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Just catching up on the news

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

The ICE is back in Boston!

submitted 6 days ago • 330 comments

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

submitted 12 days ago • 2301 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 22 days ago • 1381 comments

Thrilled to announce that Joshua’s paper won one of three Outstanding Paper awards at ICLR. Come to the poster on Friday afternoon (#376 in Hall 3) or the talk on Saturday (4:30 in Hall 1), and while you’re at it snag him for a postdoc!

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

This is just an astonishing amount of corruption. Firm overbills Medicaid, so pays state a settlement. $10m of the settlement goes to DeSantis’ wife’s charity and then part rerouted to fight a cannabis bill.

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Pope Francis: “As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets & financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or to any problems.”

submitted 27 days ago • 62 comments

He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.

submitted 27 days ago • 651 comments

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

submitted 28 days ago • 567 comments

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

submitted 32 days ago • 1932 comments

somebody figured out how to hack crosswalk systems and has been recording fake public announcements by billionaires. Here's the one in Seattle From "Jeff Bezos":

submitted 33 days ago • 16 comments

Released42 years ago today Bad Brains' second album, "Rock for Light," featuring the thrilling song "Big Takeover." "Big Takeover" (Live) - Bad Brains - New York, CBGB - December 25, 1982 #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #rockforlight #history #punkrockhistory #otd

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 37 days ago • 117 comments

A medical paper from Microsoft lists the previously unknown model sizes of popular closed LLMs - Sonnet3.5: ~175B - GPT3.5-turbo: 175B - GPT4: 1.76T - GPT4o: 200B - GPT4o-mini: 8B - o1-mini: 100B - o1-preview: 300B arxiv.org/abs/2412.19260

submitted 42 days ago • 6 comments

Hard not to be a "PANICAN" when led by someone suffering from severe mental illness

submitted 42 days ago • 2039 comments

🚨New DeepSeek Model Incoming🚨 but first they release the paper describing generative reward modeling (GRM) via Self-Principled Critique Tuning (SPCT) looking forward to DeepSeek-GRM! arxiv.org/abs/2504.02495

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

“I’ll be 10 min late sorry!!!” -ashamed -fragile -unreliable “A thousand apologies. The relentless slog of time has overtaken my faculties.” -powerful -commanding -honest

submitted 47 days ago • 107 comments

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

submitted 47 days ago • 10881 comments

Pretty impressive performance by Corey Booker. 23 hours in and still spitting fire.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ❌ ✅ ✅ ❌

submitted 50 days ago • 1281 comments

microsoft is embracing MCP hard right now. they’re official maintainers of the C# client that lives under the MCP group

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

submitted 49 days ago • 1041 comments

This is horrifyingly correct.

submitted 50 days ago • 108 comments

iddqd idkfa rip to master chief but im different

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

In 1862, a Union soldier found cigars wrapped in a piece of paper in a field of clover. The paper was a copy of Confederate Gen. Lee's invasion orders. The Southern sloppiness helped the Union stop Lee at Antietam. It's unknown who lost the orders in the field, or if he was related to Pete Hegseth.

submitted 53 days ago • 670 comments

thinking about princess mononoke a lot, these days

submitted 53 days ago • 93 comments

🎁 Gift Link Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief. By Jeffrey Goldberg and Shane Harris

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.

submitted 54 days ago • 6811 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 55 days ago • 3120 comments

LLMs are probably trained on a lot of pirated data. This working paper provides interesting evidence. www.nber.org/papers/w33598

submitted 56 days ago • 3 comments

Microsoft's KBLaM, an approach that encodes and stores structured knowledge within an LLM itself. By integrating knowledge without retraining, it offers a scalable alternative to traditional methods. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

It's our pleasure to introduce two new watches that closely follow the original Pebble DNA. Both are available for pre-order starting today. - Core 2 Duo: black/white display, $149, ships in July - Core Time 2: 64 colour display, $225, ships in Dec Pre-order today at store.rePebble.com

submitted 62 days ago • 82 comments

boy the "it was supposed to explode all the time, akshually" guys are going to have a hard time if this thing's a dud no amount of rosy Eric Berger ars technica columns will console them

submitted 62 days ago • 23 comments

I laughed

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like tomorrow marks the official return of Pebble. Store opens tomorrow at noon eastern. store.repebble.com/countdown

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

1/n Martian Potato1 🧵 Phobos Over Mars: a time lapse from 2007 to 2021 Full size & info: flic.kr/p/2qREua9 🧪🔭 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 8 frames, captured by @esa.int Mars Express. It's stabilized on Phobos (Todd crater) to play with the disorienting effect. All images below ⬇️

submitted 64 days ago • 34 comments

The CR passed in the House will provide a blank check for Trump and Musk to continue their savage war against working families, the elderly, children, the sick and the poor in order to lay the groundwork for massive tax breaks for billionaires. This is a bill I cannot support.

submitted 67 days ago • 597 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 71 days ago • 588 comments