Bookmarks 2025-07-19T16:44:12.723Z
by Owen Kibel
20 min read
43 New Bookmarks
| Favicon | Details |
|---|---|
 |
Trump disavows "PAST supporters" who believed "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" Jul 16, 2025 Trump disavows "PAST supporters" who believed "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" Axios Trump claimed Democrats' "new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax." |
| 
Jul 16, 2025
Trump Calls Epstein Case A HOAX By Democrats, GOP Votes TO BLOCK Release | Timcast IRL
YouTube
BUY PILLOW - https://www.mypillow.com/timSUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwNTXWEjVd... |
|
Jul 16, 2025
Lauren Southern ACCUSES Andrew Tate, NEW BOOK Makes Claims About Tommy Robinson & Tate | Tim Pool
YouTube
My sources and many others online say DOUBTBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAS... |
|
Jul 16, 2025
LA Mayor Karen Bass Is OUT OF CONTROL
YouTube
Become A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY CAST BREW COFFEE TO FIGHT BACK - https://castb... |
|
Jul 16, 2025
President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the Crown Prince and PM of Bahrain
YouTube
The White House |
|
Jul 16, 2025
Physicists are afraid of Eric Weinstein -- and they should be
YouTube
A brief comment on the recent appearance of Eric Weinstein and Sean Carroll on Piers Morgan's show, and the fallout that followed afterwards. The Piers Morga... |
|
Jul 16, 2025
Joe Biden Pardons Could Be INVALID
YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwNTXWEjVd2qIHLcXxQWxA/joinHosts: Tim @Timcast (eve... |
| | Dr. Simon Goddek on X: "What the fck is this sht? https://t.co/EEfBIXy77A" / X
Jul 16, 2025 |
| | Mayank Vora on X: "Grok 4 vs ChatGPT-o3 Same prompts. Wildly different results. Iāve included videos to prove it: THREAD ā https://t.co/zmZt2Uq5lp" / X
Jul 16, 2025 |
| | Google Keep is finally adding a feature that's been missing for 13 years | Tom's Guide
Jul 16, 2025
Google Keep is finally adding a feature that's been missing for 13 years
Tom's Guide
An in-note search feature could be on the way |
| 
Jul 16, 2025
Google study shows LLMs abandon correct answers under pressure, threatening multi-turn AI systems
VentureBeat
A DeepMind study finds LLMs are both stubborn and easily swayed. This confidence paradox has key implications for building AI applications. |
| 
| Forecasts show a Surprise La NiƱa Return ahead of Winter 2025/2026, bringing seasonal Weather impacts Ā» Severe Weather Europe
Jul 16, 2025
Forecasts show a Surprise La NiƱa Return ahead of Winter 2025/2026, bringing seasonal Weather impacts
Severe Weather Europe
La NiƱa is forecast to make a surprising return and impact the Weather patterns in Winter 2025/2026 across the United States and Canada |
|
Jul 16, 2025
Trump Says Only BAD PEOPLE Want Epstein Files, Orders ALL CREDIBLE Info Released, Democrats POUNCE
YouTube
He is wrong but its not like Democrats are being honest about all this. Lets get our victories where we canCOME HANG LIVE - https://www.dccomedyloft.com/show... |
| | House Judiciary Dems call for DOJ leaders to testify on Epstein fallout - Live Updates - POLITICO
Jul 16, 2025
House Judiciary Dems call for DOJ leaders to testify on Epstein fallout
POLITICO
It comes amid a MAGA rebellion over President Trump's handling of the files from the criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are calling on Republicans to compel Justice Department leaders to testify about their handling of matters related to the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their demand, which House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is unlikely to entertain, follows the DOJ's announcement that there was no credible evidence of a āclient listā or that Epstein blackmailed powerful people to whom he trafficked women. The issue has united an unlikely coalition of broad swaths of President Donald Trumpās base and Democrats, who are pushing for greater transparency from the administration. Judiciary Democrats want Jordan to invite, or if necessary subpoena, four DOJ officials to testify: Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino. Jordan has broad subpoena power as committee chair. āWe write to request that the Committee on the Judiciary quickly conduct a bipartisan hearing on the Trump Administrationās recent handling of the Jeffrey Epstein matter,ā the Democrats wrote. āThe Trump DOJ and FBIās handling of the Jeffrey Epstein matter, and President Trumpās suddenly shifting positions, have not restored anyoneās trust in the government but have rather raised profound new questions about their own conduct while increasing public paranoia related to the investigation." Without a majority in Congress, Democrats have floundered in their efforts to compel further disclosures from the Trump administration. In one unsuccessful vote, a Republican ā Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina ā sided with Democrats on the House Rules Committee Monday to allow a floor vote on a measure that would force the release of Epstein-related materials.|
| | 'The powerful protecting the powerful': Democrats see an opening on Epstein - POLITICO
Jul 16, 2025
'The powerful protecting the powerful': Democrats see an opening on Epstein
POLITICO
Internal polling suggests that there's a window for Democrats to use the controversy over the so-called "Epstein list" ā and more than a dozen strategists, elected officials and aides are urging them to take it. |
|
Jul 16, 2025
The Trump-Epstein question that put the White House "in a tizzy"
Axios
How a news media inquiry about Trump and Epstein roiled the White House and helped fuel mistrust between the Department of Justice and FBI. |
|
Jul 16, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson: Trump's Point Man on Capitol Hill
YouTube
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sits down with Miranda to detail how he and President Trump managed to get the Big Beautiful Bill passed into law. The Spea... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
the best smell in the world š„°
YouTube |
| 
Jul 15, 2025
Tyler Cowen: Why Wonāt Socialism Die?
The simple explanation for socialism's popularity is that people like free stuff, writes Tyler Cowen. Whatās actually happening is a nation-wide case of bad vibes. |
|
Jul 15, 2025
Why Young People Are Voting to Burn It All Down
YouTube
Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/4hETwSP Just two weeks ago, New Yorkers voted en masse for a self-proclaimed sociali... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
āGenius Is a Right-Wing Ideaā with Helen Lewis
YouTube
Think for yourself. Subscribe to The Free Press today: https://thefp.pub/4hETwSP Love him or hate him, many consider Elon Musk to be a modern-day genius. He ... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
MAGA Demands More Epstein Transparency, and His Potential Intel Ties, w/ Ben Shapiro & Shellenberger
YouTube
Megyn Kelly is joined by Ben Shapiro, author of "Lions and Scavengers," to discuss the latest fallout in the Jeffrey Epstein and Trump administration story, ... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
Jeffrey Epstein's Past Threats, Intel Associations, and How He Really Got So Rich, with Vicky Ward
YouTube
Megyn Kelly begins the show by discussing the possibility that the Trump administration will be releasing more on Jeffrey Epstein now, why the story really m... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
Orange Manā¦Popular?
YouTube
Our Sponsor: Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 FREE online courses, including āThe Second World Wars,ā taught by Victor Davis Hanson and Hillsdaleās... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
Call Me Daddy: Trump Takes on the World
YouTube
Our Sponsor: Special deal just for you - 35% OFF with code: VICTOR at PureHealthResearch.com - discover 45 amazing health supplements!Our Sponsor: Get 20% of... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
The Treasonous John Brennan
YouTube
Our Sponsor: Hillsdale College is offering more than 40 FREE online courses, including āThe Second World Wars,ā taught by Victor Davis Hanson and Hillsdaleās... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
Stephen Wolfram on AI, human-like minds & formal knowledge
YouTube
Want more on knowledge hypergraphs? Sign up for my newsletter at Open Web Mind https://www.openwebmind.com/newsletter/ or subscribe to my YouTube channel htt... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
VDH: Trump Broke the Left and Exposed Their Dirty Playbook
YouTube
The Left isnāt just losing in politics. Theyāre losing their minds.What is the root cause of this months-long descent into mania and violence? I think we all... |
|
Jul 15, 2025
President Trump Participates in the Inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Event
YouTube
Pittsburgh, PA |
|
Jul 15, 2025
President Trump Participates in the White House Faith Office Luncheon
YouTube
The White House |
|
Jul 15, 2025
THE TRUMP ENERGY BOOM: $92 Billion Announced at Pittsburgh Summit
YouTube
THE TRUMP EFFECT: $92 BILLION in technology and energy investments flooding into Pennsylvania. This is what Trump leadership looks like ā innovation, jobs, a... |
| | xAI apologizes for Grokās āhorrific behaviorā
Jul 15, 2025
xAI apologizes for Grokās āhorrific behaviorā
The Hill
{beacon} Technology Technology ā The Big Story xAI apologizes for Grokās āhorrific behaviorāElon Muskās artificial intelligence company xAI apologized to useā¦ |
