Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

• One of the craziest bits about covering the systematic dismantling of democracy is this: the people doing the dismantling frequently tell you exactly what they’re going to do. They’re almost proud of it. They just wrap it in language that makes it sound like the opposite. (Remember when Musk said he was buying Twitter to protect free speech? And then banned journalists and sued researchers for calling out his nonsense? Same playbook.)
• Good reporters can parse that. Bad reporters fail at it time and time again.

This is wild, and supports the NNM concept: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk9385

• “Our use of a naturalistic social colony allowed us to discover that the classical hippocampal cognitive map of space also integrates rich social information, forming a sociospatial cognitive map. We found neurons that encoded social interaction events, identities and sex of other individuals, dominance hierarchy, and social affiliation, along with the position and direction of both self and others. These findings combine the historically disparate views on hippocampal function, which suggested that the hippocampus is important for encoding memory, social identity, or spatial maps. Here, we have shown that all of these factors are represented together in the same neural network.”

Tasks

• Put Friday ride in calendar – done
• Call Guardian – done
• Send David a pdf of my slides?

SBIRs

• I think my part is done on the demo until we need to start generating data for sensitivity tests

GPT Agents

• More KA
  • V5 Analysis
  • A Brave New World (does this go to the beginning?) Finished, but not sure where it should go.
  • Hardening the Human Operating System
• P33 maybe?
• 3:00 Alden meeting