Phil 4.30.2026

Two justices, one quest: push to gut Voting Rights Act reaches final act | US voting rights | The Guardian

  • The ruling from the US supreme court destroying one of the last pillars of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) marks the end of a long and painstaking campaign to roll back civil rights legislation by two titans of the court’s rightwing majority, chief justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito.

Where the goblins came from | OpenAI

  • Starting with GPT‑5.1, our models began developing a strange habit: they increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures in their metaphors. Unlike model bugs that show up through a tanking eval or a spiking training metric and point back to a specific change, this one crept in subtly. A single “little goblin” in an answer could be harmless, even charming. Across model generations, though, the habit became hard to miss: the goblins kept multiplying, and we needed to figure out where they came from.

Tasks

  • Finish fast16 section
  • Work out agent manipulation example and compare results of the two prompts based on ingredients
  • Write up fast16 Revisited section
  • Take the Tarmac for a test spin up Hamburg

SBIRs

  • 9:00 standup
  • 2:00 TPOC call