Gerard Sans (google developer) dubbed this the "reasoning illusion." identical prompts, phrased different ways, generate meaningfully different outputs. Computer very bad at filtering out irrelevant info
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Gerard Sans (google developer) dubbed this the "reasoning illusion." identical prompts, phrased different ways, generate meaningfully different outputs. Computer very bad at filtering out irrelevant info
searching and prompting ARE NOT THE SAME THING AND ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE. The magic of original google search is it could pull correct answers for you even if you made a slight mistake in your search. We trained people to expect that! one of the most harmful and reckless deployments of tech ever
case study of how a non-meaningful tweak to a prompt can result in dangerously wrong output. Search A: prompt has typos in “association” & “blood clots.” AI output has medical misinfo (Yaz&Yasmin ARE NOT drospirenone-only). Search B: same words, same order, correct spelling. Output factually correct
I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price
pro-trans: 84.6% transphobia: 15.4% that seems like a high turnout too?
Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
I mean, I’m not sure you should make fun of cultural or religious dietary restrictions if you are literally afraid of salsa.
People are free to express their opinion, but if you respond to our support for genocide with graffiti we’ll sic the cops on you Not a mystery why these guys are fine with Trump’s fascism!
Extremely funny that the NYT said people don’t need to vandalize to get attention, two days before totally ignoring massive peaceful Labor Day protests
Jerry Nadler ends his remarkable career, conceding that his brand of politics on the Middle East is over. “I don’t know what to say at this point,” he said. “I can’t defend what Israel is doing.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/n...
bill clinton being the same age as Donald Trump really made me enter the void earlier
1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see
Murdered a child, shot him in the back. “A man was detained at the home where the shooting happened and questioned by homicide detectives on Sunday, KHOU reported. But Houston police later said the person was released after questioning.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/11-...
Not counted as a heat death: “A 72-year-old Arizona man died days after falling on a sidewalk last year, with the hot surface burning 16% of his body. Cause of death: complications of thermal injuries because of prolonged exposure to elevated environmental temperatures on a hot surface.”
Exactly, the entire argument for this narrative is that kids rarely die of COVID. That’s true, but it wasn’t the justification for the policy. Teachers *do* die of COVID and kids *do* spread COVID. Some studies find school closures were the most effective intervention for preventing cases!
It astonishes me how parents are perfectly able to understand "the kid brought something home from school and now we're all sick" except for COVID for some reason
Stole the show every time he was on Red Green... and to think they created the character for him because he was a fan...
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
One of the greats. We just re-watched the Northern Exposure where his character, who is a shaman, attempts to figure out what white people’s culture is so that he can heal them but he can’t find any.
no, there is not an organized effort by trump people to do shootings on the south side of chicago. street crime in chicago and trumpist federal overreach are unlinked causative phenomena, and that is why mashing them up in the hed is specious! why do all these people have dog brains!!!
people on here have the most incredible brains
HAPPY LABOR DAY REMEMBER THAT YOUR RIGHTS AS A WORKER WERE HARD WON AND ARE NOT GUARANTEED. SOLIDARITY IS EVERYTHING - TALK ABOUT YOUR WAGES WITH YOUR COWORKERS, UNIONIZE WHERE YOU CAN, AND REMEMBER NOTHING HAPPENS WITHOUT YOU AND THEY WANT TO MAKE YOU FORGET THAT. DON'T LET THEM.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
"Blueskyism" helped the Mississippi Free Press overcome algorithmic suppression on other platforms (Facebook, Threads) and ride out plummeting engagement on Twitter following Musk's X takeover. Thank God we took our eggs out of the X basket when we did.
I let out several different audible “NO”s during this video incredible stuff, you gotta watch the whole thing
it should be at least 400 times harder to get a driver's license
Like, if you look at this post a friend sent me and then actually read the “deranged replies” it’s mostly people pointing out that you should take jury duty seriously, but you gotta justify still hanging out in a place you know sucks.
So there’s a thing I’ve noticed repeatedly from people who are still on X, The Everything App - they’re constantly making weird accusations about Bluesky that don’t make any sense if you’re on here, and I think it’s a sign they’re deeply insecure about posting to X, The Everything App.
