JosephCharles

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…

P.S. I forgot to include that whitepaper from Apple showing how LRMs degrade as they're given more and more complex puzzles to solve:

machinelearning.apple.com/research/ill...

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Domestic Errorism

They don’t care. Is this mic on for the people in the back? THEY DON’T CARE!

The internet’s forever my guy.

1. Senator Richard Blumenthal on Iran:

“I just want to say I am more fearful than ever after this briefing that we may be putting boots on the ground and that troops from the United States may be necessary to accomplish objectives that the administration seems to have.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

Timing! Yesterday, I wrote a thread on working with Claude on writing, and today this came out. It’s a great example of the logical dissociation that Claude produces, and it's worth a closer look.

This week, the House will be voting on the War Powers Resolution authored by Khanna-Massie.

I will be voting YES to stop U.S. involvement in another illegal forever war.

A Republican president, especially one who's an insane bully who acts like a mob boss, can do anything he wants.

If a Dem POTUS did this they'd be having conniption fits and acting like it's the crime of the century and the end of the world.

So far, we’ve gotten into:

1. The oil-tanker escort business
2. The shipping-insurance business
3. The militia-arms and finance business

And it’s only Tuesday.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

Trump can try to change the story all he wants. But we are still going to cover the most important news of the day. That’s why I’m glad I have @wajali.bsky.social on the turmoil at DHS and Epstein survivor Dani Bensky on the DOJ cover-up. See you at 4p ET on Substack and later on YouTube.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

“If this Committee is serious about learning the truth about Epstein’s trafficking crimes, it…would ask [Trump] directly under oath about the tens of thousands of times he shows up in Epstein files… What is being held back? Who is being protected? And why the cover-up?”
@hillaryclinton.bsky.social

Trump admits there were no evacuation plans for Americans abroad due to his war with Iran "because it all happened very quickly."

after absolutely eviscerating Kristi Noem and calling for her resignation, Tillis is applauded. He thens threatens to hold up nominees if she doesn't stop stonewalling him. My God.

If this account is true this officer needs to be relieved of duty immediately

Q: “Did Israel force your hand?”

TRUMP: “No. It was my opinion Iran was going to attack first.” 🤔

(IRAN’S FM EARLIER: “What imminent threat? Were we invading the shores of 🇺🇸? Sending missiles to the White House? Rubio says they entered on behalf of Israel.”)

Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.

They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.

Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.

Watch how they vote this week.

Sen. Kennedy: How do you square your concern for waste with the fact that you have spent $220 million running television advertisements that feature you prominently?

Noem: Trump tasked me with getting the message out. That has been extremely effective.

HIRONO: DHS was lying that Ms Martinez was a domestic terrorist who ambushed federal agents. Yes or no -- that was a lie?

NOEM: Every day our law enforcement officers face tragic situations--

HIRONO: I'm not hearing yes or no. It was a lie.

Congestion Pricing Wins in Court After Lengthy Battle With Trump

BREAKING: A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that New York’s congestion pricing toll is legal and may continue, handing a major victory to the state in its defense of the first-in-the-nation traffic reduction plan, which the Trump administration had tried for more than a year to kill.

Pete Hegseth’s Crazed, Angry Tirades on Iran Give Dems a Big Opening It’s not enough for Democrats to say Trump’s war rationales haven’t been fully explained. The problem is that they are patently false.

Pete Hegseth's crazed rants at reporters reveal that Trump's rationales for attacking Iran are incoherent, confused, and based on lies. Dems don't have to take refuge in criticizing Trump's war on purely procedural grounds. They can go much harder. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2072...

Graham Platner is a disgrace and so are the podcast pod bros, Bernard, and anyone else supporting that racist nazi misogynistic pos

Get your shit together, Maine..

The possible price of loving someone is having to grieve them eventually and AI cannot stop that. It cannot soften the blow or fill a void and it is quite frankly disrespectful and weird to try

73% of Americans don't want Trump's illegal pay-for-play war against Iran. This shouldn't be happening. End of story.

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

This is a scene from Mad Max:
“for Valhalla!”

Sen Mark Warner stunning words after briefing from Trump regime: "Let's bc clear. There was no imminent threat to the United States by the Iranians. There was a threat to Israel. If we equate a threat to Israel as the equivalent of an imminent threat to the US, then we are in uncharted territory."