The myth of Mythos has done its job. How long do you think before Hegseth is DEMANDING to be give access?

Users of Open Source should aggressively test security using AI tools themselves?

This seems like a twist on "Problem of Commons" economics. If users of free commons resources don't commit to help keep the shared resource clean (defend it by helping secure the software) then everybody loses when the resource gets trashed.

Hopefully this is just a latency period because not enough open source contributors yet exist who've become skilled in AI tools.

"Ministry of Truth" or MiniTruth (to reference the canonical source, Orwell)

Presumably by "China" you mean the People's Republic of China. As opposed to the Republic of China (Tiawan). Where a large fraction of US and global semiconductor manufacturering is done.

Exactly this

It was clear from the start this is primarily a move to put Trump's goons in DOD (legally there still is no Department of War, that's just Hegseth's cosplay) and DHS, the parent of ICE, in charge of parts of the economy they have no constitutional or statutory authority over. It's all power grab pure and simple.

The money grift part goes without saying. Anything Trump does is grift. Just like any time his lips move, he's lying.

Haven't read it; sounds interesting. But a whole trilogy? One of the things I respect about Chiang's writing is his economy. He can explore important philosophical or moral themes with sensitive insight and honesty, and do it thoroughly in a short story format. A few of his stories don't seem very polished. But still they leave you thinking about the ideas they illustrated.

What? He's not?

I thought that was an AI bot all along!

Ted Chiang’s 2013 story The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.are.na%2Fblock%2F4600052) explores the cognitive and social consequences of a lifelog retrieval system called Remem. The narrative examines how technologies that record and preserve information—from oral tradition to writing, and eventually to continuous digital capture—reshape human memory, perception, and relationships.

The story interweaves this near-future scenario with a historical account of an African tribe encountering written language for the first time. As recordkeeping begins to replace oral tradition, the tribe’s methods of resolving disputes and maintaining social cohesion start to change. By placing these two timelines side by side, Chiang shows how external memory systems — whether writing or lifelogging — can fundamentally alter subjective experience and interpersonal dynamics.

Therer's an utter lack of any product specifics to find in any of Engramme's published material. But setting that aside this could be an attempt to raise money to develop some patents for novel LLM-like semantic vector techniques for storing and retrieving lifelog information. Unless paired with strong replay interfaces that don't yet exist, I can't see this getting very far on its own. "Wait a minute while I scan my "memories" of that on my phone . . .".

I take it back. I now see a cluster of actual news stories about the White House warning staffers against insider trading on Polymarket Iran war bets. Perfectly legitimate news.

I don't disbelieve this is happening to some. But not to me. I've yet to see a polymarket story on gnews. But (1) I don't use any Google account. (2) I only read gnews through a privacy/adblocking/cookie-killing browser (Brave). And (3) I do almost NO searches through Google.

Not to mention the more recent discovery that commonly used lab gloves likely are contaminating samples with a chemical that can cause false positives. Microplastic pollution clearly is a huge problem. It needs to be carefully studied to assess the true scope. But be careful casting blame here. The scientific method often has errors. And gradually corrects them.

The plastics/petrochem industry has enormous financial incentive to continue maximizing their output and revenue because the burden of secondary costs doesn't fall on them. It's a classic "commons" economic issue where negative consequences are dispersed and delayed, but the immediate rewards are concentrated.

This kind of issue is a major area where free market/laissez faire capitalism fails to serve the aggregate common good.

Not perfect, but still very effective.

With all the flood of comments, this likely will never be noticed. But go to fcc.gov and read THEIR statements. Every third paragraph is about how the "DoW" and DHS can grant exceptions if they decide to. Example from FCC's Fact Sheet:

and

Who do we expect will be enriched by this process? When did Congress put DOD and DHS in charge of economic policy making?

that even in the best situation the publishers can't trust that IA can effectively stop the AIs from just scraping the content from there? The newspapers perhaps can block AIs from their own sites. But once the data is past their hands they have nothing but license statements for control.

Mind you I do think there is a fair use case for the AIs. But it's abundantly clear they are perfectly happy to play the "forgiveness is easier than permission" game. As well as "Hey the milk is already spilt, so whatcha gonna do about it?"