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A thought: If the problem ACM is trying to solve with AI summaries is that papers are written inaccessibly and some papers are hard to understand, here's another solution:
Actively support authors in (a) writing accessibly in their papers; and (b) writing their own public-facing summaries.
Actively support authors in (a) writing accessibly in their papers; and (b) writing their own public-facing summaries.
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
A thought: If the problem ACM is trying to solve with AI summaries is that papers are written inaccessibly and some papers are hard to understand, here's another solution:
Actively support authors in (a) writing accessibly in their papers; and (b) writing their own public-facing summaries.
Actively support authors in (a) writing accessibly in their papers; and (b) writing their own public-facing summaries.
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Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
December 1, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Energy transitions can happen faster than we think:
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels.
In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.
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I was re-reading this 2020 piece I wrote about the decline of academia and the need to reinvent it. Now, the forces driving its premises are only stronger. What's changed is the opportunity: 5 years ago, no one wanted to hear about reinvention; now our survival demands it. medium.com/bits-and-beh...
What is the role of academia in a post-truth world?
Lately, I’ve felt very curmudgeonly about the future of facts. But I am by no means the only person worried about this future, nor am I an…
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I was re-reading this 2020 piece I wrote about the decline of academia and the need to reinvent it. Now, the forces driving its premises are only stronger. What's changed is the opportunity: 5 years ago, no one wanted to hear about reinvention; now our survival demands it. medium.com/bits-and-beh...
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No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
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From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
November 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
From the MN Society for Professional Journalists: St. Paul police shot three photojournalists (MPR, Reuters, Sahan Journal) with "less lethal" munitions during an ICE operation yesterday. One had to go to the hospital. They say they were specifically targeted by St. Paul police.
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SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
FEMA employee terminated for signing whistleblower letter
It appears to be a major violation of federal whistleblower protections and constitutional rights.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
SCOOP—In August, nearly 200 current/former FEMA staffers published the Katrina Declaration, a whistleblower letter detailing all the dangers posed by current leadership.
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
All current employees were put on indefinite leave, and now I've learned one has been fired in violation of federal protections:
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Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference and Its Revenue Share With Microsoft
As with my Anthropic exclusive from a few weeks ago, though this feels like a natural premium piece, I decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked or f...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities.
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
Lawfare's new project–which includes a tracker and a map–follows where and how the military is being domestically deployed. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...
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SCOTUS was never going to come for queer rights via a cert petition asking for an Obergefell repeal—they were always going to come for the LGBTQ community by targeting trans people. and they literally are doing that, this session. protect trans people.
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
Kim Davis is a Distraction
The real fight for queer rights is already in front of the Court, and people aren’t paying attention.
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
SCOTUS was never going to come for queer rights via a cert petition asking for an Obergefell repeal—they were always going to come for the LGBTQ community by targeting trans people. and they literally are doing that, this session. protect trans people.
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...
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In March 1945, the United States War Department created an 8-page fact sheet about fascism for the Army to distribute to soldiers. Wow. This should be mandatory reading now:
archive.org/details/Army...
archive.org/details/Army...
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
archive.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In March 1945, the United States War Department created an 8-page fact sheet about fascism for the Army to distribute to soldiers. Wow. This should be mandatory reading now:
archive.org/details/Army...
archive.org/details/Army...
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It looks like you're trying to undo SNAP payments. Can I help you find your conscience?
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It looks like you're trying to undo SNAP payments. Can I help you find your conscience?
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hi just a reminder that if you want to support independent journalism you should subscribe to the handbasket (free or paid!)
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November 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The ones that are sat unpowered in Santa Clara are *48MW projects*. How, exactly, are we going to get the 200, 500 or 1.4GW ones up and running? I don't think this is a regulatory issue!
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The ones that are sat unpowered in Santa Clara are *48MW projects*. How, exactly, are we going to get the 200, 500 or 1.4GW ones up and running? I don't think this is a regulatory issue!
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In short: "If I make my fantasy of actual AI sound erudite enough people will have to believe it!"
November 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In short: "If I make my fantasy of actual AI sound erudite enough people will have to believe it!"
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You gotta spend money to lose money
Snap announces a deal to distribute Perplexity's search engine to Snapchat users; Perplexity will pay Snap $400M through a combination of cash and equity (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
You gotta spend money to lose money
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seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
seeing people talk about setting up mini food pantries in tandem with giving out halloween candy while corporations fund extreme makeover: white house edition is the sign of sick, broken society. i mean what in the actual fuck.
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HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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I’ve been working on this for a WHILE and would be so grateful if you could check it out and share—Dems need a vision, and they keep missing the mark. We built it for them, grassroots, and have a plan to make it happen.
Americandemands.com
Americandemands.com
What if we could channel all our frustrations over our country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism into advocacy for policies that work for all of us?
We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter
We can. Welcome to @americandemands.bsky.social #DemandBetter
October 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I’ve been working on this for a WHILE and would be so grateful if you could check it out and share—Dems need a vision, and they keep missing the mark. We built it for them, grassroots, and have a plan to make it happen.
Americandemands.com
Americandemands.com
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Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden
I'll add something... we need media literacy education at levels never seen in the US to help here. With AI tools free and copyright or IP disrespected forever anyway, it's easy to make convincing deepfakes and mislead people.
In 2012, I published a book about the collapse in trust in the mainstream media. I argued that a widely trusted media establishment was probably incompatible with a polarized party system that is heavily sorted by ideology. /1 www.jonathanmladd.com/why-american...
October 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Finland starts teaching children how to spot unreliable narrators and propaganda in kindergarden
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Number go up, number go up, no think about number number always good number always up number up number up number up
September 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Number go up, number go up, no think about number number always good number always up number up number up number up
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Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...
OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years
Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...
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September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...
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I've been researching the Microsoft cloud for almost 7 years now. A few months ago that research resulted in the most impactful vulnerability I will probably ever find: a token validation flaw allowing me to get Global Admin in any Entra ID tenant. Blog: dirkjanm.io/obtaining-gl...
One Token to rule them all - obtaining Global Admin in every Entra ID tenant via Actor tokens
While preparing for my Black Hat and DEF CON talks in July of this year, I found the most impactful Entra ID vulnerability that I will probably ever find. One that could have allowed me to compromise ...
dirkjanm.io
September 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I've been researching the Microsoft cloud for almost 7 years now. A few months ago that research resulted in the most impactful vulnerability I will probably ever find: a token validation flaw allowing me to get Global Admin in any Entra ID tenant. Blog: dirkjanm.io/obtaining-gl...
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AI is as inevitable as VR, as NFTs, as the Metaverse and Web3.
That is to say, there is a time not too far off where we will look back on this madness as an obvious and ridiculous house-of-cards.
People of the much poorer future will wonder — what the fuck was the market thinking?
That is to say, there is a time not too far off where we will look back on this madness as an obvious and ridiculous house-of-cards.
People of the much poorer future will wonder — what the fuck was the market thinking?
September 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
AI is as inevitable as VR, as NFTs, as the Metaverse and Web3.
That is to say, there is a time not too far off where we will look back on this madness as an obvious and ridiculous house-of-cards.
People of the much poorer future will wonder — what the fuck was the market thinking?
That is to say, there is a time not too far off where we will look back on this madness as an obvious and ridiculous house-of-cards.
People of the much poorer future will wonder — what the fuck was the market thinking?