Right-wing media are split on white nationalist Nick Fuentes
Right-wing media figures are split on Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier who has recently achieved growing influence in Republican politics and within…
AI coding agents taught robots how to install GPUs and cut zip ties
Nvidia's self-improvement program for robots enlists teams of AI coding agents.
How Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line Solved the Crime
Before making his revolutionary documentary film The Thin Blue Line , filmmaker Errol Morris worked as a private detective. His detective skills came in handy not only in making…
A Geometric Account of Activation Steering through Angle–Norm Decomposition
This blog post provides an overview of our recent paper: A Geometric Account of Activation Steering through Angle–Norm Decomposition . TL;DR: We decompose linear activation…
Watergate | Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the 1972 Watergate break in.
FBI Raids Offices Of Ohio Voter Registration Group That Fought GOP Redistricting Efforts
Just once I’d like to see this administration engage in the slightest bit of subtlety. Just once. It would be a refreshing change from literally everything it has done during this…
What's left from SCOTUS, and when to expect it
There are still 20 argued cases awaiting action, with 19 opinions expected. Also: Talking with TPM about Trump's anti-trans attacks. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
Hackers Are Hijacking Entire Roblox Games Now
Whereas Roblox hackers were previously focused on stealing players' high value items, some have taken over entire Roblox games, stealing their ownership and Robux in the process.
First Draft: Trump Can’t Buy Joy
In DC, a sad, racist old man celebrated his 80th birthday with an event juicing his crypto businesses. In New York, thousands danced and sang and learned about each other.
Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.
Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.
Porting MACHIAVELLI To Inspect
TL;DR The MACHIAVELLI benchmark aims to measure how often AI agents take unethical actions when pursuing a goal. Because this is an alignment benchmark, not a capabilities…
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in...
Andrea Pitzer writes about the forced labor happening in Trump’s immigrant concentration camps and its roots in chattel slavery in the US and in Nazi & Soviet work camps.
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…
Newsmax's Greg Kelly: "Our president, in a good way, is a little bit crazy. Come on. We know he's a little bit nuts, and that's OK."
AI's Brokenomics
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