Laura Loomer calls for the Trump administration to investigate Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour,...
How The Heck Do Solar Panels Work? “Every hour, the Earth receives enough sunlight to power all of human civilization for a year. It arrives silently, from all directions, at no…
Military Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Murdered Human Trafficking Victims
The US military has engaged in extrajudicial killings via drone strikes since it was first shown this tech could be used to murder people. The War on Terror has given us more than…
Contra Pace on When to Apologize
BOJACK: Hey, I wanted to talk to you about—you know—I feel bad about what happened. HERB: So, you're apologizing. BOJACK: Yes. I'm sorry. HERB: Okay. I don't forgive you. BOJACK:…
The US Government's Anthropic Models Ban Was Never About an AI Jailbreak
TechCrunch's Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government's abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was "never about an AI…
The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!
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Court agrees to hear three new cases, including on the constitutionality of six-person juries
Pluralistic: Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO (13 Jun 2026)
Today's links Shareholder supremacy and the precog CEO: A bright line test that's totally unfalsifiable. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Msft v Linux…
New Film Journacide Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon
We’re seeing the targeting of and double-tap strikes on journalists that we've seen in Gaza, says filmmaker Seán Murray.
NEWS: World Erupts with Iran Deal in Trouble and Italy Blasts Trump all While Trump Declares "I'm the President. You're Not."
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Telescope Ranchers
Rockwood, Texas is home to a unique business, Starfront Observatories . Owner/operator Bray Falls hosts hundreds of other people’s telescopes in perfect conditions — ultra-dark…
How far do open weights trail the frontier?
I saw this Twitter post today and really liked the idea. But I think the AA Index is a rather crude way and much prefer ECI from Epoch , which uses IRT . The resulting graph does…
AI Will Lead To Labor Shortages, Bezos Says In Optimistic Talk
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Artificial Intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a…
The first long-duration resident of the ISS, a cosmonaut, has died
Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.
On Inherent AI Risk: “Extinction-Level Capitalism”
Matthew Butterick is a lawyer, programmer, writer, and designer. He’s written a long, interesting piece about the inherent risks of AI called Extinction-Level Capitalism . It is…
Changes at Education Department Will Leave Many Vulnerable Students at Risk
The Trump administration has taken aggressive new steps this week to shut down the Department of Education.