Elon Musk Celebrated Imminent Trillionaire Status by Stoking Pogroms in Belfast
Dozens of people have been burned out of their homes after Musk used X to incite anti-immigrant mobs in Ireland.
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The VCs Who Screamed That Biden Would Kill Powerful AI Models Seem Quite Chill About Trump Actually Doing It
Late Friday, Anthropic shut down access to its just-released Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after the Trump administration slapped export controls on them — treating cutting-edge AI,…
Fascists and Football: How Italy's Mussolini and Argentina's Junta Turned the World Cup Authoritarian
The Dark Side of the World Cup, Episode 2: Mehdi goes back to 1934 and 1978 to show how those World Cups were used by Italy and Argentina to cover up torture, genocide and the…
FBI Issues Urgent Kali365 Security Warning For Teams, Outlook, OneDrive Users
alternative_right shares a report from The Hill: The FBI released an urgent security warning to the public about a fast-acting scam targeting Microsoft 365 users on Teams, Outlook…
June 12, 2026
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Scaling Hypothesis #2: Are Humans Just More Over-Parameterized?
(2024-04-21) There are many mysteries about deep learning and human intelligence, but we could describe the biggest anomaly this way: why are artificial neural nets smart in such…
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like:...
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech . Like: “4. Please, please stop asking me to verify my humanity by clicking on tiny motorcycles.” and “35. To Mark Zuckerberg,…
Alabama responds to court’s order on nitrogen gas execution
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Nonconsensual Drug Testing Has Criminalized Tens of Thousands of Pregnant People
New York can’t squander another chance to protect pregnant people from criminalization.
Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress
Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.
IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills
"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The…
Predicting LLM Safety Before Release by Simulating Deployment
Paper link Before releasing a new model, labs need to understand not just what it can do, but how it is likely to behave in real-world use, including where it might introduce new…
Flock Is The New Tool Of Choice For Cops Who Love Stalking Their Exes
Cops are human beings. Despite constantly pretending they’re on a higher plane (see also: Thin Blue Line, etc.), they’re just as fallible as anyone else. Especially now. This…