10 Years After Pulse, Protecting Queer Spaces Is Critical for Liberation
LGBTQIA+ bars are places to dance and drink, but they are also sites for building our futures.
Fox host Lawrence Jones expresses concern over money to Iran in MOU: "That's a problem"
FBI Raids Ohio Voting Rights Organization
Ohio Organizing Collaborative board member Prentiss Haney accused the feds of using “straight-up intimidation tactics.”
Do k-Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Thinking Patterns? Interpretable Features in a Small Reasoning Model
Executive Summary Problem Statement of the Project Models such as sparse autoencoders (SAEs) and k-sparse autoencoders have been used as an effective medium to extract meaningful…
Why I think a global AI pause (almost) certainly won't happen
Nuclear arms treaties happened AFTER nukes had been demonstrated. AI pause would need to happen BEFORE ASI comes into existence. If I had to explain the issue in just 2 sentences,…
Why Do Naive SFT Filters For Safety Properties Fail?
This is the fourth in a series of informal research updates from the Google DeepMind Language Model Interpretability team, in interpretability and adjacent areas. The third post…
Blizzard Sues To Take Down Another Private World of Warcraft Server, Project Ascension
"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in…
Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros.
The Justice Department has approved Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery without requiring divestitures or other concessions. The deal still…
ShinyHunters Hacked 100+ Organizations By Exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft 0-Day
ShinyHunters claims it exploited a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day to compromise more than 100 organizations, including the University of Nottingham, where it says it stole…
June 13, 2026
Those of you celebrating the Knicks’ victory in the NBA Championship should enjoy yourselves and leave this one for later.
Becoming by Max Cooper
Released a few days ago, this is the official video for Max Cooper’s Becoming , directed by Brandon Eversole . It’s mesmerizing, trippy, and a little bit glitchy. The video is…
First Draft: 🙈 Trump Still Can’t Admit Iran Kicked His Ass
The president promised brutal attacks then changed his tune and said a deal was near, showing yet again his complete inability to handle a war he started. Still, at least it's his…
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad...
Mad Max creator George Miller wants to make one more Mad Max movie and a TV series before calling it quits.
Hulk, Punisher join Peter Parker in Spider-Man: Brand New Day trailer
Peter Parker to Bruce Banner: "I didn't know you could get that big."
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Cupertino d’État
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts,…
John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) ....
John Thomson’s photos of China (1860s-70s) . “Unlike many other early photographers he didn’t spend all his time photographing palaces and ruins. He also captured a lot of daily…