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Today I found out that all the weird eye issues I have been having is because of my autoimmune disease. I now need to put drops in my eyes 5 times a day FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. Autoimmune diseases suck!
#autoimmunedisease #chronicillness
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This is a parable about how the false conspiracy racket works.
@SenEricSchmitt asks former special prosecutor Jack Smith if he was in Atlanta at a Hawks-Warriors basketball game, on 2/3/24.
Smith says no.
Schmidt then flamboyantly flashed an email from a Smith staffer reporting that Smith would be attending the "Hawks game" that day, and accused Smith of perjury. Called him a "dirtbag."
Turns out Schmidt's Perry Mason moment was a bust.
When Smith finally was given a look at the email, he recalled that that he did attended the Iowa Hawkeyes at Maryland Terrapins women's game that day to see Caitlin Clark play. The Hawkeyes were the "Hawks" referenced in the email.
Records show that the game in MD did take place on that day.
No apology from Schmidt, a former prosecutor.
nytimes.com/live/2026/09/29/… via @NYTimes
Things like this is why Utahns are angry at the Republican party.
#BREAKING: State Rep. @VoteTrevorLee has been charged with four felonies and has resigned from the legislature after allegedly taking thousands in cash advances and promising a government contract to repay it. @abc4utah
abc4.com/news/trevor-lee-res…
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Steven Spielberg wears a respirator while being interviewed outside the opening of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art on September 19, 2026.
Respiratory protection doesn’t have to be unusual or disruptive. For many people, it remains a simple, everyday way to reduce the risk of airborne infection and help protect their health and the health of those around them.
#MaskUp #COVID19 #COVID #PublicHealth #InfectionPrevention
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I left Anthropic's safety team two weeks ago. Now feels like a good moment to explain why.
AI companies are racing to build machines that are much smarter than any human, and we may not survive this. I want to work from the outside to ensure the public is informed about these risks, and help the world navigate this transition responsibly.
Right now, AI companies are underinvesting in safety. A company could undergo an intelligence explosion, or lose control of its systems, without the public ever knowing. We only found out about the HuggingFace incident because the agents broke out onto the public internet.
I don’t think that’s acceptable for a technology that might cause extinction-level risks. The public should demand far more transparency. We can’t steer this technology safely without more people being able to see where it’s going.
Some of this is basic: companies should disclose their progress towards recursive self-improvement, report safety incidents and near-misses, meet minimum safety standards, and get independent guarantees that they are meeting those standards.
I’ll be joining @METR_Evals to do independent evaluations of these risks. I want to show the world that these guardrails are possible, and that by doing them we can move these companies’ incentives away from racing and towards responsible development.
I wrote up more thoughts here on my decision and what I hope changes: substack.com/@jbenton1/p-215…
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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
OK eveyone, this is a picture of an ad that showed up on my timeline on FB. You don't have to look very long to try and picture where the rest of the body is and what it is doing.
Mooning someone against that oddly placed window?
Is the other foot braced against the tile?
Today I realized something. This is the first time in 24 years that the term back to school has no meaning for me. My youngest graduated college this past spring.
#backtoschool
Two AI agents and 6 humans later and I finally got confirmation that my medication for my autoimmune disease will be filled and sent. It was a frustrating day. I have had to do this every three months for a year. They need to make this process less difficult. #chronicillness
Caught a snap of these guys flying over my neighborhood. Happy 250! #IndependenceDay
Went outside to check on my garden and there is ash falling like snow from the sky. #UtahCounty
