Hard to say anything about this GOP reconciliation bill without sounding hysterical because it is really that bad. Nearly ten million people losing their healthcare, massive destruction to US energy production, catastrophic levels of debt

So New York lets people pre-register to vote as young as 16, which gives us some early insight into how Democratic these young people are. ... Oh. Oh god. Oh that's not great. (Important caveat that 16/17 year olds who pre-register to vote are gonna be very unrepresentative).

The PEPFAR cut is being removed from the rescissions package, per Sen. Schmitt. Reduces the size of the overall cut by $400 million.

New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵

My dad Kevin Kalinich testified to Congress today, emphasizing how insurance can price and mitigate risks from AI, including existential risk.

What do other people use to successfully view websites with bloat that freezes and crashes a browser? In particular, Yahoo News and Fandom wikis.

we are allowing the CCP to decide what news half of young Americans see and what posts they get attention for. Congress passed a law to end this, the Supreme Court upheld it, and the White House is just breaking the law openly because they don't care

everything on FIRE's wishlist here is a fantastic idea imo and we should do it all the moment we are next in power. no government suppression of speech, not in America - and a private right of action when it happens.

Hard to understate what a blow this would be for American leadership in AI if this happens. The US was not selling our supplies of enriched uranium to the Axis powers as we were building the Manhattan Project.

We really don't understand yet how to make AI not evil, despite people trying to figure it out.

The Norwegian left built the most generous welfare state in the history of the world on the basis of their oil wealth. Technology is our oil - the per-capita value of the American tech sector is competitive with the per-capita value of Norway's energy sector!

Irrespective of your views on regime change in Venezuela, Trump is abjectly incompetent. He will make any exercise he is a part of more likely to fail.

Due to the Jones Act, if Greenland joined America it would de facto no longer be able to trade its goods with us. Makes it a tough sell.

Spending $30m/year to save $16m/month is actually good if you think about the math for 10 seconds.

Athens in 416: The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must! Athens in 404: Wait, crap, being an example for the world to meditate on freakin' sucks. What about those rules of justice?

Another appalling and disgraceful effort by DHS to mislead the public and erode rights secured by the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment requires a judicial warrant to enter a home. The purpose is to ensure that a separate branch of government serves as a check. An

when this started happening in Britain every American I know was grateful for the 1st amendment ensuring it couldn't happen here. but that's only if we have an executive that respects the Constitution or a Congress that holds them accountable when they ignore it.