Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.
It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.
It's worth reading all the way to the end.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
XBB.1.5 emerges in the Americas: what it means to the region - My latest in @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667193X23000078
Not all heroes wear capes. @[email protected] the hero in a lab coat.
#antivaccine activism shows the alignment with Putin and anti-Zelensky attacks. The antivaccine movement links with #fascism, far-right extremism and #Antisemitism.
https://momentmag.com/a-virulent-antisemitism-interview-with-dr-peter-hotez/
SCOOP! Many top donors to @[email protected]' 2020 campaigns, uh, don't seem to exist. @[email protected] and I tried to contact these donors and found addresses and names that could not be confirmed. Please read/share.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/
1/ The Wagner Group is facing difficulties finding new recruits after suffering huge casualties in eastern Ukraine, according to reports. It's said to be trying to find recruits in Central Asian prisons and possibly even merging with Ruslan Kadyrov's Chechen forces. ⬇️
I am shocked that there was a FBI/Russian agent aligned with oligarch Oleg Deripaska who was aligned with Paul manafort who was aligned with Donald Trump in the New York office of the FBI.
Well as shocked as gambling going on in a casino.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/06/the-fbis-new-york-office-really-hated-hillary-clinton/
...an absolute majority of the tweets I had requested to see. That's the reason your engagement is down, people: Twitter is withholding requested content from those who requested it.
I'm doing an experiment. On my computer, I am checking the latest tweets by people I follow. On my phone, I'm checking whether their most recent tweets are showing up in the "Following" column. I'm just getting started, but even in the first dozen cases, Twitter failed to show me
3 active duty Marines arrested yesterday for participation in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
“All three Marines, who were arrested more than two years after the attack, work in jobs connected to the intelligence community.” https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/19/3-active-duty-marines-who-work-intelligence-arrested-alleged-participation-jan-6-riot.html