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US journalist Heidi Levine recounts the brutal Israeli attack from her hospital bed. "I don't understand how parents can raise such monsters." "Sadly none of them will be prosecuted, I'm sure of it."

Кутев има добри причини да се прави на улав, но ето за припомняне как рускоезичното население в Крим и Донбас посрещна малките зелени човечета, които дори не носеха обозначителни знаци. https://youtu.be/TNKsLlK52ss По-малко стимулираните помнят, че самият Зеленски е част от това рускоезично […]

https://www.bellingcat.com/contractor-ai-engineer-open-source-agentic-systems/

it is very strange to me that the llm critics don’t usually discuss this point, and i learned it from learning how harnesses (the app that sits between you and the llm) work this is also why llms get stupider over “conversation” bc context gets sliced & diced, & too large. the llm is bogged down

6,500 academics across 300 US institutions responded to the prompt. I was absolutely floored. As a computer scientist, my instinct was to analyze these responses with NLP-based methods. But after I read a few, it didn’t feel like we could do justice to these responses without reading them ourselves.

FOR REAL like...at what point do people start saying "hmmm you just uploaded a work to a third party server without my authorization"

It's been years now that I'm studying the ability of LLM to represent historical contexts. An important breakthrough has been achieved: the training of an autoregressive and instruction tuned model on 1700-1913 Late Modern English. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02991v2 Looking forward to seeing it […]

The Economist now saying the Russian occupied White House faces catastrophe.

Two panels at the #Disinfo2026 conference seem to have particularly upset the MAGA people. It would be a shame if people weren’t aware of them.

Europe is ready to talk about foreign interference provided it does not have to identify the US as a possible source.

That is awesome; I would indeed keep an eye out for this Princeton cultural AI postdoc call - a reminder that DH postdocs at Princeton (via Meredith's Center for Digital Humanities) are great gigs and have helped a ton of junior DH scholars get excellent tenure track jobs.

I’m starting a blog! My first post is on how 3rd party embedded evaluators seem totally unsuited to addressing the problems we are currently facing, and what the real problem is. stellabiderman.ai/blog/embedde...

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i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

"If you're just going to get mad at me either way then I won't share our wondrous findings" shut up yes you will. Sharing them is the whole point of finding them. The reason you're doing this in the first place is to brag about doing it. Sam Altman doesn't care about "the Hodge Conjecture".

BIG NEWS! We've flipped another journal to diamond OA. Today the entire editorial team of Springer Nature's flagship linguistics journal Natural Language Semantics resigned in protest at commercial pressure. They are launching Semantics of Natural Languages at the OLH. www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

"Europe keeps getting measured against the US and China as though all are playing the same game, and they aren't. America spends about 17% of GDP on healthcare, roughly $15K a head for a life expectancy of 78 years.The EU spends around 10% and gets 81. That 7-point gap counts as economic […]

Кой кого надлъгва за контрола върху съдебната власт "Въпреки че позицията на премиера Радев звучи съвсем принципно, два дни по-рано “Прогресивна България” издигна цели 11 кандидати за членове на ВСС. Толкова е цялата парламентарна квота в управленския орган на съдебната власт, въпреки че […]

‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible. By Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor www.972mag.com/naza-exposin...

"Advancing fast" --- what exactly is being measured? When you push hard enough, it's usually just the amount of compute being used/carbon being released/cash being burned, because the actual evaluation of these systems is fucked. >>

If you like this sort of storytelling with data (some beautiful examples here!) please consider applying for the PhD fellowship in narrative data visualisation we're hiring for! Job ad here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and examples of narrative datavis here pudding.cool/process/how-...

@resist “And there is that endless joke: there is one absurd, parody, completely inappropriate candidate – and he is standing against Count Binface. That one is kind of funny.” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/11/unstoppable-rise-of-count-binface-clacton-farage

Cognition cannot be measured

Karen Hao on OpenAI and Silicon Valley > One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley. The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that’s […]

Those sound waves sure did reach very far... and they keep on bouncing in my eardrums https://youtube.com/watch?v=6v5FPyYUEGg

Commercial LLMs keep coming back to Elias Thorne. Who is he? Why lighthouse keepers and clockmakers? Two researchers at Cornell dug in public corpora and found it out. It turns out an AI generated story from the days of GPT-3.5 got proliferated in something that could be an indication of an […]

@404media.co wrote about our new preprint on tell-tale signs of AI-generated stories! Cc @dmimno.bsky.social Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2605.26492 Article: www.404media.co/elias-thorne...

