While working as an engineer for a federal government contractor on military projects, we were required to report any gift that had a monetary value greater than $100. This was monitored closely when we were working with foreign entities. Non-compliance put our careers at risk. Why do our federal representatives get a free pass on what could (and does) influence their votes?
@DarkSkiesNE@grok Grok should already know that those sources are typically biased and wrong on ALL issues and therefore should never be used for assessing what the truth is. Most intelligent humans already know this, why doesn’t Grok?
I asked Grok how Trump did last night in his state of the union speech. Unfortunately it came back with a bunch of left wing responses using left-wing media as sources. Grok has a long way to go.
@DarkSkiesNE Biologically and scientifically, seafood is meat. I wouldn’t take the challenge, just eat the beef! However, seafood is excellent here on the east coast, can’t beat a lobster roll! I’m a carnivore and consider seafood to be a great source of nutrition.
@DarkSkiesNE I just asked Grok again, the same question I asked about an hour ago, and it’s the polar opposite. So I don’t get it. Grok literally used CNN as a source in my first attempt for the truth.
Old people are fat, weak and slow- they can’t jump, they can’t sprint and they can’t move heavy stuff
Delaying this will help to keep you “young”, but it doesn’t happen if you take the typical advice to “take it easy and slow down” as you get older
If you’ve already given up then at least convince your kids to stay after it
In 1972, John Yudkin published "Pure, White and Deadly."
It argued that sugar, not saturated fat, was the primary dietary driver of cardiovascular disease.
Yudkin was a respected nutritionist at Queen Elizabeth College, London.
Ancel Keys, whose saturated fat hypothesis had become dominant, mounted a sustained public attack on Yudkin's work and reputation.
Keys called the research "a mountain of nonsense."
Yudkin's career was effectively ended. His work was marginalised. The sugar hypothesis was dismissed.
In 2016, internal documents showed that the Sugar Research Foundation had paid scientists, including Keys's associates, to produce research that deflected from sugar and pointed at saturated fat.
The mountain of nonsense was being funded by people who needed the mountain to exist.
Yudkin died in 1995.
His book was republished in 2012 with a foreword noting that his central thesis was correct.
He was right.
He was destroyed for being right.
The sugar got the decades it needed.
And we got the metabolic disease epidemic it produced.
The people who funded the attack on Yudkin are still in business.
No apology has been issued.
No apology is expected.
@aakashgupta If you don't, as you read this tweet, begin to hear with increasing crescendo, the Hallelujah Chorus of Handel's Messiah or Beethoven's Ode to Joy or Zimmer's Interstellar Theme, or something along those lines, you're not alive.
@aakashgupta Genesis 1:27 —
“So God created man in His own image…”
Our creativity isn’t accidental.
It’s derivative.
We design because we were designed.
We create because we reflect the Creator.
AI scales.
Image-bearers originate.
That distinction is structural, not sentimental.
@DamonLatigid@pascal_bornet I agree, and I’m not impressed with it. Looks like a soft multistable magnetic responsive material, something I’ve been playing with for a while now.
@r0ck3t23 Elon has always been a dreamer and there’s nothing wrong with that. He has done a lot of amazing things.
However, we all need to remember, AI will always be artificial by definition. I would rather live in a world where perceived reality isn’t fake, where risk and love is real.