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Sebastian Stockman
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BLM. Teaching Prof., Northeastern. Reviewer @nytbooks @washpost @BostonGlobe, elsewhere. he/him

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‘nother Nuzzi excerpt dropped
2 WIRED 6m ago A new TikTok trend has users taking high doses of Benadryl to escape reality
November 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It’d be a shame if his liver was pecked out for eternity
Times Push Alert: Breaking News 19m ago Jeff Bezos has created an A.l. start-up called Project Prometheus that he will help manage as co-chief executive.
November 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Mods! Mods!
* Nextdoor I walked into Target today and not a single employee smiled at me.
November 15, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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“Henrik, honey, how was your day?”
Screenshot of an Instagram post from The Telegraph: 'Nobody told me I'm Himmler's grandson. My whole life was a lie” →
November 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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“Love to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle…” etc.
The New Yorker The Epstein scandal will never stop afflicting Donald Trump and shadowing his Presidency, Susan B. Glasser writes.
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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And where did those associates work?
Jeffrey Epstein's Trump Clai... 24m ago In emails with associates, Epstein said he could leverage potentially damaging information about President Trump that could "take him down."
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile Kelly: "I think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15-year-old
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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This seems to be the talking point!
Megyn Kelly questions whether Jeffrey Epstein's desire for "very young teen types" made him a pedophile Kelly: "I think there is a difference. There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old." WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF PUBLISHED 11/12/25 1:38 PM EST
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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When Tabs finally hits my inbox
MY TRASH IS OVERFLOWING-
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Sick as hell (derogatory)
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Welcome to Our New Era. What Do We Call It?
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Late to dinner
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Welcome to Our New Era. What Do We Call It?
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Weird Science reboot sucks
Picture of two young nerdy goons above the headline “ MILITARY NEWCOMERS Two 20-somethings started a drone company. Now, they have won a coveted contract with the U.S. Army, according to documents.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This seems good. We should base all decisions, economic and emotional, on these word-generators.
This new study—a collaboration between Anthropic’s Alignment Science team, the UK AISI's Safeguards team, and The Alan Turing Institute—is the largest poisoning investigation to date. It reveals a surprising finding: in our experimental setup with simple backdoors designed to trigger low-stakes behaviors, poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model and training data size. This finding challenges the existing assumption that larger models require proportionally more poisoned data. Specifically, we demonstrate that by injecting just 250 malicious documents into pretraining data, adversaries can successfully backdoor LLMs ranging from 600M to 13B parameters.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Hell yeah. Eat that, Zuck
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November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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please be salami please be salami please be salami
WaPo headline: At 89, she's a top nutrition expert. Here's what she eats in a day.
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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NYRB doing an Indecent Proposal fundraiser
One Night with Zohran The New York Review of Books
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Love the implication that spotting risk is “busywork”
Subway ad for Asana. Three people gathered around a computer. The text: asana Hand off busywork to stay on track Al spots risk Ops Marketing
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Stephens asks, Suskind answers
Two Times headlines: Opinion BRET STEPHENS Do Dumb Ideas Ever Die? 4 MIN READ RON SUSKIND The Tragedy of Dick Cheney 4 MIN READ
November 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Chat, are we cooked?
Bro with backwards baseball cap holds a handgun up to a line of pumpkins in a YouTube still. The title of the video: How Many Pumpkins Does it Take to Stop a Bullet? Yee Yee Life • 1M views 15:05
November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Too little, too late
Breaking News Dick Cheney, widely regarded as the most powerful vice president in American history, has died at 84. 2h ago
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Love her, but this is a 2011-ass news alert
2 The New Yorker 22m ago Patti Smith reflects on her early days in New York and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
November 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Nice
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October 31, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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cf.
0494 @2463 V259 deankoontzofficial If I had failed as a writer, what would I have done? I'd have made a fortune in the asparagus business and then been elected President of the U.S. ヘ deankoontzofficial My characters create the story. The exception was a toad with a walk-on part insisting the entire novel be set in a pond. An epic argument. I won. N348@2255 10 deankoontzofficial For a Halloween read, try my novels Phantoms or The House at the End of the World. For a lot of chills, read them naked in a refrigerated room.
October 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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TIL this is what Dean Koontz looks like, and also that his Instagram captions reveal the heart of a shitposter
Instagram screenshot of Dean Koontz wearing a sort of helmet toupee with an open book in front of him. Caption: deankoontzofficial If I had to set all my novels in one decade, what decade would it be? About 120 million years ago. You can never go wrong with dinosaur
October 30, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We all live with some level of grief; lord knows there's enough to go around.

But sometimes we need to offer ourselves a little grace alongside the grief.

If that sounds like you, check out this group run by the most emotionally intelligent person I know.

www.rrcambridge.com/mourning?mc_...
Flyer for "Mourning: A Grief Processing Group" Starts Nov. 7th, Runs five Fridays online, 1-2:30 pm Five weeks for $250. Mourning A Five-Week Online Grief Processing Group Joan Didion writes in The Year of Magical Thinking, “Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.” QR code, "led by Katie Stockman, RN, NP, Expert in grief support and a certified mindfulness teacher." Also a photo of the woman in question, atop the logo for "rooted resilience Cambridge"
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM