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Sebastian Stockman
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BLM. Teaching Prof., Northeastern. Reviewer @nytbooks @washpost @BostonGlobe, elsewhere. he/him

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Let gen AI fuck your wife
email subject line: Let gen AI sort through your course evaluations
December 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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And they say search is broken?
Screenshot of the following list of Google search results. The last one is highlighted: karl marx karl marx books karl marx theory karl marx religion karl marx quotes karl marx labubu
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Still waiting on the mass deportation of CIA agents
33 Breaking News 58m ago The U.S. has paused all asylum decisions and stopped issuing visas to people from Afghanistan after the shooting of two National Guard members.
November 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Of course the WSJ framing is one of individual tribulation, but like, this is what social safety nets are for. (Would be for)
14 The Wall Street Journal My wife and I planned our retirement perfectly. Then she got sick. 24m ago
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Tip #1: Don’t mate with coyotes
Above a picture of a coyote: “Coyote Mating Season is Here: What You Should Know!”
November 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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The only Arnold Venture I recognize
A screen shot of an exterior shot of Arnold's cafe from Happy Days
November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Someone get Sam Ezersky a Harper’s sub
Spelling Bee result that shows “Gooning” is “not in word list”
November 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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You’re saying he was probably A Minor?
43 Newly Discovered Bach Two musical manuscripts by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled, believed to have been written over 300 years ago. 2h ago
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Larry Summers filling his new free time with the crossword
Crossword clue: 46 ‹ St._ _ (vacation spot) Answer (not actually): JAMES
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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how would that even work
Mass. license plate: 3GAL 69
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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‘nother Nuzzi excerpt dropped
2 WIRED 6m ago A new TikTok trend has users taking high doses of Benadryl to escape reality
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’d be a shame if his liver was pecked out for eternity
Times Push Alert: Breaking News 19m ago Jeff Bezos has created an A.l. start-up called Project Prometheus that he will help manage as co-chief executive.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Mods! Mods!
* Nextdoor I walked into Target today and not a single employee smiled at me.
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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“Henrik, honey, how was your day?”
Screenshot of an Instagram post from The Telegraph: 'Nobody told me I'm Himmler's grandson. My whole life was a lie” →
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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“Love to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle…” etc.
The New Yorker The Epstein scandal will never stop afflicting Donald Trump and shadowing his Presidency, Susan B. Glasser writes.
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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And where did those associates work?
Jeffrey Epstein's Trump Clai... 24m ago In emails with associates, Epstein said he could leverage potentially damaging information about President Trump that could "take him down."
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile Kelly: "I think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15-year-old
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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This seems to be the talking point!
Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile Kelly: "I think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old." WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF PUBLISHED 11/12/25 1:38 PM EST
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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When Tabs finally hits my inbox
MY TRASH IS OVERFLOWING-
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Sick as hell (derogatory)
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Welcome to Our New Era. What Do We Call It?
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Late to dinner
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Welcome to Our New Era. What Do We Call It?
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Weird Science reboot sucks
Picture of two young nerdy goons above the headline “ MILITARY NEWCOMERS Two 20-somethings started a drone company. Now, they have won a coveted contract with the U.S. Army, according to documents.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This seems good. We should base all decisions, economic and emotional, on these word-generators.
This new study—a collaboration between Anthropic’s Alignment Science team, the UK AISI's Safeguards team, and The Alan Turing Institute—is the largest poisoning investigation to date. It reveals a surprising finding: in our experimental setup with simple backdoors designed to trigger low-stakes behaviors, poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model and training data size. This finding challenges the existing assumption that larger models require proportionally more poisoned data. Specifically, we demonstrate that by injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor LLMs ranging from 600M to 13B parameters.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hell yeah. Eat that, Zuck
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November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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please be salami please be salami please be salami
WaPo headline: At 89, she's a top nutrition expert. Here's what she eats in a day.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM