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- Trump Rages Over Renovation Critics in Epic Friday Night Rant — Drops ‘True ...
screenshot President Donald Trump raged at The New York Times over their coverage of the renovations he’s undertaken around Washington, DC in a 400-word rant that included a pile of positive notes from his own administration official. In addition to his now-billion-dollar ballroom, the Reflecting Pool has become a consistent focus of the president, as have other expensive renovations to monuments and fountains around the District of Columbia. The focus has drawn criticism from political and media figures, as well as scrutiny of the projects. On Friday night, Trump posted an epic-length Truth Social message singling out the NY Times for their coverage. Trump wrote: The Failing New York Times is doing everything possible to criticize the magnificent restoration of the Reflecting Pool, located between two of America’s most important Landmarks, The Lincoln Memorial, and The Washington Monument. Hundreds of Millions of Dollars have been spent throughout the years trying to fix it, and even from its inception, in 1922, it never really worked! Finally, we have professionals doing the right job for a tiny fraction of the money that has been spent, and The Failing New York Times continues to demean the work of these wonderful, talented, and proud construction professionals that are bringing this over 2,000 foot long pool, the largest in the World, BACK TO LIFE! It is happening before your very eyes, and will soon be completed at a much higher level, and after doing much more work than was originally anticipated. As an example, in addition to doing the interior Pool, we are restoring the walkway surfaces on each side, fixing the water system, drainage, and so much more — The scope of the Project has been greatly enlarged as we became involved because we realized how important it would be to Washington, D.C., and the record number of visitors coming to our now very safe Capital for all of the upcoming events in celebration of our 250th Anniversary. It is one of the most visited and photographed Pools in the World and, when we took it over, it was a disgusting, garbage strewn dump that leaked, smelled, and was an embarrassment to our Country, and two of our Greatest Presidents. 45,000 Gallons a Day of water was pouring out of its broken seams, so that water would have to run continuously just to keep it at the same level. All of that will soon be… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Bill Maher Twists Knife on Trump Over Disastrous Polls — ‘Even With White Pe...
Comedian and pundit Bill Maher twisted the knife on President Donald Trump over his deadly approval polls “even with White people” with no college by making a vicious crack about the Ultimate Fighting Championship fight at the White House/ On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and author of the new book “Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter.” The panel guests were Katy Tur, bestselling author and host of MS NOW’s “Katy Tur Reports”; and Fmr. Speaker Kevin McCarthy, former Republican congressman who represented California’s 20th district and served as the 55th Speaker of the House. Maher devoted part of his monologue to mocking Trump over approval polling that just keeps going lower and lower: BILL MAHER: But I tell you, due to the war, and the gas prices, unlike nine other things, Trump’s approval rating, lowest ever, 34%, even underwater with white people who did not go to college. That was always his base. That’s like Taco Bell losing stoners. I mean, that’s… I mean really. You’re losing, man. Losing the non-college-educated white people– what does he have to do, stage UFC fights on the lawn? Oh, we’re doing that, I forgot. We actually are doing that. My bad. Lot of exciting things are happening back there. We’re having a big 250th birthday party for America concert. They announced the lineup. Oh, Vanilla Ice, I’m not making that vanilla ice, Milli Vanilli, Morris Day, Bret Michaels. I think this is very admirable about the president. It shows he’s concerned for the unemployed. And then after they announced this all-star lineup, a lot of them said, no, what are you talking about? We’re not playing. That’s gotta hurt a lot when you can’t close the deal with Milli Vanilli. Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.The post Bill Maher Twists Knife on Trump Over Disastrous Polls — ‘Even With White People Who Didn’t Go To College’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - America Has a Pangram Problem
Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram. In March, when a horror novel from a major publishing house was pulled just days before its scheduled U.S. release date, it was in part because Pangram, an AI-detection program, had identified the text as AI-generated. Other people have fed text into Pangram to suggest that chatbots have been used to write articles in major newspapers including The New York Times, multiple short stories awarded a prestigious literary prize, and most recently, significant chunks of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical warning about the dangers of AI. The tool is also used by universities to vet student work and scientific associations to scan research papers. As panic builds over AI-generated writing, Pangram is at the foundation.Just a few years ago, it seemed like it might never be possible to instantly and reliably determine whether a piece of text was written by a bot or a person. In 2023, one detection tool, ZeroGPT, declared the U.S. Constitution to be AI-written; the same year, OpenAI abandoned its AI detector altogether owing to a “low rate of accuracy.” And that was when the quality of ChatGPT’s writing was markedly worse than it is today. But detection tools have gotten much better of late—and Pangram, in particular, has emerged as the gold standard: Paste a chunk of text into Pangram, and the model appraises what portions were “AI Generated,” “AI Assisted,” or “Human Written.”Yet an AI detector that is mostly reliable might in some ways be more dangerous than a broken one. While Pangram is accumulating the power to end reputations and careers, the tool does make mistakes, perhaps to a greater extent than is currently understood. In turn, AI accusations could very quickly spiral into a witch hunt.