Claro y Directo America host: “We'll turn our elections into the whores of the entire world. Here, anyone who wants to can vote. Whoever can afford the ticket, come and vote.”
EPA Punts Microplastics Monitoring as Scientists Warn of Health Impacts
Trump's administration omitted microplastics from a list of pollutants for local utilities to monitor in drinking water.
AIPAC Exposed: Mehdi Speaks to Authors of New Book on the Israel Lobby
Co-authors Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick discuss AIPAC’s ‘toxic’ issue, why the U.S. can never say no to Israel, and their efforts to change the U.S.-Israel relationship.
NEWS: Trump Fled an Iran Assassination Plot in a Catering Truck. Now He Won't Rule Out Seizing America's Elections. A Major Update.
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August 10, 2026
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Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those...
Some of the most storied problems in mathematics, those posed by Paul Erdős, are being solved by LLMs .
Is Alignment Even Falsifiable? Middle Alignment, An Alignment Taxonomy, and Breaking The Problem Down Into Steps
Preface This is part of a series of essays on corrigibility and alignment attempting to formulate an understanding of what makes alignment seem intractable, and how a pragmatic…
Not Ready For Prime Time: The Current State Of Legal Ethics And AI
I’ve been presenting at UC Law San Francisco Lexlab Law and AI certificate program its past several sessions, as well as some law school classes, on whether lawyers’ use of AI…
Policy experts: Europe stuck between "rock and a hard place" on launch
It turns out that the economics of rocket reuse are pretty, pretty good.
Behind the Blog: Endless Scam Parade
This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify's AI move.
Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Cosmic Object: a Black Hole 'Star'
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say they may have found a new class of object: a "black hole star," in which a black hole is wrapped in dense gas and radiates in…
Donald Trump Just Became The World’s Most Famous Anti-Vaxxer Nonsense Peddler
When it comes to the bullshit, batshit-crazy anti-vaxxer movement that currently has the United States in its un-scientific grip, I’ve focused most of my attention on RFK Jr. And,…
LLMs have the capacity for self-imposed steganography
Overview This is my writeup for my BlueDot Impact - Technical AI Safety Project. In this project I aimed to demonstrate that there is capacity for LLMs to take on steganography…
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish...
Good sentence : “The market’s most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the…