You may have seen scary headlines linking melatonin and a higher risk of heart failure.
But when you look closely at the research behind those headlines, it’s much less alarming.
Let’s break down what the study actually did, and what it didn’t. 🧵

Obviously, it has no capability to do background processing. So there's a bunch of posts from irate users because ChatGPT told them to wait hours/days/weeks while it did absolutely nothing at all 💀
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The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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YVES ENGLER HASNT EVEN APPLIED TO RUN FOR NDP LEADERSHIP???????????

And he’s been accepting donations while implying he applied but hasn’t been approved yet???

Omg 🤦‍♀️

Article here: www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

...it is now incurring further risk to hit Western Ukraine because it thinks the EU will equivocate and knows the US is unlikely to care.

2. Russia is actively testing the waters of a broader escalation, and monitoring exactly how NATO responds to its drone strikes.

There's two ways to look at this:

1. Since the start of the war, Russia has largely avoided hitting Western Ukraine, precisely because of the risk that its drones/missiles could stray into NATO airspace and risk starting a conversation about Article 5. As part of Moscow's effort to escalate...

In Russia's air raid on Ukraine tonight, about 15 of its attack drones have entered Polish airspace, per Ukrainian channels.

There's been a few instances of these drones crashing in Poland to date, but this appears to be the most significant Russian intrusion into NATO airspace yet.

NDP leadership hopeful Yves Engler went on JACKSON HINKLE's podcast 🤮

Hinkle is a huge spreader of disinformation, particularly pro-Russia disinformation, has called the LGBTQ movement “pedophile ridden,” and calls himself a “MAGA communist.”

This is...a choice.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces that Canada will recognize the state of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September.

Carney says this move comes amid Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and its relentless war on Gaza.

Je disais dans mon infolettre sur Grok nazi qu'il faut arrêter de traiter la technologie comme si elle était neutre. Des gens en sont responsables.

Voilà que l'équipe de Grok explique ce qui s'est passé en disant que "du mauvais code s'est glissé dans Grok", comme si c'était arrivé tout seul.

Switch hardware - bigger screen, 120fps support, LCD screen with HDR, mouse controls

Nintendo Switch 2 Direct starts in ~30 minutes (9am ET, 6am PT) https://www.youtube.com/live/DXUmjX7DsP8

Will be approximately 60 minutes long

Avec mes collègues du Bureau d’enquête Jean-François Cloutier, MBA et Nicolas Brasseur, on a enquêté pendant un an sur un fleuron bien québécois : #Pornhub.

On peut enfin annoncer officiellement la publication de l’Empire du sexe, en librairie le 12 mars prochain.

Photo : Julie Marois