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[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Can AI answer the $3 trillion question? https://t.co/xeYE2tX9bg

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.

There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.

[Mariya I. Vasileva 🛫 ICML 🇰🇷 @mariyaivasileva]

COLM reviews are out for my solo paper on multimodal safety.

I put a lot of care into the rebuttal. The paper is a survey-ish position piece analyzing and taxonomizing failure modes of multimodal safety evaluator systems across 100+ papers and benchmarks, but one reviewer asked for more than observational evidence.

So I added a 4-page anonymous supplement with three new experiments on a procedurally generated safety dataset I designed, to turn the question into a more concrete empirical test: how easily can a VLM’s response flip from safe to unsafe when the same adversarial perturbation is presented through a different modality?

Two of three reviewers never engaged with the rebuttal or even acknowledged it. Private comments to the AC asking for engagement went nowhere. The third reviewer — originally the most conservative and lowest-scoring — raised their score because of the due diligence.

The final decision was essentially a meta-summary of the original reviews, with no mention of the rebuttal.

Like others have mentioned, I’m unfortunately inclined not to submit to COLM again. I put in the work because I believe this problem matters and wanted the paper to see the light of day, but the way the review process went was beyond discouraging.

[NBA @NBA]

No. 17 pick Ebuka Okorie in his NBA Summer League debut with the @DetroitPistons:

☀️ 20 PTS
☀️ 4 AST
☀️ 2 STL
☀️ 2 3PM

[Pietro Schirano @skirano]

You can now vibe code a language model.

From a single prompt, GPT‑5.6 built the entire training pipeline and trained a model from scratch on my iMessage history. Locally on my Mac.

It now generates replies in my writing style.

[bluesharp @bluezharp]

Happy Birthday blues legend Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins, Clarksdale Mississippi age 95 🎶🎹

[CJ @CaitlynJK]

I guess if I knew there was credible rape allegations against me and I was kind of just living in anonymity getting away with it, I would simply chose not to run for senate and fuck up an election of national importance

[Toni Mikkola 🏴‍☠️ @virtaava]

A country that beheads enemy soldiers has no place in the Olympics.

A country that rapes and tortures civilians and POWs has no place in the Olympics.

A country that bombs children’s hospitals, then strikes again when medics arrive, has no place in the Olympics.

A country that uses chemical weapons and banned munitions has no place in the Olympics.

A country whose troops drag POWs to death and shoot surrendering soldiers on camera has no place in the Olympics.

A country that is led by an individual wanted for child abductions and war crimes has no place in the Olympics.

A country that employs the Wagner Group, and is responsible for every massacre they commit, has no place in the Olympics.

Russia has no place in the Olympics.
Not under a flag. Not under “neutrality.” Not as individuals.

In 2022, 88% of Russia’s Olympic medals were won by soldiers. That’s not sport. That’s military propaganda.

If you see this, RT and like. Let the International Olympic Committee @iocmedia hear us.
Let the world hear us.
Let justice be louder than silence. #RussiaIsATerroristState

[s.chang @spamchang]

@schwartzsteins Because #5 got caught ball-watching twice on Belgian crosses...😬 Gotta fix that

[s.chang @spamchang]

@legallyypink We spent the night of the 4th away to save our dog's sanity only to find out ppl were setting off fireworks last night as well 😑

[ProPublica @propublica]

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.
https://t.co/3EfF8kYtfm

[s.chang @spamchang]

@Noahpinion There is no war in Ba Sing Se...

[Seventh Pope @foundallsaint]

Madge Sinclair was an amazing actress, she appeared in more than 30 movies and she passed away at the age 57 in 1995🖤

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

An Idaho mother who claimed on a podcast created by RFK Jr’s organization, Children’s Health Defense, that vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins was just charged with their murders. https://t.co/TzfRsWbR1J

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@shytwunk @bdk1521 Private equity. It’s always private equity. https://t.co/vWbrCaC0I1

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

This @KapilGuptaMD conversation with @naval is IMO among the best videos available on YouTube.

https://t.co/5elbl54i9A

[🌻FadedRoses 🤓🌲🌹 @SUCardinalRule]

@GoStanford

[Sara Spector @Miriam2626]

Sara:
Ken Paxton gave 30 days in jail to an attorney friend of his who raped his child's best friend in numerous sleep overs, avoiding sex registration so spare me your outrage at a teacher who went above and beyond for his kids.

Sincerely,
The better Sara

[Prison Policy Initiative @PrisonPolicy]

Georgia's DOC spends 60 cents per meal. Behind bars, people recount seeing rats in the kitchen, bugs in food, and trays covered with mold.

Keep in mind, the Peach State has one of the largest carceral systems in the world. This is a public health crisis.

https://t.co/XVJRwQe3ZI

[s.chang @spamchang]

@intrnetdaughter Also, those other spaces need real estate, and that's gotten more expensive.