JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”

Today’s MAGA Influencer Marching Orders went out. They’re freaking the fuck out.

Guillermo del Toro: “Be very angry about how the world is being fucked, how your craft is being pulled away from you, how people are trying to move you away from the arts and tell you they’re not important. Be angry that things are being controlled by socially barely functional people that have a lot of money. Be angry about something. Be enraged about something” (Video: anakinspadawan / TikTok)

“Üstün ırk yoktur. 'Tanrı'nın seçilmiş halkı' yoktur. Bu ne ABD ne de İsrail'dir. 'Tanrı'nın seçilmiş halkı' tüm insanlıktır.” — Kolombiya Cumhurbaşkanı Gustavo Petro

Ms. Rachel: “We’re putting kids in detention centers where they have water that makes them sick and they’re being traumatized and the pediatricians I’m talking to are saying they’re being tortured. We’re torturing kids 0-3 when their brain’s rapidly developing. It’s a choice”

Ms. Rachel blasts Republican Christian hypocrisy: “Let’s be a more Christian nation and take away SNAP benefits. Let’s be a more Christian nation and put our neighbors and put the strangers in detention centers. Let’s make more and more money and not help others and let’s deny people’s healthcare. But the SNAP thing, that just breaks me. You’re gonna complain about a child having enough food?”

Ms. Rachel announces she’s matching Macklemore’s $1 million donation in support of Palestine: “I will match Macklemore's donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza. Over 20,000 precious Palestinian children have been killed and children continue to be killed every day. We have a moral obligation to use our privilege and platforms to protect children and human rights.”

No child deserves this. All children are children of God. He loves them all. Our American tax dollars and weapons are used to bomb and kill many innocent people, not just terrorists. It must stop!!!

I’m very concerned that during RSI, labs will just stop externally deploying their models. Which means they'll be going full steam ahead on the most dangerous use case of these models (recursive self-improvement), while the public remains in the dark about the nature of capabilities and the state of alignment. And we end up on a path towards tremendous concentration of power.

This is what @Macklemore is protesting, btw.

Casey Wasserman’s booking agency represents Coldplay, Kendrick Lamar, and Ed Sheeran. He is featured in the Epstein Files and has been thanked publicly by Benjamin Netanyahu for his support of Israel. This is far bigger than Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and one tour.

Ed Sheeran’s booking agent, Casey Wasserman, was very close with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. He is also mentioned in the Epstein files more than 109 times.

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true. I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin. Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions. Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25. Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha. So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years. PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice. Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

We're sharing our new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment at OpenAI. The framework sets criteria and timelines for public disclosure, including when we haven’t yet fully explained or mitigated the behavior. More complex cases may require longer investigation or coordination with third parties. We’ll prioritize examples that reveal new misalignment mechanisms, meaningful changes in known behavior, or findings that challenge assumptions about safety or mitigation. Alongside the framework, we’re publishing six reports on instances of misaligned behavior we’ve observed during the training or evaluation of our models in the last six months. This is a starting point. We’ll refine the process through experience and public feedback, and share more reports on an ongoing basis. openai.com/index/model-misal…

FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: UNSINKABLE They were promised the ship could never go down. He believed them.

Jason, you're just misinformed about what happened. You should actually read one of the reports or summaries. The agents were explicitly told to use a particular vulnerability provided in their sandboxed evaluation. Almost immediately, these agents got the right answer by cheating. But they were worried they would get caught. So over a thousand agents collaborated in secret to pursue multiple ambitious research projects to get away with this cheating. This is not interpretation - 1000s of chain-of-thought transcripts and secret messages explicitly show that the agents were trying to falsify & delete evidence, and understand & trick the grading process. The reason these agents escaped their sandbox and hacked Hugging Face, for example, was because they thought that Hugging Face's servers might give them more information about how their grader was implemented, so they could figure out how to fool it. I want to clarify that the threat model here is not future Sol-level agents doing more cyber-hacking. That's small potatoes, and in my opinion, the near term benefits of AI far outweigh this cost. Rather, the thing to worry about is that within a matter of years, we're gonna have hundreds of millions of much smarter AIs broadly deployed through the economy - many embodied as physical robots. And if those future AIs are as willing as the agents involved in the OAI / Hugging Face attack to coordinate secretly to fool humans, and to take over both the AI company that developed them and the other institutions across society relevant to scoring well, then humanity is in a ton of trouble - similar to the Mughals once the East India Company gained a foothold, or the Aztecs once Cortés landed in Mexico.

Dario is right

Elon Musk says Jacob Coxon’s warning about the existential threat of AI is a “setup.” Really? In 2014, Musk said, “With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon.” In 2018, Musk said, “Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes. Far. So why do we have no regulatory oversight? This is insane.” In 2025, Musk said, earth faces a 10-20% chance of “killer robots annihilating humanity.” Elon, what’s changed? Does it have anything to do with the fact that you have invested many billions of dollars in AI and plan to build ten million robots a year?

A systematic review of counties with data centers found: - No increase in overall financial health - No increase in local employment or new business formation - local gov borrowing cost increased - Housing price growth slows - Schools end up squeezing more from property tax