Kenshin

[John Mangun @mangunonmarkets]

BrahMos batteries, FA-50 jets, radars, all arrive built in India, South Korea, Israel
PHL exports the nickel and copper that feed other countries' defense manufacturing
Then imports the finished product back at retail.
That is the absolute definition of being an economic colony

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head"

Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

[mass ave curmudgeon @mass_ave]

If this ain’t it in a nutshell

[John Mangun @mangunonmarkets]

my column....The oil in your rice bowl.......https://t.co/BLgZ58IeLR

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.

You thought it was you. It is not you.

Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.

Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.

The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.

Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.

What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.

Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.

They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.

The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."

The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.

This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.

The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.

Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The father who posted the video says: If it weren't for the security camera, I wouldn't have believed what happened.

[Cleve V. Arguelles @CleveArguelles]

Senate independence must be guarded jealously, yes. And institutional independence means freedom to perform its constitutional duties without coercion. But it does not place senators above the law or give them the privilege to be free from the consequences of crime.

[Manuel L. Quezon III @mlq3]

Like a slumlord in a mafia movie.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Sa House Bill No. 8389 o “Anti-Political Dynasty Bill,” hinahati ang gobyerno sa apat na antas: Nasyonal, Kongreso, Probinsya, at Lungsod o Munisipyo.

Bawal ang sabay-sabay na pag-upo ng magkakamag-anak sa iisang antas ng gobyerno. Pero maaari pa rin silang umupo sa magkakaibang antas.

Sa isang pamilya, pwedeng mamuno nang sabay-sabay ang Presidente, Kongresista, Governor, at Mayor.

Hindi ito Anti-Dynasty Bill.
Pro-Dynasty ito.

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

#TodayInHistory

Forty-six years ago today, tribal leader Macli-ing Dulag was murdered by government soldiers for leading the struggle against the World Bank-funded Chico Dam project under the regime of strongman Ferdinand Marcos.

Every April 24 since 1985, Cordillerans mark People’s Day to honor Macli-ing.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"BlackRock wants to turn EVERYTHING nature gave us—forests, rivers, entire ecosystems—into tradable Wall Street tokens on a blockchain."
~Whitney Webb

It's a heist: infinite new collateral for their endless debt machine, all tracked & controlled by their AI overlord, Aladdin.

All under the feel-good banner of "saving the planet"...

This isn't environmentalism. This is total financial domination of the living world.

[Karim Hassoun ~ كريم حسون @KarimHassoun_79]

The bloodthirstiness oozing from this post is beyond anything I’ve ever seen from a world leader. Threatening the death of an entire civilisation on social media is pure filth. 85 words of pure, unadulterated genocidal intent... This man must be stopped!

[Physics & Astronomy Zone @zone_astronomy]

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

[John Mangun @mangunonmarkets]

We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research.

We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products.

We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything.

We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves.

We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage.

[Censored Humans @CensoredHumans]

Piers Morgan: “What happens to a country like Russia, which committed war crimes emerges unpunished for any of this?”

Jeffrey Sachs: “Well, if the US were punished for all its war crimes, the world would be a better place... if Israel was punished for its genocide...”

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

Pope Leo XIV on Palm Sunday, forcefully denounces those who use God to justify war: “Brothers and sisters, this is our God, Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them saying “Though you make many prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.”

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Congratulations to all Americans who dared to take to the streets today and publicly expressed their stance and disagreement with the actions and policies of their president. #WeSayNoKings 👍👍👍

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Folding croissants with chocolate filling.
https://t.co/Gh9rUGHTAD

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

WHO IS KILLING THEM?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu led Trump into this horrific & unpopular war. Now he doesn’t know how to get out.

Cost so far:

• 1,200+ Iranian civilians killed
• 13 U.S. troops killed
• 3.2M Iranians displaced
• 773 killed in Lebanon
• 10,000+ Iranians injured
• $16.5B spent in 12 days