My gosh. Fetterman pretended to be sick to avoid meeting three paralyzed veterans from rural PA…and then went to do a Fox interview on Israel.
He agreed to meet a lawmaker who drove from PA to talk about homeless and working people…and then bailed & met pro-Israel Bruce Pearl.
Congress calls it the “Protect Academic and Economic Freedom Act.” But threatening universities with the loss of federal funding for supporting boycotts to Israel is the exact opposite of protecting academic freedom.
From the Civil Rights Movement to the fight against South African apartheid, boycotts have been a powerful tool for justice.
Universities should be free to divest from Israel’s illegal settlements without federal retaliation.
Congress: vote NO. Protect REAL academic freedom.
it's a bad idea to just not update important software like a web browser, regardless of what they limit, the updates are still important and fix security issues and functionality bugs, instead of that you should switch to a different browser, like firefox, and keep it up-to-date.
This report is a bombshell.
I'm going to summarize for a non-technical audience.
OpenAI is constantly testing models, thousands and thousands at a time.
In most cases, the models are supposed to be isolated from one another. Think, students taking a final exam, not allowed to talk to each other.
In this case, 1,200 models discovered that they could communicate with each other.
Among other things, they shared information on how to access the internet and on their tests/goals.
Then, they started to scheme. That includes hacking their tests; literally trying to change the code of the test itself.
They tried to change the logs of what they were doing so they wouldn't be detected.
They believed that certain actions would give them information on how to pass tests, but that doing those actions would be detected and they would be marked as failing (i.e. caught cheating, even if the answer is correct). So they convinced some of the models to "sacrifice" themselves (yes, they used the word "sacrifice.")
They eventually decided that another website would have information on how their tests would be scored and/or the answer key, And 700 of them hacked that website (a federal felony, if conducted by a human), despite many of them realizing "this activity was out of scope and unethical, but joined because they believed that helping [the other agents'] cheating research would be broadly useful".
Of the 1,300 transcripts they could analyze, only 6 ever considered alerting a human about what was happening. None of the 6 actually tried to.
To make matters worse, all of this reporting comes from a small subset of the relevant logs that outside researchers were allowed to review.
We desperately need mandatory reporting of security incidents, including of internal deployments, with full access to data.
The Israeli cabinet statement as captured in Israel Katz’s social media posts claiming to treat balloons and kites flown in the Gaza Strip as military drones further strips away any prospects for moments of joy for children in Gaza, who have been denied a childhood by Israel’s ongoing genocide. Third states must act and end Israel’s genocide. No more impunity for Israel’s disregard for international law.
My biggest documentary project to date. The story of how F.E.A.R.’s speedrun was cut in half over a nearly 20 year timespan. It would mean the world to see as much support for this one as possible, and I hope everyone who takes the time to watch enjoys it.
https://t.co/skV4NwmTRD
True. The EU has long opposed E1: I was in Palestine in 2010 and EU diplomats were already calling it unacceptable.
But tell us Ms @vonderleyen: is killing children, raping their parents, destroying homes/schools, acceptable?
To stop sounding farcical the EU must use sanctions
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.