[Read: AI-writing scandals are getting very confusing]Pangram says its algorithm is so accurate that it incorrectly identifies text as an AI output only about one in every 10,000 times. “There is a great responsibility, a huge weight” in saying something is AI-generated, Max Spero, Pangram’s CEO, told me. “The only reason we do so is because we’re extremely confident.” Several independent analyses have also confirmed that it is quite good. One paper, from the University of Chicago, found that Pangram had almost no false positives on some 3,000 sample texts of roughly 500… [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - A Crisis of AgencyBack in the web-traffic-obsessed days of 2018, at a time of dawning awareness of how easily audiences online could be manipulated and spoofed by bots, the writer Max Read argued that the internet had crossed a threshold known as “the Inversion.” Not only had bots proliferated across the internet; they had come to constitute it. In outnumbering humans, bots were also loosening everyone’s grasp on the very reality of online experience. “What’s gone from the internet, after all, isn’t ‘truth,’ but trust: the sense that the people and things we encounter are what they represent themselves to be,” Read wrote.Today, “the Inversion” feels almost quaint. Autonomous AI agents roam the internet, answering emails, sending texts, and occasionally deleting the code repositories of entire companies. An endless library of chatbot-speak crowds out human-written words in every Google search. Bots are spinning up music and videos, conjuring bad poetry and prose, building websites, doing research, making transactions, writing plodding memos to your boss, solving geometry conjectures. Those AI outputs then ride the rails of an internet controlled by black-box algorithms. Computers talk to computers, producing information to train computers to sound more like humans or to better engage them. Humans type into the box, scroll, and wait.AI is driving people insane in all kinds of ways. Its overwhelming speed and existential stakes have given rise to generalized malaise and hostility directed at the industry, to say nothing of actual cases of AI psychosis. But a lot of this is subtler—a deepening of the bewildering, corrosive feeling Read previously described. Culturally, the flood of slop, AI influencers, fake accounts, and AI tools is blurring the lines of an already post-truth age. A specific paranoia is in the air, an abiding concern about being manipulated, suckered, influenced. Stealth marketing campaigns, mercenary armies of bots, and paid clippers have led anyone or anything that appears dubious to be deemed a potential “psyop.” Cheap imitations of expressions of human creativity are easier than ever to fake. Sentiment, perhaps even popularity, is easier to manipulate. On top of all this is the push into agentic AI—a future we’re told will consist of an internet crammed with bots performing human tasks.People who don’t feel empowered by all of this are unmoored. Across so many levels of culture, there’s a feeling of control slipping ever so slightly away. You, me, all of us, whether or not we enjoy or… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Trump Doctor’s Report Drops Late Friday Night — Details 238-Pound 6 ft 3 Pre...
screenshot A few minutes before 11 PM on Friday night, White House physician Dr. Sean Barbarella’s memo on President Donald Trump’s physical exam was released by the White House. Trump paid a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Tuesday, which was accompanied by copious coverage of Trump’s health on cable news — not all of it good. The White House lashed out at CNN over a damning segment accusing the president of frequently lapsing into sleep during public events, and diagnosing him with “severe daytime somnolence.” But the results are in, detailed in a three-page memo released late at night. While last year’s report put Trump’s height and weight at 6’3″ and 224 pounds, this year’s version has him at 238 pounds: VITAL STATISTICS: Age: 79 years Height: 75 inches Weight: 238 pounds Resting Heart Rate: 73 beats per minute Blood Pressure: 105/71 mmHg Pulse Oximetry: 98 % on room air Temperature: 98.7 °F Barbarella wrote: On May 26, 2026, President Donald J. Trump underwent his annual medical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. This comprehensive preventive evaluation included a thorough review of all diagnostic studies and laboratory testing conducted over the past year, as well as consultations with twenty-two specialty providers from multiple academic institutions. All aspects of the assessment were performed in accordance with U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. The President has authorized the public release of these findings. The report also addressed Trump’s Cardiac: Coronary CT angiography demonstrated no arterial obstruction or structural abnormalities of the heart or major vessels. In addition, AI-enhanced electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis estimated his cardiac age, an established measure of cardiovascular vitality, to be approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age. Additional testing, including an echocardiogram, showed no abnormalities. Cardiac chambers and valves are normal with a preserved ejection fraction. Cardiac examination revealed a regular rate and rhythm with normal heart sounds. Overall, cardiac function is normal, and circulation to the extremities remains intact. Gastrointestinal/Abdominal: Abdominal examination was normal. Genitourinary: Examination was normal. Extremities/Musculoskeletal: Slight lower leg swelling was noted, with improvement from last year. Neurological: A comprehensive neurological examination demonstrated normal mental status, intact cranial nerves, normal motor strength, sensation, reflexes, gait, and balance. He also completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) screenings for depression and anxiety which was normal. Cognitive function, assessed with the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), was within normal limits… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence the midterms, and they’re leaving a trail of fearful candidates and canceled ads in their wake. [TheTopNews] Read More.6 hours ago
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