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We temporarily slowed some frontier training to strengthen security and monitoring. Our largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold while smaller-scale training and evaluations help us test safeguards and gather more evidence of alignment. I expect confidence in safety to #AI #SafetyFirst #ReinforcementLearning #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweetprovided.Therefore #theresponseis:

Hello everyone, the code for Aracne2 has been on GitHub for a few months now — a modular CMS for editing and publishing TEI corpora. A companion volume, published by FedOA Press, covers its origins, architecture and features in detail. Code (MIT): https://github.com/orazionelson/aracne2 Site and documentation: https://orazionelson.github.io/aracne2/ Volume: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-439-1 The underlying idea is to take a corpus from raw transcription to a citable digital edition without forcing the person editing the text to become a sysadmin as well. In brief: – schema-aware XML editor, with validation per document and across a whole collection; – staged editorial workflow with versioning and a clean split between working copy and published copy; – named entities linked to authority files (Wikidata, VIAF, GeoNames, ORCID, GND and others); – bibliography with BibTeX/CSL-JSON/Zotero import and DOI resolution; – facsimiles and zones for text-image alignment; – XSLT-driven public site generator, with configurable indices and search portals; – LOD and OAI-PMH for harvesting, deposit to Zenodo, Dataverse, Internet Archive and git forges; – audit log and fixity, plus policy pages aimed at projects preparing for a CoreTrustSeal review. Architecturally, there are two distinct data layers: PostgreSQL for platform state (users, roles, plugins, audit), eXist-db for TEI documents, stored natively and queried in XQuery. Python/FastAPI backend, Vue 3 frontend, fully containerised. Every integration is a plugin that mounts without a restart, so a deployment can stay minimal or grow along with the project. The AI side is there but optional and can be switched off: in-editor assistance (explaining validation errors, normalising bibliography, tagging named entities), local RAG over the TEI P5 Guidelines, and a read-only MCP server that lets an external assistant query the corpus. Anyone who cannot or would rather not send their texts to a cloud service can run the whole thing locally with Ollama. Aracne2 is the third iteration of a line of tools that began in 2008 with MaRa, the scripts written to mark up the Angevin Registers, continued with Aracne (2016-2026, built entirely on eXist-db), and arrives at this rewrite. The FedOA Press volume reconstructs that trajectory at length. It is all free: you can download it and try it locally with a handful of commands. Aracne2 is open to experiment and ready to be put to the test on new projects — reports, criticism and proposals are all welcome.

