2025-04-14
Firebase Studio: Everything You Need to Know About
Firebase Studio is a free, browser-based tool from Google that allows you to build full-stack web apps with AI assistance. It’s meant to help you go from idea to deployed...
Even Texas and California Agree: AI Needs Real Oversight Now
Artificial intelligence development faces a critical juncture, with growing bipartisan agreement on the need for independent oversight beyond industry self-regulation. The post Even Texas and California Agree: AI Needs Real...
5 Best Glock Guns on the Planet in 2025
Glock pistols are the most popular pistols in the world. They are the “people’s pistols,” as my rusty Spanish attempted to say above. Or is it, “pistolas del pueblo?” Anyway,...
A Partition of Ukraine Would Be a Historic Mistake
“America’s new Ukraine map looks like Putin drew it himself,” reads a headline on the English-language page of the Ukrainian news site Euromaidan Press. The news organization was originally founded...
My biggest pleasant surprise of 2025 so far has been the free prequel to one of my favorite indie RPGs, made with FromSoft's 25-year-old game making toolset
It's maybe not the best introduction to Lunacid, but Tears of the Moon is already one of my top games of 2025.
Someone Is Hacking Crosswalk Buttons to Speak in the Voice of Elon Musk Lamenting the Terrible Sadness in His Life
A hacker has taken over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park in California, to play seemingly AI-generated clips of Mark Zuckerberg or...
'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know
Our champion Steam spender has dropped a new car's worth of cash into Gabe's yacht fund.
Religious Persistence: A Missing Primitive for Robust Alignment
Published on April 14, 2025 10:03 PM GMTCurrent LLM alignment approaches rely heavily on preference learning and RLHF. This fundamentally creates the issue of “teaching” good behavior through rewards and...
The 4-Minute Mile Effect
Published on April 14, 2025 9:41 PM GMTDefinitionIn 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first officially sanctioned sub-4-minute mile: a pivotal record in modern middle-distance running. Before Bannister's record, such a...
Former Concord dev says 'it was gut wrenching to see our project fail' but urges players not to judge Marathon too soon: 'To call this game a failure before it’s even out is wild to me'
The long-awaited reveal of Marathon over the weekend has drawn comparisons to the online service shooter which Sony shut down last October.
Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else
This morning, a crew of six women, including pop star Katy Perry, CBS News broadcast journalist and TV personality Gayle King, and Blue Origin CEO Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sánchez,...
Trump: "Home-growns are next"
Foreign gulags for US citizens
In a meeting today, dictators Donald Trump & Nayib Bukele talked about...
In a meeting today, dictators Donald Trump & Nayib Bukele talked about building Salvadoran concentration camps for US citizens and defying a Supreme Court order to return Abrego Garcia from...
RANKED: 5 Biggest Navies On Planet Earth in 2025 (USA Is Not Number 1)
Naval historian and sage Alfred Thayer Mahan always said, “Whoever rules the waves rules the world.” The 5 Biggest Navies in the World This quote is still relevant today, and...
China Says It Can Track a ‘Stealth’ F-35 Fighter
This is the beginning of a lengthy U.S. trade war with China, and Beijing is looking for ways to gain an advantage. This means a war of rhetoric as neither...
The Challenger 3 Tank Dilemma Has No Easy Fix
The British Army’s New Challenger 3 Main Battle Tanks: Low Numbers are an Issue – A modernization program will give the British Army its most advanced armored platform, but it...
A few recent examples of beautiful, distinct TV cinematography
Instead of posting collections of interesting videos every once in a while, I'm going to try treating them like regular old link posts: here's a video, here's what I think...
The Bell Curve of Bad Behavior
Published on April 14, 2025 7:58 PM GMTThere’s an implicit model I think many people have in their heads of how everyone else behaves. As George Box is often quoted,...
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