Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2506.10139
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
To steer pretrained language models for downstream tasks, today's post-training paradigm relies on humans to specify desired behaviors.arXiv.org
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Interview with public relations pioneer Edward L. Bernays on the occasion of his visit to Ball State University in 1986. Bernays discusses his career, the i...YouTube
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Back from a local No Kings protest. Absolutely gobsmacked at the size of the crowd.
It was good to not feel so alone. And the signs were AMAZING.
This Pride Month, there are many reasons you might want to protest & fight for your rights.
If you do decide to join the action, make sure to prepare properly to keep yourself safe.
Your smartphone is an essential tool to organize and report, but it can also make you vulnerable to the mass surveillance many protests are targeted with.
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Your phone is an essential tool, but it also represents a huge risk to your privacy and security. Understanding these best practices when it comes to securing your smartphone will help keep you and your data safe.Privacy Guides
Iran’s security establishment still does not understand where they are. This is an existential regime change war, not a bit of light evening sparring to be conducted in rounds of orderly miss…INTERNATIONALIST 360°
So funny story at #NoKings today: On the way to rally, I played Peter Paul and Mary's classic protest song "If I Had a Hammer" for our "youngling" (12 y/o grand-nephew) explaining how it was significant for its use during civil rights and anti-war protests.
We start marching ... and someone starts singing it. 😢
To encourage the crowd nearby, between 3rd and 4th verses, I shout out "C'mon all you hippies!" and everyone laughed ...
... and then really started singing louder. 🇺🇲
J'ai testé une animation de #thérémine vocal au festival #NoWatt aux #MondesFlottants.
Ça a bien fonctionné...
A refaire !
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I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch
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A reimplementation of Stable Diffusion 3.5 in pure PyTorch - yousef-rafat/miniDiffusionGitHub
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Biggest rally so far this year in #CharlestonIL, easily 350 - 400 people (which is good for our area).
Very aggressive trucks revving intentionally as what I'm assuming was a planned counter action.
But all in all, a really great turnout and much more energy than past events. Hope we can keep it up.
"Doğru ya da yanlış olan, insanların söyledikleridir; ve insanlar kendi dillerinde anlaşırlar. Bu, fikirlerde değil, daha ziyade yaşam biçiminde anlaşmadır."
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“What is true or false is what human beings say; and it is in their language that human beings agree. This is agreement not in opinions, but rather in form of life.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif stated that Israeli aggression is currently targeting Yemen, Iran and Palestine, but if Islamic countries do not unite and jointly resist aggression, they will face a similar fate.Max_Svetlyshev (Военное обозрение)
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Americans head to Middle East to participate in their national sport: dying for Israel
This is so exciting...
The Americans who can't have healthcare are ecstatic they are about to get something much better: an unwinnable war in the Middle East. Life just isn't the same when they're not fighting an unwinnable war in the Middle East, is it?
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We're showing up in #Minnesota.
#NoKings #FDT #GOPtraitors #trump @uspolitics #USpolitics #WeThePeople #protests @minnesota
There were about 1000
people at American embassy in Ottawa! Enough to surround the building.There were tons of really clever signs. My sign had a slogan I copied from someone on Mastodon ... "No Truth Decay". A dentist came up to me with appreciation for that : -)
I think the crowd might have been bigger but quite a few people went to the Palestinian support protests which in today's case was at the same time.
Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's
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If a data-backed trend plays out, Waymo could become San Francisco's biggest ride-hailing service before the year ends.Matt Charnock (Underscore_SF)
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Melissa Hortman was a Democrat.
Murdered for being a Democrat.
Every headline should say so.
This was political terrorism.
Instead of receiving permission from Egyptian authorities to march to the Rafah border crossing, participants have been subject to hotel raids, harassment, arrests, and deportations.Ahmed Dahaby (Drop Site News)
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Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Link: techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/waym…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
A new analysis done by ride-hailing aggregator Obi shows Waymos cost more especially on shorter trips. They also have longer wait times.Sean O'Kane (TechCrunch)
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You know what those state reps in Minnesota did after the feds plus local sheriff deputies Luke Michelson and Timothy Inglett assassinated movement rebel Winston Smith in 2021? They gave the thumbs up to more cops and crackdowns, and they certainly never sought to bring the killers to account - we only know the killers names because of a leak.
So yeah, definitely not concerned for a couple politicians who became “collateral damage”
Watching the protests while working on a new forest painting.. pretty similar to the last one, because I liked making that!
Needs something on the foreground I think.. to make it special.. maybe something safe like more foliage, or something weird like a wizard or a witch or some animal..? 
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If Trump's response to the "No Kings" protests—and, for example, the riots in LA—has been "tyrannical," then we're just gonna need an even more extreme term to describe the left's response to the J6 protests.
There's a protest myth that liberals love to repeat.
Be peaceful so you don't give the cops an excuse to brutalize you.
The fact is that the cops are gonna brutalize you when they get the order to, whether you're sitting and singing kumbaya or not. It's got nothing to do with the actions of you and your fellow protestors. It has to do with when they get the word to swoop in and brutalize you, that's what's going to happen. When some higher up gets his manties in a bunch and decides it's time to crush some skulls.
So do us all a favor and stop saying that crap. It's false and creates dangerous situations for others out there on the streets with you.
The state is the perpetrator of violence, both visible and invisible. The state is going to go medieval on your ass when they feel like it. No excuse necessary.
