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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 6 hours ago • 126 comments

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel, and now we’re hoarding pre-AI content arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/w...

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Das Mullah-Regime ist eine Terrordiktatur. Wir müssen aber auch auf Hygiene in der deutschen Debatte achten, um glaubwürdig zu bleiben: Töten ist keine "Drecksarbeit", ein Angriff ist keine Verteidigung. Eine präventive Selbstverteidigung kennt das Völkerrecht nicht an. #Servicetweet #Iran #Israel

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🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 233 comments

Every machine in a Hospital that diagnoses your body without cutting you open is based on a principle of Physics, discovered by a Physicist who had no interest in Medicine. If you think the world doesn’t need Basic Science, or that somehow Science has failed you, think again.

submitted 2 days ago • 221 comments

If you want to have black walnuts on Christmas you should start fermenting now (traditionally before Johannis, June 24th)

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I don't know much about the account itself, but they've been posting increasingly large numbers with zero references to them. Where do they come from? Who's doing the cointing? Is this even real? My point? Skepticism, always, and especially when the conclusion is in your favor.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

🧪 I hate this so fucking much. For so many reasons. (Link to audio file of simulated podcast episode 🤮 summarizing the paper is in the paper) academic.oup.com/eurjcn/advan...

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 6 days ago • 1920 comments

Das Schengener Abkommen vom 14.06.1985 gehört zu den großen Erfolgen der EU. Helmut Kohl und die CDU/CSU hatten maßgeblichen Anteil daran, die Freizügigkeit einzuführen. Mich wundert, dass meine Partei den 40. Jahrstag nicht richtig feiert.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

Now I've had a chance to read Andrea Sella's article in @chemistryworld.com on why he returned his Royal Society Faraday Medal. I recommend that you read it too. It's inspiring, though inevitably also disturbing, in these troubled times. www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/why-...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Denmark Set to Replace Microsoft Software with Open Source Alternatives Denmark's Digital Ministry is replacing Microsoft services with LibreOffice and Linux.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How artists are fighting back against AI. This is rather cool. There is a cloaking tool that creates "poisonous images" within images to prevent AI from using them as training data. scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/artists-...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

249Bk (t1/2 ~330 days) is a beta blasting bully, but sometimes things work out #fblockrocks #bkallday @teasactinides.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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@sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, a @ucl.ac.uk chemistry professor, has returned his 2014 Michael Faraday Prize to protest the @royalsociety.org's failure to take more decisive (or any) action against Elon Musk for his attack on science. 👏

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

"Large language models do not, cannot, and will not 'understand' anything at all. They are not emotionally intelligent or smart in any meaningful or recognizably human sense of the word." 🧪🤖 [gift link]

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be the story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

submitted 11 days ago • 315 comments

Spätestens wenn Richter bedroht werden, erwarte ich von einer Bundesregierung öffentliche Solidarität, Unterstützung und Einordnung der Rechtsprechung. Stattdessen verbreitet Dobrindt Falschinformationen über die Begründung des Gerichtsbeschlusses und die rechtlichen Gefahren für Polizeibeamte.

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

Wenn ihr in der gesamten derzeitigen Asyl-Debatte nur eine einzige Rede hören könntet, dann lasst es bitte diese sein. Stefan Seidler vom SSW im #Bundestag

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Was Dennis Radtke sagt.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

applying for jobs again

submitted 45 days ago • 149 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

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First paper of Andreas (open access). Congrats! @chemunicologne.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

I know it's not very helpful, but I find myself thinking about those who criticized Nature's and Scientific American's Harris endorsement on the grounds that "science should stay out of politics." I think about those people quite a lot.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments