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.
The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just...
The Black Jeopardy Misses YouTube channel catalogs just how little Jeopardy contestants know about Black history, culture, and celebrities . (See also, of course, Black Jeopardy ,…
Illusionists should try to build hedonium
Epistemic status: I feel reasonably confident (~75%) that some form of this is a worthwhile project. Looking for feedback to reduce that uncertainty. “Hedonium” is a theoretical,…
MS NOW covers how Trump's Medicaid cuts are threatening rural Americans' health: "You just can't separate health care and affordability because they go hand in hand"
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.
Haitian nationals ask for DIG in TPS Case
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Stop Killing Games Fails To Secure EU Law Despite 1.3 Million Signatures
The European Commission has declined (PDF) to propose a law requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable, despite the Stop Killing Games initiative collecting…
Two Huge Collections of Leonardo’s Codexes Digitally Reunited After 400 Years
For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka . In some cases, pages that were…
Alignement pretraining could backfire
Epistemic status: speculative, but I think the mechanism is plausible. There has been recent interest in generating synthetic documents to upsample examples of aligned AI during…
Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's “abusive conduct”
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
Xbox: A Mess, Moving Back To Exclusivity Deals, & The Layoffs Microsoft Promised Wouldn’t Happen
There’s something going on over in Microsoft’s Xbox division and it isn’t good. Don’t take my word on that. Apparently the bosses over there are circulating an email to staff…
Once a Target of TrackAIPAC, Ro Khanna Gains Its Endorsement
With endorsements and a new pledge for lawmakers, TrackAIPAC is flexing its growing influence on the Capitol. The post Once a Target of TrackAIPAC, Ro Khanna Gains Its Endorsement…
The OPSEC Rave Wave (with Imani Thompson)
We get into how platforms have tried to make surveillance cute, why that damn Duolingo owl emotionally manipulates you, and why learning about privacy best practices when…
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…
A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that...
A searchable archive of the almost 5000 TV episodes that naturalist David Attenborough has worked on in his career (1954-present) . “Search by animal, habitat, location, natural…
The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world. It has now been two days since Anthropic flew its people out to Washington, and I offered my…