Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 16720 |
Comments: 1795
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended a video shared by Donald Trump that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, calling the widespread condemnation 'fake outrage.' The AI-generated video, which portrayed Trump as a lion and other Democrats as various animals, was widely criticized as racist.
Key Points:
Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama with their heads superimposed on animated apes.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the criticism as 'fake outrage,' describing the video as an internet meme from 'The Lion King.'
The video also portrayed other Democratic figures as animals, all bowing to Trump as the 'King of the Jungle.'
The video was created by a content creator known as 'Xerias,' who also made a prior controversial AI clip shared by Trump.
The video was widely condemned, with figures like California Governor Gavin Newsom calling it 'disgusting' and demanding Republican denouncement.
"Leavitt, however, called the outrage around Trump’s post 'fake.' In a statement to Newsweek and other outlets, Leavitt said: 'This is from an internet meme video depicting President Trump as the King of the Jungle and Democrats as characters from ‘The Lion King.’'"
Trump Condemned Over 'Racist' And 'Disgusting' Video Of Obamas: 'There's No Bottom'
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 11752 |
Comments: 597
Former President Donald Trump faced widespread condemnation after sharing a video on his Truth Social platform that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as primates. Critics, including California Governor Gavin Newsom's office, denounced the post as racist and disgusting, while Trump's press secretary defended it as a meme. The incident reignited criticism of Trump's history of promoting racist conspiracy theories about Obama.
Key Points:
Donald Trump shared a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as a cartoon chimpanzee and gorilla.
The video was widely condemned as racist and disgusting by critics, including politicians and commentators.
Trump's press secretary defended the post as an internet meme depicting Trump as the 'King of the Jungle'.
The incident references Trump's long history of promoting the racist 'birther' conspiracy theory against Barack Obama.
Critics argued the post shows 'there's no bottom' to Trump's behavior and called for universal Republican condemnation.
"Trump, for years, boosted the baseless and racist birther theory that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and was therefore an illegitimate president."
Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 11744 |
Comments: 409
A federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk must be deposed in a lawsuit brought by former USAID employees and contractors. They accuse Musk, as former head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), of illegally dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development. The Justice Department attempted to shield Musk from testifying, citing separation-of-powers concerns, but the judge rejected that argument.
Key Points:
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled that 'extraordinary circumstances justify' compelling Elon Musk and two former USAID officials to be deposed.
Former USAID employees are suing Musk, accusing him of illegally dismantling the aid agency while he led the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
The Justice Department argued that forcing Musk to testify would intrude on White House activities and raise separation-of-powers concerns, but the judge noted Musk wasn't a Cabinet secretary or agency head with clear legal protection.
The judge cited Musk's many posts on X bragging about shutting down USAID as evidence he has 'personal, first-hand knowledge' relevant to the case.
A study cited in the article claims USAID's dismantling could lead to 14 million more deaths by 2030, following an estimated 91 million deaths prevented in the prior 20 years.
"According to a study from The Lancet, USAID had prevented an estimated 91 million deaths in the past 20 years, including those of 30 million children under the age of 5. Now, with the agency in shambles, 14 million more people might die by 2030."
Trump Frantically Blames ‘Staffer’ for His Racist Obama Video
Posted on r/politics |
Score: 10553 |
Comments: 1075
President Donald Trump posted a racist video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, sparking widespread condemnation. After 12 hours and backlash from allies like Senator Tim Scott, the post was removed with a White House official blaming a 'staffer' for the 'erroneous' post. The article details the incident and the political fallout, noting Trump's history of racially charged rhetoric.
Key Points:
Trump posted a racist video on Truth Social superimposing the Obamas' faces onto animated apes.
After 12 hours of backlash, including from Republican allies, the post was removed and a staffer was blamed.
White House press secretary initially defended the post as a meme, calling media outrage 'fake'.
Senator Tim Scott and other Republicans broke ranks to condemn the video as 'racist' and demand its removal.
The article contextualizes the incident within Trump's history of racially charged rhetoric and actions.
"But comparisons of Black people to apes or monkeys have long been used by white supremacists and extremist groups, making the imagery especially incendiary given the president’s history of racially charged rhetoric."
Anthropic built a C compiler using a "team of parallel agents", has problems compiling hello world.
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 2330 |
Comments: 625
Anthropic researchers used a team of 16 parallel Claude AI agents to autonomously build a functional C compiler in Rust, capable of compiling the Linux kernel. The project, costing $20,000, tested a new 'agent teams' approach for long-running, unsupervised software development. The article focuses on the lessons learned about designing systems to enable and coordinate multiple AI agents working on a complex shared codebase.
Key Points:
Researchers created a system where 16 Claude AI agents worked in parallel without human intervention to build a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler.
The compiler successfully compiled Linux kernel version 6.9 for x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures after nearly 2,000 sessions.
A key innovation was a harness that kept agents in an infinite loop, allowing sustained autonomous progress by having them pick the 'next most obvious' task.
A simple file-based locking system synchronized the agents' work on a shared git repository, though merge conflicts were frequent.
The experiment revealed that most effort must go into designing the environment and tests that allow AI agents to understand how to make progress autonomously.
"The scaffolding runs Claude in a loop, but that loop is only useful if Claude can tell how to make progress. Most of my effort went into designing the environment around Claude—t"
I built an app to remove this sub from your feed on vibe-code-Fridays!
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 205 |
Comments: 72
The article is a short, humorous post where the author claims to have built an app to filter out a specific subreddit on 'vibe-code-Fridays,' but immediately reveals it was a joke. The entire content is a playful prank with no actual application or development discussed.
Key Points:
The author jokingly claims to have created an app for content filtering.
The stated purpose was to remove a subreddit from one's feed on specific days.