People didn’t flee Twitter because they were wanted a bubble. We left because Elon bought it, made the experience worse in myriad ways, became at least white-supremacist-curious, and then mashed his hand on the algorithm to make all the worst parts unavoidable. Bluesky isn’t perfect but it works.
it's so frustrating because the contention is always "libs wanted a hugbox without criticism on it" which totally elides the actual objection people have to vichy twitter, which is its a machine where an evil billionaire controls which of your posts other people get to see bsky.app/profile/wack...
never get sick of seeing the self-own of someone posting something negative about bluesky while simultaneously censoring its name because they site you're posting on instead algorithmically buries any post or account that mentions one of its competitors
Anyway, my friends at Bluesky proper should start marketing this place with these kinds of quotes. It makes this website seem like the fucking Thunderdome when in reality it's a place where I post pictures of Viscous Brown Food-Like Substance On A Plate solely to unnerve people.
"Blueskyism" helped make The Onion one of the largest newspapers in the world in less than a year. If we had spent all of our time on Twitter, we'd be poorer, dumber and terminally ill with internet poisoning. He's just angry he's wasting away over there in a nazi agnostic lane that doesn't exist.
(This kinda ties into my belief that if you’re cis but have ADHD or are autistic, you have probably had a taste of the trans healthcare experience)
Even if I didn’t have skin in the game and didn’t care about trans people, as someone who’s on a shit ton of meds, I would find the worldview being expressed here pretty fucking abhorrent
Seeing gender criticals complaining about Zarah Sultana trying to mollify trans critics of Your Party is kinda funny. “Oh no, my views might only be represented by 9 political parties instead of 10”
The way to fight for us to "exist without commodification" isn't to force trans people off of HRT, it's to decomodify HRT.
Most Americans have never lived in a safer America. And its not just things are safer. They are WAY safer. Leaps and bounds safer than they were in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and 00s.
I am wrong about violent crime. Last year we had the lowest violent crime rate since 1969, so that is only 55 years, not 65. This year violent crime appears to be down further, but it likely won’t be down enough to make this the lowest year in 65 years. Let’s call it the lowest year in 55+ years
The thing that often blows by is not only is crime the lowest its been for any non-senior citizen's life, it has been roughly that safe for *fifteen years*. We have had fifteen years of steady, low crime while the irrational freakout over crime has relentlessly grown to a fevered, disordered pitch.
Another brilliant prediction, Nostradamus level.
This is not dating at all, so it is not common; it is impossible. It is gaming. Which is fine, but nobody wants you to believe they are "dating" Wario just because when they push the buttons, he does stuff, which makes it a RELATIONSHIP.
I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
it's like banning canaries from coal mines because too many kept dying and it was making the miners sad except instead of telling someone they have gas you have to tell them they're a bad parent
if your middle schooler has $30+ to spend on a THC vape and you are so inattentive as a parent that you don't notice they have one or are using it, I feel that's a much larger issue that does not go away by takingal away the vape
every time I hear about a ban that is ostensibly put in place to protect children it makes me question why their parents don't know how their kids are spending their money or where they're getting it from
Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel
2/2 Also, for the record, while a writer's name is on the byline, often/usually someone else comes up with the headline. Especially for "catchy" contrarian pitches like this.
Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
No joke. Homeschooling should be illegal.
homeschoolers smugmuggin their own outcomes, wild stuff
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
Definitely this. Fox News should be an object lesson, a slow poison that nevertheless killed us because we never sought treatment.
You can't fool me, that's clearly Ham Rove! Good to see he's still getting work.
Today's press pool photo shows Trump leaving the White House this morning. I enhanced the image. And seriously, can an expert explain what the hell is happening to his face?
The right is pushing this narrative because it’s the only place they can blame liberals — their actual goal — and gain purchase among elites. The *actual* mistakes during the pandemic all originate on the right: lax lockdowns, weak mitigations and low vaccine uptake
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.
I bet you also told people who first used the paintbrush that they weren’t “real artists” doing “real art” just because they weren’t doing cave paintings and were instead inputting commands into a computer giving them blandly acceptable results while doing no work themselves and holding a paintbrush
Happy Labor Day
To be clear, the mRNA vaccines have saved millions of American lives and prevented millions of hospitalizations. That they’re seen as a liability on the political right is just evidence that right-wing ideology has no place in government or anywhere near power.
STAT: Trump says CDC is ‘being ripped apart’ over Covid products, calls for drugmakers to prove their benefits by Daniel Payne bit.ly/46ic6Na
“Prove the benefit of these lifesaving shots that I myself touted for years as one of my accomplishments.” Comical if it weren’t so disastrous.
