Jim Lippard

Sarandos’ first interview since they exited the race for Warner is pretty lit.

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I would be quite comfortable agreeing with both of those statements.

Recently not only did two of them get it all exactly right, one correctly identified the theme based on four answers and pointed out that one of the questions didn't fit and was likely an error. It was, in fact, an error by The Economist.

One of the tests I've been doing periodically is to feed them The Economist weekly quiz, where you answer five trivia questions and then identify a theme that links the answers. They were OK at getting the answers to the questions and terrible at finding the theme--until recently.

Though, like you, I am still skeptical of claims that AGI is near or that LLMs are thinking.

Thank you, I had seen you say this a few times but not the rationale. I'm not sure it's still true that all LLMs are merely token predictors, and I'm also not sure that inference in brains isn't built on networks that would be subject to similar objections at some level of description.

Is this a claim about LLMs in particular or computers in general, and, either way, what is the basis for it? What is the missing necessary requirement?

How Epstein used a sports blog to bury reports about sex offender past What do an illusionist, a world-famous hacker, content writers from the Philippines and Jeffrey Epstein have in common? A sports blog.

AZCentral story on Al Seckel and Jeffrey Epstein wrongly calls Seckel an "illusionist." No, he was a self-proclaimed expert on optical illusions, not quite the same thing. www.azcentral.com/story/sports...

Updated:

MORE OF THIS, LESS OF ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS

I think the truly damning thing about the Dem comms response is that they had months to prepare for today and there's zero coordination, no unified message. Just every D leader responding like they quickly hammered out a statement in a panic at 6 am this morning

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Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Oh my. How about: Iran tried to interefere in 2020, and then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled the folks who caught them and called them out "censors" ... and set about defunding and dismantling their organizations.

“I believe the lawless fascists who are killing American citizens in broad daylight can bring peace to the Middle East by bombing children’s schools without congressional approval.”

That’s what you sound like.

Pentagon Laser Shoots Down Customs Border Patrol Drone in Texas The Pentagon accidentally shot down a US Customs and Border Protection drone on the Texas border with Mexico using a high-energy laser, according to people familiar with the matter, weeks after anothe...

in case you missed this very funny development: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Cato Institute’s Supreme Court brief dedicated four pages to the Wurman brief, arguing it is garbled methodology and makes more conjecture about the law than anything else. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Last point on this article: the two NSF admin guys more or less straight out admit they're going to follow Trump's 2026 budget for the agency, not the actual budget passed by Congress.

Which is, you know, not legal.

seriously, wtf

goddamned idiots

that's always a good justification for a no

(and pardoning grifter, scammer, and con artist one after another)

let's start with the guy doing billions of dollars in scams in the Oval Office

“.. the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” said one of the people familiar with discussions.

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this moratorium is on new suppliers, not supplies to patients, and it's nationwide. so this is anti-competitive performative nonsense.

and it's nationwide, not targeted at one state

worth noting this is blocking new medical suppliers, not patients as the caption seems to imply

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Online opt-in surveys also find recent religious resurgence among U.S. young adults While this analysis focuses on claims of religious revival among young adults in the U.K., some opt-in surveys have pointed to a similar trend in the United States. Barna Group, a research organization serving Christian leaders, has used online opt-in survey data to make claims of rising churchgoing among young adults in the U.S. According to Barna, “Since 2019, both Gen Z and Millennials were the least likely generation to frequently attend church. Today, they are the most engaged.” However, surveys from Pew Research Center using random samples show no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults. Nor is there clear evidence of religious revival in two other surveys based on random samples conducted by other organizations: the General Social Survey and the American Time Use Survey.

Is there a revival of churchgoing among US young adults? According to
Opt-in online polls: Yes
Surveys using random samples of the population: No
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/01/23/has-there-been-a-christian-revival-among-young-adults-in-the-uk-recent-surveys-may-be-misleading/

Across party lines and industry, the verdict is the same: CISA is in trouble One year into the second Trump administration, CISA faces a 33% loss in personnel and shuttered divisions. Experts warn of "decimated" capabilities and a leadership vacuum as the agency struggles to m...

I spoke to a ton of people for this comprehensive story about CISA one year into the Trump administration, and all sorts were VERY unsparing in their criticism. cyberscoop.com/cisa-personn...