@chrish.social
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One potential downside of gerrymanders is that they break during waves.
As Republicans fret about low base enthusiasm, the special election in #TN07 shifts from Solid to Likely Republican.
Read more from Matthew Klein:
Read more from Matthew Klein:
2026 Tennessee House Analysis: Music City Mayhem
Three years after Republicans used redistricting to split Nashville across several seats, the party is getting its first real test of how Tennessee’s gerrymander will withstand an unfriendly cycle. Th...
www.cookpolitical.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One potential downside of gerrymanders is that they break during waves.
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When official sources of information dry up or become unreliable, rumors and conspiracy theories take their place. That does not always bode well for whoever is in power.
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 AM
When official sources of information dry up or become unreliable, rumors and conspiracy theories take their place. That does not always bode well for whoever is in power.
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As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.
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When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose.
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Dix pourcent des revenus, ou 16 G$, de Meta en 2024 venaient de publicités frauduleuses ou de produits interdits selon des documents internes vus par Reuters.
L'entreprise reconnaît que ces publicités sont la source du tiers des arnaques aux USA.
Dans quelle autre industrie cela serait acceptable?
L'entreprise reconnaît que ces publicités sont la source du tiers des arnaques aux USA.
Dans quelle autre industrie cela serait acceptable?
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Dix pourcent des revenus, ou 16 G$, de Meta en 2024 venaient de publicités frauduleuses ou de produits interdits selon des documents internes vus par Reuters.
L'entreprise reconnaît que ces publicités sont la source du tiers des arnaques aux USA.
Dans quelle autre industrie cela serait acceptable?
L'entreprise reconnaît que ces publicités sont la source du tiers des arnaques aux USA.
Dans quelle autre industrie cela serait acceptable?
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Reportage ce matin par @nicholasderosa.bsky.social et moi.
Ces faux médias plagient des articles de vrais médias à l'aide de l'IA.
Puisque l'IA ne peut pas reproduire texto des citations des textes originaux, elle fait tout simplement en halluciner de nouvelles. Très cool! 🙃
Ces faux médias plagient des articles de vrais médias à l'aide de l'IA.
Puisque l'IA ne peut pas reproduire texto des citations des textes originaux, elle fait tout simplement en halluciner de nouvelles. Très cool! 🙃
De faux « médias locaux » générés par IA apparaissent sur Facebook
Des sites web propulsés par l’intelligence artificielle (IA) se présentant comme des médias locaux comblent l’absence d’actualité sur Facebook depuis le blocage des médias canadiens en 2023. Ils repre...
ici.radio-canada.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reportage ce matin par @nicholasderosa.bsky.social et moi.
Ces faux médias plagient des articles de vrais médias à l'aide de l'IA.
Puisque l'IA ne peut pas reproduire texto des citations des textes originaux, elle fait tout simplement en halluciner de nouvelles. Très cool! 🙃
Ces faux médias plagient des articles de vrais médias à l'aide de l'IA.
Puisque l'IA ne peut pas reproduire texto des citations des textes originaux, elle fait tout simplement en halluciner de nouvelles. Très cool! 🙃
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Fascinating study, in line with the general unreliability of LMs at ToM reasoning I've seen.
I expect they'll be unreliable about other propositional attitudes (want, hope, expect, suspect, etc.), and suspect this is bc they're not trained on data that grounds this vocabulary.
I expect they'll be unreliable about other propositional attitudes (want, hope, expect, suspect, etc.), and suspect this is bc they're not trained on data that grounds this vocabulary.
Large language models (LLMs) may not reliably acknowledge a user’s incorrect beliefs, according to a paper in Nature Machine Intelligence. The findings highlight the need for careful use of LLM outputs in high-stakes decisions. go.nature.com/48VRpIQ 🧪
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Fascinating study, in line with the general unreliability of LMs at ToM reasoning I've seen.
I expect they'll be unreliable about other propositional attitudes (want, hope, expect, suspect, etc.), and suspect this is bc they're not trained on data that grounds this vocabulary.
I expect they'll be unreliable about other propositional attitudes (want, hope, expect, suspect, etc.), and suspect this is bc they're not trained on data that grounds this vocabulary.
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This exchange from a 2021 article about two sisters -- both nursing professionals, but only one of whom was willing to get the COVID vax -- is something i think about when i hear people discarding logic and common sense because it discomfits them.
www.propublica.org/article/dont...
www.propublica.org/article/dont...
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This exchange from a 2021 article about two sisters -- both nursing professionals, but only one of whom was willing to get the COVID vax -- is something i think about when i hear people discarding logic and common sense because it discomfits them.
www.propublica.org/article/dont...
www.propublica.org/article/dont...
