# community notes — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover community notes. Page: Feed: --- ## [My Questions About Agency](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/my-questions-about-agency) _2026-08-25 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ One of the things I’ve spent a significant amount of time on is some Agent Foundations-adjacent philosophy work. While I’ve put together reading lists and simulation environments, I have mostly engaged in drips and drabs to figure out what I will spend time thinking about when I get around to being focused on it directly. As a starting point for that, I think it’s worth laying out the sorts of… ## [LLM-driven Code Review Process](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/llm-driven-code-review-process) _2026-08-19 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ After a recent conversation where someone mentioned that they experienced multiple model lineages surfacing additional issues in code reviews, I decided to revisit the code review machinery in my agentic scaffolding, claude-workflows . I’m very glad I did this, especially because I had just gone through a similar process for updating the security profile of the setup, which revealed a variety of… ## [When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz](https://www.reneediresta.com/when-matt-taibbi-met-mike-benz/) _2026-08-04 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ To mark the paperback of Invisible Rulers, I’m releasing audio from a Twitter Space in which Matt Taibbi meets then-unknown political operative named Mike Benz. It is the origin story of the “censorship industrial complex”. ## [Trump is going to lie to you tonight. An old guide to propaganda shows how to spot the red flags.](https://www.reneediresta.com/debunking-election-integrity-lies-trump-institute-for-propaganda-analysis/) _2026-07-16 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ Trump is expected to revive his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen, using selectively declassified intelligence as “receipts.” Here’s how to spot the tricks used to sell that story. ## [Keep the Cat Memes Flowing: Interpretive Polarization and the Strategy Behind One of 2024’s Most Effective Political Narratives](https://www.reneediresta.com/jd-vance-springfield-pets-interpretive-polarization/) _2026-07-13 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ JD Vance admitted he promoted the debunked "eating the pets" claim because he had to "create stories" to get media attention. This essay explores how political narratives are intentionally engineered to outlast factual corrections. ## [Happy July 4! We beat Stephen Miller in court.](https://www.reneediresta.com/happy-july-4-we-beat-stephen-miller-in-court/) _2026-07-05 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ A federal court dismissed Hines v. Stamos in full — the America First Legal "censorship" suit against the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project. ## [The Problem with Chat](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/the-problem-with-chat) _2026-07-01 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Large language models (LLMs) are a powerful new technology that is reshaping how we interact with computers. Despite the early and unexpected popularity of ChatGPT, Claude Code was the tool that started producing clear economic value. Among the reasons for this delay is that “chat” is a massive, 40+-year regression in interface design. The regression remains unfixed, and it creates an uncanny… ## [Why X's Community Notes is Struggling to Factcheck the LA Mayoral Election](https://www.reneediresta.com/why-xs-community-notes-is-struggling-to-factcheck-the-la-mayoral-election/) _2026-06-14 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ The "Spencer Pratt got 0 out of 24,000 votes” rumor was obviously false. Fifty Community Notes tried to debunk it. So why did none of them appear? ## [Red Mirage, Blue Shift, Online Cope](https://www.reneediresta.com/red-mirage-blue-shift-online-cope/) _2026-06-07 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ What Spencer Pratt's viral campaign tells us about online hype, election fraud spin, and what we'll see in the 2026 midterms. ## [Settlements-as-Spin: The Trump DOJ’s Slush-Fund Politics](https://www.reneediresta.com/settlements-as-spin-the-trump-dojs-slush-fund-politics/) _2026-05-21 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ Pandemic contrarian Alex Berenson just got a $150,000 payout, and the spin machine is hard at work. But a look at the primary documents makes it clear: no court found that Biden officials had him censored. ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xohurDkNQggh) _2026-05-21 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [I Was Falsely Accused of "Censorship" in The Free Press. Then Their Editors Censored The Truth.](https://www.reneediresta.com/i-was-falsely-accused-of-censorship-in-the-free-press-then-their-editors-censored-the-truth/) _2026-04-15 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ I prefer to keep drama off main in this newsletter, so I would rather not have to publish a post like this. But one of the things I've been meaning to write about is the way that partisan media ecosystems protect their own. This is a case study. ## [Reasons to be Worried About AI](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/reasons-to-be-worried-about-ai) _2026-04-15 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Co-written with Claude Sonnet 4.6 After watching one of Hank Green’s recent video on Anthropic’s Mythos announcement I went back and caught up on his previous two videos (though I mostly skipped the parts with Cal Newport). Going through this I realized that while I have a lot of sympathy for prosaic AI problems, I don’t have a canonical, visible source of reference for what these prosaic problems… ## [Engaging vs. Engagement](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/jq2uesd0lg2tkdab88laad0dc5uh3q) _2026-04-09 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Co-written with Claude Opus 4.6 When we describe something as “engaging” we generally mean that it feels compelling in a valuable way, that it provides a clear connection to our goals and values, or that it helps us achieve a flow state of working. Creating an engaging product is a valuable and generally laudable goal, and underlies a lot of business decisions in technology companies. But what… ## [All Alignment Research is Capabilities Research](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/all-alignment-research-is-capabilities-research) _2026-04-08 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Though probably not all capabilities research is alignment research. A couple weeks ago I saw a version of the xkcd standards comic about responsible AI research labs becoming racing AI capabilities labs. I felt a strong sense of connection to the comic, especially around OpenAI’s betrayals of its original structure, but I think it’s importantly confused about what alignment actually is. The meme… ## [Dirty dishes on the counter](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/dirty-dishes-on-the-counter) _2026-04-07 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ One thing I do which annoys my partner sometimes, is that when I empty the dishwasher and refill it with the dirty dishes that have accumulated on the counter, I do not always put every dish away or in. I mean this distinctly from, sometimes I don’t do the entire job of putting every dish away or putting every dish in. I mean that sometimes there is a dish that I do not immediately remember where… ## [The Church-Turing Anthithesis](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/the-church-turing-anthithesis) _2026-03-27 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Co-written with Claude The Church-Turing Thesis is a foundational conjecture in computer science claiming that any computer can simulate any other computer. It suggests that the substrate you run your computer on is of limited importance, that algorithms are universal, and is the first place I look for explanations of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics . More explicitly, the extended… ## [Participation Trophies and Million-Dollar Verdicts](https://www.reneediresta.com/participation-trophies-and-million-dollar-verdicts/) _2026-03-27 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ TL;DR: In just three days, two social media “censorship” decisions, two major jury verdicts on platform design harms, and a cautious Meta Oversight Board advisory opinion highlighted the limits of framing every platform issue as related to speech—while spotlighting accountability questions around product design ## [Metaethics and Mathematical Constructivism](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/metaethics-and-mathematical-constructivism) _2026-03-26 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ Co-written with Claude People have different ideas about what it means for things to be right or wrong. Sometimes we disagree when we’re mistaken about facts. Other times we seem to disagree about values. But there are also cases to be made that some of our disagreements about values are also disagreements about facts. Underlying these disagreements are questions of moral realism. Are there facts… ## [Why Do You Trust Your Compiler More Than Your Coworker?](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/why-do-you-trust-your-compiler-more-than-your-coworker) _2026-03-13 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ On trust chains, AI-assisted development, and the uncomfortable question of what “verified” means. Co-written with Claude Opus 4.6 When you compile a C program, you don’t read the assembly output to check that the compiler did its job. You trust the compiler. When the compiled program runs on your CPU, you don’t worry about whether the transistors are switching correctly. Even if you have an… ## [From Epstein to Everything](https://www.reneediresta.com/from-epstein-to-everything/) _2026-02-19 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ The Epstein files are real. The conspiracy theories they're re-fueling aren't. Here's why Pizzagate and Wayfair are surging once again, and why Cenk Uyghur went 9/11 