I Can Spot AI Writing Instantly — Here’s How You Can Too Evan Edinger Jun 8, 2025 This gets at some of the things I find both annoying and a bit nauseating about synthetic text, that are phrasing techniques so obviously ripped off of very viral influencer writers on Medium, and then amped up.
Month: July 2025
Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania noted to benefit with defense stocks from a war with Iran.
It’s ironic because he campaigned on stopping Congress from trading stocks, and introduced legislation to that effect in May 2025, but he’s continually in a position to be criticized for doing it himself.
The temporary disability issue nobody talks about when they talk about work requirements and means testing.
Temporary health conditions do not necessarily qualify as “disabled” under the Medicaid rules.
Conflict of Interest: Rep. Rob Bresnahan campaigned on stopping congress stock trades and then dumped medicaid-related stock before voting for the big boondoggle bill.
It’s a little ironically insulting because he actually introduced a bill in Congress to supposedly ban stock trades. I guess he has to make a show of it because he campaigned on the issue.
Disguises in casual dress have paved the way for crude and awful law enforcement impersonation.
Seems like this isn’t a good standard to set.
Vaccine uptake is down because vaccine disinformation is well-funded.
There’s no mystery here. Vaccine uptake declined after the start of the pandemic because anti-vax disinformation went mainstream and financial interests against public health protections minimized the threat of covid
The uncanny valley of the AI workplace apocalypse.
To some extent automation always seems to be a bait and switch.
CDC ACIP is a nightmare scenario.
I tuned into the CDC ACIP meeting to hear some woman reading some anti-vax screed rattling on about RSV vaccines a script that sounded like it was written by a chatbot.
Anyone who publishes online, with even a modest audience, is constantly hit with a barrage of “feedback”.
Feedback could be good, but is often bad, and not just bad, but weird bad.
AI Toys. What circle of Hell is this?
I’m sure the toys will come with their own cell data connections to upload the data directly without needing wifi or permission, sort of like the livongo blood pressure devices.
Medical disinformation is to blame for waning vaccine sales and insufficient opposition to the anti-vaxxers in the Trump regime.
The demand for vaccines is down because there have been no real campaigns to get people vaccinated, and yet there have been huge and well funded disinformation campaigns scaring people about vaccines so that they are not making clear-headed risk benefit decisions.
We need public information campaigns on scams.
There’s a public library making video content on this, but we need more. There should be robust funding of libraries to be able to do this, and also just public figures being sent out to warn people about how scams are perpetrated.
“Get over it” typically means “Shut up and go away because I don’t care.”
Mitch Mcconnell literally said people would “get over” losing Medicaid. I don’t think that’s true.
The opposition leverages various things to neutralize effective activism.
These operations sometimes target people who are experts, or people who might be important in some way, because they carry clout. And then they treat them as if they’re very important.
Isn’t posing as a therapist against the law already?
If it’s not, it should be illegal for a company to deploy chatbots that pretend to be licensed therapists.
Say no to the Big Boondoggle Bill privatizing public lands to put corporate welfare pollution in our communities.
They’re trying to ram through “energy dominance” via data center power plants because they know nobody wants our community wrecked, and people are standing up and saying NO.
Peter Thiel is the baddie and Palantir is a company named for an evil surveillance tool.
These tech tycoons seem to have some kind of religion where up is down and nothing makes sense.