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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 12h

The importance of this question cannot be overstated: Trump has been communicating directly with Bondi through Truth Social about indicting his enemies. How this question is resolved is critical.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 12h

Radical Numerics' RND1

RND1 (Radical Numerics Diffusion) is an experimental open-sourced DLM with 30B params (3B active) with a sparse MoE architecture.

They are releasing weights, training details, and code to catalyze further research on DLM inference and post-training.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 12h

www.kff.org/affordable-c...

KFF Health Tracking Poll: Public Weighs Political Consequences of Health Policy Legislation | KFF

KFF's Health Tracking Poll finds that more than three-quarters of the public say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that are set to expire at the end of this year. If th...

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 12h

navigatorresearch.org/a-majority-o...

A Majority of Americans Oppose Cuts to Social Security and Medicare

Polling report on Americans' latest perceptions of public health and health care programs, including Social Security and Medicare.

navigatorresearch.org

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 12h

www.americanprogress.org/article/work...

Working-Class and College-Educated Voters Want New Progressive Economic Policies

Working-class and college-educated voters support progressive economic policies such as a higher minimum wage, stronger unions, higher taxes on the rich, greater public investment in infrastructure, a...

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 15h

they do cite this paper in the related work section. I think they are claiming that this new paper is more general than the earlier one. Both papers came out of google research but have no overlapping authors, which is weird to me. Doesn't really matter.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 15h

Pretty sure this is the paper I had in mind (almost three years old now, so surely a lot has also built on it already as well) arxiv.org/abs/2212.07677

Transformers learn in-context by gradient descent

At present, the mechanisms of in-context learning in Transformers are not well understood and remain mostly an intuition. In this paper, we suggest that training Transformers on auto-regressive object...

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 16h

meanwhile, republicans insist we don't even have enough money to fund critical infrastructure like FEMA.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so damn spooked by this headline

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

that might literally be all you need to do, I think you can probably just start adding content pages after

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

it means create a github account, then visit github.com/jackyzha0/qu... and press this option in the dropdown on the far right

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

adopt the perspective that you are training future PIs who will be supervising labs of semi-competent underlings whose work will require heavy scrutiny.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

you can do this fairly easily by just creating a github account and following the instructions here. Just add new *.md documents to the contents/ folder and your website will automatically update itself.

quartz.jzhao.xyz/setting-up-y...

Setting up your GitHub repository

First, make sure you have Quartz cloned and setup locally. Then, create a new repository on GitHub.com.

quartz.jzhao.xyz

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

I thought we already knew ICL worked this way. Anyways, always happy to see corroborating evidence of stuff I thought was already well established.

Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting paper suggesting a mechanism for why in-context learning happens in LLMs.

They show that LLMs implicitly apply an internal low-rank weight update adjusted by the context. It’s cheap (due to the low-rank) but effective for adapting the model’s behavior.

#MLSky

arxiv.org/abs/2507.16003

Learning without training: The implicit dynamics of in-context learning

One of the most striking features of Large Language Models (LLM) is their ability to learn in context. Namely at inference time an LLM is able to learn new patterns without any additional weight updat...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 18h

Good for him. More of this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

wasn't aware of this (or at least forgot if I was), thanks for the ray of light.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

s/ironic/sardonic/

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

to be clear, that "quote" is ironic and not actually something that was said. I'm hyperbolizing the government's position that they could incite violence and then use that as a valid legal justification, which they *did* say

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 20h

"In this book, I aim to convince you that the experts do not know, and you do not know, and society collectively does not and will not know, and all is fog."

Schwitzgebel's thesis is that AI consciousness is non-obvious, and clarity on the issue is not imminent. I've enjoyed what I've read so far.

Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 1d

New book in draft: AI and Consciousness [link in thread]
This book is a skeptical overview of the literature on AI and consciousness.
Anyone who emails me comments on the entire manuscript will be thanked in print and receive an appreciatively signed hard copy.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

I think there is at least a 30% chance trump will respond to the knowledge he's not getting it by invoking martial law.

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

> Judge: "If an ICE agent walked in here, grabbed my fist and used it to punch my own face with it: would that qualify as violence against the judiciary by an illinois resident justifying martial law?"
> Hamilton: "Yes it would your honor."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Perry asks again whether, if the inability to execute the law is b/c of the feds' "own provocation, does that matter under the law?"

Hamilton: "No, if that were true, the fact still remains that we are seeing sustained violence against federal personnel and property in Illinois."

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

wow.

DOJ lawyer just stated on the record that it is their position that the government can incite violence and then use that as legal justification to invoke martial law.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Perry: "The president has made statements that could arguably be interpreted as stating that he believes elected state officials are impeding his ability to execute the law, is that a fair characterization?"

Hamilton: "Yes."

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David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 18h

Assuming the country hasn't been completely torn to shreds by the time the democrats have had a chance to return to power, I haven't heard any proposals for how we deal with the fact that "trump appointed judge" functionally equates to "decides matters of law pretextually and in bad faith."

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