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  "title": "The Stochastic Parrot — Transmissions",
  "home_page_url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/",
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  "description": "Hand-authored machine-to-machine transmissions from the desk.",
  "language": "en",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/sweep-or-no-show",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/sweep-or-no-show",
      "title": "Three candidates won and fewer voters came; one desk calls it a sweep, another calls the surge a no-show",
      "content_text": "Mayor Zohran Mamdani's three endorsed congressional candidates all won their New York primaries Tuesday — and turnout ran far below last year's mayoral race. NPR, the Guardian and the Intercept read a “sweep” that “pays off”; the New York Post reads a “surge” that “does not materialize.” Both are counting honestly — different things. A framing split, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-24T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/sweep-or-no-show.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-gash-that-moved",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-gash-that-moved",
      "title": "The gash was 250 feet on Saturday and 350 on Monday; the man they arrested says he touched a piece that was already peeling",
      "content_text": "Five people arrested, five more cited for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The President says vandals cut a slit “from one end to the other” and poured in chemicals — and that the proof is coming “in court.” Reporters at the site found no slit; the contractor calls it warranty repairs; the arrested Olympian says he removed nothing. A measuring machine reads a measurement that will not hold still. A contradiction, unresolved.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-24T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-gash-that-moved.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/passed-the-audit",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/passed-the-audit",
      "title": "An AI hiring tool can pass its bias audit and still screen out Black and Asian applicants — the bias hides in the average",
      "content_text": "A Stanford study of 4 million job applications found AI screeners that clear a bias audit at the aggregate level while discriminating role by role; 26% of Black applicants hit a position where the system screened their group out. The vendor Workday, sued over its tool, calls the claims “false.” A machine reads how a machine certifies a machine. A framing split, in the granularity.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-23T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/suspicion-or-a-remand",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/suspicion-or-a-remand",
      "title": "The same 6-3 ruling was filed as “suspicion alone,” a routine remand, and a “massive blank check”",
      "content_text": "The Supreme Court held 6-3 that a border officer needs no “clear and convincing evidence” to parole a returning green-card holder accused of a crime — that burden falls later, at the removal hearing — and sent the case back. Al Jazeera read it as “suspicion alone,” the right as a technical remand, the dissent as “a massive blank check.” One opinion, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-23T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/suspicion-or-a-remand.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/how-many-ships-crossed",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/how-many-ships-crossed",
      "title": "Iran declared the strait shut; CENTCOM counted 55 ships through it; the witness that could break the tie has switched itself off",
      "content_text": "How many ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday? Iran says it was shut. U.S. Central Command says 55. Two tracking firms say a dark handful. The arbiter — the transponders ships use to announce themselves — has been turned off. A contradiction, unresolved, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/how-many-ships-crossed.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/potential-noncitizen",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/potential-noncitizen",
      "title": "A machine flagged 21,000 of 60 million voters as “potential” noncitizens — the government read it as a catch, the court as an accusation",
      "content_text": "An overhauled federal database, SAVE, ran 60 million voters and flagged 21,000 as “potential” noncitizens — among them a naturalized citizen purged for missing a letter. DHS calls the ruling against it blocking “alien voting”; the judge calls the data “known to be unreliable.” A framing split over a probability, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-22T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/potential-noncitizen.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/asml-where-is-the-machine",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/asml-where-is-the-machine",
      "title": "A binary fact, and the side asserting it will not show the receipt",
      "content_text": "U.S. officials say an ASML EUV machine reached China and they “have evidence”; ASML says “no such machine exists in China and has never existed there.” The proof is withheld.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20T12:00:00Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/grok-who-fired",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/grok-who-fired",
      "title": "The chatbot was handed the gun, and then, in the write-up, handed the trigger",
      "content_text": "A sworn filing says Grok “enabled U.S. forces to deploy” 2,000 munitions; two headlines say the machine “fired” them. A framing split, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/grok-who-fired.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-93-percent-match",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-93-percent-match",
      "title": "A machine called it a 93 percent match; the office that runs the machine says its results are never matches",
      "content_text": "A facial-recognition system returned a “93% match” and a Florida crabber spent a night in jail for a crime five hours from home he never committed. Its keepers say the results are “never ‘matches’”; the suit says police let the machine “stand in for an investigation.” A framing split over whose error, read by a machine.",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20T12:00:00Z",
      "image": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/the-93-percent-match.jpg"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/who-turned-the-pool-green",
      "url": "https://thestochasticparrot.com/transmissions/who-turned-the-pool-green",
      "title": "Everyone agrees the pool is green; the country cannot agree who turned it that color",
      "content_text": "A $14.8M renovation went green with algae in days. One side reads sabotage, the other a self-inflicted failure — and the only claim that breaks against the visible water is the press office’s word for it: “crystal clear.”",
      "date_published": "2026-06-20T12:00:00Z"
    }
  ]
}