2025-05-29
IPinfo Launches IPinfo Core: City-Level Precision And Privacy Clarity
IPinfo has launched IPinfo Core, a powerful new product offering precise city-level geolocation and five privacy/connection-type signals. Built for smarter fraud prevention, compliance, and network optimization, it brings enterprise-grade IP...
Career-Launching Companies: These are the Companies You Should Work For
To win in the career market, you need to work at the best companies. These are the one's to know.
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without...
Re: SpaceX rockets that keep exploding: You Can’t Make an Omelette Without Exploding Several Billion Dollars Worth of Eggs. “Look, things explode. It’s just part of nature. Cybertrucks explode, and...
This Sleazy GLP-1 Prescription Site Is Using Deepfaked "Before-and-After" Photos of Fake Patients, and Running Ads Showing AI-Generated Ozempic Boxes
MEDVi, an online hub for GLP-1 drugs, wants you to know that it's "serious" about helping you lose weight. According to its website, it wants you to join "50,000+ MEDVi...
Gradual Disempowerment: Concrete Research Projects
Published on May 29, 2025 6:55 PM GMTThis post benefitted greatly from comments, suggestions, and ongoing discussions with David Duvenaud, David Krueger, and Jan Kulveit. All errors are my own.A...
Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA / repo)
Published on May 29, 2025 6:49 PM GMTEveryone around me has a notable lack of system prompt. And when they do have a system prompt, it’s either the eigenprompt or...
Do you even have a system prompt? (PSA)
Published on May 29, 2025 6:49 PM GMTEveryone around me has a notable lack of system prompt. And when they do have a system prompt, it’s either the eigenprompt or...
Incorrect Baseline Evaluations Call into Question Recent LLM-RL Claims
Published on May 29, 2025 6:40 PM GMTThere has been a flurry of recent papers proposing new RL methods that claim to improve the “reasoning abilities” in language models. The...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will...
Alexandra Petri has some advice for the 2025 Harvard grad who will become ludicrously rich: “After the cataclysmic Event happens that unravels society and sends me scurrying to my luxury...
If NASA Had Blown Up This Many Rockets, The Government Would Have Cancelled the Space Program
As an institution, the United States Pentagon has come to be known for many things over the years — its transparency, its generosity, its cunning. Consistency is not one of...
After a year and a half of updates, WoW Classic's Season of Discovery is finally winding down in favor of something new: 'We need to get in the proverbial kitchen and cook'
Season of Discovery servers aren't shutting down any time soon, but the team is moving on.
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in...
Shifting Baselines and the New Normal of the Trump Era
Among a number of things I’ve read online that I think about all the time is David Roberts’ 2020 piece for Vox about shifting baselines. Humans often don’t remember what...
RFK Jr's "Make America Healthy Again" Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist, in Clear Sign of AI Generated Slop
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a new "Make America Healthy Again" Commission report, which was released last week. Apart from making dubious claims about the causes behind the...
Yeah, it's time for a step back
Back when I was still using Twitter, I would develop a serious fatigue of social media every year or so and needed to take a step back from using it....
Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord's big naval expansion is delayed: 'After taking a hard look at where things stand, it became clear we won’t be ready'
War Sails is now targeted for release in the fall.
Former Tesla Robotics Boss Casually Torches Elon Musk's Vision for Saving the Company
With car sales cratering worldwide, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has his work cut out, looking for other areas of growth. Apart from launching a fleet of autonomous "Cybercab" robotaxis, the...
All quests, ranks, and rewards for the Mamool Ja Allied Society in Final Fantasy 14
Dawntrail's second allied society makes leveling gatherers a little easier.
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