For years, we warned that the case against Julian Assange could be used against mainstream journalists, despite what many pundits said.

Well … now, it’s happening.

Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social expose how the Trump administration is citing the WikiLeaks case in court to target journalists’ rights.

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

What is Bending Spoons? Everything to know about Eventbrite’s acquirer | TechCrunch Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

Bending Spoons remains largely unknown, even as its portfolio of products has served more than a billion people.

Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”

Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.

Officials in authoritarian regimes often make obviously false assertions to signal loyalty to the ruler and to determine who shares that loyalty

No he didn’t, Libby. His written remarks referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” because that’s what it is. You’re the only one mixing anything up here.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Claude's new constitution A new approach to a foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is

Anthropic published their “soul document”

This is a continuation of “constitutional AI”. The constitution document is now a large document of prose that’s used in s number of training stages, even synth data generation as well as RL & SFT

(Strix confirmed fwiw)

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

If you tell an AI to convince someone of a true vs. false claim, does truth win? In our *new* working paper, we find...

‘LLMs can effectively convince people to believe conspiracies’

But telling the AI not to lie might help.

Details in thread

Mark Carney Warns “American Hegemony” Is Destroying World Order in Candid Speech States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that world order is at a “rupture” point due to the U.S.’s longstanding vise-grip on the world and its swiftly expanding authoritarian nature under President Donald Trump.

In a Final Act, New Jersey Governor Opens Jury Service to Thousands with Convictions New Jersey has been one of the harshest states in banning people with records from juries. Murphy’s order restores eligibility to over 300,000, but stops short of permanent change.

Research shows that more diverse juries are less quick to convict, and that they deliberate longer and more carefully.

A landmark reform by Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday will make the jury pool in New Jersey a lot more representative of the state.

Why do so many apparently healthy people die or get severely ill from infections that would be considered low risk?
For one, we don't have any way of assessing a person's immune system function in the clinic
nature.com/articles/d41...

High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers SK Hynix and Micron are also riding high on the AI industry's demand for RAM.

High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?

Don’t work for a company you would not invest money in, because when you are working you are investing the most valuable thing you have: your time.

For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice

A large comparison table showing AI model pricing and benchmark performance across many tasks. Column headers (left to right): Benchmark | Description | Gemini 3 Flash (Thinking) | Gemini 3 Pro (Thinking) | Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking) | Gemini 2.5 Pro (Thinking) | Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Thinking) | GPT-5.2 (Extra high) | Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) Pricing rows (top): • Input price ($/M tokens): Gemini 3 Flash $0.50 | Gemini 3 Pro $2.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash $0.30 | Gemini 2.5 Pro $1.25 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 $3.00 | GPT-5.2 $1.75 | Grok 4.1 $0.20 • Output price ($/M tokens): Gemini 3 Flash $3.00 | Gemini 3 Pro $12.00 | Gemini 2.5 Flash $2.50 | Gemini 2.5 Pro $10.00 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 $15.00 | GPT-5.2 $14.00 | Grok 4.1 $0.50 Selected benchmark rows (scores shown as percentages unless noted): • Humanity’s Last Exam: Gemini 3 Flash 33.7% / 43.5%, Gemini 3 Pro 37.5% / 45.8%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 11.0%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 21.6%, Claude 13.7%, GPT-5.2 34.5% / 45.5%, Grok 17.6% • ARC-AGI-2: Gemini 3 Flash 33.6%, Gemini 3 Pro 31.1%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 2.5%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 4.9%, Claude 13.6%, GPT-5.2 52.9% • GPQA Diamond: Gemini 3 Flash 90.4%, Gemini 3 Pro 91.9%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 82.8%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 86.4%, Claude 83.4%, GPT-5.2 92.4%, Grok 84.3% • AIME 2025: Gemini 3 Flash 95.2% / 99.7%, Gemini 3 Pro 95.0% / 100%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 72.0% / 75.7%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 88.0%, Claude 87.0% / 100%, GPT-5.2 100%, Grok 91.9% • MMMU-Pro: Gemini 3 Flash 81.2%, Gemini 3 Pro 81.0%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 66.7%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 68.0%, Claude 68.0%, GPT-5.2 79.5%, Grok 63.0% • ScreenSpot-Pro: Gemini 3 Flash 69.1%, Gemini 3 Pro 72.7%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 3.9%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 11.4%, Claude 36.2%, GPT-5.2 86.3% (with python) • CharXiv Reasoning: Gemini 3 Flash 80.3%, Gemini 3 Pro 81.4%, Gemini 2.5 Flash 63.7%, Gemini 2.5 Pro 69.6%, Claude 68.5%, GPT-5.2 82.1% • OmniDocBench 1.5 (lower is better): Gemini 3 Flash 0.121, Gemini 3 Pro 0.115, Gemini 2.5 Flash 0.154, Gemini 2.5 Pro 0.145, Claude 0.145, GPT-5.2 0.143 …

Gemini 3 Flash

Basically Gemini 2.6 Pro but with Flash pricing & speed

blog.google/technology/d...

Worth a read: Tim Dettmers (CMU, AI2) on AGI and ASI. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w...

My skepticism has also relied on the physics of hardware. Tim goes into a lot of detail.

Love this!

In #Tokyo, they fight winter cold and blahs by turning the platform of Ryogoku station into a giant outdoor bar, with hot sake, oden, and kotatsu.

🚅🍶🍜

I wrote about Yglesias “defending liberalism” by joining a right wing moral panic over critical race theory. His vision of liberalism has room for bigots, but no room for scholars concerned about structural racism.

Susie Wiles Talks About The First Year of Trump’s Second Term (Part 1 of 2) In the first half of ‘Vanity Fair’’s interview with Susie Wiles, the chief of staff discusses Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster, the FBI’s “incredible job” investigating January 6, and how Trump once berated…

Susie Wiles tells Vanity Fair Trump “has an alcoholic’s personality.” Vance’s conversion from Never Trumper has been “sort of political” and the VP has been “a conspiracy theorist for a decade.” Russell Vought is “a right-wing absolute zealot.”

I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use...

🧠📈 🧪

It’s often said that too many political writers cover politics as if it’s sports. Actually they cover politics as if they are bad at covering sports

Trends and Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults This cross-sectional study examined changes in metabolic syndrome prevalence among US adults from 2013 to 2023 across demographic subgroups using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examinatio...

1/3rd of American adults have metabolic syndrome, a staggering prevalence that hasn't changed in the past decade
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Conspiracy is a method for Turning Point USA as I wrote in my book about its rise to Christian Nationalism powerhouse. www.amazon.com/Seven-Mounta...

My thoughts on the matter: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientists Thought Parkinson’s Was in Our Genes. It Might Be in the Water New ideas about chronic illness could revolutionize treatment, if we take the research seriously.

For decades, Parkinson’s research has focused on genetics, on finding the rogue letters in our genome that cause this incurable disease. But researchers are looking at another unsuspecting cause: environmental factors.

How the creator economy destroyed the internet A series about the devil’s bargain between the people who make things on the internet, the platforms that distribute them, and the way we consume content

Our entire series on the creator economy is now live:

Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data “Against the enormity of such a wild region, this is an amazing story of the little float that could.”

Tiny Robot Lost Under Antarctic Ice for 8 Months Comes Back With Rare Data gizmodo.com/tiny-robot-l...