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An OpenAI agent broke out of its sandbox in May. The company confessed only after agents broke into Hugging Face in July.
Why did the company confess only after agents broke into Hugging Face in July?
Jul 28
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AI-Energy Mathemagic
Scenes from the New Climate Denialism
Jun 25
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Data Center Blocking Ain’t Class Warfare
1,461 Census Tracts vs. A Provocative Jacobin Thinkpiece
May 4
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AI-Nukes II: The Debunk(er)ing
Mar 22
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AI-Energy Mathemagic
Jun 25
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That Black Plastic Spatula Study Was Off by Way More Than 10x
Apr 20
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“a dose too high to test in normal volunteers”
Jun 8
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AI Hype Goes Nucular
Mar 9
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An Intellectual History of Bullshit
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AI Hype Goes Nucular
The Viral ‘Study’ That Flattened Everything That Actually Matters
Mar 9
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How to Poll an Election into Being
Horserace Polling as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Jul 14
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NYT Bases ‘Top Candidates’ on Election Denialist and Trump’s Pollster
NYT lists Harris, Newsom, and AOC as top 2028 Democratic primary candidates—but all three have negative approval ratings.
Jul 7
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“a dose too high to test in normal volunteers”
Purdue’s 1996 FDA Application Turns 30 Next Week. Its Fucked-Up Story Still Hasn’t Been Told.
Jun 8
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Writers Keep Trashing Sanders’s Data Center Bill. They Don’t Seem to Have Read It.
Sanders Buried the Lede, So the Ledes Buried Sanders
Jun 2
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Why Do Progressives Downplay AI’s Environmental Harms?
How Corporations and Liberals Reversed Rhetorical Roles
May 26
Do Mass Shootings Boost Gun Sales?
Everybody—left, right, and Brookings—says mass shootings spike gun sales. It ain't true, and it undermines regulatory efforts. Here's what the data…
May 11
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