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AI systems are not being used here “despite their biases,” but because of them. We live in a time where power means the power not to care. I wrote recently on the weaponization of AI & error. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 AM
AI systems are not being used here “despite their biases,” but because of them. We live in a time where power means the power not to care. I wrote recently on the weaponization of AI & error. www.techpolicy.press/musk-ai-and-...
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“.. It’s not that erotica is bad per se, but .. there were clear warning signs of users’ intense emotional attachment to A.I. chatbots. .. We decided A.I.-powered erotica would have to wait.
“.. OpenAI now says the wait is over ..”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
“.. OpenAI now says the wait is over ..”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
October 29, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“.. It’s not that erotica is bad per se, but .. there were clear warning signs of users’ intense emotional attachment to A.I. chatbots. .. We decided A.I.-powered erotica would have to wait.
“.. OpenAI now says the wait is over ..”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
“.. OpenAI now says the wait is over ..”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
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Hearts at the PSF are full today from the responses about the recent grant turn down news we shared. All of your kind words of support & solidarity, as well as your donations & new memberships, mean the world to us. We're so grateful to be in community with each of you 💛🐍💙
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hearts at the PSF are full today from the responses about the recent grant turn down news we shared. All of your kind words of support & solidarity, as well as your donations & new memberships, mean the world to us. We're so grateful to be in community with each of you 💛🐍💙
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Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant
October 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk.
I had it exactly backward.
I had it exactly backward.
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The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it, and it’s secure. It’s logged into my email, Stripe account, stores my passwords and credit cards.
A browser is useful if it does all these.
These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…
A browser is useful if it does all these.
These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…
October 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The #1 criteria for my browser is that I trust it, and it’s secure. It’s logged into my email, Stripe account, stores my passwords and credit cards.
A browser is useful if it does all these.
These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…
A browser is useful if it does all these.
These AI browsers are interesting but… with prompt injections, no way I trust them…
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Our paper on algorithmic collusion was featured in a Quanta article! www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-the...
The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices | Quanta Magazine
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Our paper on algorithmic collusion was featured in a Quanta article! www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-the...
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This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while
October 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This video of reporters flooding out of the Pentagon after refusing to sign Hegseth’s authoritarian pledge that would force them to have the DOD review all their articles before publication is one of the most satisfying things I’ve seen in a while
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The remarkably swift passage of an Everett teen into the Trump administration’s deportation system underscores the reach and efficiency of the infrastructure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has managed to build even in deep-blue Massachusetts. trib.al/Q3zUiKU
‘This is different.’ What the case of the arrested 13-year-old in Everett tells us about ICE. - The Boston Globe
While officials say ICE has moved with similar speed in arresting adults, this case stands out for the very young age of the subject.
trib.al
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The remarkably swift passage of an Everett teen into the Trump administration’s deportation system underscores the reach and efficiency of the infrastructure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has managed to build even in deep-blue Massachusetts. trib.al/Q3zUiKU
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Anonymizing stuff is difficult.
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Anonymizing stuff is difficult.
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Le gouvernement lance une campagne de sensibilisation à la santé mentale à destination des enfants, en s’appuyant sur les personnages du film «Vice-Versa». Spécialiste des pratiques médiatiques des jeunes, Laurence Corroy explique : «La pop culture permet de passer par un filtre pour s’exprimer».
«Vice-Versa» comme outil pédagogique sur la santé mentale : «La pop culture permet de passer par un filtre pour s’exprimer»
Le gouvernement lance une campagne à destination des enfants, en s’appuyant sur les personnages du film d’animation. Spécialiste des pratiques médiatiques des jeunes, Laurence Corroy explique l’intérêt d’un tel outil de médiation.
www.liberation.fr
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Le gouvernement lance une campagne de sensibilisation à la santé mentale à destination des enfants, en s’appuyant sur les personnages du film «Vice-Versa». Spécialiste des pratiques médiatiques des jeunes, Laurence Corroy explique : «La pop culture permet de passer par un filtre pour s’exprimer».
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The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.
4/China has learned from US playbook. It doesn’t just limit bilateral dependence but network dependence. any firm using Chinese machines (which is almost all) have to get licenses. It is a Chinese version of US foreign direct product rule in semiconductors.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Weaponized World Economy
When Washington announced a “framework deal” with China in June, it marked a silent shifting of gears in the global political economy. This was not the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s imagi...
www.foreignaffairs.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The whole thread’s a great education about how China is using permission structures the US pioneered.
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The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets
C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."
October 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets
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Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
October 10, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”
Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.
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Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.
October 10, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Today I learned that the French equivalent of German’s eierlegende Wollmilchsau (lit. egg-laying wool-milk-sow,” your special unicorn all-in-one solution) is the mouton à cinq pattes (the 5-legged sheep). I love languages.
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This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical