DOJ Expands Executive Privilege to Include Trump’s Talks With Private Citizens
The opinion from the DOJ comes just one day after Todd Blanche was sworn in as attorney general.
White House Reportedly Lobbied to Keep Accused Abuser Rep. Max Miller in Race
One official suggested that Miller staying in the race seemed inevitable after he compared himself to Trump.
North Carolina Teen Was Arrested for Allegedly Self-Managing an Abortion
Abortion bans have always been about criminalizing the pregnant person.
Amid Measles Outbreak, Trump Signs Order Furthering Anti-Vaccine Movement
“Nothing bad can happen from what we’re doing,” Trump claimed, ignoring warnings from health experts.
Fox News has spent over 13 1/2 hours waging a WNBA culture war this summer
Fox News has filled its summer programming with extensive coverage of the WNBA, airing at least 206 segments on the league and its players largely aimed at stoking culture war…
ICE Stationed Undercover Agent Outside of Ilhan Omar Town Hall Meeting, She Says
The incident happened just days before Minnesota’s primary election.
As Foodborne Illnesses Surge, People Turn to Local Farms for Certainty
Black farmers see a rise in support as cyclospora and salmonella outbreaks drive concerns over industrial food systems.
New Poll Shows Strong Support for Proportional Representation Among Americans
Support for proportional representation appears to grow the more people understand what it is.
Introducing the Conceptual Reasoning Index
Associated announcement tweet. We are planning to release blog posts properly arguing the case for this kind of work in the future. tl;dr A core hope for managing AI risks is that…
One attention head carries knight forks in a chess transformer, and here's a new toolkit that found it.
Quick interp demo in colab : Localize knight forks to a single head in Maia-3 with logit-lens and per-head ablation. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1YYZBd_SZb… (This is a…
chessformer_lens app demo: Paul Morphy's Opera Game sacrifice
Ablating one of Maia-3 23m chessformer's 128 attention heads destroys the policy toward the brilliant queen sacrifice. Uses https://github.com/chessformer-lens/chessformer_le……
Finding the Seams of Perception
The tricky thing about experiencing the territory beneath our maps is that we habitually map over the gaps as fast as we can find them — the act of seeing that reality isn't what…
Sailor Went Overboard USS Abraham Lincoln Amid Reports of Morale Crisis
Multiple sailors have reportedly tried to jump overboard as Trump’s war on Iran has kept them at sea for months.
Google Gemini Hits 1 Billion Users In Record Time
Gemini has become Google's fastest-growing product ever, reaching 1 billion monthly active users faster than any of the company's 13 other billion-user services. Ars Technica…
Paramount Considers Leaving California Amid Antitrust Suit
Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to begin moving the studio out of California on October 1 if state Attorney General Rob Bonta refuses to enter settlement talks over the…
France Bans Unsolicited Telemarking Calls
Starting today, unsolicited telemarking calls are banned in France unless consumers explicitly consent to them. Companies that violate the law can face fines of up to 375,000…