This is remarkably clarifying of the current conjuncture

Good to have Thea Riofrancos writing for FT Opinion on the geoeconomics of critical minerals ft.com/content/b37094…

This is an excellent piece suggesting that the Trump coalition is stronger than some liberals and leftists hope

I really like this piece by Thomas Wolf at Hugging Face which argues that present LLM's are poorly suited to deep scientific discovery because they are overaligned with present thinking and to questions with defined answers. thomwolf.io/blog/scientifi… I made similar points in the

I support this effort. This is one cause area I think EAs should be interested in.

HBOT ranks as one of the highest value health therapies I’ve done. Results from 60 sessions: + wiped out all systematic inflammation in my body. Below detectable levels. This is wild. + 300% increase in VEGF (formation of new blood vessels) + telomerase activity of a 12 year

Machine intelligence just sounds cooler

Europe has learned nothing. The end result of DMA will not be "Europe as regulatory superpower, raising the standard for the world" but Europe as an increasingly isolated island of nerfed tech. This applies not just to iPhones but more importantly to AI. An incumbent

Turkey update: I’m not sure how to say this in a way that fully captures the absurdity, but: the Head of the Istanbul Planning Agency, Buğra Gökçe, has now been officially arrested for sharing statistics about how impoverished Turkish society has become.

We are pleased to announce that LSE will open a new centre to study animal sentience in autumn 2025! The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience will be lead by LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch Jonathan Birch lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blo…

2/ What is a bodyoid? It is a *proposal* for human bodies, made from stem cells, and grown in artificial wombs, "that lack sentience or the ability to feel pain." Bodies to take organs from, or do research on. Read the proposal: technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/111…

Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old. st.news/3QJZHJA

just combat robots

Cloning a human body for organ harvesting is cruel.

🌟 JUST LAUNCHED: Animals in Translation Publication🌟 Together with +40 experts, we co-created criteria to decode animal communication, delved into the field’s legacy, and more! 🌍Download this landmark publication: rb.gy/t647aa

I wrote something about Nick Land, neoreaction and Warwick in the Nineties ft.com/content/7330bb…

Podcast 🎙️ What is the significance of the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza? A timely conversation with Daoud Kuttab داود كُتّاب: al-monitor.com/podcasts/whats…

BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* DOJ's effort to lift Judge Boasberg's block on Alien Enemies Act deportations. Ruling is 2-1, with Judge Walker dissenting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

A majority of United Nations states support a legally binding treaty on autonomous weapons to prohibit the most unpredictable and dangerous, and regulate those that can be used with meaningful human control. 🧵⬇️

Very good & very disturbing column from Nicholas Kristof, as is often the case. "current political challenges shouldn’t let us lose sight of every other issue, including the systematic brutality that we tolerate in our food industry". No paywall w. this link. nytimes.com/2025/04/12/opi…