Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
When university administrators announce that they are excited about something, you know it's going to be super bad
Americans Astronomers watching watching US politics Betelgeuse 🤝 “It could happen at any time”
$3,000 to publish $50 to read $0 to understand #AcademicPublishing is broken 🧪 #SciPub
“These are not typical requests from a health secretary to a C.D.C. director. Not even close. None of us would have agreed to the secretary’s demands, and we applaud Dr. Monarez for standing up for the agency and the health of our communities.” Op-ed written by 9 former CDC directors! 🧪 #IDsky
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
"All you guys want to do is bring up the time the sitting President fomented an insurrection in order to ignore the results of a national election and remain in power"...đź–•
“Stop talking about that time we did a insurrection”
Honestly sometimes I just sit here and wonder - how the hell did that guy miss...
A 76% point gap between how satisfied Republicans are with the country versus how satisfied Democrats are. The largest partisan gap ever. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
Still early days too. Diffusion models show lots of promise, even for text, at a fraction of energy cost. The AI breakthrough that uses almost no power to create images share.google/mBKjHy2ROZLU...
Lots of people find it extremely useful. Demand is pretty high.
That's the whole point!
Now do redistricting
Well, they also do, output quality, a lot more per query too. GPT5 is the first to have an internal router, using less for easy questions and more for harder ones. These analyses only look at GPT5 at it's max, not as it's actually used, so we will see lots of efficiency as the model is copied.
"But it's important to point out that the lab's test methodology is far from ideal." Shaky stuff there.
Better than not at all.
They're getting more efficient, not sure where you get that from.
I'm literally saying we need to prepare for the unprecedented so as not to surrender. You're discounting these tactics until after they happen. Time to step back and figure out what side you're on.
Russian backed disinformation? And I'm paranoid? Ok there weirdo.
Debatable, especially since it's spurring more nuclear power, which is the most effective way to dramatically reduce carbon footprint.
Cite examples of states doing mid cycle redistricting after the president requests they find him 5 seats. No? Guess it's impossible.
Cite examples of the president sending the National Guard into cities to support ICE prior to Trump. Oh I guess that didn't happen then.
How many examples of unprecedented behavior are there? That's what you're asking, like we aren't living through unprecedented times? How many examples are there of many of the things Trump is doing, regardless of constitutionality? There's a first time for everything.
This is like the exact scenario I was using a couple years ago to illustrate the sort of shit we were headed for
Anti-AI side seems split between "it's useless snake oil and no one wants it forced on us" and "it's an existential threat to humanity"...hard to square those arguments.
No he didn't. That isn't true. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/m...
"And so I think there was confusion among lawmakers about how the technology actually works." This is the problem not just with AI, but all tech legislation. Reps just end up listening to lobbyists instead of experts. They could find them if they wanted, among their constituents, but they don't.
Even in blue states, there are many red counties. If those counties are in charge, they might just start tossing ballots and cite the EO. It will get tied up in courts and will be too late to fix.
And when they follow the EO?
I really hope this becomes the black eye it deserves to be www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#bookban #UCP
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators. “There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Yeah the data is much stronger than OPs anecdote.
I've been told this means you should not be eligible for any public positions
Guy who wrote a book saying his mom is a junkie slag and his people are lazy trash thinks that everyone else should be more grateful
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Just ban all manufacture and import of semi-autos.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
"It never does any good to suck up to an autocrat. He will screw you over anyway. You should preserve your integrity and your dignity if he's going to try to steal everything else." www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CaI...
US House system is permanently broken. There's no fixing this without burning it to the ground. Missouri governor announces plans to redraw US House districts | AP News share.google/emlSn1oDF5tT...
🧵 In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
ICE raided a DC high school football game. ICE RAIDED A HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
The biggest public health story in America today is that we’ve built concentration camps and they’re already killing people
mamdani: "we should improve society somewhat" vance: "it would be nice for you to occasionally show a sense of gratitude instead of just attacking society for all of its problems. i am very intelligent"
Mike Johnson dismisses the unpopularity of the Big Beautiful Bill: "The individual provisions of that giant piece of legislation are wildly popular." CNN host John Berman immediately debunks that claim.
really easy to try nothing and be all out of ideas too.
these stories were always burbling around in the first go-around too. they never amount to anything.
license required. renew every year. tax ammo unless used at a range day-of-purchase. require injury insurance for every weapon. or just ban anything semi-auto. bolt action, pump action are ok.
COVID vaccine update: Pharmacies in these states won't give you a shot unless you have a prescription. CVS: CO, FL, GA, KY, LA , ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, DC Walgreens: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI CVS is not yet offering COVID shots at all in MA, NV, and MN.
grind senate business to a halt then.
they'll have enough to haunt polling stations though.
