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Los Angeles
Joined June 2009
The documents I obtained include an OpenAI contract with the Pentagon requiring that the military AI it sold to Hegseth would maximally comply with the military's commands. The story behind this doc became very strange (thread) theintercept.com/2026/09/08/…
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The Pentagon is thinking expansively about conducting “economic warfare,” particularly against China. Now, it’s mulling a new or expanded deep-cover spying capability as part of that mission. NEW from me and @wstrobel: washingtonpost.com/national-…
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DeepMind engineer Sofia Liguori just resigned from Google in protest of the company's Pentagon contract. I interviewed her about her decision and the future of worker dissent: theintercept.com/2026/10/21/…
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wow -- a protester directly behind Vance gets up and yells "release the Epstein files!" Vance suggest he's an illegal immigrant.
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NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? theintercept.com/2026/10/19/…
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NEW: I uncovered details of an Army project codenamed ECHOTRIBBLE, which will send out AI agents "with minimal human oversight" to delete data and disable targeted computers. What could possibly go wrong? theintercept.com/2026/10/19/…
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To have been a fly on the wall when the lawyers landed on 50 as the number
Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.
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You Can See Everything is one of the best and most genuinely shocking films I've seen in a very long time. Don't read anything about it at all before you see it.
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%$&*!!! whoa. This reads that Meta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - once a company uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services after October 30, 2026. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5
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Good on the reporter here for steamrolling past that staffer for trying to move on from the measles question.
Reporter: Has the war had an impact on your campaign at this point? Staffer: We’re not going to talk about that. Reporter: Mr. Secretary, do you believe that five deaths, potentially six, from measles in the state of Pennsylvania— Staffer: We’re also not going to talk about measles. Reporter: He’s the highest ranking health official in the country. He can answer that question. He’s a Cabinet secretary. RFK JR: The measles outbreak is occurring because so many people went unvaccinated during the COVID pandemic. And this is something that Anthony Fauci, in fact, predicted
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There's a word for "screening" the news!
Lesley Stahl’s 60 Minutes report on extremist Israeli settlers underwent a contentious screening process at the Bari Weiss-led CBS News, leading the veteran correspondent to privately express the possibility of quitting the show Scoop from @oliverdarcy status.news/p/bari-weiss-les…
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Notice how he’s minding his business and enjoying the film while you’re taking photos of strangers
Currently in a theater that’s being invaded by mice. I saw one. But then saw others. Kind of distracting. I am going to make a list later: movies where I encountered mice in the theater. I think this is the 4th time it’s happened while I’ve been in NYC.
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Crazy WSJ data. Between 2022 and 2025, wealth increased 37% for Americans 75 and older, while **decreased** 23% for people under 35. wsj.com/economy/affluent-and…
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one of the better YouTube thumbnails I've been served up lately
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You caught me. The CIA planted me at a local news station in Denver 20 years ago and made me do years worth of stories on snowstorms and rodeos so that I could drop this one report in 2026 quoting Tina Peters' attorney talking about civil war.
Likely the main reason knobs like Clark have their authority is because they’re a C 👁️ A asset. Media across the country are filled w them, & 9 Snooze has been a major propaganda outlet for decades.
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This is a lot of writing saying almost nothing. OpenAI should at least disclose what "clear policies on handling sensitive information" these employees allegedly violated. But this also seems intended to just chill internal dissent/whistleblowing.
A note from our research leaders: Last week we parted ways with Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after a thorough investigation found they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information. Our internal investigation uncovered a significant breach of trust beyond what’s outlined in the letter they published and we stand by the decision to not continue their employment. We generally keep individual employment matters private and don't believe a back and forth would be productive or lead to a resolution, but we want to address the points they raised in their letter directly. - We want to be very clear that these decisions were not about raising safety concerns or speaking out. Safety and research debates happen every day at OpenAI, often spirited and highly critical. We actively encourage these discussions and consider them essential to making the right decisions. We cannot do the work in front of us without a high degree of trust. We will continue to be extremely forgiving of our team making good-faith mistakes. We have not and do not terminate any of our employees for raising concerns. - We are actively finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks. People across the company have been working really hard on getting these partnerships up and running. We are committed to embedding external assessors and continue to make close collaboration with independent safety organizations a core part of our safety work. Many of our researchers already work with 3p safety organizations productively. - We agree with the letter that preserving the monitorability of frontier models requires an industry-wide commitment, including from OpenAI. Monitorability has long been a core piece of our research program, and something we continue to invest significant resources in (see our publications on Monitoring Monitorability and the subsequent open sourcing of monitorability evals, our system card for GPT-6 Astra, Jakub’s blog and post on X, and the numerous blog posts on our Alignment blog on the topic). We are deeply sad about this outcome. We appreciated Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek’s contributions to AI safety at OpenAI and their willingness to speak up and challenge ideas. We championed their voices, supported their work, and placed enormous trust in them. These decisions were not about them raising safety concerns. We have always encouraged that and always will.
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Palestinians being recorded and having their words fed into AI to make sure they don’t acknowledge the world outside their school that is now made out of a collection of tents.
A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” apnews.com/article/gaza-chil…
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Public executions. Net energy exporter. Gilded palaces. Humiliation at the hands of the Houthis. We've finally done it. We're Saudi Arabia.
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Accusing someone of adhering to "stone-age ideology" and then immediately calling for "brutal dominance" is really something
This is fantastic. Hasan's stone-age ideology will only respond to brutal dominance as a deterrence. I get that there are people who don't understand this, but it doesn't change the reality of it.
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