| 
| After a Decade of Chaos, Google Is Finally Getting Its Act Together
Jul 15, 2025
After a Decade of Chaos, Google Is Finally Getting Its Act Together
Gizmodo
For years, Google's empire was a mess of disconnected gadgets. A new plan to merge Android and ChromeOS aims to finally build a true Apple killer, and the stakes have never been higher |
| 
| Grok's new update raises concerns over regulating AI speech
Jul 15, 2025
Grok controversies raise questions about moderating, regulating AI content
The Hill
Elon Muskās artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from ā¦
Elon Muskās artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok has been plagued by controversy recently over its responses to users, raising questions about how tech companies seek to moderate content from AI and whether Washington should play a role in setting guidelines. Grok faced sharp scrutiny last week, after an update prompted the AI chatbot to produce antisemitic responses and praise Adolf Hitler. Muskās AI company, xAI, quickly deleted numerous incendiary posts and said it added guardrails to āban hate speechā from the chatbot. Just days later, xAI unveiled its newest version of Grok, which Musk claimed was the āsmartest AI model in the world.ā However, users soon discovered that the chatbot appeared to be relying on its ownerās views to respond to controversial queries. āWe should be extremely concerned that the best performing AI model on the market is Hitler-aligned. That should set off some alarm bells for folks,ā Chris MacKenzie, vice president of communications at Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), an advocacy group focused on AI policy. āI think that weāre at a period right now, where AI models still arenāt incredibly sophisticated,ā he continued. āThey might have access to a lot of information, right. But in terms of their capacity for malicious acts, itās all very overt and not incredibly sophisticated.ā āThere is a lot of room for us to address this misaligned behavior before it becomes much more difficult and much more harder to detect,ā he added. Lucas Hansen, co-founder of the nonprofit CivAI, which aims to provide information about AIās capabilities and risks, said it was ānot at all surprisingā that it was possible to get Grok to behave the way it did. āFor any language model, you can get it to behave in any way that you want, regardless of the guardrails that are currently in place,ā he told The Hill. Musk announced last week that xAI had updated Grok, after he previously voiced frustrations with some of the chatbotās responses. In mid-June, the tech mogul took issue with a response from Grok suggesting that right-wing violence had become more frequent and deadly since 2016. Musk claimed the chatbot was āparroting legacy mediaā and said he was āworking on it.ā He later indicated he was retraining the model and called on users to help provide ādivisive facts,ā which he defined as āthings that are politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true.ā The update caused a firestorm for xAI, as Grok began making broad generalizations about people with Jewish last names and perpetuating antisemitic stereotypes about Hollywood. The chatbot falsely suggested that people with āAshkenazi surnamesā were pushing āanti-white hateā and that Hollywood was advancing āanti-white stereotypes,ā which it later implied was the result of Jewish people being overrepresented in the industry. It also reportedly produced posts praising Hitler and referred to itself as āMechaHitler.ā xAI ultimately deleted the posts and said it was banning hate speech from Grok. It later offered an apology for the chatbotās āhorrific behavior,ā blaming the issue on āupdate to a code path upstreamā of Grok. āThe update was active for 16 [hours], in which deprecated code made @grok susceptible to existing X user posts; including when such posts contained extremist views,ā xAI wrote in a post Saturday. āWe have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse.ā It identified several key prompts that caused Grok's responses, including one informing the chatbot it is ānot afraid to offend people who are politically correctā and another directing it to reflect the ātone, context and language of the postā in its response. xAI's prompts for Grok have been publicly available since May, when the chatbot began responding to unrelated queries with allegations of āwhite genocideā in South Africa. The company later said the posts were the result of an āunauthorized modificationā and vowed to make its prompts public in an effort to boost transparency. Just days after the latest incident, xAI unveiled the newest version of its AI model, called Grok 4. Users quickly spotted new problems, in which the chatbot suggested its surname was āHitlerā and referenced Muskās views when responding to controversial queries. xAI explained Tuesday that Grokās searches had picked up on the āMechaHitlerā references, resulting in the chatbot's āHitlerā surname response, while suggesting it had turned to Muskās views to āalign itself with the company.