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the Artificial State

The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State (w/ Jill Lepore) | TCHR

Jill Lepore

ChrisHedgesReport

“Schachnovelle”

DeepSeek thinks it’s Claude

An AI that doesn’t know who it is turned out to be a fingerprint of industrial-scale model distillation – and the ethics are more complicated than anyone wants to admit.

Useful Machines

I started with Odysseus prompt:  I can’t select deepseek-v4.1-flash:latest in my Add API Models, Confused?
ollama run deepseek-v4.1-flash:cloud ? – name or place + new tokens – ?

Linux (35)

Linux: 35 years in 35 facts in 35 minutes

linux.org

linuxfoundation.org

A Stack of Sparks

NVIDIA didn’t want me to do this

It’s just a jump to the left:

I’m always flipping between models
GPT for research,
Claude for coding,
Nano Banana for image generation,
VEO,  Kling and Runway for video

The DJX Spark isn’t the only player in town

House of El

AI Isn’t The Future. It’s History Repeating Itself

House of El – AI

AI Chatbots

AI Chatbots: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Last Week Tonight

An international list of suicide hotlines, crisis lines, and helplines. In times of need, reach for the phone. You have nothing to lose. Kindness, care, and understanding makes a difference. Call now.

Clickbait

Grok:

This YouTube video, titled **”1 MIN AGO: 1,872 Tractors CRASH London Streets — Government in Panic | News UK”**, comes from the channel “British core”. It was uploaded very recently (around December 11, 2025) and has only a handful of views and likes so far.

### Content Overview
It’s a sensational, narrated video depicting a dramatic (and likely fictional or heavily exaggerated) scenario of a massive farmer protest in London. Farmers supposedly drive **1,872 tractors**, hundreds of trucks, and even vintage tanks into the city to blockade streets, Whitehall, Downing Street, and the M25 orbital motorway. The protest targets a controversial **20% levy** (possibly referring to inheritance tax changes on farms in the UK budget).

The narrative escalates quickly:
– Supply chains collapse
– Supermarkets run out of food
– Fuel stations empty
– Hospitals face disruptions
– Masked groups join in with violence against police

The UK government (under Keir Starmer) is portrayed as completely paralyzed and on the verge of crisis, with warnings of potential starvation in London within 48 hours and calls for martial law.

This style is typical of clickbait “breaking news” channels that use AI-generated or stock footage with over-the-top voice-over to hype hypothetical or minor events into apocalyptic stories for views. As of today (December 15, 2025), there’s no evidence of any real large-scale tractor siege paralyzing London like this—UK farmer protests have happened over tax changes, but nothing on this fictional scale.

If you’re sharing it for the drama or memes, it’s entertaining in a dystopian fiction kind of way, but definitely not reliable news! What did you think of it?

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