Mark Histed

We can hope that after the midterms there will be a public transparent oversight process that turns this report into a series of high-profile hearings. Much of the public now gets news via video; Congress can use oversight to make compelling video so the country pays attention.

And having a major public oversight process is important for science because there are many attacks on cancer cures that we need accountability for if we want to rebuild. Public and transparent oversight is needed to chart a new future for US science

Also true for US civil servants as well. They are asked to be nonpartisan, but also take an oath to the Constitution (that is, to liberal democracy). The bounds of a nonpartisan civil service should encompass any political leadership that respects democracy.

“I have stopped sending paper greeting cards because of the unpredictable delays. One card took a month to arrive.” That was a relative talking to me on the phone tonight. USPS is worth some investigation.

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Snake oil yes, but even worse than 100 years ago because paid for by billionaires who hate constraints on their power bsky.app/profile/joho...

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

The second the rightwing billionaire world found it useful for their agenda of making more money, they went to war against biomedical research and saving lives from COVID and Tony Fauci and NIH. Billionaires boosted careerists willing to tell lies in service of that agenda-like Trump’s NIH director.

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Here’s the Daily Caller, a rightwing site also funded by the Bradley foundation like Real Clear, describing a prize Jay Bhattacharya got from the rightwing Bradley Foundation before he started a junk science RealClear “journal,” presumably with rightwing money. dailycaller.com/2024/05/22/j...

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

Oh wait the billionaires behind Jay Bhattacharya’s fake journal denying COVID risk also made more money if they kept their factories going by denying COVID risk??

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

“As The Federalist published story after story denying science and opposing mask wearing during the coronavirus pandemic—including one story allegedly written by an anonymous small-town mayor…” (So did Real Clear) www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/09/w...

Wait wait! In addition to all this: Real Clear isn’t some spontaneous thing, it’s a rightwing site funded by the same far-right billionaires - Koch, Uihlein, Bradley, etc - that want to tear down the govt, incl to destroy US cancer research. Real Clear is part of the Project 2025 effort.

It’s funny how the only thing that’s effectively pushed back on Fox in the past decade is a defamation lawsuit from a voting company.

Yes, they figured out how to use cache timing to communicate across VMs—but humans figured this out a long time ago. The Spectre/Meltdown side channel attacks in 2018 were cache timing leaks. And they were widely written up. So the LLMs had a record of cache attacks in training data. 1/3

(In a previous life I was a contractor for the MIT computer security team. But it’s been a long time. Others working in the field at present may chime in.)

Yes, they figured out how to use cache timing to communicate across VMs—but humans figured this out a long time ago. The Spectre/Meltdown side channel attacks in 2018 were cache timing leaks. And they were widely written up. So the LLMs had a record of cache attacks in training data. 1/3

Spectre/Meltdown 2018 (It’s made it into undergrad class materials) web.mit.edu/6.033/2021/w...

Congress post-Myers cared about protecting some agency functions: “particularly adjudicatory functions— [they thought] there was no way that the businesses were going to buy into an [Art II] court that is politically controlled” You could make the same argument for grantmaking decisions too.

So grantmaking is thus a quasi-judicial function in some sense, or at least it should be justified for many of the same reasons.

Congress post-Myers cared about protecting some agency functions: “particularly adjudicatory functions— [they thought] there was no way that the businesses were going to buy into an [Art II] court that is politically controlled” You could make the same argument for grantmaking decisions too.