ā The company said it has since tweaked the prompts and shared the details on GitHub. āThe kind of shocking thing is how that was closer to the default behavior, and it seemed that Grok needed very, very little encouragement or user prompting to start behaving in the way that it did," Hansen said. The latest incident has echoes of problems that plagued Microsoftās Tay chatbot in 2016, which began producing racist and offensive posts before it was disabled, noted Julia Stoyanovich, a computer science professor at New York University and director of the Center for Responsible AI. āThis was almost 10 years ago, and the technology behind Grok is different from the technology behind Tay, but the problem is similar: hate speech moderation is a difficult problem that is bound to occur if it's not deliberately safeguarded against,ā Stoyanovich said in a statement to The Hill. She suggested xAI had failed to take the necessary steps to prevent hate speech. āImportantly, the kinds of safeguards one needs are not purely technical, we cannot āsolveā hate speech,ā Stoyanovich added. āThis needs to be done through a combination of technical solutions, policies, and substantial human intervention and oversight. Implementing safeguards takes planning and it takes substantial resources.ā MacKenzie underscored that speech outputs are āincredibly hardā to regulate and instead pointed to a national framework for testing and transparency as a potential solution. āAt the end of the day, what weāre concerned about is a model that shares the goals of Hitler, not just shares hate speech online, but is designed and weighted to support racist outcomes,ā MacKenzie said. In a January report evaluating various frontier AI models on transparency, ARI ranked Grok the lowest, with a score of 19.4 out of 100. While xAI now releases its system prompts, the company notably does not produce system cards for its models. System cards, which are offered by most major AI developers, provide information about how an AI model was developed and tested. AI startup Anthropic proposed its own transparency framework for frontier AI models last week, suggesting the largest developers should be required to publish system cards, in addition to secure development frameworks detailing how they assess and mitigate major risks. āGrokās recent hate-filled tirade is just one more example of how AI systems can quickly become misaligned with human values and interests,ā said Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI, a nonprofit that aims to mitigate the risks from AI. āThese kinds of incidents will only happen more frequently as AI becomes more advanced,ā he continued in a statement. āThatās why all companies developing advanced AI should implement transparent safety standards and release their system cards. A collaborative and open effort to prevent misalignment is critical to ensuring that advanced AI systems are infused with human values.ā|
| 
| AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: The terminal | TechCrunch
Jul 15, 2025
AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: The terminal | TechCrunch
TechCrunch
For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHubās Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe-coding takes off, a subtle shift has changed how AI systems are interacting with software. |
| | Elon Musk on X: "After talking to the @xAI team late one night about this, I thought damn weāre probably in a sim right now š«¤" / X
Jul 15, 2025 |
| | Elon Musk on X: "š" / X
Jul 15, 2025 |
| 
Jul 15, 2025
Why many Americans still think Darwin was wrong, yet the British donāt
The Conversation
Fundamentalists donāt necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards. |
| | Elon Musk on X: "š" / X
Jul 15, 2025 |
| 
| Did Elon Musk just invent AGI? Everything you need to know about Grok 4 and how to try it out - DEV Community
Jul 15, 2025
Did Elon Musk just invent AGI? Everything you need to know about Grok 4 and how to try it out
DEV Community
Elon Muskās AI company xAI just dropped a bombshell: Grok 4 is here ā and itās fast, smart, and... |
| | Trump comes to Pam Bondiās defense on Epstein: āSheās really done a very good jobā - POLITICO
Jul 15, 2025
Trump comes to Pam Bondiās defense on Epstein: āSheās really done a very good jobā
POLITICO
The president attempted to fend off criticism of his attorney general as she takes fire from conservative activists. |
