California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AIOct 29
gavin newsom just signed eight bills that effectively turn ai into the most heavily regulated nascent consumer technology in modern history
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We Should Turn the Presidio Into a Special Economic Zone
if we want to fix california's housing crisis, we need to accelerate development. build the presidio into a mini tokyo and then flood the salton sea.
Tomas Pueyo
Jun 14, 2025
We have shackled ourselves.
The US is 250 years old. When it was young, anything was possible. Settlers built cities from nothing, laid railroads, and created the richest nation the world has ever seen.
But it came at a cost: a ravaged environment, the slave trade, and the annihilation of native civilizations. So the pendulum swung — and Americans began to fear progress instead of embrace it.
California's Stealth Campaign to Kneecap AI
AI: White Lives Don't MatterOct 24
when prompted with thousands of hypotheticals, most models massively prefer white men (and ice agents) to suffer more than other groups, and only one model was truly egalitarian
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Wikipedia Declares Trump an AuthoritarianOct 10
a single editor repeatedly inserted the same "authoritarian" framing into multiple wikipedia articles, creating an illusion of consensus and shaping the record that now informs chatgpt and google
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