Researchers behind a new study say that the methods used to evaluate AI systems’ capabilities routinely oversell AI performance.

Trans women have such a huge advantage at sports that no trans woman has ever won an Olympic medal since being 'allowed' to compete so therefore must be banned

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Where I am, for what little it is worth, is that the defectors were in fact defectors, and they blew the political opportunity. But we were not on the verge of extending the enhanced subsidies unless you can think of a way to get *House* Republicans on board.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope

"After the SJC filed a defamation suit it was revealed that the 'contractor’ was Adam Dobrer who had actually been Hillel BC’s ‘Lead Advocacy Professional’ for more than a year (July 2022 - Aug 2023). Dobrer’s LinkedIn mentions how part of his role at Hillel BC was to combat antisemitism."

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Time for @schumer.senate.gov to go. Use this letter campaign to demand Senate Dems who opposed this terrible bill REMOVE Schumer as Senate Minority Leader. OR lose our donations and support.

I think this is true. Democrats previously had the ability to say that voting for them delivered the lesser of two evils. I've long believed that was true. But I was a chump. My senator, Adam Schiff, keeps voting for Trump's nominees. I voted for Schiff. And yet he keeps voting for Trump's agenda.

And yet.

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The double standard exposes the anti #Palestinian racism at the heart of not only #Israel, but the US and Europe as well. Palestinians are simply not seen as fully human in western capitals and media. That's why you just don't hear about so many #Israeli crimes.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Here's a gift link for y'all. It's also important to note that this Judge retired to senior status in 2013 so his replacement was appointed by Obama more than 10 years ago. His resignation is not creating an opening on the court. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

This statement from Jikeli is the kind of thing that shows a person isn't intellectually serious about the issue. The story about Jikeli kicking a grad student off the call, only for everyone to leave and reconvene on a call without Jikeli, is an extremely Jewish response to goyische bullshit.

Seems like a lot of antisemitism going on at IU. MAGA is both pro-Israel and antisemitic - and this story is just one example of how that works

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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Incidentally, I wouldn't know who sang The Miller's Son the best, but Renée Elise Goldsberry's version has gotta be way up on the list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkro...

Accurate.

wonder if this could have anything to do with the British press running a 24/7 hate campaign where typically a single newspaper might contain 3 anti-trans stories *a day*

Echoes of Jonathan Greenblatt sneeringly dismissing Mamdani visiting synagogues because, Greenblatt said, those synagogues are "anti-Zionist." The implications being 1) only pro-Israel Jews are real Jews, and 2) pro-Israel people have the authority to decide which Jews count and which Jews don't.

This is fairly infuriating. Indiana U abruptly got rid of the Jewish director of the Jewish studies program, replacing him with a non-Jewish scholar, Günther Jikeli. Jikeli then defunded a Jewish graduate student who has been critical of Israel. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...

The communal spiders feast on abundant midges and have not quite figured out how to capture passing arachnologists or speleologists.

Beauty pageants give me the icks. But it was actually a beautiful moment, watching all those women stand up and walk out. I’m here for allll the misogynists’ tears. Now, can we PLEASE create more contests & opportunities for women based on our talents & accomplishments, not our weight & looks??

Here's how to turn off Bluesky's censorship settings, so you can see posts by people you follow, even if Bluesky thinks they're rude. You can customize the controls on quite a bit more than the Rude label, even.

This is nothing but an attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of the administration’s actions.

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Here is a nice mushroom

CASE GOES COLD, CUTS AGAINST DOJ

The male executive in charge of the Miss Universe event in Thailand berated Miss Mexico in front of all the contestants. Contestants stood after he ordered them to sit, some (including the current Miss Universe) walked out, and now he's fired. Solidarity is beautiful! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Has a single "reporter" asked a single Republican why California's redistricting is such a terrible thing while Texas doing it is fine? Even one?

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Ellis: "Requiring the government to comply with its obligations under the Constitution, in particular the Fourth Amendment, is simply not a harm."

I'm kind of fascinated by RFK Jr's fleeing the scene. He didn't even wait until the pharm exec had hit the floor, or to see what happened - as soon as the guy's knees buckled, RFK turned and booked. That guy is so weird.

The messages were bad but honestly what do these folks expect? "I can't imagine why you are upset with me, all I did was support sending masked, armed men into your communities to abduct your neighbors and brutalize your children." Yeah, people are going to be really angry.

Part of the story of the Trump administration is the effort to demolish state capacities. Some will be very hard to rebuild and that is the point (thread)

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For @msnbc.com I wrote about how Tuesday's election gives Democrats the blueprint for overcoming Republican anti-trans attacks and how thus should settle all the talk about throwing trans people under the bus. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

it's all this hoary horseshit about how men need women to civilize them, which is just another way of blaming women for men's moral failings, or for dumping on people who aren't following stereotypical gender scripts.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.