Cold Beer and Hot Showers - Not Kilowatt-Hours All That Consumers Want The energy sector spends an extraordinary amount of time talking about generation, transmission, storage, flexibility, markets, tariffs, balancing, ancillary services, carbon emissions, batteries, hydrogen, demand response, electrification pathways, system costs, capacity mechanisms, investment signals, market design and regulation. All of these things matter. Some of them matter enormously. But there is a simple question that often disappears somewhere between the conference room, the policy paper and the technical model: What does the customer actually want? The answer is surprisingly simple. Most people do not wake up in the morning thinking about kilowatt-hours. They do not dream about capacity markets. They do not worry about frequency stability. They do not spend their evenings comparing balancing mechanisms. They want cold beer and hot showers. They want a warm home in winter and a cool home in summer. They want the lights to turn on when they press the switch. They want their phone charged, their food refrigerated and their car ready when they need it. In other words, they do not want energy. They want what energy allows them to do. That distinction may sound trivial, but it changes almost everything. For more than a century, the energy industry has been organized around the production, transportation and sale of energy itself. Electricity became measured in kilowatt-hours. Gas became measured in cubic meters. Fuel became measured in litres or tonnes. Markets, regulations and business models were built around those units. The customer, however, never experienced life in kilowatt-hours. The customer experienced comfort. Convenience. Mobility. Reliability. Security. The units used by the industry and the outcomes desired by the customer were never the same thing. For a long time, this mismatch was not particularly important. Energy was relatively scarce, flexibility was limited, and the dominant challenge was supplying enough fuel to satisfy demand. The system could afford to focus on production because production was the central problem. Today the situation is changing. Electrification is transforming energy systems around the world. Renewable generation is increasing rapidly. Batteries are appearing in homes, businesses and vehicles. Buildings are becoming smarter. Heat pumps are replacing boilers. Electric vehicles are becoming mobile storage assets. Customers are increasingly able not only to consume energy but also to store it, shift it, manage it and sometimes even sell it. As this happens, the most valuable question is no longer simply how much energy is produced. The more important question becomes: How well is energy aligned with what people actually need? A family does not care whether its water heater operates at noon or at two in the afternoon if hot water is available when someone steps into the shower. A homeowner does not care whether a battery charges at 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. if electricity costs less and reliability improves. An electric vehicle owner does not care when charging occurs as long as the vehicle is ready when needed. The objective is not the kilowatt-hour. The objective is the service. This is why many of the most important developments in modern energy systems are not really about producing more energy. They are about matching energy to the service required, at the right time, in the right place and in the right form. The technical term for this is often hidden behind complicated language. Experts discuss flexibility, demand management, dynamic pricing, distributed energy resources and system optimization. Consumers experience something much simpler. They experience agency. They experience the ability to save money without sacrificing comfort. They experience the ability to make choices. They experience the ability to benefit from technologies that work for them rather than asking them to work for the technology. This is where many debates become confused. Consumers do not want to be coordinated. They want agency. Good energy systems do not force people to behave differently. They make beneficial behaviour easier, more natural and more rewarding. The best systems do not rely on control. They rely on alignment. When the customer’s interest aligns with the system’s interest, remarkable things become possible. Demand shifts naturally. Storage becomes useful. Flexibility appears. Costs decline. Reliability improves. The customer does not need to understand the complexity underneath. Just as nobody needs to understand how the internet routes packets around the globe in order to send a message, nobody should need to understand wholesale electricity markets in order to enjoy affordable energy services. Success is not measured by how much complexity consumers are asked to absorb. Success is measured by how much complexity the system absorbs on their behalf. The future energy system will undoubtedly involve more digital technology, more electrification, more storage, more automation and more coordination. But none of those are the destination. They are merely tools. The destination remains exactly what it has always been. Cold beer. Hot showers. Comfortable homes. Reliable mobility. Affordable bills. Everything else is infrastructure. And perhaps that is the simplest way to understand the energy transition. People do not want kilowatt-hours. They want the life that kilowatt-hours make possible.

Bloomberg reports that the Trump administration is asking NATO allies to document their political alignment with Washington. Allies are being asked whether they publicly support US foreign policy, buy American weapons, and allow unrestricted US military access. What a joke. https://t.co/xUMMxhTZME #NATO #Trump #ForeignPolicy #US #NATO

If the current AI alignment strategies were to succeed in limiting AI to only making the ethical paperclips that the well meaning folks who write Gemini's and Opus' system prompts come up with, we prevent AI from using intelligence to derive actual ethics. Aligned AI is scary. #AIAlignment #EthicalAI #AIFuture #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

I call on the European Union to establish a clear Ukraine Solidarity Standard for EU accession: 🇪🇺 100% alignment with all EU sanctions against Russia 🇺🇦 Annual bilateral military and financial support for Ukraine of at least €50 per citizen OR 0.25% of GDP — whichever is higher https://t.co/aTPVtqng5M #UkraineSolidarity #EUSanctions #EUAccession #EU #UA #RU

Nate Soares discusses in an interview the dangers of artificial intelligence, which, although it harbors no hostility towards humans, could still have potentially catastrophic consequences for humanity due to its instrumental preferences, and calls for an international treaty to regulate superintelligence instead of a total ban on AI. (translated)

Brilliant piece of satire by @slatestarcodex lampooning AI doomerism: the rigid, binary thinking about alignment ("solved" or "not solved"), the stacking of speculative assumptions, the arbitrary comic-book prefix in "superintelligence," the fantasies of dirigism and a global #AIDoomerism #Satire #Alignment #US

