Bernie Sanders Backs Justin J. Pearson, House Candidate at the Heart of Tennessee Voting Rights Fight
Pearson challenged the last Tennessee Democrat in the House. Now he’s up against the threat of total GOP control. The post Bernie Sanders Backs Justin J. Pearson, House Candidate…
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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…
For Second Time in 7 Months, Baby Formula Linked to Infant Botulism Is Recalled
The recalls have fueled concerns about the safety of infant formula and the effectiveness of federal oversight.
Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year
Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.
RFK Jr. Is Very Mad About Reports That He’s Checked Out Of Most Of HHS’ Work
We should all know at this point that RFK Jr. is bad at his job as Secretary of HHS. But that simplistic statement apparently needs something of a qualifier. Instead, it appears…
Raydium users lose $1.34 million after legacy smart contract exploited
The Kennedy Center is a reminder that we can win, it will be messy, and Trump will be petty
The illegal effort to put Donald Trump's name on the Kennedy Center has always been a metaphor — but, this weekend, it became a story of how we get through this.
Plastic Cake Fallacy
Alice and Bob are hanging out when the following happens: Alice: I'm hungry, can you bring me the cake from the fridge? Bob: Yeah one moment... Damn, I just checked and it looks…
Court adds three cases to 2026-27 docket
Plus, the justices denied several notable petitions for review on Monday.
Walter White’s Big Hat
In this modified scene from Breaking Bad , Walter White’s hat grows in proportion to his ego. YT commenter: “He was just brimming with confidence.” Could be time for a BB rewatch.…
Trump DOJ Friday News Dumps Its Approval Of The Job-Killing Paramount, Warner Bros Merger
The Trump “Department of Justice’s” “antitrust division” dumped its unsurprising approval of the terrible Paramount Warner Brothers merger late on Friday in the hopes people…
Deprecated project Aztec Connect exploited for $2.1 million
Commodore's Callback 8020 Is a $499 Flip Phone That Blocks Social Media and Browsers
Commodore has unveiled the Callback 8020, a $499 Sailfish OS flip phone that runs most Android apps but deliberately blocks social media, browsers, email, and workplace apps to…
Two-thirds of Fox segments about James Talarico included anti-LGBTQ attacks
Out of 136 Fox News segments covering Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico from early March through mid-June, approximately two-thirds attacked his past comments…