“Fairshake has overwhelmingly helped Republicans. In fact, since that failed vote on Sept. 15, Fairshake has transferred money only to its campaign affiliate that helps the GOP, while delivering no new funds to its linked group backing Democrats …” washingtonsun.com/campaigns/…
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South Carolina moves from Lean R to Toss-up in the latest Fox News Power Rankings.
New polling shows GOP Sen. Darline Graham and Democrat Annie Andrews tied at 48%-48%. Trump heads to the state tonight to campaign for Graham in the Upstate, where she underperformed in her primary runoff.
Trump won South Carolina by double digits in 2024. The state is now among six Senate battlegrounds that could decide control of the chamber. foxnews.com/politics/fox-new…
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NEW: The tech industry is watching this battleground House race that is testing their political standing and Democrats’ path forward on tech.
“This is the movie trailer for 2028,” OpenAI’s top lobbyist Chris Lehane said.
Read @politico:
politico.com/news/2026/10/29…
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tech election war rooms, russian internet meddling... it's 2016 all over again
NEWS: OpenAI is launching an election war room ahead of the midterms, in an attempt to forestall bad actors from using their tools for misinformation, etc: politico.com/news/2026/10/28…
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Candidates: Please sir, we need the price of gas to come down or we're going to lose every single race.
The President: Best I can do is whine about "Super Intelligence."
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People seem to forget how unprecedented this is
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Boston Dynamics employees want to block sale of robot dogs to ICE arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/b…
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After the surprise outcome of the Brazilian election, I was curious if AI forecasting tools predicted the outcomes correctly.
It turns out a top AI tool (FutureSearch) made the same errors as prediction markets more broadly.
This is an example of what @random_walker and I mean by “intrinsic limits” to prediction that have nothing to do with the AI tools in question, but rather depend on the inherent uncertainty in the world.
Of course, a single failed prediction doesn’t mean that AI isn’t good at forecasting; in fact AI tools are already about as good as top forecasters, and I expect human forecasters to make heavy use of AI tools improve their own forecasts.
But the inherent uncertainty in predicting social outcomes like elections means that AI tools’ performance will be limited close to that of top experts using simple automated tools (rather than being apparently unbounded with more compute, such as AI’s performance on chess).
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🇧🇷Brazil runoff on @Kalshi, in one chart.
Bolsonaro traded at 80%+ for two days. In the space of about an hour this afternoon, Lula went from 20% to 70% and Bolsonaro collapsed to 31%, on the heaviest volume of the market's life.
The bottom panel tells the story: low volumes all weekend, then everything at once as results came in.
Track live on @TheTerminal
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Serbia's Vučić concedes election defeat to student-led protest movement bbc.in/4sst0lV
terrorist-golf.com 💀💀 – at Washington, DC
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WHAT A FINISH IN COLUMBIA 🤯
SOUTH CAROLINA KNOCKS OFF NO. 11 TENNESSEE
@GamecockFB x 📺 ESPN
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I asked Chris Christie, former New Jersey governor and Vivek Ramaswamy's fiercest critic during the 2024 nomination fight, about the attack ad and Vance's defense.
"For the last decade, our party has been infected by a corrupted moral center," he said.
Full comment here:
WOW -- Vance *defends* Ramaswamy's reprehensible ad 👇
Q: Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Some Republicans are backing away from that. Do you think that ad was appropriate?
JD VANCE: Well, I'll be honest with you. Whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. My concern is who is gonna govern. I have to admit I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans who are whining more about that ad than they are about what the Democrats want to do.
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The internet archive's Wayback Machine library is a planetary treasure. It preserves the archive of the web. Don't let publishers take it down. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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NEW: The latest @pewresearch study about social media use in the US
YouTube: 84% of adults use it
Facebook: 70%
Instagram: 51%
TikTok: 37%
WhatsApp: 33%
LinkedIn: 31%
Snapchat: 26%
Reddit: 25%
Nextdoor: 18%
X (Twitter): 18%
Truth Social: 4%
ALT Line chart showing long-term changes in Americans' use of various social media platforms. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of U.S. adults.
“Over the last few years, the image of Silicon Valley as a liberal industry has all but gone. Both Harris and Trump voters now see AI companies as Republican,” said Seb Wride, PF Global’s head of polling. politico.com/newsletters/dec…