The claim is immediately retracted as a joke within the same sentence.
The article is intentionally misleading for humorous effect.
No real software, solution, or substantive discussion is presented.
ReadMeABook v1.0.0 - Audiobook automation for Plex & Audiobookshelf (Overseerr + Sonarr, but for audiobooks)
Posted on r/selfhosted |
Score: 122 |
Comments: 83
ReadMeABook v1.0.0 is a newly released, open-source automation system for managing audiobook libraries, similar to Overseerr and Sonarr but purpose-built for audiobooks. It integrates with Plex and Audiobookshelf to automate the entire process from request to download, organization, and library scanning. The tool supports torrents and Usenet, offers features like chapter merging and e-book sidecars, and is deployed as a single Docker container.
Key Points:
Automates the full audiobook pipeline: request, search, download, organization, and library scan.
Supports both Plex and Audiobookshelf, with torrent (qBittorrent) and Usenet (SABnzbd) integration via Prowlarr.
Includes advanced features like AI-powered recommendations (BookDate), chapter merging into M4B, and e-book sidecar downloads.
Designed for multi-user setups with request approval workflows and OIDC authentication support.
Deployed as a single Docker container with an embedded database (PostgreSQL/Redis) for easy setup.
"Think Overseerr/Jellyseerr + Radarr/Sonarr, but purpose-built for audiobooks. Request a book, and it handles the rest: searches indexers, downloads, organizes files, and triggers a library scan. Done."
Token Smuggling:How Non-Standard Encoding Bypass AI Security
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 36 |
Comments: 4
The article describes 'Token Smuggling,' a technique for bypassing AI security filters by encoding malicious inputs in ways that evade simple text-matching guardrails but remain interpretable to the Large Language Model (LLM). It exploits the discrepancy between how filters scan raw strings and how the LLM's tokenizer processes text. Attackers use methods like Unicode homoglyphs and Base64 encoding to smuggle banned semantic concepts past defenses.
Key Points:
Token Smuggling exploits the 'Filter-Tokenizer Gap,' where security filters check raw text strings, but LLMs process tokens, allowing disguised inputs to pass.
Unicode and homoglyph smuggling uses visually identical or invisible characters (e.g., Cyrillic 'а') to break banned word patterns for filters but not for the LLM.
Encoding wrappers like Base64 and Hex leverage the LLM's training on code to understand encoded commands that filters do not decode and check.
The core vulnerability is that LLMs can 'fix' or decode these obfuscated inputs in their latent space, executing the intended malicious instruction.
This technique enables Prompt Injection and Jailbreak attacks, posing a persistent threat to standard AI safety systems.
"This is Token Smuggling: Smuggling a semantic concept past a lexical filter."
Compensating existing landowners is both possible and necessary for Georgism to be politically viable
Posted on r/georgism |
Score: 17 |
Comments: 33
The article argues that implementing a Georgist land value tax (LVT) without compensating existing landowners is politically unviable, as it would cause immediate financial harm. It proposes a compensation scheme using government bonds to offset the loss in land value, allowing for a high LVT to be introduced. The author contends that the resulting economic efficiency gains would accelerate growth and help recoup the compensation costs.
Key Points:
A high land value tax without compensation is politically unrealistic because it would devalue property and harm homeowners.
A proposed solution is to issue Treasury bonds to landowners equal to their land's value, then implement a maximum LVT.
The compensation cost could be recouped in roughly 21 years under conservative estimates, but faster growth from LVT's efficiency gains would likely shorten this period.
LVT incentivizes development, reduces urban sprawl, and could replace more harmful taxes, boosting overall economic growth.
Governments could also purchase land before upzoning or public investment to capture the resulting increase in land value for the public.
"Taxing underutilized land and removing taxes on improvements would incentivize development and reduce economically draining urban sprawl, thus radically increase economic efficiency and growth, which would not only raise land values and the revenue from LVT, but also raise the revenue generated from other taxes."
I Reverse Engineered Medium.com’s Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Really Work
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 17 |
Comments: 1
The article argues that the traditional '5-paragraph essay' structure taught in schools is fundamentally flawed for real-world writing. It stifles critical thinking by forcing arguments into a rigid, repetitive format, ultimately producing formulaic and unconvincing work. The author advocates for teaching flexible, audience-aware writing strategies instead.
Key Points:
The 5-paragraph essay formula (intro, three body paragraphs, conclusion) is a rigid teaching tool that doesn't reflect authentic writing.
Its structure promotes repetition over development, forcing writers to state their argument three times without meaningful progression.
The format discourages critical thinking by prioritizing a preset structure over organic analysis and evidence-based reasoning.
Real-world writing is flexible and audience-driven, requiring adaptation that the 5-paragraph formula cannot provide.
Educators should replace this formula with instruction on building coherent paragraphs and tailoring structure to purpose and audience.
"The five-paragraph essay is a tool. It’s a tool that’s designed to help students pass exams, not to help them think. And that’s the real problem: it teaches students that writing is about following a formula, not about communicating ideas."
The author expresses frustration with the r/askeconomics subreddit, accusing it of dismissing the affordability crisis and being dominated by biased economic ideologies. They imply the subreddit's responses are unreliable due to the influence of neoclassical or Austrian economic perspectives.
Key Points:
The author is dissatisfied with the answers provided on the r/askeconomics subreddit.
They claim the subreddit denies the existence of an affordability crisis.
They accuse the subreddit of being run by proponents of neoclassical economics.
They further accuse it of being influenced by Austrian school economists, which they view even more negatively.
The overall tone suggests a belief that the subreddit is ideologically biased and not providing objective analysis.
"They deny the affordability crisis and I just think it is run by neoclassical or (worse) Austrian Econ shills."