AI detection company.” Note the passive voice in the sub-headline:
❝Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.❞
“were found”…by whom? Nobody. It’s just a magic fact.
3/
Surprise.
#venezuela
Will the Patriots grab the No. 1 seed? Is Tua about to get benched? 5 bold NFL predictions for the second half
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-bold-predictions-second-half-2025-s…
Surely this headline is journalistic hyperbole?
«China removed a three-decade-old tax exemption on contraceptive drugs and devices from January 1 in new steps to spur a flagging birth rate.
Condoms and contraceptive pills now incur value-added tax of 13%, the standard rate for most consumer goods.»
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/02/corporate-responses-data-leaks-protecting-brands-not-consumers
The Guardian used “getting screwed” in a headline.
Knee-jerk corporate responses to data leaks p…
'Just put on a helmet' - Pope's scooter advice to England.
I saw this headline on my feed and thought goodness me, what's the pontiff wading into now? and "sound advice before we ban these things".
But no it's just some bloke called Pope and his cricket mates.
https://www.b…
Google has teased 60-second AI videos from Veo, which sounds impressive until you realize that requires not 10x, but 100x the energy of a 6-second clip.
Analysis confirming quadratic scaling of AI video footprint: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jonipp…
How is "White House Posts Tweet with a 40-Star American Flag" not headline news
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@paulisci/115811466515746812
Had a serious internal debate about this: go for the purist option of the better newspaper-style headline or the essay-as-a-headline that's a poke in the eye to current stupid tech trends. Pretty sure my even…
China's Geely takes on BYD.
(To the headline writer: still pretending Tesla is in this global affordable EV game is a bit funny.)
https://insideevs.com/news/782861/geely-xingyuan-affordable-ev-tesla-byd-china/
Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-
Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald Headline 26 Semifinalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/drew-brees-larry-fitzgerald-headline-26-semifinalists-pro-football-hall-fame
This is what BBC news articles look like nowadays: Every single sentence is its own paragraph, and I absolute cannot stand this “style” at all. I suspect the editors only care about making articles look nice in the mobile app.
IMHO, paragraphs are specifically meant to intuitively communicate which sentences belong together because of content/meaning. Just separating any sentences is what full stops do. If actually no two consecutive sentences belong together, the article is just incoh…
"Andrew Cuomo Uses AI MPREG Schoolhouse Rock Bill to Attack Mamdani"
not an Onion headline
The Dropkick Murphys to headline at the Remove the Regime rally, November 22, in Washington DC. Sponsored by FLARE USA and many others
#WashingtonDC
OTD 5 years ago, I posted this:
So, in the last 24 hours we had
- Zombie minks in Denmark
- almost 400 km/h wind,
- thunderstorms and lightning in Iceland
Either someone is playing an updated version of Jumanji, or some Nordic director is shooting a video clip for a "Thriller"/"Bohemian Rhapsody" remix.
Don’t let the headline fool you, it’s just boring testing results:
“The Value of Selecting Selects by Value”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/the-value-of-selecting-selects-by-value.html
💪 Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertilizer
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-diversity-agricultural-grasslands-boosts-yields.html
Cowboys-Chiefs Headlines: Taylor Swift appearance? 1st rounder ruled out https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/27/cowboys-vs-chiefs-headline-news-thanksgiving-throwdown-on-deck/87485495007/…
Sooner this scumbag is behind bars, the better. And every single one of ‘em that enabled him. https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115452853254509296
The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
/end
Jeder Satz ein Treffer! Fred Grimm in der aktuellen SCHROT&KORN
„… von rechts über rechts außen bis rechts draußen …“
„Sie sind seit Jahren die lautesten, weil es der eigentlichen Mehrheit viel zu oft die Sprache verschlägt“
Text in den Alt-Texten von Bild 2 und 3
#vegan
Best headline in the GOV.UK news feed today
> Framework for interrogation of honey authenticity databases
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/framework-for-interrogation-of-honey-authenticity-databases
my link log mostly works as an external memory, provided i can remember the keywords in the headline
i edit headlines to stuff in extra keywords that make them easier to retrieve: implicit tags without the hash
but sometimes it can be a little frustrating
just now i was trying to remember something to do with numerical? analogies? sizes? units?
took me about 10 minutes to remember the other key word was “bio”
after which i was reminded the key words i had not-qu…
I didn’t mind reading the article, the headline says it all: “OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-ch…
The most San Francisco headline ever.