Trump’s alliance with anti-vax world is preventing him from standing by what can be considered the one good thing he’s actually done: Operation Warp Speed. It’s so bleak.
I do think the key strategy for getting Trump to jettison RFK Jr is to just keep implying that RFK Jr is going after one of Trump's core presidential accomplishments and thus saying that Trump Fucked Up
[Sky News, which has spent years inciting hatred against migrants] Wow, how could this possibly happen?
>rapid physical deterioration >social media posts don't sound like him >staying away from cameras >not calling into news channels say hello to the 48th president of the united states
It is *literally impossible* to have reliable guardrails on LLMs. More research is coming out on this. But,remember: ll LLM CEOs have admitted they don't understand how their product works. Prob not good look in court. www.activefence.com/blog/llm-gua...
He’s clearly being shielded from significant public exposure while he recuperates from something, degenerates from something, or both.
seems bad
Someone please kill me right now.
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
Important reminder for anyone who thinks you can feed photos of Trump through AI filters and believe you’re getting a more accurate picture of reality.
you cannot enhance a low res image you fucking doorknob
hey do you have any idea how generative ai works (it makes stuff up)
Expert here. What happens is the generative AI you fed this to is a piece of shit that tried to extrapolate a shadow into what statistically should be flesh, while you sat there loudly saying "ENHANCE. ENHANCE." like a dipshit.
I'll also block the sharing account more often than not.
My own blanket policy is not to share things that are, in my evaluation, clearly AI generated. This leaves a lot of things still available to share!
If you’re ever passing through Hinckley (on certain days of the week between May-Oct), be sure to stop at the Fire Museum
the big 4 sewing pattern brands are being sold off for parts. if you want patterns, get them *now*. (if you're secretly a zillionaire who likes sewing patterns, call the liquidator immediately with your chequebook) craftindustryalliance.org/parent-compa...
Witnessing the AI artist get kicked out of the DragonCon artist alley was satisfying.
Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik
In the richest country in the world people are baking to death at home. Richard Chamblee died in Arizona two days after the central AC broke and the family couldn’t afford to repair it. His core temp was 108F/42C. He was just 52 years old. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Keir Starmer just appointed Tim Allan, a board member of the anti trans hate group, Sex Matters, to be his new communications director.
I'm BAAAAAAACK! That's right! it's me, Doc, and I'm here to tell you all about guns in first person shooters, hopefully helping you be way more creative in your weapon design by breaking 'em down into the basics that's right, it's FPS Design 102: da guns docseuss.medium.com/the-way-of-t...
President Trump has ended collective bargaining rights for more than one million federal workers. Unions have sued to block the move, but agencies are terminating contracts as litigation continues.
10,000 taken to hospital in one week for heat-related illnesses in Japan #climatecrisis HT @ed-king.bsky.social mainichi.jp/english/arti...
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
So anyway Paddington in Peru is a movie about how tolerant and accepting the British are, where a white family and their immigrant housemate, a talking bear, travel to Peru and interact with precisely two locals, one of whom is the villain and the other is his daughter
“Perhaps the most harmful concept seeping into Ghana’s society from the church—and in particular from a version of the prosperity gospel that enjoys wide popularity in the country—is the myth of the instant miracle.” —Anakwa Dwamena and E. Gyimah-Boadi
There are 11 armed military folks in full camo, bulletproof vests, etc at my Metro stop today like what a waste of everyone's time and tax money
If Democrats ever gain power again, they could begin improving the situation by repealing the 78-year-old union-busting Taft-Hartley Act, superseding it with a worker-friendly law. bsky.app/profile/rbre...
one thing i think neoliberals don’t realize when they squawk about trans people not voting for newsom: if we did, the political apparatus would use that fact against us to say that we approve of & consent to his transphobic policies.
Idk how many times we're going to do this but you cant tell me how many "daily posters" there are on threads and I am going to tell you being anywhere on a meta platform is nightmare and half of them are bots lmao
happy labor day
Ground-breaking, fundamental U.S. climate science by Roger Revelle, Charles David Keeling, Wally Broecker, Susan Solomon and many others helped shape the IPCC's work and helped make it urgent. About 50 U.S. researchers are working on the panel's next round of reports, without federal support.
Serial plagiarizer and MAGA mouthpiece Benny Johnson recently claimed he fled DC after “my home was burned to the ground” and that “people were murdered in my front yard.” Neither of those things actually happened @kenbensinger.bsky.social found www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...