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Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post:
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nyc is the only city in the world with rainbows
my birthchart is telling me to open a position…
I don't even fuck around and i still find out
one of the most underrated asymmetries right now is that slop is totally fine for the backend and basically fatal in the frontend.
if you’re backend is slop, the app still works. if your front end and overall experience is slop, the *product* does not.
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Want to see what spots private equity owns in your city?
Introducing Requests! Every 48 hours, the city with the most contributions will be mapped out.
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thanks to all 357 of yall who participated <3
Our 7-day zkLogin key ceremony is complete.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the cryptographic setup for fast, self-custodial login on EVM.
MOSS zkLogin will be live soon!
We'll also be open-sourcing our optimized prover, so other developers can build on our work.
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the lack of cultural literacy in tech astonishes me
Everytime I walk past that street with a girl I say they named a street after you
well when you go to a crypto sponsored david dobrik party...an "influencer" who's been effectively irrelevant and shunned from the LA influencer scene since like 2021 because he almost killed his best friend jeff during a "stunt"...
what did you expect?
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Rasmr realized at Dobrik's Halloween party that nobody is famous anymore
“Nobody's famous, bro. Literally, nobody is famous… all the influencers are like dead.”
“I'm walking around, I'm like one of the top aura people at the whole party.”
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Yeezy Season 1 boots by Kanye West (2026)
It's a drizzling night in #Toronto#, you can see it and traffic camera live in
Niche genre I can’t get enough of
Psychedelic pop advertising from the late ‘60s/early ‘70s
ODD LOTS LIVE, NYC, 12/9
Get your tickets NOW to our final show of the year
@tracyalloway and I have some unambiguously amazing guests lined up, and you WILL feel dumb for not having gotten a ticket when they were still available.
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@MeganNyvold canadians on election night:
@MeganNyvold canadians on election night:
@milkkarten we did this last year with @ktrivs and @lou3ee for @OctantApp. took a risk by going for a very unorthodox way to market a technical/complex product
AI is now being used to recreate Adobe’s software, a developer has released seven free, open-source apps as clean-room alternatives to Adobe’s main tools:
- PhotoCraft → Photoshop
- VectorCraft → Illustrator
- FilmCraft → Premiere Pro
- LightCraft → Lightroom
- EffectCraft → After Effects
- DesignCraft → InDesign
- PrintCraft → Acrobat Pro
Built in Rust with help from Claude Opus 5.5, they run on Windows, Linux, and macOS under MIT/Apache licenses without using Adobe’s source code.
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if you’re at kbw this week come find me for a mega jerrrrrzzzzay
