First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity
Airline-backed venture aims to develop a hybrid-electric commercial aircraft.
Europe's Record Heatwave Kills 25,000, Dries Rivers, Shuts Nuclear Plant, Exposes Submerged Warships
"The European Union's Copernicus climate monitoring service confirmed Monday that June and July were the hottest on record in western Europe," .according to a report from the CBC.…
What if Parameter Updates were Text?
Advice String Distillation This post will advocate for a fine-tuning methodology that I think is currently extremely under-rated for alignment and interpretability. It uses…
Black Lung Rates Surge as Miners’ Union Demands Action
Research shows black lung rates rising among miners with as few as 15 years underground, a trend unseen in nearly 40 years.
SpaceX Launches Two Falcon 9 Rockets just 38 Minutes Apart
An anonymous reader shares this report from Space.com: On Saturday evening (Aug. 15), SpaceX set another mark, for the shortest time between orbital flights: It launched two…
The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics
It still amazes me that there are people out there who think that Donald Trump is a supporter of free speech. It has never been true. Anyone who looks will note that the Trump…
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
Important Friday Night Update: Trump Dismisses Military Families, Families Furious, I Expose More Messages, White House in Chaos
Good evening, everyone.
August 14, 2026
Today the Trump administration asked the United States Supreme Court to let it build Trump’s ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be.
AI Fails to Deliver a 4-Day Work Week - Especially at AI Companies
"An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025," remembers the BBC. And earlier this year OpenAI "formally urged…
Newsmax host attacks Pete Hegseth over conditions aboard the USS Lincoln: "I suspect that Pete has Pete in mind more than the military"
Israeli Strikes Kill 11 in Lebanon, Including 3 Children, as Strikes Escalate
“Israel must halt this escalation," said Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in a statement.
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.
Toy Model of Activation Obfuscation
I completed this work as part of the BlueDot Impact Technical AI Safety Project . This linkpost is a somewhat condensed version of the writeup on my blog. Training against probes…
The transformation of Supreme Court arguments
Plus, a top Democrat is calling for Supreme Court reform.