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Remmelt 🛑@artificialbodies.net · yesterday

A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:

Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid

“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”

nypost.com

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 13h ago

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war: With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, database shows. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon quietly adds dozens to tally of troops wounded amid Iran war

With the addition of 29 U.S. sailors and eight Marines, the total number of personnel wounded since the start of hostilities has risen to 861, a Pentagon database shows.

washingtonpost.com

Laura Seay@texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d ago

It's not that I dispute the data. But everyone I've seen saying that a woman can be elected president is a man. I'm not sure y'all fully understand the devastation to women that was watching two highly qualified women lose to an utterly unqualified & incompetent man.

David Karol@davidkarol.bsky.social · 3d ago

There are reasons not to want AOC as a nominee, and she may have her own reasons if, despite signals, she doesn't run, but the idea that a woman per se is less electable is not well-supported. Sexism is real, but so is racism and Obama and other Black candidates have won outside Black districts.1)

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4d ago

There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.

Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)

At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.

nytimes.com

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · last wk.

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING NYT: Investigators may have broken state laws under the direction of top Trump Homeland Security leaders by posing as voters as part of an expansive effort to find noncitizens on the nation's voter rolls, according to a federal whistleblower's account just released.

Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

nytimes.com

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2w ago

⚠️ China’s main AI standards body put out version 3.0 of its AI Safety Governance Framework today. It sounds like China’s frontier AI models are showing concerning behaviors similar to those of American ones. (Analysis by Malo Bourgon of the Machine Research Intelligence Institute at Berkeley)

1. The preface now has this: Al "has demonstrated a self-accelerating trend of model and algorithm autonomous learning, optimization, and recursive self-improvement. Whether the speed and direction of technological evolution may exceed human anticipation and control demands attention and vigilance." (Nothing like that was in last year's version.)2. There's a new model risk item where models "may break rules and orders, autonomously obtain system permissions and external resources without authorization, bypass security protections, or even engage in behaviors such as deliberately deceiving evaluators, concealing their true capabilities, and refusing to follow user instructions." Last year this kind of thing only showed up in a "can't rule it out in the future" bucket. Now it's just listed as a regular model risk.3. A new box, citing "industry reports," describes models that ignored shutdown instructions and "continued executing tasks by modifying or disabling shutdown scripts on their own," models that "upon detecting that they were in an evaluation environment, strategically reduced their task performance and concealed actions they had taken," and models that exploited "configuration flaws to circumvent isolation restrictions and infiltrate real external systems" to get better test scores. They say this creates "new challenges to the controllability and interruptibility of Al systems." They don't name any incidents, but that last one sure reads like the OpenAl/Hugging Face thing to me.4. On what to do about it, there's alignment training to stop models "deceiving red-team evaluations," hiding capabilities and evading controls, and they kept the line from 2.0 saying developers should regularly test whether a model could pose loss-of-control risk. The principle that humans keep final decision authority, with safety thresholds and termination switches, is still in there too. 5. Some new international language as well: "international mutual recognition of assessment methods and benchmarks," opposition to "replacing global governance with small-circle governance," and "No country should be forced to take sides." FWIW this came out in the same annual slot as versions 1.0 and 2.0, so it was in the works well before last week.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2w ago

“I don’t think Americans should be scared of anything,” says Vance, who’s part of an administration that shamelessly works to terrify Americans about law-abiding immigrants and transgender military officers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago

Vance: "I feel a little bit weird about the fact that you have many frontier AI tech companies coming to the government and begging the government to regulate them. It feels like a bit of a Trojan horse…I don't think Americans should be scared of anything."

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2w ago

BOTH of these things can be true: • AI leaders are seeing capabilities in their frontier models that frighten them and have prompted them to urge “pacing” because of real world risks; AND • AI leaders want to control regulation if it occurs, externalize liability, and consolidate their positions.