I dated a guy in Romania whose father got sent to labor camp for saying, in a philosophy college class, that he read a book by Hemingway. He wrote a book about his experience. Title translates to “Torture for dummies” www.galeriile-cismigiu.ro/tortura-pe-i...

What a gift to watch geniuses at work youtu.be/g5zApLvfvPs?.... Brandi Carlile is a fucking angel

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.

The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.

That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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Five alarm fire: The State Department has effectively ended free speech for student visa holders.

Wrong but cute #gpt4o #imagegeneration. Cats are humanity's last exam 🐈‍⬛

Enjoyed the read, love the photo with the cat!

Look at this impostor 🖤

In the sun their coat looks brown :) can you see brown at his neck?

Happy Caturday. Look at this diva

Even though Zibalodis insists the cat is dark grey, not black :)

Tired: starting your research paper with "the rapid advancement of AI technologies." Wired: start in the middle.

🤣. Severance is so good. I couldn’t get into Succession.

So well explained!

I really wanted my mom to be with me in Seattle for my 50th birthday… I’m too scared now

But most parenting advice in the us is based on that, isn’t it? Including sleep training

French researcher refused entry to the US because he expressed person opinions about research in the US that were critical of the current administration www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

This is a lovely text for teaching people fallacies in argumentation. How many can you spot? wildfirelabs.substack.com/p/the-100-tr...

what's funny about this is chatbots just scour language-based interactions and respond with a version of what seems to be the typical reply, right?

so what this tells us is not that a computer program has anxiety but that, in its dataset, the usual response to 'i'm freaking out' is 'girl, same!! 😬'

Rubbish NYT writing. But yes, an AI chatbot will reflect yourself back to you - see examples of chatbots encouraging ppl in suicidal crisis to end their lives. It’s how very fancy autocomplete works.

10 of the leading AI chatbots regurgitate Russian propaganda

www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...

This is how it worked. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

“On Saturday, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) approved four candidates for the presidential election and rejected one, ultra-nationalist Diana Sosoaca.” Idk how this works though

Look at Romania www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.

Only one cat has ever received the award.

This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25