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  • AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds

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  • LLMs are fundamentally a dead end though. If we ever create AGI, it will be a qualitatively different thing from an LLM.

  • Donald Trump abruptly ends interview: "We're in danger"

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  • Trump's policies resulted in thousands of veterans with PTSD being denied treatment by the VA on account of lack of funding. If anyone deserves to suffer from it, he does.

  • Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones'

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  • “For too long, the average American has been squeezed by the big banks and financial elites,” Trump wrote. “It’s time we take a stand — together.”

    Do people actually believe for a fraction of a second that Donald Trump of all people is on the side of the average American? And that the way to "take a stand" is with a crypto pump and dump scheme?

  • Transgender Texans blocked from updating sex on driver’s license.

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  • The headline really fucking buried the lede here. Texas is secretly compiling a list of trans residents for unknown reasons, we only know this because of a whistleblower.

  • The line war has begun

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  • Depends on what you mean by help. Yes, it would communicate the point better, but it's engagement bait, so the ambiguity is a feature rather than a bug.

  • Why do we glorify horrible people from the distant past?

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  • It's not a modern standards thing, Genghis Khan was seen as a complete monster in his own time.

  • Boops boops

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  • If you click the "talk" link at the top of the page, there's a discussion about the original header image for the article, "Boops boops in a bucket," depicting just that. Because the image committed the unforgivable sin of being slightly whimsical on a Wikipedia article about a fish, someone went on a lengthy crusade to get it replaced.

  • Boops boops

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  • The talk page is an all-time classic of petty Wikipedia drama.

  • The transphobia rocking olympic boxing has a Kremlin connection

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  • The root of it is transphobia because before the Olympics started, they predicted that because trans athletes are allowed like they have been for over 20 years, they'll dominate every event despite that not happening before and nothing having changed recently. Since that didn't happen, because admitting that they were wrong is very clearly not an option, they accuse cis athletes that they deem not sufficiently feminine of being trans. People who don't really follow what's going on but take the right wing position by default believe them, and it reinforces their biases, so it works as propaganda despite a complete lack of basis in reality.

  • Newsmax pundit accuses Kamala Harris of 'doing blackface' to win presidency

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  • It's a dog whistle to the racists who think the only thing worse than not being white is being mixed race. But they can't just say that out loud, so they play dumb and go "how can she be both?"

  • New tech discovered

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  • They're worse. They're really the next generation of Cuil.

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  • It's named as attack ad bait. "So-and-so voted against the Kids Online Safety Act" sounds bad to the uninformed voter, and there are a lot of uninformed voters.

  • Senate passes bill to protect kids online and make tech companies accountable for harmful content

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  • You'd be right in this case too. It's extremely sketchy, it's pretty much absolute censorship power with only an informal promise that it won't be used for anything nefarious (but a refusal to actually codify anything preventing that). "Harmful content" is left very conveniently vague.

  • Probiotics

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  • I feel like there's a primal part of my brain that would tell me not to drink something that looks like there's mold growing on it that would be difficult to get past.

  • Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line: he is ‘just plain weird’

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  • The previous approach was to focus on how he's a dangerous fascist, which his supporters were able to spin as strength. Focusing on how he's the kind of off-putting creep that you instinctively cover your drink as he walks by can't be spun that way.

  • Do flat earthers think other planets are flat? All of them or some of them? Are stars (including and excluding the sun) flat too?

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  • The claim is "Earth isn't a planet", sometimes with the addition of "space isn't real".

  • 'It'll Be Fixed!': Trump Tells Supporters No Need to Vote in the Future.

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  • Within a matter of hours there was already a swarm of apologists going "here's what he actually meant".

  • Every Trad Wife Influencer is Completely Insane

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  • The veracity of that is a bit debatable though, it's allegedly a Persian practice and the only sources are Greek wartime propaganda intended to paint them as barbarians.

  • Bella Hadid's Adidas advert dropped after Israeli criticism

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  • I wouldn't trust an Adolf that didn't change his name by 1940.