Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
http://www.techmeme.com/260404/p10#a260404p10

This is why you can’t trust Europeans with their regulations, they are just as corrupt as the Americans. And I love regulation, but the politicians that end up calling the shots are as stupid, tainted and corrupt as our trumpian overlords.

We truly are ruled by crooks.

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/eu-us-sanctions-gaza-russia

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@stefanmuelller/116251893771693353

Just saw this today: the US national archives have published the member lists of the NSDAP in searchable form, making it (somewhat) easy to find out if one's (great-)grandparents were Nazi party members.

As half-known, half-expected, both of my grandfathers signed up when they were 17, in 1943/44 respectively. And at least one of them never regretted that and kept spouting the same shit till the day he died, which is why antifascism starts at home.

„In kleineren Ortschaften könnte das auch heute noch für Ärger sorgen,“

Na, schon geguckt? Die #NSDAP-Mitgliedskartei ist jetzt offen zugänglich.

https://www.taz.de/!6163716

#Nazis

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/116174381733551327

Yup, so looks like Rutger Bregman is an advocate-turned-corporate shill:

> Years ago, Bregman gained popularity for criticizing philanthropy as as a self-serving loophole the rich use to avoid paying taxes, but today his non-profit appears to be openly enticing wealthy philanthropists with promises of tax benefits.

I don't know who's heading up Anthropic's marketing/public relations department, but whoever it is, they know the system very well.

https://open.substack.com/pub/timschwab/p/he-built-a-brand-criticizing-billionaires