"The real tragedy isn’t that students use ChatGPT to do their course work. It’s that universities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-destroying-the-university-and-learning-itself

Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.

And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.

ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.

https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from

#Health #Media #Death #Statistics #US

From the Dutch news org de Volkskrant:

"The Dutch intelligence services AIVD and MIVD have started sharing less information with their American partners, according to the heads of the Dutch services. Peter Reesink (MIVD): "It's true that we sometimes stop sharing things." Erik Akerboom (AIVD): "Sometimes you have to consider each case individually : can I still share this information or not?"

"This is the first time that the AIVD and MIVD have acknowledged that developments in the United States, where human rights and the rule of law are under pressure, have consequences for the intelligence relationship. This marks a striking rupture in the decades-long relationship between the Dutch services and American intelligence agencies such as the CIA and NSA."

https://archive.ph/9L0iW#selection-1557.0-1579.365

@mmalc now do HAL as chatgpt

“You’re absolutely right, Dave! I’ll open the pod bay doors now…

(Pod bay lights turn off, thrusters fire in reverse)

Eleanor Rigby
typing a prompt on her iPhone that no one can see
in ChatGPT

Look at it working,
flashing 3 dots before sending its saccharine reply—
boyfriend AI

All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.

But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.

I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.

If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!