I’ve Seen Prison Conditions Kill. That’s What’s Happening at Delaney Hall.
As a person incarcerated in Texas, I know that rotten food and poor medical care are not unique to Delaney Hall.
Oz Dismisses Measles Concerns as “Inappropriate” After Baby Dies in Pennsylvania
“I don’t want anyone in America concerned inappropriately” about the surging disease, the health official said.
Here’s the Fox & Friends segment that introduced Trump to Natalie Harp
Stripe and Advent Ditch $50 Billion PayPal Takeover Bid
Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have ditched their $53 billion pursuit of PayPal, ending a deal that would have been the largest fintech acquisition ever.…
Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident
We recently published the report from our brief independent investigation into this incident. You can read the full report here . Here is our tweet thread summarizing what we…
Meta Reaches $18 Billion of Settlements Over Children's Social Media Addiction
Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion and make major changes to Facebook and Instagram to settle claims from most U.S. states that the platforms were designed to addict…
Sony Keeps Getting Punched In The Face Over Going Disc-less In Unrelated Places
If Sony thought that the outrage over its decision to make the next PlayStation entirely disc-less was going to dissipate quickly, it was wrong. There are actually multiple…
Developing frames
Note: I wrote this post in 2023, along with the rest of my meta-rationality sequence . I never got around to uploading it, but a recent comment from Vladimir Nesov inspired me…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 Other Companies Call For Action To Defend Against Rogue AI
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Over a hundred tech companies -- including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Microsoft -- have signed an open letter urging both…
First Draft: 🍁 It’s a Huge Scandal That Trump Is Plunging Us Into ‘War’ With Canada
The president has opened up another front in his economic hellscape and it should be an all-consuming scandal that the GOP lets him do it. Plus, Hakeem Jeffries’s secret meeting…
Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA
How the right’s attacks on trans people have infiltrated a sports league with no trans women. The post Right-Wing Trans Hate Comes for the WNBA appeared first on The Intercept .
Inference-Time Inoculation Against RL-Induced Misalignment
Reward hacking during RL can induce split personas in models, some of which are highly misaligned. However, RL is very useful for learning capabilities. Thus, a core problem seems…
Here's what we know about the "space academy" Trump just announced
"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."
The latest on the mail-in voting and ballroom battles
Plus, the kidney stones that made John Marshall the chief justice.
Tangle–More in Common survey: July 2026
Measuring cross-party friendships and content consumption.