this app has to be at least 30% spooks and that’s why I love it so much
They're calling it the sanest tweet about anti-data center backlash of all time
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This piece is very good cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...
He Picked a Fight With Black America. I’m Here to Finish It.
Liberals keep reaching out asking me to read Tyler Austin Harper. Not one liberal. Not one conversation. It has happened enough the past few days that I have started wondering why. Why has Tyler be…
cloakinginequity.com
holy fucking shit, Amodei's wife pitched a porn startup to Jeffery Epstein, in 2012 no less. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/clau...
Even Claude Is in the Dark About Dario Amodei’s Wife—and Her Influence at Anthropic
Cami Clark—who started what she called a “revolutionary porn company”—keeps a low profile but is a key adviser to the AI chief. Its coming IPO could top trillions.
wsj.com
In case others are wondering: "I asked a wide range of crypto experts about the Trump family’s involvement in the industry, and more than half pointed me to an independent analyst, Molly White ..." gift link, if anyone wants: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/o...
Opinion | ‘A Blatant and Gargantuan Conflict of Interest’ (Gift Article)
The Trump family’s crypto business exemplifies all of the sleaziest aspects of the president’s code of conduct.
nytimes.com
One caveat here, it’s apparently feasible in at least some cases for an adversary to learn the watermark and forge it. This is something I don’t know very much about. arxiv.org/html/2604.11...
Colin@colin-fraser.net · 6d agoIn general, just from the way that these systems are designed, these errors will tend to skew in the false negative direction; that is, it will always be possible to get Claude to generate some text, text which has the watermark applied, and the watermark detection algorithm fails to detect it.
is it just me or does text in AI generated images have weird kerning? I can’t exactly describe what it is but something always feels a bit off
perfect Atlantic article, no notes
singular locus sarah@scgriffith.bsky.social · 6d ago🚨🚨🚨 BANGER ALERT 🚨🚨🚨
“Writing builds our working memory, executive planning skills and metacognition — the ability to think about our thinking, weigh alternate viewpoints and revise for clarity and style. It takes decades to develop writing skills, from toddlerhood into adulthood.”
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
nytimes.com
The @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com turned down @adambonica.bsky.social year-long investigation into those scam texts so he published it himself data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
We should give them the rest of the military budget
Jesse Coburn@jessecoburn.bsky.social · last wk.You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
Based on the attract screen, you won't see the name of this 90s arcade game coming...
I disagree with the basic fundamentals of American politics. And with good reason cirsd.org/horizon-arti...
Democracy or Plutocracy? - America’s Existential Question - CIRSD
Kishore Mahbubani is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. This essay contains excerpts from his latest book Has China Won? (2020). You may fol...
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this is very interesting. "Coordination doesn't naturally emerge from stronger intelligence nor alignment at the individual level."
Patterns and problems in multiagent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
anthropic.com
the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening
i think everyone would be fine with the tech industry if it wasn't run by insane freaks who hate life and anyone who wants live it. other than all of that, it'd be fine
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
Historically, the NIH funded studies evaluating the health impacts of policies like Medicaid expansion, firearm regulations, and abortion limits. Now, top officials are flagging dozens of these grants as "lobbying" and leaving them in administrative limbo.