Donald Trump’s paranoia serves a purpose. It metabolizes his humiliation into persecution, converting shame into blame. But it also a creates self-reinforcing spiral down.

The more people object to his failures, the bigger the conspiracy against him…
https://www.mind-war.com/p/the-enemies-he-created-trumps-paranoia

I asked ChatGPT if Roman Catholics follow Pope Leo. ChatGPT responded that no, they follow Pope Francis. I told ChatGPT that Pope Francis is dead and it argued with me. It said Pope Francis was seen by credible sources on today's date.

For this people's energy bills are going up 30%? For this we're losing our jobs? WTF.

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

Trump phones have failed to materialize for 600,000 people stupid enough to put $100 down on one.

Caveat emptor, bitches. Good luck with the FTC.

#UsPol

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-fans-revolt-over-trump-mobile-phone-disaster/

Wait, did Truth Social pay for the ballroom last quarter?

RE: https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DYGBufyAfXo