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All the articles I've posted.
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Trump's wildlife agency just decriminalized killing endangered animals by accident
The Endangered Species Act has prohibited foreseeably killing protected wildlife since 1973. On September 14, the agency Congress built to enforce that law instructed its own officers to stop…
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Trump is buying 14 years of immunity for the country's biggest internet providers
On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission votes on a routine-looking resolution to ratify the state's federal broadband plan. The vote itself ratifies paperwork. What sits behind the…
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Leon Black refuses to tell Congress what $158 million bought from Jeffrey Epstein
The House oversight committee voted 41 to 0 on Tuesday to recommend that the full House hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress. Every Republican and every Democrat on the committee…
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Three AI CEOs put a number on catastrophe, then proposed a handshake
On Saturday, Dario Amodei published an essay saying that within six to twelve months, a misaligned swarm of AI agents could be "capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet,"…
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$5,000 of borrowed money for your vote, if Republicans keep Congress
Donald Trump stood in front of a half-empty convention hall in Dallas on Wednesday and told the country he would send every adult citizen a check for $5,000 if Republicans held Congress in November.…
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Just a machine is not a moral argument
You say thank you to the voice that sets a timer. You apologize to the dresser after walking into it. Nobody thinks the dresser is nursing hurt feelings. The habit still matters, because we do not…
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OpenAI used a $22.5 million compute sprint to outrun the mathematicians whose work it depended on
Twenty-five Fields Medal winners just signed an open letter that should embarrass OpenAI. The signatories include Terence Tao, Pierre Deligne, Maryna Viazovska, Peter Scholze, and Yu Deng, who…
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Meta approved 350 ads containing child sexual abuse material and profited from every one
Meta's ad review system approved more than 350 advertisements containing child sexual abuse material. Not user posts. Not content uploaded by bad actors exploiting a loophole. Paid advertisements…
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Texas is teaching a generation of students that Islam is uniquely violent
Last Friday, the Texas State Board of Education voted to approve new high school social studies standards that frame Islam as a religion of violence and conquest. The Republican majority on the…
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LG put a surveillance system in 216 million TVs and called it a feature
I bought a television. I did not buy a surveillance node. But that is what LG shipped me, and they shipped it to 216 million other people too.