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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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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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June 2026
AI-Energy Mathemagic
Scenes from the New Climate Denialism
Jun 25
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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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May 2026
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
Data Center Blocking Ain’t Class Warfare
1,461 Census Tracts vs. A Provocative Jacobin Thinkpiece
May 4
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April 2026
That Black Plastic Spatula Study Was Off by Way More Than 10x
The viral Atlantic "throw out your black plastic spatula" story involved way more than a misplaced decimal. Here's what the flame retardant math really…
Apr 20
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A Definition and Taxonomy of Bullshit
Plus, Why LLMs Aren’t Bullshitters
Apr 12
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An Intellectual History of Bullshit
Sophists HATE Him: Athenian Man Reveals 13 SHOCKING Deceptions
Apr 5
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