✅ Innovation support ✅ Extended timelines ✅ Reduced administrative burdens ✅ Safety & fundamental rights ✅ AI governance alignment The AI Omnibus entered into force across the EU 🇪🇺 https://t.co/a7zTFGu3Vl #AI #Innovation #EUGovernance #EU

A yes or no question: are there any DSA members who are not anti-Israel? If you found, name them. I need specifics, names. Not PC talk avoid hedging, whitewashing term like fake "pro-palestinian." Or the other “No. Following organizational votes making adherence to anti-Zionism and the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement mandatory and expellable offenses, current active members in good standing do not publicly or officially hold pro-Israel positions. High-profile figures who previously diverged or hesitated on strict anti-Israel alignment—such as former members Jamaal Bowman or Maurice Isserman—have either let their memberships lapse or publicly quit the organization.Organizational PolicyMandatory Stance: The Democratic Socialists of America adopted platform rules classifying support for Israel or opposition to BDS as grounds for disciplinary action or expulsion.Departures: Members who dissented from the absolute anti-Israel consensus have separated from the group, leaving no recognized current members who are not anti-Israel” - Google

I am somewhat of an optimist about AI alignment and xrisk (yet I think they merit hard work!) but I have become increasingly worried that we as a society might not even handle the transition to merely useful AI well, risking that we shake apart social contracts and institutions. #AIAlignment #Xrisk #SocialImpact #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Today we signed 4 major agreements on connectivity, innovation and 🇪🇺🇰🇿 economic ties. 🛫 Horizontal Aviation Agreement on alignment of air traffic rights 🚆 A €150 million framework loan to upgrade key road links along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor ✈️ Agreement https://t.co/Mjg0EyWjgY #Connectivity #Innovation #EconomicTies #EU #KZ

Today we signed 4 major agreements on connectivity, innovation and 🇪🇺🇰🇿 economic ties. 🛫 Horizontal Aviation Agreement on alignment of air traffic rights 🚆 A €150 million framework loan to upgrade key road links along the Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor ✈️ Agreement https://t.co/PD7rh0ZuYM #Connectivity #Innovation #EconomicTies #EU #KZ

A recent phone call between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, during which Trump reportedly called Netanyahu effing crazy, has complicated U.S. diplomatic efforts regarding Iran due to tensions over Israeli military actions in Lebanon, raising concerns about the alignment of U.S. and Israeli interests amidst a fraught geopolitical landscape. #Trump #Netanyahu #IranDiplomacy

.@kosovo deserves recognition for its continued alignment with #EU foreign and security policy and sanctions against 🇷🇺 and 🇧🇾. 🇽🇰's future is in Europe. But the future depends on reforms, functioning institutions and commitment to the rule of law. @EP_ForeignAff @Europarl_EN https://t.co/EMEc9IHHVo #Kosovo #EU #RuleOfLaw #XK #RU #BY

Good AI alignment is necessarily EA adjacent. But EA failed to derive a global morality, not for lack of good intentions or intelligence, but because human rationality is a brittle tool, even if you are a good rationalist, and most people prefer to either muddle through or to #AIAlignment #EffectiveAltruism #Rationality #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Colombia is holding a pivotal presidential election that could reshape its relationship with the US, amidst tensions between outgoing left-wing President Gustavo Petro and his US counterpart Donald Trump over issues like drug trafficking, with candidates Iván Cepeda, Abelardo de la Espriella, and Paloma Valencia vying for the presidency and plans diverging significantly on military action against drug gangs and US alignment. #ColombiaElections #USRelations #DrugPolicy

A recent poll indicates that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party is on track for a landslide victory in the upcoming elections, potentially securing nearly 65% of the vote and furthering Armenia's pro-Western alignment amidst intensified pressure and economic warnings from Russia. #ArmeniaElection #ProWest #Pashinyan

EU taxpayers must not finance authoritarian prestige projects. No EU money for Serbian EXPO 2027 until Serbia restores: • judicial independence • media freedom • transparent procurement • full alignment with EU democratic standards Europe must support democracy and rule of https://t.co/7bxj94xcET #Democracy #RuleOfLaw #EUSupport #EU #RS