Daniel Westman

Ms. Halligan, who took over on Monday after her predecessor quit rather than prosecute James B. Comey with what he believed was insufficient evidence, had a little trouble with the first two tasks. At one point, she entered the wrong courtroom. When she found the right one, she stood on the wrong side of the judge, then appeared confused about the paperwork she just had signed.

Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

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In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was among the first people to see the need for an online library of official secrets, a place where the public could find out things that g...

In memoriam: Cryptome co-founder John L. Young, who died March 28 at age 89 in New York City, was one of the early, under-recognized heroes of the digital age.

What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude's ‘Mind’ Surprised Them As AI's power grows, charting its inner world is more crucial. Anthropic researchers recently pulled the veil back a little further.

singularityhub.com/2025/03/28/w...

There is evidence that when asked to explain how they reach a decision, models will sometimes provide plausible explanations that don't match the steps they took.

Ukraine to continue fighting with or without Trump, experts say Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analyst...

Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.

Kanaky protester from New Caledonia

Some news on @euractiv.com out of New Caledonia, where TikTok is free to return after a defeat for the French government
www.euractiv.com/section/tech...

EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området Med hänsyn till EU:s dataskyddsförordning har Högsta domstolen ansett att det föreligger sekretess när en nyhetsbyrå har begärt att få ut ett större antal domar och andra handlingar i brottmål. Handli...

Högsta domstolen: EU:s dataskyddsförordning kan få betydelse för om det råder sekretess för personuppgifter i brottmålsdomar även på det grundlagsskyddade området www.domstol.se/hogsta-domst...

Autocracy in America There are authoritarian tactics already at work in the United States. To root them out, you have to know where to look.

Last summer, @peterpomerantsev.bsky.social and I produced a short podcast series, Autocracy in America. We talked about the changed that preceded an assault on democracy in other countries, and we found them here. Perhaps useful background for the current moment.
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/aut...

Alltid redo! (Har inte riktigt kommit igång på denna plattform men ska försöka göra det.) @isobelhk.bsky.social

NY Post headline saying: The incredible, blind arrogance of the 'fact checking' censors By Post Editorial Board

I've been saying for years now that the GOP considers any attempt to correct their lies as "censorship" and eventually it would lead to this.

More speech is now called censorship.

Jack Smith's report on the election case against Trump has been released. The 174-page .pdf can be downloaded here: static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

Romania's Constitutional Court has annulled the country's presidential elections, including the first round and the upcoming runoff initially scheduled for Sunday (8 December) between far-right candidate Georgescu and Elena Lasconi.

✍️ Charles Szumski
🔗 eurac.tv/9XBf

Medical Adaptation of Large Language and Vision-Language Models: Are We Making Progress? Several recent works seek to develop foundation models specifically for medical applications, adapting general-purpose large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) via continued pret...

Medically adapted foundation models (think Med-*) turn out to be more hot air than hot stuff. Correcting for fatal flaws in evaluation, the current crop are no better on balance than generic foundation models, even on the very tasks for which benefits are claimed.
arxiv.org/abs/2411.04118

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change