I was only made aware of this (frankly awesome) case of LLM poisoning today: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y. A researcher made up a disease and published two evidently fake preprints about it (including sentences such as “this entire paper is made up” and “Fifty made-up individuals aged between 20 and 50 years were recruited for the exposure group”), which were almost immediately picked up by LLMs and documented in their output. Worse, actual – supposedly serious – medical papers also started citing the preprints, demonstrating that academics relying on LLMs to do their work is a genuine problem! Not that I had my doubts but, if anyone did, this seems like the perfect demonstration of the problem. Article immediately added to the syllabus of the class I am co-teaching with Iris Ferrazzo on LLMs for Romance Studies/Humanities!

#LLM #GenAI #academia #research #ResearchIntegrity #humanities

BREAKING: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that mifepristone be distributed only in person at clinics—citing safety as a major reason.

Since 2000 Mifepristone has allegedly caused the death of 28 women
•GOP: We must permanently ban this dangerous drug!

Viagra has at least a 10X greater fatality rate than doe’s Mifepristone
•GOP: We can’t just ban Viagra!

GOP was never pro life—they’ve always been pro control of women

The speed at which a virus spreads depends mainly on two factors:

1: How dense the population is.

2: How dense the population is.

"For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!"

~ Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
#quote #USPol

Trump lost the war to Iran.

So does he criticize Putin for helping Iran win?

No. He criticizes Europe for not being part of his defeat.

„Contrary to what #Trump has said to justify his decision, the intelligence showed that the Iranian regime was not preparing to use a nuclear weapon; it did not have ballistic missiles capable of reaching the USA; and in response to a U.S. military attack, #Iran was likely to strike at neighboring countries in the Persian Gulf and try to close the #straitofhormuz, precipitating a global economic crisis. All of this was known before the war and presented to Trump.“

https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/04/iran-war-intelligence-failure-trump/686694/