Authorities were actively searching for a suspect in the hours following the shootings. Gov. Tim Walz said former Minn. House Speaker Melissa Hortman and Sen. John Hoffman were deliberately targeted.Tim Sullivan (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Take a peek inside Shearer’s in Kirkwall, believed to be one of Scotland’s oldest shops. Their guarantee: you won’t have seen anything like itDavid Leask (The Sunday Times)
Pyongyang, June 14 (KCNA) –Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, gave field guidance at a major munitions industry ente…Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
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#Real-Situation ( #1991) - #Bob-Marley & The #Wailers
Bob Marley & The Wailers Lyrics
"Real Situation"
Check out the real situation
Nation war against nation
Where did it all begin?
When will it end?
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
Give them an inch, they take a yard
Give them a yard, they take a mile (ooh)
Once a man and twice a child
And everything is just for a while
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
Check in the real situation (check it out, check it out)
Nation fight against nation
Where did it all begin? Wo-oo-o-o-oh!
Where will it end?
Well, it seems like: total destruction the only solution
And there aren't no use: no one can stop them now
Ain't no use: nobody can stop them now
There ain't no use: no one can't stop them now
Everybody struggling: ain't no use - ain't no use
Ain't no use you even try
Ain't no use: got to say 'bye-'bye!
Ain't no use! Ain't no - ain't no use: no one can stop them now
(No one can stop them now)
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Scientists in the US have built a system for creating truly random numbers which cannot be tampered with by a third party.United Kingdom
On the tenth anniversary of the release of free-to-play Fallout Shelter, Bethesda has revealed the management sim game has been downloaded 230 million timesUnited Kingdom
Filedb: Disk-based key-value store inspired by Bitcask
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Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask . Contribute to rajivharlalka/filedb development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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"The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God."
— St. Anthony of Padua
#Iran and #Israel are at war, with the #US already intimately involved and likely to become more so. Which of course means we’ll be spending the foreseeable future getting bashed in the face with lies from the most powerful people in the world.
The most immediately obvious of these is the Netanyahu-promoted narrative that Israel initiated this conflict because Iran was on the brink of developing a nuclear weapon. With absolutely no self-consciousness or sense of irony, the Israeli prime minister followed the attacks with a statement accusing Iran of “genocidal rhetoric” which it has backed up “with a program to develop nuclear weapons.” Israel, as we all know, has an unacknowledged nuclear arsenal, and its leaders are presently committing #genocide in #Gaza while spouting genocidal rhetoric.
“And if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time,” #Netanyahu claimed. “It could be a year. It could be within a few months — less than a year. This is a clear and present danger to Israel’s very survival.”
The western political/media class have been dutifully promoting this line and uncritically parroting Israel’s claim that its unprovoked attack on Iran was “preemptive”, but there is absolutely no evidence that any of this is true.
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent literally decades falsely claiming that Iran was a year or two away from developing a nuke, only to have the calendar prove him wrong with the passage of time over and over again.
US intelligence chief Tulsi #Gabbard testified just weeks ago that “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.”
As journalist Séamus Malekafzali recently noted on Twitter, one of the strongest arguments that Iran had not reversed its decision to refrain from obtaining nuclear weapons is that Iranian nuclear scientists have been publicly expressing frustration about the fact that their government won’t allow them to construct a nuke. They want to do it, but Tehran won’t let them.
US Secretary of Defense Pete #Hegseth helped pave the way for Netanyahu’s claims this past Wednesday when he told the Senate that “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a #nuclear weapon.”
This claim by Hegseth was swiftly scooped up and promoted by warmongers like Tom Cotton who said that Hegseth had “confirmed that Iran’s terrorist regime is actively working towards a nuclear weapon.”
Cotton’s claim was then picked up by war pundit Mark #Levin, who has been personally lobbying #Trump to green light an attack on Iran, sarcastically quipping on Twitter, “So, SecDef Hegseth must by lying, too. Everyone’s lying except the isolationists, Koch-heads, Islamists, Chatsworth Qatarlson and their media propagandists.”
But let’s back up and look at what Hegseth actually said. He did not say “Iran is building a nuclear weapon.” He said “there have been plenty of indications” Iran has been “moving their way toward something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon.”
If the US had intelligence that Iran was building a nuke, Hegseth would have just said so. But instead he performed this freakish verbal gymnastics stunt muttering about indications of something that might kinda sorta look like a nuclear weapon, which his fellow Iran hawks then falsely took and ran with as a positive assertion that Iran was building a nuke.
There are other lies being circulated to help market this war as well. As Moon of Alabama notes, the Washington Post’s odious war propagandist David Ignatius is pushing the narrative that Iran has been cultivating a relationship with de-facto al-Qaeda leader Saif al-Adel. The lie that Saddam Hussein was in league with al-Qaeda was used two decades ago to sell the invasion of Iraq.
At the same time, Trumpian pundits are currently circulating the narrative that the United States is full of Iranian “sleeper cells” who could activate at any moment and begin attacking Americans. The most egregious of these is Laura Loomer’s repeated claims that there are “millions” of such cells awaiting Iran’s orders to strike — possibly the single most bat shit insane claim I have ever seen anyone with any major platform make, since it would mean a very sizable percentage of the US population is actually a secret Iranian proxy army.
The fountain of lies is just getting started. There will be more. Believe nothing unless it is substantiated by mountains of evidence. These freaks have been caught lying to sell wars to the public far too many times for any of their claims to be taken on faith.
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