#SanFrancisco
ACM Tech News is usually just depressing these days, but this headline made me laugh:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/world/cryptography-group-lost-election-results.html
NFL Week 9 early odds: Chiefs headline group of nine road favorites; Lions near double-digit favorite
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
“Alberta's Danielle Smith says Maduro capture outlines urgency of West Coast pipeline”
no.
Alternative Headline:
"Maduro’s capture dramatically increases oil’s volatility, time for Alberta to transition to a stable future”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Alberta #Oil #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #Venezuela #Sovereignty
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/05/news/albertas-danielle-smith-says-maduro-capture-outlines-urgency-west-coast-pipeline
Everything is cool and normal in the Land of the Free.
http://archive.today/2025.11.23-133655/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/23/prairieland-ice-antifa-zines-criminalize-protest-journalism/
@… I didn't even pay attention to those photos, just the headline then my attention shifted to something unrelated.
In my mind's eye: only ever (a) the White House on its own, with some greenery and a fence, or (b) the building beneath the Independence Day spacecraft – I'm aware that it's covering a city but I'm not really …
I'm case you missed it...
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds”
But that headline is misleading and the study overclaims too.
We take it apart (need to fix formatting for mobile view).
Decoupling …… again – degrowthUK
Where are AI’s scientific breakthroughs? It’s been three years since ChatGPT’s release, and still no headlines about AI discovering new particles or curing diseases. When AI does help science, it's not the kind Sam Altman and co. are shilling. https://www.
wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758
When you've even lost the *NFL*, you've *really* messed up.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show is not being reconsidered, NFL commissioner says
https://ground.news/article/bad-bunnys-super-bowl-halftime-show-is-n…
NFL on Thanksgiving: Post Malone, Lil Jon, Jack White to headline halftimes
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-thanksgiving-post-malone-lil-jon-jack-white-head…
Noteworthy in that the headline is calling out the driver, rather than the vehicle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/maryland-car-ramming-children-party?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Noteworthy in that the headline is calling out the driver, rather than the vehicle.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/19/maryland-car-ramming-children-party?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Drew Brees, Eli Manning Headline Finalists for Pro Football Hall of Fame https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/2026-pro-football-hall-fame-finalists-drew-brees-eli-manning
The headline begins innocently enough and the spirit rises a little but as one reads on, it swiftly turns to horror. By the gods, this is madness!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8ex0j4y5jzo
I don't speak Danish, but I can read this nice headline.
https://borsen.dk/nyheder/pleasure/danske-afgifter-slagter-populaer-benzin-vw
"No backsliding: that turned out to be the highest achievable in Belém." #COP30
I've got news: having emitted another 53 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in a year and then making no progress in climate negotiations is backsliding.
cc @…@…
A lot of journalistic pieces contain too little information. But here's one that is chock full of interesting stuff, not details, but hooks for deeper inquiry. That stuff goes far beyond the topics in the headline. For instance I had never previously considered subway cars as a potential form of spyware.
"After F-35 “Kill Switch”, Now Europe Perturbed By Chinese “Kill Switch” That Could Cripple Its Transport Infra'
I finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!
Deblock, an app that lets users manage fiat and digital assets in one place by linking a bank account with a self-owned crypto wallet, raised a €30M Series A (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/11/19/deblock-secures-eur30m-series…
Awesome headline....
https://youtu.be/EZj389I9I-0?si=iydeKru_ulJomayb
Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.
NFL on Thanksgiving: Post Malone, Lil Jon, Jack White to headline halftimes
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-thanksgiving-post-malone-lil-jon-jack-white-head…
my link log mostly works as an external memory, provided i can remember the keywords in the headline
i edit headlines to stuff in extra keywords that make them easier to retrieve: implicit tags without the hash
but sometimes it can be a little frustrating
just now i was trying to remember something to do with numerical? analogies? sizes? units?
took me about 10 minutes to remember the other key word was “bio”
after which i was reminded the key words i had not-qu…
The thing is, the headline might be correct — but we can’t trust it because of whose holding the paper’s leash. Their credibility is going to be suspect even if their reporting is flawless.
