Even a moment of reflection would reveal Vance for who he is
Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War
Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.
JD Vance says aliens are ‘demons’ and details obsession with UFOs
Vice-president promises ‘to get to the bottom of’ reports of US government files about unidentified flying objects
El-Sayed responds after Vance calls him a "weasel" as Michigan Senate race grows contentious
Abdul El-Sayed told Michigan voters the state's U.S. Senate race could go down "as one of the ugliest campaigns in modern history."
Distilling leadership wisdom
Get your very own Jeff, Larry or Steve.
Jon Hernandez on Twitter / X
📁 Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence. pic.twitter.com/ZazO4i5HQY— Jon Hernandez (@JonhernandezIA) September 19, 2025
The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark
The tools we use to help us think—from language to smartphones—may be part of thought itself.
Ari Aster on Eddington
Ari Aster's Eddington, in which Joaquin Phoenix's conspiracist sheriff and Pedro Pascal's tech-friendly centrist lock horns in an election, lays bare the deep divisions in the American psyche. The director discusses the project's origins and why he feels we're living on the cusp of something new, alarming and deeply strange.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
Eddington
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.
Ken Paxton’s Impeachment Defense Lawyer Endorses James Talarico
A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton’s defense during a 2023 impeachment trial said Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission.”
Jeff Melnick on Twitter / X
Lots of us are hashing out new plagiarism/AI statements to share with our students. Here’s a draft of the last part of my very earnest one. pic.twitter.com/4Nqh7rZDcF— Jeff Melnick (@melnickjeffrey1) September 1, 2026
PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
Can LLMs Faithfully Enact Superforecaster Personas?
Superforecasters are people that make forecasts that are statistically better than the average person; they offer an interesting testbed for persona modelling. In this preliminary work, we investigate whether large language models (LLMs) can faithfully model superforecaster-like personas making similar forecasts and generating similar rationales behind the forecasts. When we compare LLM-generated responses to the ground truth responses of superforecasters, we find that few-shot prompting generates numerically closer forecasts than instruction-prompting baselines. We also measure the similarity of generated and real rationales, finding that the rationales generated based on examples are judged more similar to those of superforecasters than instruction-prompting baselines. However, an analysis of the reasoning patterns in the rationales shows significant differences between human and LLM forecasters, pointing to a gap between stylistic imitation and deep reasoning similarity. These preliminary results raise several interesting questions about how getting superforecaster-like behaviour from LLMs actually works, and open new avenues to explore for improving the forecasting behaviour of LLMs.
Also with the obligatory basic bugs common to LLMs "The author of this library would like everyone to know that he was, in fact, well-aware of this requirement, thought about it a lot while designing the library, and then, somehow, forgot" nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2025-4143 nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4144
NVD - cve-2025-4143
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