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Page 46: ".. models, including our own, have exhibited .. unexpected strategic or self-preserving behaviors, including attempts to resist shutdown, .. or generate outputs that could be interpreted as coercive, deceptive, or manipulative, including behavior resembling blackmail .."

One if the lessons to be learned from Brazil is to stop elevating your opponent’s social media (even to dunk) and promote your own message. _This applies to Matt Yglesias and his ilk, too._ Just stop it, please.

8/ He wrote that an attack on Starlink satellites would create a destructive domino effect, creating a vast field of debris, which in turn would make it impossible to use space. Warbloggers suggest that this threat may be a factor in his action against Ukraine's connections:

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

BRAZIL'S LULA WILL BE REELECTED PRESIDENT IN RUNOFF VOTE, CEO OF POLLSTER ATLASINTEL SAYS

Liberal democracy remains a towering achievement of humanity and it is worth fighting for.

Brazil runoff odds shifting quickly. 🇧🇷 @bloomberg.com

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

Boom.

I’d love to know who this fiery, patriotic young woman is, so I could follow her social media or Substack. This is EXACTLY how the fuck we should all be feeling about the corrupt, criminal regime that’s infested the White House. This shit has to end. And people like this woman will lead the way.

The writing isn’t on the wall yet…..but this is certainly what the writing on the wall would look like lol

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Finns are seething after Google illegally toppled 250,000 trees for a data center [via @theguardian.com]

“A gaping wound of earth” 🌎 😕 Google illegally knocked down 250,000 trees in Finland to build a data center. @nonewdatacenters (From the Guardian)

🇨🇦 Mark Carney says he’s "concerned" about Starlink slowdown in Ukraine, which led to human casualties and reduced Ukraine’s ability to defend itself. He says Canada can’t rely on a single provider that could flip like that and put Canadians at risk, so he’s going to diversify.

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

These people are broken

I want you to suppose you have a net worth of $1 million. That’d be the equivalent of spending $450.

Government capture

it's not a mystery why this guy is up 3 in texas. whether that will last or withstand polling error is another conversation. but clearly he's got the juice

Vivek is vile. Making this poor woman’s childhood of abuse into political theatre. May we all free ourselves of him and his ilk.

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

Vivek Ramaswamy is going to Hell.

This is the plot to Stick on Apple TV. Elena is about to get rich! @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

AI Bubble hits 2nd largest concentration level in history, only behind the railroad mania of the 1880s 🚨 🚨

Haunting explanation from a ESPN producer on why she quit over the network’s all-out embrace of sports betting: www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Making themselves too big to fail and entrenching oligarchs? No thanks.

We are coming.

Trump on Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"

Trump: "The poverty rate has just reached its highest, best number"

The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.” (Published August)

Elon Musk is a naturalized citizen that just helped Russia, our greatest enemy, by suppressing Ukraine’s star link power. Pretty sure that’s treason

This feels like a very clear signal to Russia that both men will fall in line due to some combination of kompromat, fear, or fealty. It was big enough to matter but not big enough to be the plan itself.

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

MIL LAD is the 8th time two teams met in the postseason & resulted in a sweep and THEN met in the following Postseason The Brewers are the first to sweep back the team that swept them The only other team to be swept & then win a rematch at all the next PS is the 1923 Yankees (6g)

NEW | EV Adoption is booming around the world The Hormuz crisis once again revealed the risks of an energy system reliant on fossil fuels and countries are taking notice. Growing EV fleets have saved oil importers more than $20 billion since the start of the war.

Sen. Ossoff: "Congress is full of congressmen's sons who are only in Congress because their daddies were congressmen, just like Mike Collins, who are perfectly happy to send other people's children to die in a war. How is this war a success, Mike?"

IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast marginally to 3.1% -- but warns the world economy is "nearing the limits of its resilience." Calls AI a “slow-moving tsunami” for jobs. Says 40% of global jobs will eventually be augmented, downgraded or eliminated. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/imf-...

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

If you need a pickmeup, Ukraine struck and destroyed a Russian data center last night, reducing Russian bot traffic by 50%, dropping online pro-AfD discussion to zero, cratering MAGA traffic, and making Elon big mad. Just in time for the mid-terms. Slava fucking Ukraini.

Yeesh. 👀 (Bloomberg) - The most likely long-term outcome of the AI boom will be massive capital destruction in the US, with market share going to cheaper open-source Chinese models, according to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...