truther. ## [PixelRift — Platforming with Level Editor (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PNX46ZOnA3cn) _2026-02-19 · **Sponsored**_ Includes a built-in level editor, campaign with elemental heroes, and boss encounters. ## [“Who has the power to define the truth?”](https://www.reneediresta.com/who-has-the-power-to-define-the-truth/) _2026-01-31 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ A Doha Debates conversation between Glenn Greenwald, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and me on free speech, content moderation, and the realities of platform governance ## [Crisis of Trust 2026: The Retreat Into Insularity](https://www.reneediresta.com/crisis-of-trust-edelman-trust-barometer-2026/) _2026-01-20 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ 70% are hesitant to trust “the other side.” The 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer offers “trust brokering” tactics—but no clear path back to a shared reality. ## [Shopping for Receipts: How a viral video about Somali daycares triggered federal action](https://www.reneediresta.com/shopping-for-receipts-how-a-viral-video-about-somali-daycares-triggered-federal-action/) _2026-01-06 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ Two weeks ago I wrote about the fusion of the rumor mill and the propaganda machine —how online claims get picked up by political elites who lend them credibility and turn them into political reality, whether they’re true or not. The Brown shooting witch hunt was ## [The Rumor Mill and the Propaganda Machine](https://www.reneediresta.com/the-rumor-mill-and-the-propaganda-machine/) _2025-12-23 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ Last week, a mob on X falsely accused a college student of mass murder. The aftermath of the Brown/MIT shootings was a time of high anxiety. The appetite for answers was enormous, and the police hadn’t yet identified a suspect. And in that vacuum, X did what ## [Transparency is Censorship](https://www.reneediresta.com/transparency-is-censorship/) _2025-12-13 · Renée DiResta · Renée DiResta_ In my newsletter from just before Thanksgiving, I wrote about the little scandal on X in which a whole lot of MAGA folks suddenly learned that many of their favorite paidcheck influencers were not what they seemed . MAGAMom1776 was actually in Nigeria! BasedChad with the eagle avi was ## [Belegarth Video Analysis](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/belegarth-video-analysis) _2025-10-10 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ The Idea My idea for this project was to create an app which can take a video of Belegarth combat and, on device and in real time, annotate the video with the locations and movements of all players and gear including weapons, shields, and armor, and use the combination of visual information and audio track to be able to make heralding calls. The proof of concept version of this project is a… ## [MASK evals with small models](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/axw03uhmuityseg86bldoesjcidcq5) _2025-07-10 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ This is a link post for my recent work on the MASK honesty benchmark, posted on github . ## [Sandbagging thought experiment](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/1bzxal0d9khunle9t73m8iemxle04d) _2025-07-10 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ I'm reading this article: https://redwoodresearch.substack.com/p/misalignment-and-strategic-underperformance on strategic underperformance and I am curious about the extent to which "sandbagging" can survive gradient descent optimization pressure, even in the most favorable cases. I'm going to construct a toy example in which sandbagging seems likely to be possible, then attempt to explore whether… ## [Bring out your thoughts](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/bring-out-your-thoughts) _2025-04-04 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ I woke up this morning with “Introducing AI 2027” in my inbox from ACX , which has now been sitting in my brain and slowly digesting like an appropriately enormous burrito. It had a few references to specific AI work that was particularly interesting to me, especially “ neuralese ”, but mostly was sitting in a space I’ve been slowly building and marinating in my head already, which is something… ## [LLM Fact Checking](https://www.magfrump.net/blog/llm-fact-checking) _2025-03-20 · magfrump . · Blog - Remembering the Next Time_ TL;DR: I don’t trust models to understand even basic semantic claims well enough to check whether they are consistent across sources. Among the many issues faced in the rapid rise of large language models, one is the issue of truth and trust. LLMs sometimes “hallucinate” the existence of reference material that does not exist. At the same time, trust in “experts” has eroded, with claims of… ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oN0VhuvBqrsY) _2025-03-20 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Common Knowledge Machines](https://pujaohlhaver.substack.com/p/common-knowledge-machines) _2024-10-01 · Puja Ohlhaver · Puja Ohlhaver_ From Community Notes to Community Posts