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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 1h

we should put everyone into re-education camps about what language is

by OpenAI’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of ChatGPT users are showing signs of manic or psychotic crisis every week

OpenAI Says Hundreds of Thousands of ChatGPT Users May Show Signs of Manic or Psychotic Crisis Every Week

www.wired.com

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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 1h

the images coming out of al-fasher are honestly horrific. all filmed by the rsf themselves. Fuck the RSF and fuck the UAE.

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 1h

my lover, my life. where thou art

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2h

Andrew Cuomo started his political life exploiting bigotry. He is now ending it the same sordid way in his campaign against Zohran Mamdani, writes @jeetheer.bsky.social.

Andrew Cuomo Is Going Out the Way He Came In: as a Vile Bigot

Vote for Zohran, not the moron.

www.thenation.com

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 2h

They're literally like if some encyclopedia could text you, which also speaks to sociological habits prior to LLMs that might have something to do with existing misguided usages of them as agents.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 3h

No arrogance quite like old arrogance and no power attained quite like withering old power.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, the world’s oldest president at 92 years old, has been declared the winner of the country’s presidential election

With his re-election, he can now govern until 2032

Cameroon’s Paul Biya, world’s oldest president, declared election winner

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya on Monday was declared the winner of the country’s presidential election, securing 53.66% of the vote, according to official results announced by the Constitutional Coun...

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 3h

perfect subject/writer pairing and a must-read www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...

Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI

He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.

www.wired.com

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 3h

That people are free, and it speaks to science's shortcomings that it can't even begin to scratch the surface of even "how you lift your finger if you choose to", to quote him directly.

Well Noam, "mysterian accounts of phenomena are thought to be profound, infact, they're not even superficial"

maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 3h

The way chomsky talks of free will is akin to the same kind of criticism he leveled against behaviorist accounts of language. In this case, instead of speaking of our brains as mere black boxes that reward and punishment work on to produce linguistic behavior, he just says it's plainly evident 1/2

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

He's talking about a cognitive test for dementia.

A black-and-white scanned form titled “Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), Version 7.1 Original Version.” At the top are blank fields for name, education, date of birth, sex, date, and points. The first section shows a trail-making exercise with circles labeled 1 to 5 and letters A to E connected by dashed arrows. Next to it is an outline cube to be copied, and a box titled “Draw CLOCK (Ten past eleven)” with scoring checkboxes for contour, numbers, and hands. Below is a “Naming” section illustrated with three animals: a lion, a rhinoceros, and a camel, each with an empty checkbox underneath. The “Memory” section lists five words to be recalled—FACE, VELVET, CHURCH, DAISY, RED—with spaces for two trials. An “Attention” section includes repeating digits forward and backward, tapping on the letter A in a letter sequence, and performing serial 7 subtraction starting at 100. The “Language” section has two sentences to repeat and a fluency task asking for words beginning with the letter F. The “Abstraction” section asks for similarities between pairs: train-bicycle and watch-ruler. A “Delayed Recall” section again lists the five memory words, with spaces for recall and category/multiple choice cues. The “Orientation” section has blanks for date, month, year, day, place, and city. At the bottom is copyright by Z. Nasreddine MD, scoring ranges (Normal ≥ 26/30), and an area for the administrator.

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Tana 👻 @justmostlymemes.bsky.social · 4h

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BSonblast @bsonblast.bsky.social · 4h

Elfashir has fallen to the RSF, and their campaign of ethnic cleansing has begun.

Video below shows RSF forces chasing civilians as they flee. Reports of bodies everywhere.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4h

Oh, how times have changed:

When Ilhan Omar said "It's all about the Benjamins" all hell broke loose.

Now, major voices on all sides say it openly. Here's
@ivehaditpodcast
: "When you're bought and paid for by AIPAC, you're not authentic. You're Benjamin Netanyahu's bitch."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5h

imagine this level of telling on yourself. the layers

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 4h

Now's your time to strike, Mark Carney. You'll be greeted as liberators

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 15h

Sensible distinctions worth discussing

Goodnight

maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 18h

philosophy might merely be the art of making sensible distinctions

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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 16h

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 18h

These people have addresses

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21h

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 18h

philosophy might merely be the art of making sensible distinctions

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21h

Gee, I can’t imagine why…

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 19h

The fucked up thing is that she's sincere. She-like so many others in contemporary politics-have careerism driven in so hard that they earnestly just spew well-prepared lines at every turn. Expecting such a person to think carefully about such things is like asking a 5 yr old to solve quantum theory

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

MSNBC's @AymanM (X) asks former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if she regrets defending Biden’s Gaza policy through 15 months of mass civilian killings and war crimes.

Karine Jean-Pierre (X: @K_JeanPierre): “I was vey proud of everything that I did. I don’t take anything back.”

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 20h

Help Akram’s mother recover! She’s all he has your prayers and donations mean the world to his family.

Akram Basil Abdulwahed @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social · 2d

After visiting the dentist and getting a panoramic X-ray,
it turned out that she has several dental problems and pain in different areas.

My mother needs your support to continue her treatment ❤️

chuffed.org/project/help...

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maina @buddingdilettante.bsky.social · 20h

Israel also voted no, and lo and behold, their leaders had little qualms starving a helpless population

shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 20h

As millions of Americans are about to go hungry due to SNAP having no money, just remember that only two countries voted against making food a basic human right in the United Nations.

The United States of America and israel voted against this resolution.

The right to food :

digitallibrary.un.org

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 20h

As millions of Americans are about to go hungry due to SNAP having no money, just remember that only two countries voted against making food a basic human right in the United Nations.

The United States of America and israel voted against this resolution.

The right to food :

digitallibrary.un.org

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20h

Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. Forecasters predict it will hit the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

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