The main people who got us here cannot get us out. That's what everyone is seeing in real time.
“Give your kids an extra hug and kiss today.” Jesse Merkel spoke at a news conference outside Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, where his 8-year-old son, Fletcher, was one of two children fatally shot at a back-to-school Mass on Wednesday. Read more: nyti.ms/45HBSKN
Same thing you'd do for anyone experiencing a mental health crisis involving delusion?
"You wanted guardrails to ensure mentally ill people can't encounter harmful output, now you got it."
When you start blaming OpenAI because unwell people did unwell people things, filing massive lawsuits, and waging a press campaign, this seems the entirely predictable course correction," wrote Ari Cohn, the lead counsel on tech policy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
in retrospect prob not the best idea to start with a bunch of low level dupes and morons and wait 2 years to prosecute the people who actually plotted the overthrow of the US government. ah well, you win some you lose some. I'd say you live and you learn but not clear they learned anything at all
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
"Do not pretend you do not understand" goes a long way towards the heart of a LOT of problems rn
WPost Op Ed Board may have had it, but if they believe their own headline, i.e., RFK Jr cannot be contained and his disdain for evidence and expertise threatens the health of Americans, then it would seem there is only one option: RFK Jr should be removed as Sec. of HHS.
🧵 I know it's ridiculous, but when he's talking mitochondrial challenges & inflammation, he's again referring to his idea of vaccine-induced autism. Let me explain.
Any Sane Country Would Launch RFK Jr. Into the Sun www.splinter.com/any-sane-cou...
Here he goes.
JD Vance on Trump sending troops into cities: "The president is not going out there forcing this on anybody." (Tell that to Los Angeles ... )
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve on the Minnesota shooting: "The sad thing is we can't sit here and tell them that help is on the way. Because we're not going to do a damn thing about it."
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Beyond warning our neighbors of checkpoints, I think the primary goal of protesters encountering ICE and HSI agents should be to try to shame them into quitting their jobs. A big lift -- unlike the Guard they signed up for this shit -- but a good goal regardless
You don't know me at all.
It did what the kid asked it to do, just like google. But hey, you won - openai is now going to alert parents and the cops when they see problematic inputs. That will go real well when they out a trans kid to his unsupportive parents and school.
As we all know, the United States is the only country on the planet where these drugs exist. It definitely has to be the drugs that we alone use. Can’t be something else.
One thing that really hits you when you're directly affected by gun violence in schools is that there's nowhere to hide. Public, private, religious, whatever - unless you're going to homeschool your kids, we live in a world where they're at risk of something like this happening.
homeschooling doesn't help either, given the high rate of gun accidents in homes.
DJT: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.” This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
The new satanic panic has led to this. futurism.com/openai-scann...
Oh look what's happening now. So much for any privacy concerns I guess. futurism.com/openai-scann...
Welp, now it's gonna call the cops. Feel better? futurism.com/openai-scann...
Now see what's happening. futurism.com/openai-scann...
Oh great. Now look what the hysteria has borne.
They did say that, but that's not what happened here, according to the family and transcripts.
Sure. Honestly, Id just rather we focus on the real and dangerous issues instead of replaying a new satanic panic or Marilyn Manson hysteria.
Your argument is that information freely available on google was the problem?
If you misuse a product, the product isn't the problem. Did you know cars are super unsafe if you disable all the safety improvements?
He jail broke it. Purposely circumvented safety controls. Come on.
Machine didn't make him suicidal. He purposely circumvented safety controls to get those outputs. If you get thrown from your car because you didn't wear the seat belt, the car wasn't the problem.
JUSTICE FOR SANDWICHES
So, not only is my kid's healthcare illegal for doctors to provide him in the state we live in, he can no longer be treated out of state and risks losing access to the evidence backed peer reviewed medication that has changed his life for the better because we are ruled by monsters and cowards
The chatbot gave those instructions after the safeguards were purposely circumvented. Pretty important point.
Bottom line, the kid was suicidal, the machine didn't make him that. He felt he couldn't talk to his family, and they didn't notice he was in crisis. The machine repeatedly encouraged him to get help until he circumvented, on purpose, the safeguards. The machine isn't the problem here.
Iowa tonight is exactly why Republicans are redrawing their maps.
It's true, we have a massive unchecked mental health care crisis in this country. How did no one help this kid for months?
Litter is definitely a massive emergency that warrants mobilizing units from several states’ National Guard, arming them heavily and sending them into the streets of the capital.