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These researchers are shocked that Google's AI spat out a result that they worked on for years on but haven't published. My question is, did they ever email about it using Gmail? Put it in a Google Doc? The idea that Google hasn't trained its AIs on everything they have access to seems naive to me.

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And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

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Hope everyone in the UK remembers what Elon Musk is doing to the US government the next time Domminic Cummings writes a 30,000 word blog post on his plan to replace all the "NPCs" in Whitehall with 19 year old Nazi superforecasters.

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Not. A. Single. Freaking. Time. Have. They. Trashed. Russia. For. Exterminating. Ukraine. Instead. Of. Blaming. Ukrainians. For. Resisting.

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#NATO's Article 5 was only invoked once, by 🇺🇸 asking for defence after 9/11 As a result, 1,105 European and Canadian soldiers died in the 20-year Afghanistan war - 1/3 of all coalition casualties I don't recall the Europeans demanding America surrender its mineral wealth in exchange for their help

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Share believing in God without a doubt. Republicans 1988: 66% 2022: 63% (-3) Independents 1988: 59% 2022: 51% (-8) Democrats 1988: 63% 2022: 39% (-24)

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This is a poor headline from the BBC. The US aren't offering a "deal" - they want the minerals in return for support already given. It's straight up extortion.

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On of the things I like about drawing maps for people's books and projects is that I learn all sorts of things. Like, for example...about flying rivers.

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“As the clever hopes expire, Of a low dishonest decade… The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again…” September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, English poet, born #OTD 1907. Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London

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Yoko Ono is 92 today. She is also a great artist whose dignity and compassion in the face of more than half a century of unearned disdain, much of it unequivocally racist and/or misogynistic in character, is genuinely astonishing.

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This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

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Incredible exclusive interview by South Korea's Chosun Ilbo (from Kyiv) of the two North Koreans captured in Kursk. www.chosun.com/english/nort...

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Dexter Filkins in the @newyorker.com: "When the Pentagon surveys young people about why they don’t want to enlist, only about five per cent list 'wokeness'; far more are concerned about discrimination." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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This is fucking incredible.

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The people who think the world will end all at once will be the ones most responsible for it ending gradually.

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I think we have another year of 'No, you don't understand! The focus groups show we can't increase income tax!!' while the voters fail to thank them for this and while trying to get five per cent of GDP's worth of defence out of 2.3 per cent of poorly administered spending:

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Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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This article touches on it, but this seems like the grimmest result of the larger trend of social media degradation that @edzitron.com has been covering so well. These dating apps have "gamified" to keep people forever scrolling. That is well-suited for rapists. 19thnews.org/2025/02/dati...

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Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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“Of course we’re fine with GENUINE refugees” #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Disgusting, pathetic, and contemptible. People like Gove, O'Brien, and Bowman are nothing but the aspiring satraps of a foreign oligarchy. They should have no place in British public life.

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He repeats, with absolute conviction, the last thing someone with good hair said to him. That's it. Every time.

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Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

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My AI students are reading Trurl's Machine (Lem) this week and the timing of this could not be funnier

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From reddit: a letter from a postdoc who survived the Bolsonaro years. This is helpful framing for how to science in this administration. 🧪 www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/...

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures! Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not! Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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This is a quite remarkable calm and careful dissection by Gabor Mate m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5c...

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