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'The Moroccans who swam to Ceuta were never going to make it to Britain, Germany, or anywhere else in Europe. Once again: Access to Ceuta does not give anyone automatic access to the rest of Europe.'
Anne ApplebaumVance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
'large amounts of congressionally appropriated funding for global health and foreign aid remain unspent'
The New York TimesOver the past two months, the U.S. has made financial commitments that hint at a limited return to global health and humanitarian assistance partnerships, after the abrupt severing of many of those relationships a year and a half ago.
'[LLMs] perceive the source of text from how it sounds, not its labeled role [e.g. <user> or <tool>]. [...] To the model, sounding like a role is indistinguishable from being one.'
Melanie MitchellYet another way to jailbreak LLMs: When asking them for forbidden information, make them think the request is part of their chain-of-thought: arxiv.org/abs/2603.12277
What's wrong with elections? Why should some people have more say than others?
Thor BensonWhat if, just spitballing here, the government gave a foreigner billions of dollars and made him the richest man on the planet
The super-wealthy are apparently now turning into communists en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Wa...
David CornThis is nuts. Sen. Mark Warner adopts an America First-ish stand, saying Trump should declare victory and end the war in Iran—and Sen. Etic Schmitt calls him anti-American and a communist. The Republicans keep sinking lower and lower. That's what Trump does to the GOP.
The president and his office are increasingly starting to look like those of Russia or some central-Asian autocracy.
The New Republic“Mr. President, there are no signs that Iran is ready to stop fighting, so what is the plan?” a reporter asked Trump on Tuesday. “Is the plan to just keep bombing until they give up?” “How would you know that there are no signs? Why, do you know something I don’t know?” He replied. trib.al/5eW1sOY
'About 0.1% of accounts on Polymarket collect about two-thirds of the profits, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis.'
Mark JacobTrump and prediction markets are promoting the idea that unethical insiders can make out like bandits while regular people get separated from their cash. And shamefully, the news media are part of it. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
At some point it will have to start to turn against him. Suppose it will have a compounding effect once his policies start to disappoint more people.
David SimonFellow Americans, behold the United States President, opining with all the maturity, dignity and splendor of his high office:
'Ukraine believes that it can have its first indigenously produced Patriots roll off the production line as soon as 2029. I have learned to rarely question Ukrainian determination and ingenuity, but that estimate seems overly optimistic.'
Adam KeiperIt might seem like giving the Ukrainians a license to build their own Patriot missile system is a generous and strategically smart move—but the reality is a lot more complicated. @brynntannehill.bsky.social explains. www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-sor...