Democrats Panned for Outspoken Pro-Israel Pick for Key House Middle East Post
Observers note that Jared Moskowitz’s appointment follows Hakeem Jeffries’s recent secret meeting with Jared Kushner.
The County Prosecutors Who Became ICE Informants
Prosecutors’ offices in 1 out of every 6 counties in Illinois provided information to ICE.
How I made my career choices
Various people have asked me how I made my career decisions, so I wrote up some quick thoughts. (This is mostly intended as a personal reflection, but might be interesting…
In First, Starbucks Workers United and Its 12,000 Members Call for Boycott
“[I]t is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers,” the union said.
States Can Regulate Prediction Markets As Gambling, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A federal appeals court has ruled that states can regulate prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, handing state regulators their biggest legal victory yet against the booming…
A Tale of Two Genocides: The West’s Hypocrisy in Gaza Desecrates Remembrance in Myanmar
On Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day, the U.S. and many of its Western allies have shown they’ll only call a genocide a genocide when it suits them, writes international law…
Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago
"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Operation Bluebird, the Virginia-based startup trying to revive the allegedly abandoned "Twitter" name and logo, announced…
Trump Told Asylum Seekers To Do It “The Legal Way.” Now He’s Revoking 200,000 Of Their Visas.
Many Trump supporters keep insisting that his immigration purges are justified because the people swept up in them came here “illegally,” so who cares if they get kicked out (or…
Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field...
Homing pigeons may sense the Earth’s magnetic field using superparamagnetic macrophages in their livers . So metal! 🤘
ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
ICE wants the robot dogs to improve “officer safety.”
Announcing Trace
When researching recent projects— impact markets , FundingBench , and AI Safety Funder Bulletin —we kept coming across similar questions that were a bit of a pain to answer. How…
Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
The Information reported on Wednesday that Nvidia has agreed to buy open-source platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. "Deal talks began after Hugging Face, an open-source AI…
Flock Once Tried To Turn Every Ride Share Driver Into Part Of Its ALPR Network
Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When…
TASTE: Can AI Models Judge AI Safety Research Proposals?
tl;dr We built TASTE (The AI Safety Taste Evaluation) — a benchmark measuring how well models can judge pairs of AI safety research proposals, scored by agreement with the…
Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things...
Just quickly reupping this post to remind you things might be slower than usual around here for the next few weeks…moving crunch time is here. (I’ll still be posting though…it’s…