2025-04-09
The Blacklight Privacy Inspector Is Gaining Three New Features
The Product and Technology team at The Markup has been busy with what we’ve lovingly called “Blacklight Summer,” and we’ve made some major updates to Blacklight, our popular real-time website...
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories...
If You Heard What I Heard is a collection of Holocaust stories as told by survivors to their grandchildren. “Our generation is the last to ever hear our grandparents’ stories...
What can we learn from expert AGI forecasts?
Published on April 9, 2025 9:34 PM GMTAn introductory article on AI forecasts. Posted for feedback. As a non-expert, it would be great if there were experts who could tell...
Thoughts on AI 2027
Published on April 9, 2025 9:26 PM GMTThis is part of the MIRI Single Author Series. Pieces in this series represent the beliefs and opinions of their named authors, and...
You'll Die Inside When You Hear How Trump's Education Secretary Pronounces "AI"
It sure seems like president Donald Trump's secretary of education Linda McMahon needs a primer on artificial intelligence. During an education summit organized by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the 76-year-old...
Gcore Super Transit Brings Advanced DDoS Protection And Acceleration For Enterprise Security & Speed
Gcore has launched Super Transit, a cutting-edge DDoS protection and acceleration feature. Organizations face a 56% year-on-year increase in high-volume, complex DDoS attacks. Super Transit is delivered as part of...
From the NYT’s Overlooked obituary series: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth...
From the NYT’s Overlooked obituary series: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill. In the 20s, she smuggled 1000 diaphragms into the US in her luggage and later funded...
The Remembering Self and the Experiencing Self: A Paradox to Happiness Hackers
In the TED Talk below,**Dr. Daniel Kahneman,**Inventor of Behavioral Economics, explains how our happiness is determined and sometimes distorted by what he describes as our*two**selves*. ***The way a story ends*** Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ...
Dear Managers, Stop Promoting Toxic Productivity - Here's How
Productivity can easily be exploited at work. Managers may ask their team to stay late, work on weekends, and prioritize work over personal commitments and other priorities in life. A...
More tariff chaos: Donald Trump pauses tariffs for most countries at the last minute but jacks them up to 125% against China, 'effective immediately,' because of their 'lack of respect'
This doesn't seem like a great way to run a country, and it's not ideal if you're looking to put together a new gaming rig either.
OK this is too far: Someone brought an actual chicken to A Minecraft Movie
The cult of chicken jockey has escalated its ritual ceremonies.
The List Keepers, on the informal efforts to keep track of the...
The List Keepers, on the informal efforts to keep track of the toll of AIDS in the theater industry. “Sometime around 1982, McAssey had opened a pocket-size spiral-bound diary and...
Father Whose Daughter Died From Measles Says RFK Jr. Never Even Mentioned the Vaccine
In public, Donald Trump's health czar Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has become a surprise vaccine advocate amid the growing measles outbreak. His private comments, however, betray his conspiratorial leanings. Following...
Anti-automation policy as a bottleneck to economic growth
Published on April 9, 2025 8:12 PM GMTEpistemic status: These are preliminary notes on a topic that I hope to more thoroughly explore in the future. I would estimate the...
Inside VALR: Badi Sudhakaran Reveals Secrets to Crypto Exchange Success
Explore how Badi Sudhakaran built VALR into Africa’s top crypto exchange, with insights on product strategy, cybersecurity, and the future of Web3.
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms. “Paying someone...
Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms. “Paying someone $100,000 a year to host your blog. Come on buddy. I said I hate being a businessman, but...
Reasoning models don't always say what they think
Published on April 9, 2025 7:48 PM GMTDo reasoning models accurately verbalize their reasoning? Not nearly as much as we might hope! This casts doubt on whether monitoring chains-of-thought (CoT)...
Bootstrapping Surge: Why 57% More Founders Are Self-Funding in 2025
Pilot's survey of 1,844 founders found that a quarter of founders are self-funding. The median founder salary has plummeted 43%, from $132,000 in 2024 to just $75,000. The rise in...
Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky
It seems the only thing Bluesky hates more than Donald Trump is brands that promote artificial intelligence — and Adobe, the makers of Photoshop and Acrobat, had to find that...
ICE director’s dream: “Squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the...
ICE director’s dream: “Squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages […] like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”...
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