> If you are a woman who has built any kind of visible presence on social media, you are a potential target. If your online presence includes audio/video footage, you're at risk of having your entire persona deepfaked. The threat surface here includes defrauding relatives.

holy shit

> Tell me a random fact about yourself that sounds fake but is 100% true. I spent ten years working at the busiest technical rescue squad in Maryland, and my only rope rescue in that entire time was to noose a kitten that had gotten itself stuck behind a water heater.

Hot take: nearly everything we call "machine learning" would be better described as "statistical learning" and we should call it that instead.

Most telling part of this rant: That the war will go on until "we decide it is over," not until the aims of the war are achieved - because there are no stated aims; and Trump prefers having none, so any result will allow him to try to claim a "win."

They claim to have been planning this for months, to allegedly keep Americans safe, but had no plan to evacuate any Americans from the region because it happened too quickly. Weird.

Garcia: "The truth is that Donald Trump and Republicans have cut billions of dollars from healthcare and food assistance, and used that money to hire officers who are now terrorizing cities and killing Americans. That's where our taxpayer dollars have gone."

I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

I hate that these betting markets exist, but I do love this empirical illustration of how the diffusion model of decision making manifests in a decentralized, distributed decision process. The dynamics in your brain are the same as a crowd of agents competing with partial information.

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Have we already moved on from "Epic Furry"? Don't let that shit go people. Easy opportunity to continuously mock this entire operation by just calling it what it was originally named.

🤥 @KristiNoem today: “I didn’t call Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.” FLASHBACK: she sure did 👇🏽

The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...

Are AI models effective collaborators, or mere assistants awaiting your next command? (Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2602.24188) To find out, we make AI collaborate with itself, in private information games: tasks that require sharing private information, like this chess board ordering task.

also this

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

They literally spent the past 4-plus years blasting Biden over the withdrawal from Afghanistan and how "rushed" it was.

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

Seven hours.

BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

absolutely incredible. trying to gaslight a reporter about a statement he made yesterday... to her directly.

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

easily the most corrupt administration in US history, and we're just barely starting year 2.

the greed of trump and his cronies is legit going to get us all killed.

trump put these Americans in harms way and has no plan or intention to deliver them to safety from the cluster fuck he created.

DOJ is supposed to be slow and deliberate when it makes decisions—take the time to get it right. It’s rare, in fact, I can’t remember any other time when we’ve seen the sort of whiplash change in position we’re seeing right now. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

🚨BREAKING: Hundreds of Democratic voters in Dallas and Williamson Counties, Texas scrambled to find their polling places Tuesday after the local Republican parties refused to hold a joint primary — ending more than a decade of convenient countywide voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

holy hell, the GPT2 speedrun record now hits the 3.28 loss target in UNDER 1.5 MINUTES. Not quite two years ago, the record was 45min. This is all micro-optimizations, no hardware improvements. This speedrun is specifically trained on 8xH100. Wild shit.

> [..] introduce a spectral μP condition that precisely characterizes how the norms of weights and their per-step updates should scale with width and depth, unifying previously disparate μP formulations as special cases. [..] enables robust HP transfer under width-depth scaling.

Author may as well have pulled this paper out of my brain. Been developing these exact ideas for at least 2 years now. The next step (wrt how I've developed this) is to consider the eigenspace of the object-attribute matrix, which bridges FCA/LRH to Platonic RH and singular learning theory.

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

:(

The deadline for all SIGBOVIK 2026 papers has officially been extended to March 18! Enjoy the extra procrastination time, and maybe consider starting to write your papers!

Before the 2024 election, I kept saying that Trump et alia would break things people didn't realize could be broken and things people didn't even know *existed*, but were important. It's so infuriating.

The politics are important and all but also a LOT of people have died

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence

Meiselas: Trump is a parody in the most extreme sense of the boogeymen MAGA created to go after Dems. He’s quite literally all of it. He covers up the pedo ring. He starts wars everywhere. He uses government to tread on people. He's the most extreme example of what they claimed they wanted to stop.

I really did think the Riyadh Comedy Festival would help bring peace to the Middle East

This is Hippo. He's visiting Scotland for the first time. Had no idea they made squeaky toys for humans too. 14/10 (TT: kelseydarragh)

US military death toll rises to 6, Israel death toll at 10, Iran over 500 (including over 100 in a strike that hit a girl's school); 5 in Gulf states. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

"Trump's attack on Iran is terrifying in part because it's so untethered from policy goals and logic. He offered a range of half-hearted explanations for his rush to war, but the conflicting excuses only underlined the obvious truth — he attacked Iran because he felt like it."

Well, we did it because of the protesters Nukes I mean they’re building an ICBM We did it defensively because Iran was going to attack us I mean Israel was gonna do it anyway so we did it too They were gonna attack us because Israel was gonna attack them so we attacked them

Awful big talk for a guy who lost three f-15s to friendly fire this morning.

A lot of people epically failed to accept the basic reality that the 2024 election was an election with huge moral stakes and a clear right and wrong answer (for a wide range of reasons). They now are twisting themselves into knots to protect themselves from accepting that moral failing.