https://mastodon.social/@PeteTucker/115437149699884837
NFL Week 14 Team of the Week: Josh Allen and Puka Nacua Headline Squad https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-14-team-week-josh-allen-puka-nacua-headline-squad
Snoop Dogg headlines NFL Christmas Day halftime show during Vikings-Lions game, welcomes special guests
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/snoop-dogg-headline-nfl-chris…
wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758
Futzing around with Narrator (because of its new Braille viewer, which I am working on testing) and reminded of the new speech log (“Speech Recap”):
Narrator Key Alt X
Wanted to confirm this is also true with Narrator:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech…
Pick Six: Quarterbacks Kenny Pickett, Aidan O'Connell to be in rotation in Week 18 https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-quarterbacks-kenny-pickett-aidan-o-connell-week-18-vs-chiefs
Appreciate the WSJ essay from Lauren Powell Jobs on Philanthropy/Giving https://www.wsj.com/us-news/laurene-powell-jobs-beware-of-philanthropists-who-want-control-in-exc…
Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald, Eli Manning headline Pro Football Hall of Fame's 15 modern-era finalists
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pro-football…
Pick Six: Quarterbacks Kenny Pickett, Aidan O'Connell to be in rotation in Week 18 https://www.raiders.com/news/pick-six-quarterbacks-kenny-pickett-aidan-o-connell-week-18-vs-chiefs
NFL on Thanksgiving: Post Malone, Lil Jon, Jack White to headline halftimes
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-thanksgiving-post-malone-lil-jon-jack-white-head…
Post Malone set to headline Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show in Dallas https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/post-malone-headlines-cowboys-thanksgiving-show/2211468e41ab99e0c9fc9515…
Just to be clear: this is a publicity stunt.
If there is a working design for a nuclear weapon on the internet (heaven forbid), then LLMs will plagiarize it.
If there isn’t, they’re not going to come up with one.
This is just cheap journalist bait. Every fantastical headline-grabbing “OMG our imitation machine is too dangerous for humanity!!!! (attn: investors)” press release like this is a play for headlines.
NFL Week 12 Team of the Week: Jahmyr Gibbs, Jaxon Smith-Njigba Headline Squad https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/nfl-week-12-team-jahmyr-gibbs-jaxon-smith-njigba
Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-boasts-1-3…
Trey Hendrickson, Alvin Kamara headline 8 notable NFL trade candidates ahead of Nov. 4 deadline https://www.nfl.com/news/trey-hendrickson-alvin-kamara-headline-8-notable-nfl-trade-candidates-ahead-of-nov-4-deadline…
In 1987, a management consultancy concluded that the Netherlands should aim for a coal economy by 2050 ('cheap and abundant'). At Ecofys, we were surprised: can't be, we'd ruin our climate.
CO₂ concentration was at 350 ppm, global temperature increase at 0.6°C.
Now, 38 years later, I read: first tipping point reached.
'A man of the people': Caleb Williams and more of NFL Week 13's top quotes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47159854/nfl-week-13-quotes-caleb-williams-aidan-hutchinson-joe-burrow
Drew Brees, Larry Fitzgerald lead Pro Football Hall of Fame modern era finalists https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/drew-brees-larry-fitzgerald-lead-pro-football-hall-of-fame-modern-era-finalists
NFL Week 17 odds, spreads: Texans-Chargers, Bills-Eagles, Bears-49ers headline Christmas weekend https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6911137/2025/12/22/nfl-week-17-odds-spreads/
As trade deadline looms, loaded 2027 draft class may make NFL teams think twice before parting with picks
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-trade-deadline-2027-draft-class/
Eagles headline monumental NFL weekend with victory; Oklahoma, Georgia pick up crucial SEC wins
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-eagles-broncos-…
NFL Week 13 injury report: Injuries for bettors to know include Baker Mayfield and Aaron Rodgers
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl
'I'm who they been lookin' for': Shedeur Sanders and more of NFL Week 12's top quotes https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47088502/nfl-week-12-quotes-shedeur-sanders-jamarr-chase-dak-prescott
Prisco's Week 12 NFL picks: Predictions for every game as Cowboys-Eagles headline Sunday's slate
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pete-pr
NFL Week 8 injury report: Injuries for bettors to know include Jayden Daniels, Lamar Jackson and A.J. Brown
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl…
NFL Week 12 injury report: Injuries for bettors to know include Joe Burrow, Aaron Rodgers and Josh Jacobs
https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl