Researchers gave three commercial AI models an exercise typically used to train human military strategists. Each system played the leader of a nuclear-armed country in a standoff. Across 21 simulations, the models chose to use nuclear weapons in all but one game. Read more from Hiranya Peiris.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

“DST appears to cause brain damage”. —John Gaski PhD (University of Notre Dame) & John Sagarin MBA (Kelley School of Business) psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

My people you are allowed to link to the articles and you SHOULD do that because outlets like @motherjones.com and @wired.com and journalists like @mollytaft.com who wrote it all benefit from those visit Don't be like the techbros! www.motherjones.com/politics/202... www.wired.com/story/chevro...

Why are you paying to accelerate pollution?

“The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated a 10% to 30% drop in gas vehicle fuel economy in cold weather.” So EV range reduction is only slightly worse than gas cars.

1. Guy starts a debate on social media by saying that debating on social media has no value. 🧐 2. Having started the debate, he throttles it by limiting who can debate. 3. Others wonder why he spent his time doing something that he says has no value.

If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night

Congratulations to NASA and partners for an almost flawless return of 4 astronauts from the Moon!

Congratulations to NASA for flying astronauts around the far side of the Moon!

Just knowing that they named this moon program Artemis after the twin sister of Apollo which was the first moon mission and they have a woman on the crew makes this week not suck

I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool

This is dangerous.

Artemis II on April 1: no fooling! (We hope)

The sampling in the poll commissioned by the Coinbase-backed Stand With Crypto advocacy group is like if a political campaign polled its campaign volunteers and undecided voters in equal measure, then presented the combined result as evidence of support among undecided voters.

If ever there were a place to wear a mask, it would be in crowded airport security lines.

For understandable reasons, we have been focusing a lot on the West, but there's a much broader signal. Many stations across the entire southern half of the U.S. are recording their highest average maximum temperatures on record so far this March. Graphic by sercc.com

You can check your voter registration status here: apps.npr.org/voter-regist...

Happy Spring Equinox! 🥵

More extreme weather

Has it been (almost) a year already? Time flies. Can’t make it to DC this time around but just donated to @standupforscience.bsky.social to promote and support the cause!

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

How Hurricane Melissa got so dangerous so fast. “The role climate change has played in making Hurricane Melissa incredibly dangerous is undeniable." grist.org/extreme-weat... #HurricaneMelissa #Hurricane #Jamaica #Weather #Climate

The Trump admin is dismantling Freedom of Information Act offices. Then the offices send out emails like, “Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails.” The lengths this admin will go to ensure zero transparency with the American people is astounding.

From the cold & rainy Albany NY #handsoff protest: Canada and USA: separate but sticking together! 😀

Well at least he’s not also making food more expensive with tariffs while illegally cutting government programs that feed millions of starving children oh wait

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

“The number of Federal employees as a percent of NFP fell for decades but has been in the 1.5% range for almost 30 years.” - B of A 🇺🇸

Republican US House from GA says we need to slash because we cannot afford these programs and personnel. No mention of the proposed $4.5T tax cut he will no doubt support and whether we can afford *that.*

"You’ve got to stop covering him like he’s just another politician, with a different agenda,” [David Kay] Johnston told Froomkin in December. “He’s a criminal and a con artist. And that has to be central to everything you cover about him.” www.alternet.org/reporter-tru...

At least German media is beginning to call it what it is: a coup. "As a "CEO dictator," the richest person in the world is destroying the government apparatus. Donald Trump is left with only the role of "chief overseer" while American democracy is being dismantled."

In one of Elon’s outcries about fraud, he actually ended up cutting funding for cancer research. Despite initially denying it, he was later proven wrong. This incident highlights how little he actually understands about what he’s doing.

"People who like to sound tough reflexively back the guys with guns over the guys in jeans with sacks of grain or the guys in suits with papers. But take it from someone who spent nearly 1,500 days downrange over the course of 20 years: USAID is worth every penny." www.thebulwark.com/p/usaid-kept...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 👩‍🔬 Join us in celebrating the brilliant talents who are shaping the future of science and technology, and dive deeper into the story of one of our young professionals making her way in space. ➡️ www.esa.int/About_Us/Div...

Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-arti...

Folks trying to save USAID are trying to counterprogram Musk's $40 million Super Bowl ad. They're asking everyone to share this video as widely as you can today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

Tens of thousands of people have once again demonstrated against right-wing extremism and political cooperation with the AfD in several German cities. According to the police, an estimated 160,000 people marched through the government district in Berlin. www.deutschlandfunk.de/160-000-mens...

Wall Street is betting that Trump and Musk will crash the U.S. stock market.

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

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