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I’m at Trajectory Labs tonight, where David is giving a talk on Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) tonight.

We invite you to join our Academy of Management PDW, “Chance, Luck, and Serendipity in Management and Strategy,” at this year’s AOM Annual Meeting! events.aom.org/events/aom-2...

#RecSys2026 friends! There is *one week* left to submit your ideas to the second AltRecSys workshop — due date is July 20. Details and submission instructions in the call: altrecsys.github.io/recsys26/

"June heatwave may have killed around 20,000 people in Europe" www.newscientist.com/article/2532... see zenodo.org/records/2108...

Papers In The Park S2E10. We’re covering the recent J-Space paper. Too long to print so there’s a summary. Thanks to @cohereforai.bsky.social and Alvin and Anthony for sponsoring!

Brilliant! youtu.be/MXiq-s0QGgo?...

Stray is a great researcher, trustworthy, curious, good people, and he’s running a fascinating experiment. Use the survey below to opt-in.

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Kristy, based at MATS, is giving a talk on US-China AI Relations at Trajectory Labs tonight!

It’s Papers In The Park! On a Sunday. (On account of the big game yesterday). Thanks to Alvin and Anthony for organizing, and to @cohereforai.bsky.social for sponsoring.

Go Canada!

We’re having fun with game in Toronto. Croatia ties it up? It’s seriously hot out here tonight… even by the lake.

I’m enjoying this. Well written. Credible retelling of some Levin. Good stuff.

Clever. Spent more time this week going over AI Safety cases, an approach policy learned by the British from Aviation safety lit. The policies leading up to the TSA/CATSA tended to be extremely event driven (Kingdonian random windows!) Then the terror. I’d prefer a different course for AI.

A country that talked itself into existence continues to talk to itself about existing. Happy 159th Birthday, Canada. You wild, vast, messy work in progress. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Back during the post-1945 rules based world order, I supported manufacturing our own energy. It just hand a fantastic ROI on multiple dimensions. I find myself post-rules order. Truly the dumbest timeline. But okay. Let’s adjust. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Round of 16 for Canada! What a game!

“Say Yes, Do No” is a dark pattern. Partners deserve Say Yes, Do Yes // Say No Do No. Maybe adversaries deserve Say Yes, Do No?

Underneath the waters of the North Sea lies the remnants of a lost prehistoric world. A land formed at the end of the Last Glacial Period, that eventually was lost to the sea. A land that is still a mystery, and is actively being mapped by researchers. Let me briefly talk about Doggerland.🧵🔽

Just as there’s no point in watching soccer if the refs are corrupt, there’s no point in supporting Capital if the institutions are too. The short-run gains of the grift are microscopic against the medium-run loss. As AI might experience. Issue isn’t so much with the tech. It’s the system?

It’s difficult to understate the second and third order effects. www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/the-ai-ind...

Yea, but who would ensure that procurement guidelines maintain coherence with all treaty obligations????? And which EA would be responsible for coordinating bagel delivery for the procurement offsite summit?

I’m at Papers In The Park! All the good people are here. We’re covering CALIBER: Calibrating Confidence Before and After Reasoning in Language Models. Thanks to Alvin and @cohereforai.bsky.social for sponsoring… and the paper! Shoutout to Finlay, Kurien, Dash, Fadaee, and Ermis!

@anthlittle.bsky.social. 2025. “How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating.” Political Behavior 47 (4): 1501–25. doi.org/10.1007/s111...

Oh hey neat you can see the dot com bubble from here

The evolution of the beautiful game.

Wow! Go Ecuadorrrrrrrrrr!

What are people really doing with chatbots? 👀 Turns out that a lot of them are writing/reading various kinds of fiction, and in particular, they're generating a ton of erotica! What does this mean for the future of reading? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748 Web Explorer: ai-fiction-wild.com

Re-read the NLA paper with fresh eyes. Neat. Lingering suspicion. www.anthropic.com/research/nat...

The bureau said it obtained orders from the Federal Court requiring the parent company of Sobeys to produce documents and testimony for its investigation into property controls. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s a beautiful day, 22c, sunny, for some papers in the park! Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models. Thanks to Alvin and @cohereforai.bsky.social for sponsoring!

Maybe. Why get in phone booth in the first place? www.liberalism.org/p/liberalism...

While I’m still mourning the liberal-maritime order, I’m behaving as though I’m in a postliberal order.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

6-0 for @canmntofficial.bsky.social ! What a night in Vancouver.

Giles is asking if we can be mean to AI at tonight’s Trajectory Labs technical talk.

The 52-foot-long (16-meter-long), 13-foot-high (4-meter-high) monolith will be made of reinforced steel and concrete, designed to withstand every possible threat including cyclone, earthquake, fire, flood or attack it will track with data the environmental downfall

Ooooh, people in England and Croatia will have an opinion about this.

NEW: US and Iranian sources have expressed diverging interpretations of some key aspects of the recent US-Iran agreement. (1/5) Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate06...

Conservatives no longer trust the word "democracy." But they still believe in a functioning, citizen-led government. Fantastic new research unpacks what it is that they believe in, and why they think Trump is restoring the nation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The key question for negotiators is the intent to meet to discuss the preconditions for the RFP for the breakfast for the negotiating team where discussions on the prospect of a deal that may, potentially, be agreed to regarding Hormuz. The Swiss are offering advice on chocolate chip muffins.

25c and sunny — what a glorious day for a papers in the park S2E6. Thanks to Alvin for organizing and @cohereforai.bsky.social for sponsoring. luma.com/ngl5hzjr

Sophon. Perfect word.

It's humbling but some people are just very good at what they do, and seem to be able to approach everything they do with the same high level of quality and excellence, and without compromising on productivity.

Gooooaaaalllllll!!! Go #canada !

Alanis singing the anthem is a highlight. Go #Canada ! #worldcup

Again, no shock that the cheapest energy comes from the fusion furnace that rises over the horizon every damn morning no matter how hungover you are and blasts the Earth with a kilowatt of power per sq meter absolutely for free, converted into electricity by a machine made of sand w/o moving parts

Let's goooooooo 📕