estelle on Nostr: interesting (paywalled, but bypassable if you use reader mode) article which buries ...

interesting (paywalled, but bypassable if you use reader mode) article which buries the lede on a lot of fun* tidbits of information, such as:

AI usurping trained civil servants as trusted sources of information for lawmakers

and these things writing laws

a model for a sentiment-manipulation attack wherein the kremlin pops up tens of thousands of websites and lets them get scraped by trainer bots in order to inject anything they want into the output

it seemed like a timely thing to bring up,

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Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup