Amaury Rodriguez

I just called my senators, leaving messages asking them not to vote for any deal to end the shutdown without a deal to extend ACA subsidies. It is shocking to me that they are about to cave without this.

Transcript: Trump Press Sec Awkwardly Undercuts Him after SNAP Tirade As Trump’s eruption over the shutdown leaves Karoline Leavitt no choice but to contradict him, the author of a new piece on the standoff explains how Leavitt undermined him and why his position is rap...

Trump’s Press Secretary Awkwardly Undercuts Him After His SNAP Tirade

As Trump’s eruption over the shutdown leaves Karoline Leavitt no choice but to contradict him, the author of a new piece on the standoff explains how Leavitt undermined him and why his position is rapidly weakening.

SFO has a nice collection of AI books

@adambecker.bsky.social @anilananth.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @summerfieldlab.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social‬ @randomwalker.bsky.social‬

Proving yet again how closely he studied Goebbels.

Obituary: Brian Cantwell Smith (1950 to 2025) - Faculty of Information Former dean wove philosophy and computation into a lifelong inquiry into the human dimensions of intelligence, judgment, and meaning Born into a prominent Canadian family known for both its intellectu...

Beautiful remembrance of Brian Cantwell Smith, from Faculty of Information, University of Toronto: ischool.utoronto.ca/news/obituar...

This is brilliant

Took the world by storm in 1979. The right music at the right time.
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There’s a name for this.

C O R R U P T I O N

Ouch 🚽

Good News: A Court Rejects Trump's Effort To Suppress The Vote In March, Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.” Predictably, it was designed to do anything but that.

There is some good news on the voting front today and it’s important news. It shows us that the courts can still lead, and the rule of law is not broken. No matter what Trump wants you to think. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

What he said: 💯 🎯

In the research for Computing, my multi-part documentary that examines the intersection of computing and what it means to be human, I've collected almost 6,000 books to help inform my storytelling. You can browse my entire collection here
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get a load of this line of questioning from CBS's Margaret Brennan to Hakeem Jeffries aimed at bothsidesing election denial and gerrymandering

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins Ken Thompson's vivid recollection of the rowdy roomful of geeks at Bell Labs who built the digital world in a spirit of open play.

Ken Thompson Recalls Unix's Rowdy, Lock-Picking Origins - The New Stack share.google/CTr9hDQH2Mda...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

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www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

In this vein, @mraginsky.bsky.social's "Artificial Intelligence as Sorcery" is also excellent: realizable.substack.com/p/artificial...

Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans? Going beyond simple accuracy for evaluating abstraction abilities

On the other hand, accuracy alone may be *underestimating* this ability in visual settings

It is essential to go beyond accuracy in evaluating such capabilities!

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2510.02125

Blog post: aiguide.substack.com/p/do-ai-reas...

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Don’t laugh at this. Don’t dismiss it. They’re serious. Prepare for it. And get ready to fight against it.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

WOW: The White House says the president's MAIN PRIORITY is his BALLROOM. SNAP is ending. Subsidies for health care are gong to double and in some instances quadruple plan premiums. The government is shut down. The cost of living is through the roof. And his priority is his ballroom.

Hope you all are having a blessed Thursday

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

ICE is a masked police force with minimal transparency that has been detaining American citizens with minimal due process.

In short, it is the Trump regime's gestapo.

This really needs more press coverage.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Burchett is Burchetting again.

Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities? OpenAI's o3-preview reasoning model exceeded human accuracy on the ARC-AGI benchmark, but does that mean state-of-the-art models recognize and reason with the abstractions that the task creators inten...

Do AI reasoning models abstract and reason like humans?

New paper on this from my group:

arxiv.org/abs/2510.02125

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Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make an Al as Smart as a 4-Year-Old? There is no such thing as general intelligence — artificial or natural — argues Alison Gopnik. Instead, there are multiple intelligences, each with its own trade-offs. Three different types of cogniti...

Tomorrow: the final event in SFI’s 2025 Community Lecture Series!

Join us for Alison Gopnik's lecture, “Transmission Versus Truth: What Will It Take to Make an AI as Smart as a 4-Year-Old?” —  7:30 pm at The Lensic.

Free tickets: lensic.org/events
Livestream: youtube.com/@SFIScience