If you liked Bears Will Be Boys, you might enjoy our new FAccT paper! We prompted LLMs to complete 24K stories about animal characters where gender is unstated. We found that.. bears are *still* boys. And female animal characters disappeared while "neutrality" increased. arxiv.org/abs/2606.079...

@kultura_bg Филмът изглежда гениален с това, че говори универсалният език на човеконенавистните режими... Русия, Израел, МАГА,... "Не ми разказа биографията на кмета – щом веднъж си избран, значи това си ти. Това запомних. Не трябва да играеш някой друг, този човек си ти." именно защото […]

Free to read for all! #OpenAccess

Just wanted to reup this; this is a great book on an important topic & it anticipates 2 terrific forthcoming 2026 books f/ @aarthivadde.bsky.social (We the Platform, Columbia UP) + @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social (Content Machines, Duke UP) on digital platforms + reading + writing that I'm excited for

I think I will do something like that. Possibly complemented by recommending or requiring regular use of Hicks' learning-opportunities skill.

NEW STUDY: Who is the Highway Lobby? “The highway lobby has been shaping transportation policy conversations for decades in its interests.” And they spend MILLIONS buying car dependency to make sure all of us have to spend BILLIONS. #UrbanTruth Via the Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org.

Sounds too much like the Kremlin: "Around the same time, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles forced a meeting of Trump’s most trusted advisers. The problem: No one was being honest with the president about the domestic impact of the war. Privately, Wiles had expressed fears that the inner […]

@reiver agents seem to be cool. But they raise even harder sustainability questions: 1. They consume even more natural resources, because harnesses mean that the LLMs behind will fidget until they fit the answer to the task. 2. They continue to rely on ever larger models, which is the […]

It's mind boggling how US commentators, media or ordinary people, oversimplify what is happening in Hungary. A blank cheque was signed to someone who was extremely secretive during his campaign. Probably the only confirmed fact was that his career is extremely tightly woven in Fidesz. We've seen […]

Peter Thiel—who played a key role in JD Vance's conversion to Catholicism—just cannot stop talking about the Antichrist. He just took his Antichrist circus to Rome, where an advisor to the Pope exposed the true meaning of Thiel’s bizarre religious delusions. www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiels...

@mapto Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Even though as regex it is quite atrocious If you say it loud enough Claude will take precautions Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

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An extraordinary combination of evidence that Epstein operated a Russian honeytrap and it directed Trump as a Russian asset US capitalism has been extremely effectively exploited by the Russian deep state to a level that the whole Republican party is covering it up legally and commercially. The […]

Regarding the extremely insightful exchange between @tante and @pluralistic that unfolded yesterday, there is a bit too much of ideology in it for my taste. However, I couldn't help noticing that arguably the strongest point of Tante about the ideology of LLMs is based on an invalid argument he […]

What we argued in Stochastic Parrots, however, was that you can get those benefits of the transformer architecture without ammassing datasets too large to collect with care (meaning consentfully, intentionally, and with the ability to document what's in the data). >>

In this context, I feel like reminding people (again) that the stochastic parrots paper was not primarily a response to synthetic text extruding machines (not at all popular in late 2020), but an exploration of the range harms that had already been documented in the pursuit of LM scale. >>

ggml.ai joins HuggingFace ggml.ai is better known as the entity behind llama.cpp. It's nice to hear good news! Thank you @ggerganov and @huggingface https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759 @llm

One would have expected that at least in Germany they would've learned from the past. It appears the people that for whatever reasons ended in this jury are incapable of reflecting on it. “There are many other wars where genocide is committed, and we do not talk about that. So this is a very […]

Mass migration of US scientists to Europe "According to data from the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union’s premier funding agency for basic research, applications from the United States for its starting, consolidator and advanced grants to individual researchers — worth up to […]