Alexandra Ouroussoff

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@DaniMayakovski By way of contrast, in Cuba during the 1960’s the government sent homosexuals to the fields to pick sugarcane. And when they realized they had lost their best musicians, painters, poets etc, the law was repealed.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@democracynow This film (and others you repeatedly show on your program) is a snuff film. The reason you are insensitive to this reality is because like men who watch films of girls being murdered, the people who died are not human to you.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@HeraklesCithare Thank you. I had the feeling I’d seen it.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@TherynDArnold @GrkStav @RajuJDas That’s the point, surely, to sever the connection between capitalist exploitation and the political conclusion that follows from it. The idea is to ensure that people, young people in particular, discuss but do not act on Marxist principles. The same was true of Anthony Giddens.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@MarcoAAnzurez @hormonemoon Yes, the people who did well most likely benefited from economic stability.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@matthewstoller Yes, and once economists get that power is a thing they discover that they have no way to theorize it.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/8Kg8FOrgHW

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@alex_callinicos It might be worth noting that the rate of profit began to fall in the U.S. in the 1970’s. See, Cedric Durand’s early work.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@ChurchillWw @JohnRoss43 Terrific. Thank you.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@ChurchillWw @JohnRoss43 This is very helpful. Please can you provide the source for Xi’s statement that ‘welfare systems produce lazy people’ and ‘unsustainable fiscal burdens.’

[Citoyen initié @CitoyenInitie]

Pierre De Gaulle : "Cela me fait sourire quand on parle d'ingérence russe parce que ça arrange nos élites politiques et ça évite de dire la vérité aux Français. La plupart de nos hommes politiques ont participé au programme Young Leaders, parrainé par la CIA."

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@Gattungswesen25 ZERO PATIENCE. China has no free university and no free healthcare.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@upholdreality @pawelwargan CUBA

[Sridhar V @sritara]

Unlike most of the accounts of Iran that are obsessed with geopolitics, Kayhan Kayhan Valadbaygi offers an excellent history of #Iran in churn - the social classes at play and their tussles in reaponding to a now-fraying neoliberal global order. A must-read, esp now

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@SuziWeissman Yep. The enemy is capital.

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@veidt_comrade @tparsi A repeat of the CIA’s phoenix program in Vietnam, to murder left intellectuals?

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

@spectator This article includes a personal attack on me and my professional reputation. Since you have ignored my request for a right to reply, readers genuinely interested in a ‘liberal’ and fair exchange of ideas might consider reading my response:

https://t.co/Tjg1liHMqa

[Alexandra Ouroussoff @AlexOuroussoff]

@Matthuber78 Ask yourself why Harvey doesn’t spend more time on the ‘changing the world’ thing. It’s not accidental.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Ridiculous of the British Museum to remove the word 'Palestine" from its displays, when it has a greater antiquity than the word "British". The first reference to Palestine is on the Egyptian monument of Medinet Habu in 1186BCE. The first reference to Britain is the 4th century BC when it appears in the work of the Greek traveler Pytheas of Massalia.