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Heartbreaking. I’ve asked subscribers to send me screenshots of their premium increases, and I can’t even tell you how many emails I’m getting like this.

Folks can’t pay these rates. This family is in TX, but it’s happening everywhere. Congress MUST extend the ACA tax credits.
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too

This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too | Weekly roundup for September 14, 2025
Also this week: Trump ties Biden low on inflation/the economy; Mamdani up big in New York City; independent redistricting is an 80-20 issue. + more!
www.gelliottmorris.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.
September 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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CVE-2025-7448 - Man in the middle (MitM) attack vulnerability in Wi-SUN library
CVE ID : CVE-2025-7448

Published : Sept. 12, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 52 minutes ago

Description : Wi-SUN unexpected 4- Way Handshake packet receptions may lead to predictable keys and potentially ...
CVE-2025-7448 - Man in the middle (MitM) attack vulnerability in Wi-SUN library
Wi-SUN unexpected 4- Way Handshake packet receptions may lead to predictable keys and potentially leading to Man in the middle (MitM) attack
cvefeed.io
September 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.
3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone's personal information.
Site Behind Major SSN Leak Returns With Detailed Data on Millions: How to Opt Out
National Public Data, a website infamous for its role in leaking millions of Social Security numbers last year, has returned with the ability to look up anyone's personal information.
bit.ly
August 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Refusing to "trust the experts" is meant to be a brave, responsible position.

But (as Carl explains in the thread) there is too much knowledge in the world. You have to trust *somebody*, much of the time.

If you have no trust in experts, you end up trusting the idiots.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’
HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.scrippsnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Echoes my experience.
Main thing I learned this week at Hacker Summer Camp was people actually using AI werent using it to create for them. They're using it to take what they know & write in a more biz acceptable manner OR using it to search for known facts and other things that were really just nested IF statements
August 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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THIS. The pleasure of certainty is right there in Prospect Theory. It's there in Ellsberg's paradox.

It's there in my own ambiguity papers showing we have a measurable financial value for pos *and* neg information if it makes us feel more certain.

Certainty is a hell of a drug.
It is *pleasurable* to be certain about what we should do. Our brain enters a different state. We like it so much we spend time and money to keep doing that activity.

Uncertainty, thinking, failing? they can't compete.

A real problem is: at their core, AIs are slot machines where you win certainty
metr.org METR @metr.org · Jul 10
When AI is allowed, developers spend less time actively coding and searching for information, and instead spend time prompting AI, waiting on/reviewing AI outputs, and idle. We find no single reason for the slowdown—it’s driven by a combination of factors.
July 16, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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This is what social media should have always been
This is exactly what the internet is for.
July 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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When I caught this itty bitty jelly last night, I knew I had something weird. What I didn't realize was that this little medusa is believed to only live for minutes, just long enough to pop off and spawn. I put it aside and texted Claudia Mills. Minutes later, I was bolting back to lab... 🐙🦑🪼
June 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This is the clearest summary of the pitfalls of info from LLMs that I've seen. 👏
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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1000% this
May 28, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Today is the last day to comment on the FDA's decision to limit the recommendation for the Novavax COVID vaccine. If you'd like to see the vaccine recommended for healthy adults and children as well as those under 4 and over the age of 65, this is your moment to shine. It will take 2 minutes.
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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A mini thread, because it's still on my mind:🧵

This weekend, I went to the Amache pilgrimage in Eastern Colorado. This event brings together survivors, descendants, and community members to memorialize what happened at Amache, the Japanese incarceration camp that was there between 1942-45.

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May 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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I am a modded version of a messaging app, Signal
I’ve conversations confidential, archival, and criminal
I know the DoD guys, and I make their chats transmissible
From Pentagon to Tel Aviv, data protection: minimal
May 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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I'm a big Bluesky fan, but I haven't found much audience interest yet in the B2B tech stories I write about semiconductors, etc. If you're interested in what's happening with Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, etc., I follow them really closely and post stories at @dylanonchips.bsky.social.
April 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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On the importance of trust
I find “people don’t actually know how things work” has a lot of explanatory power.

I don’t mean this in a holier-than-thou way. I’m only vaguely aware of how my microwave or the car radio work. A lot of modern life is assuming the functioning of complex tech and models.
April 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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April 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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“That really is his understanding of what a deal is: getting something over on the other guy. And that’s what we see here. To the extent there’s any plan it’s basically a power play; Trump is pulling on the economic powers of the world to bum rush them into a newly subservient global trading regime”
WTAF is Going On? In Search of the Plan Behind Trump’s Global Economic Crisis
Everyone in the country at the moment, albeit from different vantage points,...
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April 5, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/undocumented-backdoor-found-in-bluetooth-chip-used-by-a-billion-devices/

My read because I've been asked many times and need to sleep

The caveats and needs for further research the team notes are very honest. It's hard to really calculate risk here be
Undocumented "backdoor" found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices
The ubiquitous ESP32 microchip made by Chinese manufacturer Espressif and used by over 1 billion units as of 2023 contains an undocumented "backdoor" that could be leveraged for attacks.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
March 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM